New techniques have been integrated into EXPO (Altomare et al., 1999), a package devoted to extracting the integrated intensities from an indexed powder diffraction pattern and to solving crystal structures via Direct Methods. An efficient peak-search algorithm and an improved version of the program TREOR90 (Werner et al., 1985) have been introduced in order to offer new tools for a more powerf...

BACKGROUND Large-scale international events such as World Expos and Olympic Games have the potential to strengthen smoke-free norms globally. The Shanghai 2010 World Expo was one of the first large-scale events to implement and evaluate the adoption of strict tobacco control policies. OBJECTIVE To evaluate implementation of tobacco control policies at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, China. ...

In this study, I analyzed the circumstances behind hosting Okinawa International Ocean Exposition from perspectives of postwar Okinawa's energy policy, Ministry Trade and Industry's philosophy on Expo, basic concept venue planning. We clarified how Industry conceived Aquapolis. also compared contrasted 1) layout plan for central facilities, 2) technical proposal 3) pavilion method, 4) producer ...

Today's available solutions for the production of digitally compressed TV programmes require successive decoding and re-coding operations due both to the multiplicity of digital formats currently in use for signal acquisition and to technology limitations. This has the consequence of increasing the production costs and of reducing the overall signal quality. The ability of using compression als...

The ontology of scientific experiments EXPO formalises the generic concepts of experimental design, methodology, and results representation. We describe an application of EXPO to describe phylogenetic experiments, focusing on a case study involving Solonedons. We explain how the details of the experiment were formalised using EXPO We argue that abductive inference is the basis of evolutionary p...

This paper considers design methodologies in order to develop voice-enabled interfaces for tour-guide robots to be deployed at the Robotics Exposition of the Swiss National Exhibition (Expo.02). Human-robot voice communication presents new challenges for design of fully autonomous mobile robots, in that interactivity must be robot-initiated in conversation and within a dynamic adverse environme...

We demonstrate theoretically and illustrate the implications of assuming power utility when the true function is of the expo-power form. Empirical results can appear to be consistent with cumulative prospect theory when they are in fact generated from a Markowitz model. Crown Copyright© 2011 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

The article analyzes the humanistic basis of expo-design in conjunction with the ideological problems of modern design and the causes of their occurrence. It reveals the potential of mobile exhibition for social transformation in terms of its structural and ideological aesthetic content. It substantiates the effectiveness of expo-design expression’s artistic and aesthetic means in viewer person...

Multiplicative habit introduces an additional consumption risk as a determinant of equity premium, and allows time preference and habit strength, in addition to risk aversion, to affect “price of risk”. A model combining multiplicative habit and power-expo preferences cannot be rejected.