... efficiently, the reputational
capital of an agent must equal the present value of the stream of future profits, or franchise value,
of her business.
The concept of reputational capital is meaningful ... range and types of
institutions apt to fill the whole spectrum of (sectoral and maturity) segments of the circuit, thus
eliminating circuit discontinuities. In particular, promotion of competition ... Structural implications of CTF
Circuit theory of finance (CTF) bears important implications in terms of financial market
structure, microeconomic imbalances, and the role of saving for economic...
... addition of 50.0 g L
−1
of activated carbon; remove up to 86% of COD and 63% of
NH
4+-
N. Kurniawan and Lo [11] reported that granular activated carbon adsorption alone could remove
about 60% of ... obtained by dividing the sum of the squares of each of the
variation sources, the model and the error variance, by the respective degrees of freedom [19]. If the
value of Prob.>F less than 0.05, ... results of COD and colour removal obtained were shown in Table
5. The optimum DP activated carbon preparation conditions were obtained by using activation
temperature of 800 °C, activation time of...
... obstacles is the decreasing of the linear speed
of the robot.
5. Conclusion
We are interested in the navigation of a mobile robot
in partially known environment such as inside an of-
fice or a flat. In ... maximum angular speed of each wheel of the
robot (1.58 rad/s). By applying this method, a satura-
tion of the growth of the weights is obtained without
any degradation of the residual quadratic ... at
the University of Paris XI, Orsay in 1981.
Since 1986, he is Professor at the Uni-
versity of Evry and he was the Head of
Electrical Engineering Department of the
Institute of Technology from...
...
Recipe 6.13 Implementing Pessimistic Concurrency WithoutUsing Database Locks
Problem
You need the safety of pessimistic locking without the overhead of database locks.
Solution
Use extra columns ... variables, and constants
using System;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Text;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
private DataTable dt;
private ... RowError
property of the row being set.
The C# code is shown in Example 6-38
.
Example 6-38. File: PessimisticUpdatesForm.cs
// Namespaces, variables, and constants
using System;
using System.Configuration;...
... is OFF. The OFF State is
when IGBT is OFF and diode is ON. A simple linear circuit
can represent each of the two states where the switches in the
circuit are replaced by their equivalent circuit ... respectively.
The mean value of DC voltage is shown like the following.
6
max
6
3
cos
dc LL
VVd
π
π
θθ
π
−
=
∫
(4)
where V
LLmax
is the maximum value of line- to -line voltage .
max
3
dc ...
Fig.5. Probable displacement of the operating point
between the operating power and the maximum power, in the
event of change of the wind speed, the control of the buck-
boost converter...
... effect of PM
10
on day t.
The trend component is represented by one of four sub-models, denoted by (a) - (d)
below, which take the form of a natural cubic spline of calendar time or one of the
three ... average of mortality data
from previous years on the logged scale.
5.2.2 Modelling the effects of PM
10
After modelling the influence of unmeasured risk factors, the effects of PM
10
at a
number of different ... performance.
Another p ossible cause of the smooth function’s poorer performance is the use of
natural cubic splines to estimate it. Regression splines were used here because of
their parametric make-up,...
... role of
dts
is somewhat different from that
of mi: it is capable of complementing the 'blind
area" of mi on some occasions.
Consider sentence (2) again. The distribution
of
dis ... p(zly), of z given y, and var(p(ylx)),
var(p(zly)) are variances of p(ylx) and of p(zly)
respectively.
Also as pointed out by Church( 1991),
ts~, z (y)
indicates the binding tendency of y in ... Rule-based
Algorithm for Word Segmentation",
Proc. of the
35th Annual Meeting of ACL and 8th Conference
of the European Chapter of ACL,
Madrid, 1997
[10] Sun M.S., Shen D.Y., Huang C.N.,...
... wide range of aspects of the life of elderly
singles and couples. For the first wave of 1992, 12,652 interviews were conducted for a
random sample of individuals born 1931-1941. Spouses of these ... components of wealth, using imputed values (see below).
We observe couples until one of the spouses dies, until the dissolution of the household
because of divorce or separation, or until one member of ... lags of two years. For liquid wealth,
causal effects are found for mental health of both spouses but not for physical health.
Again, the effect of mental health of the wife is instantaneous, that of...
... terminology. The abilities of analysing and correcting the ambiguities of
the inadequate names and ofusing an optimized extension of Xymtec to represent the pictures of
the chemical structures ... or
not the name respects the current official nomenclature. This capacity of treating even names which, in
spite of do not respect the constraints of the official nomenclatures, correspond to ... of the types of the following lexical
items: ane, ene, yne, diene, diyne, ol, al and hyl. The result of applying pent to x depends on the
type of x, as shown below (remember that the type of...
... form of the stoichio-
metric matrix enabled the identification of the net fluxes in
each group (i.e. the nonzero elements of the two vectors in
the null space [53] of the reduced row-echelon form of ... are the fractions (M + 0) and
(M + 1) of fragment 260 of Ala, fraction (M + 0) of
fragment 288 of Val and all the measurements associated
with fragment 186 of Val. All six measurements are
redundant ... quantification of their activity in vivo requires
the use of isotopic tracers [5,35,38]. The extent to which
the use of MS measurements of biomass hydrolysates
after the introduction of the
13
C...
... measurements of each sample) of each sample is reported
in the paper. For example, we measure the BSL level of water via the proposed OTDR-based fiber
sensor under 10 time measurements using a 1,550 ... all of our ten measurement
values for the case of water (in Figure 4), the mean BSL is 35.0623 dB, while maximum and minimum
BSLs are measured at 35.108 and 35.011 dB. If we are using linear ... We can rinse it with distilled water without causing any damage after finishing all the
experiments. In this part, we would like to show the importance ofusing a fiber cleaver to prepare the...
... nanowire tips were removed
using gold etchant (KI/I
2
) solution [10].
Finally, the silicon component of nanowires was selectively
removed using XeF
2
as etchant. Etch rate of polyimide is negligible
Fig. ... nanowire-array-template using
xenon difluoride (XeF
2
). Pore size and density using the described technique are controllable. The former is
dependent on nanowire diameter and the duration of etching, whereas ... letter,
we describe the preparation of a porous polyimide membrane using a
vertically oriented silicon nanowire (SiNW) array as a template. Since
the diameters and densities of silicon nanowires can be...