Expanding the Possibilities of Deliberation: The Use of Data Mining for Strengthening Democracy with an Application to Education Reform Juan D. Velásquez a; Pablo González b a Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Engineering and Science, University of Chile, Santiago, Región Metropolitana, Chile b Center for Applied Economics, Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Engineeri...

Most studies on mergers and acquisitions are not sample selective. This study directly examines the motives of horizontal mergers by utilizing a sample of acquiring firms based on same SIC codes. A three factor Arbitrage pricing model was utilized, with Tobin’s q ratio as a measure of market power, to study the performance of the firms involved in the mergers. The results indicate the acquisiti...

This is a literature review for the year 2015 and contains information specifically associated with suspended growth processes including activated sludge, upflow anaerobic sludge blanket, and sequencing batch reactors. The review encompasses modeling and kinetics, nutrient removal, system design and operation. Compared to past reviews, many topics show increase in activity in 2015. These includ...

ID: 34 I. Gremyr, V. Siva, H. Raharjo Division of Quality Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology SE-412 96 Sweden T. N. Goh Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore Singapore 117576

In this paper, a finishing system with a mounted abrasive tool is proposed for finishing of metallic molds. The shape of the mounted abrasive tool is a ball-end type. When a metallic mold with curved surface is polished, the orientation of the mounted abrasive tool is not only fixed but also its revolution is locked. The motion of the mounted abrasive tool is feedforwardly controlled based on a...

This paper presents results of our educational experiments aimed to raise awareness of freshmen engineering and senior high school students on the importance of spatial skills and develop strategies for spatial learning through practice of remote operation and programming robot systems in automated manufacturing labs. In the first experiment senior high school students performed two assignments...

Developing circular economy is an important consideration for economic transformation. The resource-exhausted cities should pay more attention to circular economy development. The authors of this paper make a prompt attempt to develop an early warning system of circular economy through the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation. In the first instance, the model determines the target value of circular e...

A thermophilic mixed population of bacteria, capable of utilizing methanol as its sole carbon-energy source at temperatures up to 65 C, was selected by enrichment and studied. A maximal cellular yield of 0.42 g per g of methanol was observed at 50 to 56 C. The maximal specific growth rate of the mixed population in continuous culture at 56 C was greater than 0.32 per h. The amino acid profile o...

W. M. Grudzewski Warsaw School of Economics, Collegium of Business Administration Correspondent Member of Polish Science Academy, POLAND [email protected] I. K. Hejduk Warsaw School of Economics, Collegium of Business Administration, POLAND [email protected] A. Sankowska Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Production Engineering, POLAND e-mail: [email protected] M. Wa tuchowicz Wa...