This paper originally appeared as a Master Thesis at NES in 1999 as a part of the project "Russian Financial Industrial Groups", which was carried out within the program "Transforming Government in Economies in Transition" generously sponsored by Ford Foundation (Grant Number 950-1503). I am deeply indebted to the project advisors David Brown (SITE) and Sergei Guriev (NES and RECEP) for their g...

T h i s s t u d y was conducted w i t h t h e f i n a n c i a l s u p p o r t o f t h e Bureau o f S t a t e S e r v i c e s ; P u b l i c H e a l t h S e r v i c e s ; Department o f H e a l t h , E d u c a t i o n , and W e l f a r e under c o n t r a c t No. Ph 1 0 8 6 6 8 9 . S e n i o r i n v e s t i g a t o r s were Fl o y d C. Mann and Ronald 0 . L i p p i t t . Dodd H. Bogart Thomas F. ...

Based on trans-national and trans-industrial panel data collected from OECD-STAN, UNCOMTRADE and China Statistical Yearbooks, and by full consideration of knowledge heterogeneity from both country and industry aspects, also considering industrial correlation effect between manufacturing and service, the study mainly focuses on import technology spillover and its diversified decomposition charac...

The application presented in this paper is to augment uncalibrated images of factories with industrial drawings. Industrial drawings are among the most important documents used during the lifetime of industrial environments. They are the only common documents used during design, installation, monitoring and control, maintenance, update and finally dismantling of industrial units. Leading tradit...

background and aims: nowadays heavy metals are the environmental priority pollutants and are becoming as the most serious environmental problems. in recent years removing those from diverse industrial effluents and metal cleaning have been studied. the aim of the present study was to investigate the different methods for cooper removal of cooper ions from industrial wastewater. methods: this st...

This paper offers a typology that distinguishes between three types of customersupplier relationships, namely asymmetrical customer-dominated and supplierdominated relationships and more symmetrical relationships. A conceptual framework that identifies strategic relationship alternatives for small and medium-sized firms in asymmetrical relationships is presented, and the type of knowledge, lear...

in ethylene glycol nanofluid J. Garg, B. Poudel, M. Chiesa, J. B. Gordon, J. J. Ma, J. B. Wang, Z. F. Ren, Y. T. Kang, H. Ohtani, J. Nanda, G. H. McKinley, and G. Chen Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, USA Materials an...