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In many industries, emerging firms derive their initial strength from R&D activities. Though technological capabilities are important for building technologically sound products, they are not sufficient for turning an emerging firm into a viable economic a ...
This review seeks to evaluate the role of low oxidation state transition metal clusters (metal carbonyl clusters) in catalysis. The review commences with a discussion of the cluster surface analogy and then proceeds to discuss whether catalysis takes place ...
Since the 1980s the network industries (post, telecom, electricity, air and rail transport, and water) worldwide are undergoing substantial transformations. These transformations have been triggered by institutional changes in both property regimes and coo ...
This paper provides an overview of the SWARM-BOTS project, a robotic project sponsored by the Future and Emerging Technologies program of the European Community (IST-2000-31010). The paper illustrates the robot hardware, and the results of experimental wor ...
Though the ISPRS has had standardization on its agenda for a long time the progress was slow and the output of completed document is still limited. The reasons are manifold: lack of awareness of standardization, necessary alignment with the standardization ...
Architectural sites suffers from weathering effects such as liquid sedimentation, lampblack or pollution deposit, moss growing or longterm erosion. Displaying their impact on present buildings could help deciders to plan relevant actions for preserving the ...
