This article extends Bourdieu’s convertibility of different forms capital to understand the patterns study abroad by elite graduates from Peking University, China. We draw upon empirical data a first-hand survey involving 1,417 University. The statistical analyses suggest pattern conversions political and economic cultural capital. Students leading cadres managerial families up prestige game ac...

This study applies The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use Technology (UTAUT) to explain the acceptance electronic payment systems in Serbia. We used extended model that incorporates several external variables, such as perceived security, trust, privacy, convertibility financial costs, along with basic UTAUT predictors. sample comprised 457 respondents. applied structural equation modelling de...

Decidability/undecidability of properties in subclasses of conditional term rewriting systems (CTRSs, for short) of natural, join, and oriented types are studied. The properties focused are convertibility, reachability, joinability, con uence, and termination. In particular, it is shown that (1) all of the properties listed above are undecidable for left-linear right-ground CTRSs of each types ...

Jae-Hyun Jung Keehoon Hong Gilbae Park Indeok Chung Byoungho Lee (SID Member) Abstract — A 360°-viewable cylindrical three-dimensional (3-D) display system based on integral imaging has been implemented. The proposed system is composed of a cylindrically arranged electroluminescent (EL) pinhole film, an EL film backlight, a barrier structure, and a transmission-type flexible display panel. The ...

The efficiency of wet explosion applied as modified dilute acid pretreatment at previously identified reference conditions (150°C, 0.3% H(2)SO(4), 15 min) was investigated on lucerne, ryegrass, fescue grass, cocksfoot grass, rye fescue, forage grass, and wheat straw in order to identify their potential as feedstock for cellulosic bioethanol production. After pretreatment, cellulose recovery was...

Changeability is mandatory for top class automotive industry to cope with new product development paradigms and demanding market. Hybrid Reconfigurable Assembly Systems (H-RMSs) address a customized flexibility on product families, given by coexistence or cooperation of human workers and robots. Key-issues for the effective design of harmonized hybrid assembly systems are: modularity; integrabi...

Hydrothermal pretreatment improves bioconversion of lignocellulose, but the effects of different acid catalysts are poorly understood. The effects of sulfuric acid (SA) and sulfur dioxide (SD) in continuous steam pretreatment of wood of Norway spruce were compared in the temperature range 195°C-215°C. The inhibitory effects of the pretreatment liquid on cellulolytic enzymes and Saccharomyces ce...

In light of the financial crises in the emerging markets, the coming-into-force of the financial services agreement under the GATS has been considered a success. While the agreement provides for little new liberalization but rather formalizes the status quo, it has been feared that governments could even backtrack on previous commitments in the belief that more open markets could increase the d...

Date palm residues are one of the most promising lignocellulosic biomass for bioethanol production in the Middle East. In this study, leaflets and rachis were subjected to hydrothermal pretreatment to overcome the recalcitrance of the biomass for enzymatic conversion. Evident morphological, structural, and chemical changes were observed by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and in...