Open Innovation is a key to improve SMEs' performance in a dynamic marketplace. This article aims to present a dynamic model based on causal relationships among the most important effective factors on Open Innovation in manufacturing SMEs by using system dynamics modelling approach. To study the...

The purpose of this article is to explore and investigate the effects of paternal HR practices on the employee behavior outcomes. There is dearth of knowledge research on paternal HR practices in Pakistan, its effect on employee outcomes and organizational performance. The authors have applied a...

Food security concepts are extensively used in households as a measure of welfare, to conceptualise operational usefulness in the design, implementation, and evaluation of policies. Most research is focused on improving food security and sustainability and the patterns still remain tenuous. This...

Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) treatment depends on the delivery of exogenous insulin to obtain near normal glucose levels. This article proposes a method for blood glucose level regulation in type 1 diabetics. The control strategy is based on comparing the first order sliding mode control...

Since switching systems are important in research and industry, the article is concerned about the stabilization of fractional order switching systems with the order of 1 q 2 and a time delay actuator. To this end, the so-called system was initially converted to a system with no delay using a...

This article describes how breast cancer is the most common invasive cancer in females worldwide and is major cause of deaths. The diagnoses of breast cancer include mammograms, breast ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ductogram and biopsy. Biopsy is best and only way to know if the...

This article introduces a sliding mode controller to stabilize a discrete-time nonlinear system in the presence of uncertainties and external disturbances. The proposed controller is derived to guarantee the existence of a quasi-sliding mode, taking into account the upper bound of uncertainties....

A novel adaptive sliding mode controller using neuro-fuzzy network based on adaptive cooperative particle sub-swarm optimization (ACPSSO) is presented in this article for nonlinear systems control. The proposed scheme combines the advantages of adaptive control, neuro-fuzzy control, and sliding...

This article describes how technology growth and the lifecycle of devices and also other tendencies for buying new devices all cause a huge mass of electronic waste. Due to materials used in production which are dangerous or valuable metals, the environmental aspects and natural resources make...

This article describes how Kenya has emerged in recent times as one of the fastest-growing telecom markets in the world. This article presents a system dynamics-integrated model of the Kenyan telecommunication sector—mobile telephony—that has been developed and calibrated to demonstrate the...