Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a conceptual structural equation model to investigate the relationships among self-directed learning (SDL), organizational learning (OL), knowledge management capability (KMC) and organizational performance (OP) and to demonstrate the direct and indirect effect of SDL on OP from the perspectives of KMC and OL. Design/methodology/approach – An em...

We present a hybrid method for simulating epitaxial growth that combines kinetic Monte-Carlo (KMC) simulations with the Burton–Cabrera–Frank model for crystal growth. This involves partitioning the computational domain into KMC regions and regions where we time-step a discretized diffusion equation. Computational speed and accuracy are discussed. We find that the method is significantly faster ...

Background The athlete’s heart is physiologically enlarged with an extraordinary ability to pump large volumes of blood at high heart rates. We hypothesized that efficient filling and emptying is related to the kinetic energy (KE) of intra-cardiac blood. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate variations in KE in the four chambers of the heart over the cardiac cycle and compare endu...

To develop an accurate, compact and sensitive optical sensor capable of performing non-invasive instantaneous measurements of the rate of dissipation of turbulent kinetic energy TKE (E [m2/s3]). Turbulence dissipation rates provide vital information to determine mixing processes in the water column. In addition, enables the scaling information needed to link large mixing events with smallscale ...

This investigation examined inertial effects on work output during isokinetic concentric knee extension and eccentric knee flexion. Total work (Wtotal) included work due to kinetic energy (Wkin), with respect to gravity (Wgrav), and against the dynamometer (Wdyn). Eighteen resistance-trained participants (9 males, 9 females) performed maximal voluntary concentric (90, 150, 210, 270 deg/s) and e...

Article history: Received 27 May 2015 Received in revised form 17 June 2015 Accepted 18 June 2015 Available online xxxx

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We study a variant of the problem of spanning colored objects where the goal is to span colored objects with two similar regions. We dedicate our attention in this paper to the case where objects are points lying on the real line and regions are intervals. Precisely, the goal is to compute two intervals together spanning all colors. As the main ingredient of our algorithm, we first introduce a ...

We give the best possible upper bound on the number of exceptional values and totally ramified value number of the hyperbolic Gauss map for pseudo-algebraic Bryant surfaces and some partial results on the Osserman problem for algebraic Bryant surfaces. Moreover, we study the value distribution of the hyperbolic Gauss map for complete constant mean curvature one faces in de Sitter three-space.