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Because high‐status employees make disproportional contributions to firms, prior literature suggests that their departure would undermine various organizational outcomes. Building on recent literature, however, we suspect that a high‐status employee may have seized disproportional resources and credits from coworkers, thereby restricting them from performing, particularly when the work context is more independent and contested. As a result, the departure of a high‐status employee may bring staying coworkers more resources and incentives to perform, causing their performance to improve. To test this possibility, we examine the effect of high‐status analysts' departure on the individual performance of analysts who remain, using a sample of sell‐side analysts in Chinese financial brokerage firms. Employing a before‐and‐after treatment research design, we find evidence that after the departure of a high‐status analyst, the staying coworkers' individual performance is significantly improved. It is particularly so when they share greater industry overlap with the departing analyst. Our extensional analyses also investigate additional contingencies, which helps provide valuable hints about possible mechanisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, we argue that managing technological entrepreneurship effectively is crucial for firms' competitive advantage and high performance. By using an inductive approach of a multiple-case study of Chinese technology-based manufacturing firms, we identify four complementary patterns of technological entrepreneurship (i.e. in-house R&D, R&D acquisition, R&D alliance, and R&D contracting) and find that possessing the uniqueness of knowledge assets and technological capabilities and capturing the value of knowledge assets and technological capabilities are the major determinants for firms to choose these patterns. Our study develops an integrative framework of technological entrepreneurship for emerging economy firms. Implications for theory, practice, and policy are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A non-linear unrestraint optimization model of mine ventilation network was established which took the minimum total energy consumption of mine ventilation network as optimization objective. In order to improve optimization ability and convergence speed of the model, an opposition-based enhanced fireworks algorithm(OBEFWA) was proposed. Firstly, population initialization strategy based on opposition-based learning and uniform randomization is adopted, and uniform randomization population generated by the strategy is competed with opposition-based population, so that the optimal initial population is selected as starting point of subsequent search. Secondly, fireworks explosion radius is finely controlled, so that explosion radius of fireworks populations of different generations shows non-linear decline, and that of the same population generation is coordinated and distriblted according to their own fitness values. The minimum dynamic threshold is set to decrease waste of search resources. Finally, selection strategy of elite opposition-based learning is adopted to strengthen search for neighborhood of elite fireworks, so as to improve global exploration ability of the algorithm. The experimental results show that total energy consumption of mine ventilation network optimized by OBEFWA decreases about 23.2% which meets adjustment constraints and wind demand of actual ventilation network, and OBEFWA has better optimization effect than particle swarm optimization algorithm and enhanced fireworks algorithm.

The modern cryptographic protocol specifies that only authorized participants can gain access to the key and obtain information. However, the way to leak passwords through intrusion into the system is endless, causing serious problems for modern information security. On this issue, the advantages of PUF for information security to provide further protection. For example:Arbiter PUF，RO PUF,SRAM PUF. This project is designed to integrate the physical information into the circuit design to achieve the design of the PUF. Comparing to existing RO-PUF, PISO shift register reduce the hardware. A 4-bit challenge can produce 16-bit random response, which greatly increases the number of challenge response pair, and the internal Hamming distance is measured by the FPGA.