This paper investigates the diverging incentives for product quality in a channel with two asymmetric retailers and a common supplier. When retailers differ in terms of service provision and channel power, changes in manufactured quality cause channel conflicts. In particular, our results show that if the low service retailer becomes dominant in the channel, it may induce a low level of quality...

UML class diagrams are widely used to model the static structure of object-oriented software systems. As a supplement, OCL becomes more and more popular for formulating constraints that can not be modeled by the diagrams. In this paper, we extend OCL with elements of temporal logic. With this extension, constraints on the temporal development of the system structure as well as on the system beh...

When linear precoding is applied to filterbank multicarrier systems, a combination of all subcarriers is transmitted, minimizing the effect of a deep fade in a subcarrier while also reducing frequency offset sensibility and the peakto-average power ratio. However, their equalization becomes even more challenging than usual. In this paper, we present an analysis on the effect of multitap subchan...

O2 diving incidents investigated by our laboratory were related to improper filling of the soda lime canister in closed-circuit oxygen rebreathers. We studied the effect of overfilling or underfilling the canister on CO2 absorption using a continuous flow of 5% CO2. With a full canister in the Oxyger 57, CO2 began to rise at 130-160 min, reaching 1% at 240 min and 1.5% at 270 min. Similar resul...

What are the basic principles of mental capacity law in England and Wales and how do they apply in practice? What happens when an adult has a mental or physical incapacity and so is unable to manage their own affairs, yet owns property in several different jurisdictions? Or becomes incapacitated in a jurisdiction other than where they usually live? The importance of these areas is well rehearse...

Previous research has demonstrated that higher-order cognitive processes associated with the allocation of selective attention are engaged when highly familiar self-relevant items are encountered, such as one's name, face, personal possessions and the like. The goal of our study was to determine whether these effects on attentional processing are triggered on-line at the moment self-relevance i...

ion gets to work on a basis of primary intuitions, and with it a new categorial act-character emerges, in which a new style of objectivity becomes apparant, an objectivity which can only become apparent whether given as 'real' or as 'merely imagined' in just such a founded act. Naturally I do not here mean abstraction merely in the sense of setting-in-relief of some dependent moment in a sensib...