Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop and test a multilevel conceptual model which explains how authentic leadership (AL), through an innovative team atmosphere and promotion of self-efficacy, influences creativity. The study delineates two pathways from AL to creativity. The first...

Purpose: This study examines the factors that influence the improvement of the consumer goods sector in three dimensions (technology, internal factors and external environment) for exploring the upgrading paths of Shanghai's consumer goods industry. ...

The work discussed here is a continuation of the study presented in [1], in which a customized test apparatus was presented that was capable of conducting tribological related experiments on sliding components commonly used in hydrokinetic devices such as bearings, drive shaft and seals. The...

Biodiesel production offers promising opportunities to create additional alternate sources of energy. Since India is deficient in edible oils, the non-edible oil like jatropha, neem, karanja, mahua, simarouba etc., could be the desirable source for India for production of bio-diesel. This brief...

The present study first of all concerns the first and second law analyzes of an electrically conducting fluid past a rotating disk in the presence of a uniform vertical magnetic field, analytically via Homotopy Analysis Method (HAM), and then applies Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Particle...

We propose a differential evolution-based algorithm for constrained global optimization. Although differential evolution has been used as the underlying global solver, central to our approach is the penalty function that we introduce. The adaptive nature of the penalty function makes the results...

Hydrokinetic devices have lately reemerged as a promising solution for harnessing energy from renewable sources such as rivers, tidal currents, or artificial channels. This paper describes a customized test flume that is capable of conducting tribological related experiments on sliding...

A trust-region-based derivative free algorithm for solving bound constrained mixed integer nonlinear programs is developed in this paper. The algorithm is proven to converge to a local minimum after a finite number of function evaluations. In addition, an improved definition of local minima of...