This article studies the effects of reverse factoring in a supply chain when buyer company facilitates its lower short-term borrowing rates to supplier corporation return for extended payment terms. We explore role interest rate changes, rating and business cycle position on cost benefit trade-off from perspective. utilize combined empirical approach consisting an event study Step 1 simulation ...

The purpose of this paper is to attitude estimation of Nano-satellite which requires navigation sensors data to less cost function and effection movement of Nano-satellite focus of the research is to using data of navigation sensors and methods to achieve the requirement of the attitude estimation. in this paper the following attitude estimation of the according to direction of sun of the Nano-...

This study presents shape optimization of a gravity dam imposing stability and principal stress constraints. A gravity dam is a large scale hydraulic structure consisting of huge amount of concrete material. Hence, an optimum design gives a cost-benefit structure due to the fact that small changes in shape of dam cross-section leads to large saving of concrete volume. T...

the present study has a cognitive approach to empathy and character engagement in cinema. in discussing how through empathy and engagement with real and fictional characters, we extend our minds and enhance our cognitive abilities, the present paper studies bahram tavakkoli’s wandering in the fog (2010), to show how andy clark and david chalmers’s idea of the extended mind as joined with murray...

INTRODUCTION Oxybutynin and tolterodine are two drugs widely used for the management of overactive bladder and urge urinary incontinence. The once-daily, extended-release formulations benefit from being well tolerated and efficacious. However, their costs, compared with generic immediate-release (IR) oxybutynin, are significantly greater. This study compared the cost effectiveness of oxybutynin...

We present Extended LQR, a novel approach for locally-optimal control for robots with non-linear dynamics and non-quadratic cost functions. Our formulation is conceptually different from existing approaches, and is based on the novel concept of LQR-smoothing, which is an LQR-analogue of Kalman smoothing. Our approach iteratively performs both a backward Extended LQR pass, which computes approxi...

explanations (Makino and Neupert, 2000; Taylor, Zou and Osland, 1998; Cleeve, 1997; Padmanabhan and Cho, 1996; Erramilli and Rao, 1993; Hennart, 1991; Gatignon and Anderson, 1988; Anderson and Gatignon, 1986). However, recently scholars such as Brouthers and Brouthers (2000) and Delios and Beamish (1999) have begun extending transaction cost entry mode theory by choices. We found that mode choi...