Non-practicing entities (NPE) have been controversial patent market players in terms of their effects on innovation society, owing to their having both positive and negative impacts on society-level innovation performance. However, measuring the net effect as well as finding ways to control the probable negative effects has been a challenging issue. In this paper, we propose an agent model of t...

In research on European foreign policy two important axes of debate have been running relatively independently of each other for more than a decade: the study of the European Union as a normative power (NPE) and the study of external perceptions of the EU. However, the studies of external perception offer some findings that are central for the NPE debate. This article’s argument is that the ext...

−− Reducing the use of fresh water can lead to energy savings when this is properly planned and executed. Chemical process simulation has proven to be an effective tool for performing a global analysis of water systems to identify routes for maximizing the process efficiency concerning to water recovery. System closure has been introduces in pulp mills resulting in simultaneous buildup of nonpr...

Every device defines the behaviour of various applications running on it with the help of user profiles or settings. What if a user wants different different applications to run in different different networks. Then he can’t do this. Because in today’s existing operating systems the application profile, user specific tool settings and any such system usage settings do not consider the current n...

Security wrappers for Windows NT/2000 encapsulate program execution to monitor their run-time behavior and ensure that they don't do anything harmful. Wrappers have be developed to ensure that email attachments can be safely opened, that web content can be safely viewed, downloaded, and executed, and that active content in office documents can be safely executed. The wrappers can be directed to...

Revised 8-19-2015 (LOA) 1 Renal Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter Inhibition in the Management of Type 2 Diabetes 2 Mellitus 3 Muhammad A Abdul-Ghani, MD, PhD, Luke Norton, Ph.D., and Ralph A DeFronzo, MD 4 Division of Diabetes, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas, USA 5 6

In two-outcome strictly competitive games, equilibrium mixed strategies do not depend on ultimate prizes. Dixit and Skeath [Games of Strategy (1999) Norton, New York] find this ‘counter-intuitive’. We show this invariance comes from reduction, not independence; and provide conditions for ‘intuitive’ comparative statics under recursive expected utility.  2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights re...

We consider Γ = (X, E) a dual polar graph and we give a tight frame on each eigenspace of the Laplacian operator associated to Γ. We compute the constants associated to each tight frame and as an application we give a formula for the product in the Norton algebra attached to the eigenspace corresponding to the second largest eigenvalue of the Laplacian.

Deposition of WNxCy Using the Allylimido Complexes Cl4„RCN...W„NC3H5...: Effect of NH3 on Film Properties Hiral M. Ajmera,* Andrew T. Heitsch, Omar J. Bchir, David P. Norton,* Laurel L. Reitfort, Lisa McElwee-White, and Timothy J. Anderson* Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemistry, and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florid...