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R&D for wireless communication systems using aircraft called high altitude platform keeping at an altitude of about 20 km has been made progress as a national project in Japan since 1998. In order to realize such novel wireless communication systems, allocation and maintenance of available frequency bands are the key issues. At this stage, following three frequency bands are allocated for the c...

Real-time PCR continues to have a major impact across many disciplines of the biological sciences and this has been a driver to develop and improve existing instruments. From the first two commercial platforms introduced in the mid 1990s, there is now a choice in excess of a dozen instruments, which continues to increase. Advances include faster thermocycling times, higher throughput, flexibili...

This chapter provides a roadmap to the burgeoning literature on two-sided markets with a speci…c focus on BtoB marketplaces. Online intermediation involves two-sided network e¤ects between buyers and sellers, and the implications for optimal BtoB platforms’tari¤s are discussed. The chapter discusses …rst the monopoly case, drawing attention to the distinction between upfront registration fees a...

Online content providers such as YouTube are carefully positioning themselves to users, clients, advertisers and policymakers, making strategic claims for what they do and do not do, and how their place in the information landscape should be understood. One term in particular, ‘platform’, reveals the contours of this discursive work. The term has been deployed in both their populist appeals and...

Photonic integrated circuit technology could revolutionize optical information processing, beyond conventional binary-logic approaches, granting the capacity of ultrafastcategorization and decision-making. We will discuss the progress and requirements of scalable and reconfigurable emerging photonic hardware platforms. © 2016 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (200.0200) Optics in computing...

Software product lines or platforms have received attention in research, but especially in industry. Many companies have moved away from developing software from scratch for each product and instead focused on the commonalities between the different products and capturing those in a product line architecture and an associated set of reusable assets. This development is, especially in the embedd...

In order to screen out low-quality sellers or incentivize high quality, platforms need a good measure of seller quality. Having high-quality sellers is particularly important if buyers on a platform have limited information about the sellers; buyers’ learning means that the quality of a seller in any given transaction will affect whether or how frequently that buyer returns to the platform. The...

although many scholars had proposed lots research results about online shopping, they are quite vague and hard for enterprisers to practice it. hence, this research observes the online store policies, services, functions, and activities among 17 online shopping platforms in taiwan, china, and hong kong. and, this research (1) finds online stores assessment items by literature review; (2) establ...

The study about the jacket platforms in the past has revealed that the most of the collapse failures occur due to the lack of strength of the pile foundation. However, when the jacket platforms which have been collapsed due to extreme condition were looked into, it was found that most of them had their foundations intact. These contrasting facts can be explained with the help of the phenomenon ...