Modern energy demands led the scientific community to renewable energy sources, such as ocean wave energy. The present work describes a model for a cost efficient rotary electrical generator, optimized for ocean wave energy conversion. The electrical power, supplied by low speed mechanical movement, requires the use of electrical machinery capable of generating high amounts of torque. Among the...

We applied the notion of strategic alignment to ERP system implementation and used a balanced scorecard approach to analyze business performance. The PLS analysis showed a positive association between realized strategic alignment, shorter and more cost efficient ERP projects, faster reaction times to business events, and the benefits of ERP systems. While each stage of ERP implementation has it...

Several studies, examples and expert statements have devised cost efficiency and excellent performance of parallel computing technology and especially transputers in many industrial applications. Still there appears to be a mismatch between potential possibilities and actual utilization of the technology. This has lead to consider this mismatch to be not a technical problem, but a technology di...

Word-of-Mouth plays its great important role on the base of social network in affecting consumers’ shopping behaviour. However, it is little known how firms make a self-suitable marketing strategy according to both online and offline WOM effect in their product diffusion. This article investigates a new product diffusion process taking both offline WOM and online WOM effect into consideration. ...

This study investigates on a quantitative basis two strategies that can be used to increase the legibility distance of retroreflective traffic signs with negative luminance contrast legend or symbols at night. The first strategy involves the increase of the letter, numeral, or symbol size associated with a corresponding increase in the stroke width (representing the visual detail) and with an i...

Airline mergers and acquisitions (MAs) are on the rise across the globe and have been a growing trend in the U.S. aviation industry in the last few years. MAs are taking several factors into consideration, such as cost efficiency, competition, and geographic coverage. For airlines, these transactions can eliminate overlapping routes and help reduce competition, leading airlines to achieve highe...

Mass customization capabilities enable firms to design, produce, and deliver a high volume of differentiated products that meet specific customer needs in a timely manner and at close to mass-production prices. A critical part of mass customization is simultaneously achieving customer responsiveness, cost efficiency, and high volume production in the manufacturing system. This research describe...

In order to keep up with the advances in nano-fabrication, alternative, cost-efficient lithography techniques need to be implemented. Two of the most promising are nanoimprint lithography (NIL) and stencil lithography. We explore here the possibility of fabricating the stamp using stencil lithography, which has the potential for a cost reduction in some fabrication facilities. We show that the ...

The way humans define words is a powerful way of representing them. In this work, we propose to measure word similarity by comparing the overlap in their definition. This highlights linguistic phenomena that are complementary to the information extracted from standard context-based representation learning techniques. To acquire a large amount of word definitions in a cost-efficient manner, we d...

With the concept of 3G services WCDMA is one of the important technologies that provide a very high speed communication. In this technology multiple users can communicate simultaneously to transfer different kind of data. WCDMA enables the best use of available bandwidth and the spectrum to represent a cost efficient network. But in a network there is always the requirement to increase the secu...