Recently, we have experienced an emergence of comparative “Internet Shopping Agents” (ISAs) that allow consumers to costlessly search across many online retailers and buy at the lowest price. An ISA can be thought of as an institution that creates all or nothing type of competition in the following sense: Because consumers see all the retail prices with a single search, a retailer of a homogeno...

Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften–ISAS–e.V., Dortmund, Germany; Institut für Klinische Biochemie und Pathobiochemie, Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, S. Petersburg, Russia; Center for Bioinformatics, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Institute of Clinical Chemistry,...

Gaseous circumbinary disks (CBDs) that are highly inclined to the binary orbit commonly observed in nature. These harbor particles can reach large mutual inclinations as a result of nodal precession once gas disk has dissipated. With n-body simulations include fragmentation we demonstrate misaligned be efficient progenitors interstellar asteroids (ISAs). Collisions take place between with have ...

Venetian blinds play an important role in controlling daylight in buildings. Automated blinds overcome some limitations of manual blinds; however, the existing automated systems mainly control the direct solar radiation and glare and cannot be used for controlling innovative blind systems such as split blinds. This research developed an Illuminance-based Slat Angle Selection (ISAS) model that p...

There is an inherent tension between two basic aspects of computer design: standardized ISAs that allow portable (and enduring) software to be used in a wide variety of systems, and innovative ISAs that can take best advantage of ever-evolving silicon technologies. This tension originates from the ultimate objective of computer architects: efficient computer system designs that (1) support expa...

Yamir Moreno, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Alexei Vázquez, and Alessandro Vespignani The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, P.O. Box 586, 34100 Trieste, Italy 2 Departament de F́ısica i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord, Mòdul B4, 08034 Barcelona, Spain International School for Advanced Studies SISSA/ISAS, via Beirut 4, 34014 Trieste, Italy...

Peter Barnes (U Sydney), Kate Brooks (ATNF), Michael Burton (UNSW), Maria Cunningham (UNSW), John Dickey (U Tasmania), Phil Edwards (ISAS), Ron Ekers (ATNF), Yasuo Fukui (U Nagoya), Annie Hughes (Swinburne U), Ilana Klamer (U Sydney / ATNF), Vincent Minier (CEA Saclay), Erik Mueller (ATNF), Juergen Ott (ATNF), Bob Sault (ATNF), Mark Thompson (U Hertfordshire), Andrew Walsh (UNSW), Tony Wong (UN...

Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 146 How are tax incentives supposed to work? a simple theoretical outline............................ 147 Evidence on the effectiveness of individual retirement accounts in the United States...................................................................

......An instruction set architecture (ISA) is one of the most important interfaces in a computer system because it divides software from hardware. Most widely used ISAs were developed decades ago and are proprietary. This may make sense because hardware implementations were and are mostly proprietary and most software was proprietary when these ISAs were developed. Today, however, we appreciat...

revising the fuel cycle oversight program directed staff to produce a concise paper that was a critical evaluation and comparison of Integrated Safety Analyses (ISA) and Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA). The SRM to SECY-10-0031 stated that the Commission expects the paper " to better inform proposed enhancements to the oversight process. " The following are NRC staff considerations for condu...