The conditions inside next-generation nuclear reactors are likely to be extreme. High-performance materials will required, and there is still great scope for developing new improved alloys. High-entropy alloys (HEAs) potential candidates, it that such need based around low-activation elements tend form body-centred cubic structures. Whilst have been a number of investigations assessing the capa...

Increasingly organizations compete based on time. As a result, cycle-time reduction is a key agenda for organizations interested in achieving increased customer service and reduced cost. With improved cycle time, organizations can often eliminate or reduce inventory while expanding customer service offerings. The purpose of this tutorial is to present the fundamental concepts of cycle time redu...

Research shows that continuing competitive pressure applied during development and production leads to better industry performance, often at reduced cost. However, the entrenched practice of one-time competition for an entire program life-cycle often endows the winner with a very strong monopolistic power that lasts for decades. This paper describes continuous competition as leverage to acquire...

introduction: application of low-frequency stimulation (lfs) is a new method for treatment of drug resistant epileptic patients. previous studies demonstrated that activation of receptors coupled to gi proteins is one of the mechanisms of the anticonvulsant effect of lfs. thus, in this study, alterations in the expression of rgs4 and rgs10 proteins, as negative regulators of gi proteins, were i...

Running speech contains abundant assimilated and phonologically reduced tokens, but there is considerable debate about how such varied pronunciations disrupt access to the corresponding words in listeners’ mental lexicons. While previous studies have examined the effects of carefully produced or electronically edited reductions, we present two experiments which compare cross-modal repetition pr...

We examine the introduction of the voluntary filing program (VFP) by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the introduction of XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language), or Interactive Data as called in the US. XBRL is a machine-readable standardized format for financial reports. The VFP allowed firms to file annual and quarterly reports using XBRL. This program represents a quas...

We review the renormalization group method applied to non-equilibrium dynamics by tracing the way how the hydrodynamic equations can be derived as reduced dynamics of the Boltzmann equation as a typical example.

This work focuses on cost reduction methods for forest species recognition systems. Current state-of-the-art shows that the accuracy of these systems have increased considerably in the past years, but the cost in time to perform the recognition of input samples has also increased proportionally. For this reason, in this work we focus on investigating methods for cost reduction locally (at eithe...