For a durable consumption good which turns into waste after consumption, the socially optimal durability increases with an increase in the marginal environmental damage. In a laissez-faire equilibrium under perfect competition, producers fail to provide an efficient product design, i.e. durability is inefficiently small, whereas the amount of solid waste is inefficiently large. The market failu...

Results are also compared to EN350-1. Results to date indicate that furfurylation and acetylation are capable of improving the durability classification of UK grown Sitka spruce from Not Durable, Durability Class (DC) 5 for control samples to Very Durable (DC1). More interestingly, lower durability classifications were obtained when using UK grown Scots pine, where the treated samples could be ...

Phosphate glasses have special applications, but tra,ditionally never have had both durability and a low glass transition temperature (making them hard to work with). A composition study was used to find a more durable, easily fabricated phosphate glass with a low glass transition temperature. Batching, melting, casting, annealing and fabrication of test parts were performed. Glasses were chara...

In this study, we address the durability of the brain, which is able to operate in various imperfect situations. In our previous research, we have proposed a new network structure called the “Affordable Neural Network”, where affordable neurons in the hidden layer of the feedforward neural network reflect important aspects of the real brain mechanism. We consider that the concept of the afforda...

In order to improve the durability of fly ash concrete, a series of experimental studies are carried out, where durability improving admixture is used to reduce drying shrinkage and improve freezing-thawing resistance. The effects of durability improving admixture, air content, water-binder ratio, and fly ash replacement ratio on the performance of fly ash concrete are discussed in this paper. ...

Public goods cooperation abounds in nature, occurring in organisms ranging from bacteria to humans. Although previous research focused on the behavioral and ecological conditions favoring cooperation, the question of whether the molecular and regulatory properties of the public good itself can influence selection for cooperation has received little attention. Using a metapopulation model, we sh...

the use of various slags as by-products of steel industry is well established in civil engineering applications. however, the use of bos slag in the area of soil stabilization has not been fully researched and developed despite having similar chemical composition and mineralogy to that of portland cement. this paper reports on efforts to extend the use of bos slag to soil stabilization by deter...

This study determined the durability of various types of medical examination gloves using a laboratory test developed by the researchers. Results of this testing are compared with a simulated clinical method, also developed by the researchers, found to produce failures at rates similar to actual clinical use. Ten types of exam gloves were tested. One set of gloves was tested using a glove durab...

Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors are often used all over the world and exert various beneficial effects including glucose-lowering effect in many subjects with type 2 diabetes. It is poorly understood, however, which factors are closely related with the durability of glucose-lowering effect by DPP-4 inhibitor. In this study, we examined retrospectively which factors could mainly influe...