The start-up state: Governing urbanised capitalism

Reinventing State Capitalism

Start Start Master - State Slave - State

A solution is presented to the problem of quickly detecting the end of an asynchronous parallel computation, in which processors exchange task request messages asynchronously, and termination occurs when all processors are idle and no messages are in transit. The proposed termination detection scheme is based on a nite automaton consisting of only two states, and one possible transition between...

Studying the process of transformation of the start-up to the academic spin off

At todaychr('39')s universities, we are witnessing the emergence of startup companies by the startup teams by student and academic teams; unfortunately, most startups face barriers to success. On the one hand, one of the new topics entering the fourth-generation universities and can be a good target for the future of the startups; the existence of academic spin-offs, centered around scholars...

‘State Capitalism’ in the Soviet Union

The aim of this paper is to explore the reactions to the Bolshevik Revolution of one group of critics from the left: those who saw it as ushering in a new form of capitalism. The controversy over state capitalism had both theoretical and practical significance. At the analytical level it presented an important test of Marx’s conception of historical materialism, which had been formulated in a l...

The Transition Stage in the Start-up of an Anaerobic Sludge Digester

The start up &#10 dynamics of a one-million and two-hundred-thousand liter anaerobic digester of municipal waste treatment sludge was studied. In the digester, mixing was accomplished by circulation of the produced biogas at a rate of 0.13 m3 per hour of the digester volume per hour. During the nine-month study, no serious phenomena of foaming, getting sour, temperature fall, etc. were observe...