The stone hunting points have generated substantial interest and it is often used as a fossil guide to enable the identification characterization of complex technologies or “cultures”. However, armatures remain poorly understood in Central Europe, despite various original types. This paper explains key from Unit K11 Dolní V?stonice II (South Moravia, Czech Republic). collection not directly dat...

− The National Institute of Metrology (Thailand), NIMT, maintains the standard of length in accordance with the definition of the meter through a 633 nm iodine stabilized He-Ne laser. Its accuracy is transferred to stabilized and non-stabilized lasers regarding to beatfrequency method and direct measurement using a wavelength meter, respectively. The traceability in wavelength measurement at th...

As fault diagnosis and prognosis systems in aerospace applications become more capable, the ability to utilize information supplied by them becomes increasingly important. While certain types of vehicle health data can be effectively processed and acted upon by crew or support personnel, others, due to their complexity or time constraints, require either automated or semi-automated reasoning. P...

Do intellectual property rights influence multinationals’ manufacturing location decisions? My theoretical model indicates that countries with strong patent laws attract multinational activity, but only in sectors with relatively long product life cycles. By contrast, firms with short life-cycle technologies are insensitive, because offshore imitation is less likely to succeed before obsolescen...

Why do legal disputes ever go to trial? Prior research emphasizes the role of mistakes, irrationalities, or asymmetric information because rational litigants with complete or symmetric information should choose pre-trial settlements over the costs and risks of trial. Using a dynamic incomplete-contracting framework, we provide an overlooked rationale for going to court. Even though risky and co...

The design process of the new locomotion platform called K11 aims at obtaining a rover capable of traveling thousands of kilometers at 1 m/s in the harsh environment of Antarctica during summer and carrying a 100 kg payload. A model including the drive-train power consumption and masses is used to optimize the parameters of the rover in order to minimize the power consumption. The obtained conf...