The building industry, though one of Europe’s biggest business sectors, is primarily made up of small companies. This implies the need for low cost and easy to use computer support to allow these companies to survive in today’s competitive markets. The ESPRIT project CSCCM was a pilot for such an approach and demonstrated how small companies can increase their efficiency in the area of bid prep...

We construct an endogenous growth model of directed technical change with automation (the introduction of machines which replace low-skill labor and complement high-skill labor) and horizontal innovation (the introduction of new products, which increases demand for both types of labor). For general processes of technical change, we demonstrate that although low-skill wages can drop during perio...

I consider directed technical change in an economy where market structure is endogenous. Endogeneity of market structure leads to both theoretical and empirical implications that are substantially different from those in the existing literature and that in some cases are rather surprising. There are two dimensions of directed technical change: directed firm entry (new firms enter the industry w...

The document presents the results obtained by TREND partners working on core, metro networks, data centers and cloud. More efficient network and data centers design and architectures are proposed. Energy-efficient network operation using load proportionality are presented and more efficient network design are proposed Keyword list: Core networks, OFDM transmission format, network architecture, ...

MR has become a reliable and noninvasive method of hepatic iron quantification. Currently, most of the hepatic iron quantification is performed on 1.5 T MR, and the biopsy measurements have been paired with R 2 and R 2* values for 1.5 T MR. As the use of 3 T MR scanners is steadily increasing in clinical practice, it has become important to evaluate the practicality of calculating iron burden a...