Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is a versatile elemental analytical technique whose basic elements were described as early 1962, shortly after the invention of pulsed laser. Since that time, LIBS has been applied for characterization various applications. In this work, we review evolution artworks' materials applications and development cultural heritage during years 2015–2020. The ...

Software Product Line (SPL) approaches enable the development of software product variants by reusing a set of software core assets. These assets could have variant features themselves that can be configured in different ways to provide different behaviours. Unfortunately, in many SPL approaches software core assets are constructed from scratch and in an ad hoc manner. In previous work, it has ...

The universal factory floor communications protocol MTConnect allows the exchange of information between shop floor equipment and software applications. Data from shop floor devices is collected by a piece of software called adapter. The adapter sends the data to a local webserver called agent, which associates the data with an information model and makes machine data available to clients in un...

the main objective of this article is to present a comparative study of capital assets pricing models (capm) with extrapolating capital assets pricing models (x-capm) of companies admitted in tehran exchange market which is accomplished for the first time by investigators of this research in iran. accordingly, the statistical population under study of this research includes all companies admitt...

Research Summary The argument of this article is that global strategy research should devote greater attention to rent appropriation in value chains (GVCs). We discuss the concept intangible assets, emphasize their scalability at low marginal cost and highlight strategies for rents from these assets. Returns captured by assets are shown be much than those tangible GVCs manufactured products. Re...

I explore the role of financial intermediaries in supplying liquidity over the business cycle. I consider a model similar to Holmstrom and Tirole (1998), in which firms hold assets to shift current funds to future periods when they may be borrowing constrained. Financial intermediaries insure against loss of credit access by issuing credit lines, but intermediaries are also subject to agency co...

The value of a business or other asset depends on the expected future benefits from holding that asset and the uncertainty associated with those benefits. An expert valuer must often form an opinion on value based on their assessment of future benefits and uncertainty at a given date. This is a challenging task for many assets. It is often particularly challenging in the context of internationa...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this investigation was to model the relationships between developmental assets, life satisfaction, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among a stratified, random sample (n = 765, 56% response rate) of college students. METHODS Structural equation modeling techniques were employed to test the relationships using Mplus v4.21; Model evaluations were based on 1) t...

the basic model for valuation of firm is the dividend discount model (ddm). when investors buy stocks, they expect to receive two types of cash flow: dividend in the period during which the stock is owned, and the expected sales price at the end of the period. in the extreme example, the investor keeps the stock until the company is liquidated; in such a case, the liquidating dividend becomes t...