“The debate on sustainable production often ends in discussions on the feasibility of farreaching changes in relation to the competitiveness of companies. Industry itself and policy-makers tend to back away from engaging in profound processes of industrial transformation” (Green, quotation frames the problem of moving towards sustainable production while dividing the issue into two separate yet...

— Let x1, x2, . . . , xn be the zeroes of a polynomial P (x) of degree n and y1, y2, . . . , ym be the zeroes of another polynomial Q(y) of degree m. Our object of study is the permanent per(1/(xi − yj))1≤i≤n,1≤j≤m, here named “Scott-type” permanent, the case of P (x) = x − 1 and Q(y) = y + 1 having been considered by R. F. Scott. We present an efficient approach to determining explicit evaluat...

In this paper we give an outline of recent algebraic results concerning theories and models of the untyped lambda calculus.

In this work, from the category sight, we provide a generalization for the real interval theory. This generalization allows us to study generic properties of data which are “intervals” of another data, providing a categorical foundation of intervals as a parametric data type. In doing so we obtain some properties which holds for real intervals, complex intervals, interval vectors, interval matr...

Glass Capillary X-ray Waveguides Scott M. LaBrake December, \thisyear Dedication: To my wife Sandra and my daughter Alexandra. Acknowledgments: First and foremost I would like to thank my beautiful wife Sandra for all of her love and support over the last eight years. I could not have completed this without you. There are not enough words to express how I feel about you. You are my best friend ...

We show there exists a continuous compactly supported function ' de ned on the reals satsifying '(x) = c0'(2x) + c1'(2x 1) + c2'(2x 2) if and only if c1 = 1, c0 + c2 = 1, and jc0j; jc2j < 1. The functions ' are examples of scaling functions from the theory of wavelets. x