This paper aims to empirically evaluate the extent to which the 1986 Semiconductor Trade Arrangement (STA) affected the Japanese producers’ behavior and thus the evolution of the markets for the 256K and the 1M Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) chips. We find that overall the STA facilitated the collusive behavior of the Japanese producers even beyond the myopic optimization: during the STA p...

Unprecedented two homochiral Cd(ii) enantiomers [Cd(dtba)(bpp)]n (1: 1P and 1M) (H2dtba = 2,2'-dithiodibenzoic acid, bpp = 1,3-bis(4-pyridyl)propane), were obtained by self-assembly with mixed achiral flexible ligands. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis reveals that complexes 1P and 1M crystallize in trigonal space groups P3121 and P3221, respectively. The compounds are optically active,...

We study five different types of the homology a Lie algebra over commutative ring which are naturally isomorphic fields. show that they not rings, even Z, and connections between them. In particular, we in case is flat as module. As an auxiliary result prove Koszul complex module M principal ideal domain connects exterior symmetric powers 0→ΛnM→M⊗Λn−1M→…→Sn−1M⊗M→SnM→0 purely acyclic.

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia – Earth Sciences Department, Via S. Eufemia 19, 41100 Modena, Italy, University of Trento, Department of Materials Engineering and Industrial Technologies, Via Mesiano 77, 38050 Trento, Italy, Portland State University, Department of Geology, PO Box 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751, USA, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East ...

In this work, tribocorrosion performance of the High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering (HIPIMS) nitrided (F75) CoCrMo alloys was examined with help sliding wear corrosion experiments carried out in Hank's solution. Results indicate that under Open Circuit Potentials (OCP), both and untreated specimens exhibited near similar Sliding-Wear-Corrosion coefficient (KSWC) values (6.52 × 10−15 3.95 m3...

-Hydroxyl orientation has a major influence on the strength of the ionic interlayer bonding in micas because of the strong repulsion between the hydrogen and the interlayer cation (IC). In order to determine if other factors also influence the magnitude of the interlayer bond energy, the effect due to the varying H-IC distance, as one finds, for example, between a dioctahedral and a trioctahedr...

We hypothesized that maturational changes in both prostaglandin and endothelium-derived nitric oxide (EDNO) activity contribute to developmental changes in endothelium-dependent relaxation of newborn pulmonary arteries. Responses to endothelium-dependent vasodilators acetylcholine, bradykinin, and calcium ionophore A-23187 were determined in phenylephrine-constricted third- and fourth-generatio...

Ecuador has a great variety of climatic regions that potentiate biodiversity. The family constitutes one of the most important of the country, having Orchidaceae identified about 4032 species with a high degree of endemism, therefore the development and research of alternative methods of storage and conservation of species is a strategy of primary interest for researchers and for society in gen...