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Techno-economic analysis of lignocellulosic ethanol: A review

Lignocellulosic ethanol is expected to be commercialised during the next decade as renewable energy for transport. Competiveness with first generation bioethanol and with gasoline is commonly considered in techno-economic analyses for commercial stage. Sev ...

Elsevier2010

Corporate Finance, Asset Returns, and Credit Risk

Philip Valta

This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter empirically investigates how the intensity of product market competition affects the cost of debt. Using a large sample of loans to publicly traded US manufacturing firms, the chapter provides ...

EPFL2010

Mathematics in the Wind

Alfio Quarteroni, Nicola Parolini

In any sport or human endeavor, coaches regularly state “play to your strengths.” One might not guess that a land-locked, mountainous country like Switzerland would have strengths that would give them a chance at winning the oldest, most competitive sailin ...

2009

A Study on the Impact of Competition on Airport Congestion

Niklaus Eggenberg

Air transportation in the US is increasingly faced with the problem of airport congestion: airlines tend to over-schedule to attract market share and revenue. Unfortunately, the airlines share a limited resource - airport capacity. The underlying question ...

2009

Evidence on the effect of liberalisation and competition on innovation in the postal sector

Cátia Alexandra Pereira Felisberto

This paper empirically assesses the effect of liberalisation and competition on innovation in the postal sector. The analysis is restricted to end-to-end competition. The effect on the incentives to innovate of public ownership, letter volume, and other co ...

2008

The effect of liberalisation on incumbent's innovation

Cátia Alexandra Pereira Felisberto

The network industries have been undergoing a process of reform, where liberalisation is one of the main features. This thesis studies the effect of liberalisation, with and without competition, on the incumbent's incentives to innovate. A model of incumbe ...

EPFL2008

Quantitative single-neuron modeling: competition 2008

Wulfram Gerstner, Thomas Berger, Richard Naud, Laurent Badel

How well are single-cell properties reproduced by the present-day neuronal models? Recently, several labs have approached this question by assessing the quality of the models with respect to spike timing prediction or characteristic features of the voltage ...

2008

New conjugate of agonist ligand directed to ligand-gated ion channels of cysteine loop-family with chromophore, useful, e.g. in receptor proteins/their interaction with agonistic ligand and to study the effect of unlabelled ligands

Horst Vogel, Rudolf Hovius, Jörg Grandl

NOVELTY - Conjugate (I) of an agonist ligand directed to ligand-gated ion channels (LGICs) of the Cys loop-family with a chromophore, is new. USE - (I) is useful in the receptor proteins and/or their interaction with the agonistic ligand, where the interac ...

2007

Important New Nodes; Gas Hubs and their Impact on Competition

Bastian Wolfgang Schwark

Although the gas market in the European Union was opened up with two major directives in 1998 and 2003, competition in Europe is still developing slowly. One major cause is the insufficient availability of gas that is not contracted by long-term contracts ...

2006

Competition between cue response and place response: A model of rat navigation behaviour

Wulfram Gerstner, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Thomas Strösslin

Different neural systems are involved in animal navigation depending on the type of task. Experimental studies support the idea that the hippocampus is necessary to learn a spatial representation required to navigate toward hidden goals (place response), w ...

Taylor & Francis2005

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