am grateful to many people and institutions that supported my project. First of all I want to thank my supervisor Prof. Dr. Alf Kimms for drawing my attention to the field of revenue management and giving me the chance to write this dissertation at his chair. I truly valued his support and the inspiring discussions during the entire process. I would also like to thank my second assessor Prof. D...

Whenever a rule is contractible, the law must establish separate rules governing how private parties can contract around the default legal treatment. To date, contract theorists have not developed satisfying theories for how to set “altering rules,” the rules that establish the necessary and sufficient conditions for displacing a default. This Article argues that when setting altering rules, ef...

Scholars have long debated how legal institutions influenced the economic development of societies and civilizations. This Article sheds new light on this debate by reexamining, from a legal perspective, a crucial segment of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century economic divergence between England and China: By 1700, English agriculture had become predominantly capitalist, reliant on ―manageria...

The nineteenth century saw the standardization and rapid spread of the modern business corporation around the world. Yet those early corporations differed from their contemporary counterparts in important ways. Most obviously, they commonly deviated from the one-share-onevote rule that is customary today, instead adopting restricted voting schemes that favored small over large shareholders. In ...

We analyzed a new variable all-optical buffer using semiconductor quantum dots (QD). We show that an Ids-InGaAs-GaAs QD waveguide with 20meV inhomogeneous linewidth can achieve substantial buffering with a novel unbalanced multi-wavelength pumping scheme. Introduction: The advancement of 111-V semiconductor quantum dots (QD) has made many interesting applications, such as ultra-low threshold di...

Principal components or empirical orthogonal functions are virtually the sole statistical tool used to date for investigations of space-time variability of meteorological elements. Maximum statistical efficiency and possible physical interpretation of empirical orthogonal functions derives from the assumptions of stationarity and homoscedasticity of the scalar variables in space and time. In th...

Effective mean annual precipitation is related to sediment yield from drainage basins throughout the climatic regions of the United States. Sediment yield is a maximum at about 10 to 14 inches of precipitation, decreasing sharply on both sides of this maximum in one case owing to a deficiency of runoff and in the other to increased density of vegetation. Data are presented illustrating the incr...

We present a waveguide-coupled photonic crystal H1 cavity structure in which the orthogonal dipole modes couple to spatially separated photonic crystal waveguides. Coupling of each cavity mode to its respective waveguide with equal efficiency is achieved by adjusting the position and orientation of the waveguides. The behavior of the optimized device is experimentally verified for where the cav...

The COVID-19 pandemic was a major driver of global change. It has also made possible an unprecedented large-scale field experiment to test the effects human mobility on wildlife ecology and behaviour (Rutz et al., 2020). Sanitary measures tackling spread SARS-CoV-2 curtailed movement world-wide (Bates 2020), reducing disturbance for animals, set rapid responses from were recorded soon after imp...

Research in public administration examining the effects of diversity on organizational performance has produced mixed results. However, lack a comprehensive theoretical framework failed to provide an explanation for effects. This study introduces systematic analytical model, Categorization-Elaboration Model (CEM), help identify contextual constructs which can promote positive performance. A met...