Prosperity indicators (also met as welfare indexes) constitute an important metric towards assessing the level of prosperity in modern communities and/or countries. The document at hand aims at a thorough search, study and recording of various prosperity indicators (e.g. Gross Domestic Product GDP) used in European and global scale, as well as of the underlying data. The document examines and a...

A technique for comparing numerous performances of an identical selection of music is described. The basic methodology is to split a one-dimensional sequence into all possible sequential sub-sequences, perform some operation on these sequences, and then display a summary of the results as a two-dimensional plot; the horizontal axis being time and the vertical axis being sub-sequence length (lon...

Purpose of this contribution Some regulations aim to improve innovation or technological advancement, or at least remove possible obstacles. Competition law, both national and European, is a less known part of the law and is mostly handled by specialised lawyers. The purpose of this contribution is to make the part of competition law that aims to improve innovation more widely known. Two more o...

2. Sustainability through Impact Reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1. Normative adequacy: Decisions, Substitutability and Trade-off . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.2. Empirical Adequacy: impact models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.3. Impact Reduction Sustainability: Assessment . . . . . . . . . . ....

We present a comparative analysis of the chromospheric solar limb prolateness, using strictly simultaneous Hα ground-based observations and HeII space-based observations. The typical prolateness is found to be ∆D/D = 5.5 × 10−3 in HeII and 1.2 × 10−3 in Hα. The first measurements in the 30.4 nm HeII line over a period of two years, as well as coronal data, are discussed to explore further the o...

Emerging countries are becoming increasingly innovative and in particular China draws the attention. Private-sector driven innovation is changing China’s industrial landscape. These developments are surprising from an institutional or resource perspective on innovation. In this paper we combine the resource and institutional perspective and unravel the processes by which entrepreneurial firms i...

Previous network analyses of several languages revealed a unique set of structural characteristics. One of these characteristics—the presence of many smaller components (referred to as islands)—was further examined with a comparative analysis of the island constituents. The results showed that Spanish words in the islands tended to be phonologically and semantically similar to each other, but E...

Clinical trials generate gold standard medical evidence, but are often criticized for the lack of population representativeness. We performed a comparative meta-analysis of drug trials that focus on older adults (>= 65 years old) and adults (18-64 years old). The major finding is that a higher percentage of geriatric drug trials were terminated or withdrawn than that of adult drug trials.