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The emergence of the fields of wearable devices, e-textiles and smart packaging brings new requirements on electronics and sensing systems. One or a combination of the following properties can be desired for their proper operation and to meet the functiona ...

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Regulatory Governance Costs in Network Industries: Observations in Postal Regulation

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The various actors in the regulated industries relate to each other within a broader institutional framework, i.e., by way of formal and informal rules. An important role in the implementation of liberalization processes is given to regulation and thus to ...

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Do firms know the scope of their R&D network? An empirical investigation of network awareness on French survey data

Stéphane Lhuillery

Although research and development (R&D) networks influence the innovation performance of their members, firms may not be fully aware of the scope of their network. In particular, due to cost reasons, they may not be fully informed of their “indirect ties”, ...

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k-Edge-Connectivity: Approximation and LP Relaxation

David Pritchard

This paper's focus is the following family of problems, denoted k-ECSS, where k denotes a positive integer: given a graph (V, E) and costs for each edge, find a minimum-cost subset F of E such that (V, F) is k-edge-connected. For k=1 it is the spanning tre ...

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Production of high quality carbon nanotubes for less than $1 per gram

László Forró, Arnaud Magrez, Marijana Mionic Ebersold, Martial Duchamp, Rita Smajda, Juan Carlos Andresen

In this article, we report on the mass production of carbon nanotubes using a continuous production system based on a rotary tube furnace. At first, we have optimized the composition of the metallic nanoparticles. Bimetallic Fe2Ni and Fe2Co alloys exhibit ...

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A Mathematical Model for the Locomotive Refueling Problem

Prem Kumar

This problem corresponds to refueling locomotives at different station yards during the course of its journey. Locomotive tanks have a fixed fuel capacity and prices of fuel vary across yards. In addition, there is a fixed cost for hiring a refueling truck ...

2010

Thermo-economic analysis of chemical looping processes

Amélie Courjon

Among the different ways of capturing carbon dioxide in industrial processes, chemical looping process is presented as an improvement in oxy-fuel combustion. Since carbon dioxide is directly generated with water in the process, there is no need of an addit ...

2010

Multi-stage production cost optimization of semi-rigid steel frames using genetic algorithms

The response of a steel structure is closely related to the behavior of its joints. This means that it is necessary to take explicit account of joint properties in order to ensure a consistent approach to design optimization of steel frames. Semi-rigid des ...

2009

How much does it cost? Optimization of costs in sequence analysis of social science data

Philipp Bucher

One major methodological problem in analysis of sequence data is the determination of costs from which distances between sequences are derived. Although this problem is currently not optimally dealt with in the social sciences, it has some similarity with ...

SAGE Publications2009

Regulatory Risk and Uncertainty in British Postal Regulation - A Governance Perspective

Martin Maegli

In this paper we focus on risk and uncertainty caused by the (1) discretionary behavior of regulatory bodies and (2) the instruments and mechanisms implemented to regulate public services in general and the postal sector in particular. In previous articles ...

2009

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