Yohanes Kristianto PhD student, University of Vaasa [email protected]/ This paper focuses on duopolistic competition under price and production postponement for two differentiable products that share component commonality. Both price and production postponement are benchmarked in order to investigate the component commonality effect on profit and also their appropriateness in different competitio...

Many physiological processes function efficiently within a well-controlled pH range. Higher acidity level has been implicated with a number of systemic pathologies. The potential of pH sensitive fluorescent probes for reporting on biological environments has been widely utilized in a variety of cell studies and has been recently recognized as a powerful technique for in vivo imaging of diseases...

Nanotechnology and green chemistry can have much in common from the point of view of processes, considering the possibilities of improving efficiency and quality, achieving a better economy of atoms and energy, promoting catalysis under mild and sustainable conditions, and facilitating online monitoring of production lines and environment. Some of these aspects are dealt with in this paper, foc...

This thesis examines techniques for analysing bioprocess flowsheet simulations so as to determine operating strategies. Currently approaches cited in the literature for analysing bioprocesses employ visualisation of two-dimensional subsets of the feasible region. However this approach is restricted to two control variables and relies heavily on the engineer’s judgement to estimate the potential...

Many disorders require multi-component treatments given sequentially in time to achieve and maintain good outcomes. The development of these adaptive treatment strategies is challenging due to the large number of components and sequencing of components. We propose the use of screening experiments in which scientists screen out inactive components. Unfortunately when the goal is to construct ada...

An adequate supply of software talent is the key enabler for developing a sound technology base in software R&D.2 Other factors, however, such as a nation’s physical and financial infrastructures, its piracy rates and government policies, can change the timeframe markedly for building that software R&D capability. We discuss the factors that led to the success of Bangalore in India, and then ex...

Community participation has been hailed as the panacea for most community programmes. Community participation at high levels empowers communities, increases self-reliance, self-awareness and confidence in self-examination of problems and seeking solutions for them. Behavioural changes are promoted and utilisation and support of services is facilitated, which are of great importance to all commu...

The software industry is deemed an ideal target for a developing country to integrate into the world information and communications technology (ICT) market. On the one hand the industry is labor intensive, and the developing countries have a large labor surplus; on the other hand, it is a worldwide trend for developed countries to outsource a vast amount of low-end, software-related tasks to th...

This paper examines the issues underlying the appropriate matching of pipelines to marketplace needs under conditions of demand volatility and price pressure. It describes a scenario where the philosophy of “one size fits all” does not apply to pipeline design, implementation, and control. The paper reports on research conducted by the authors and others on how appropriate global supply chain s...