PLASTIC CLASHES: COMPETITION AMONG CLOSED AND OPEN PAYMENT SYSTEMS*

Open or Closed? Technology Sharing, Supplier Investment, and Competition

Copyright: © 2017 INFORMS Abstract. Competing technologies in emerging industries create uncertainties that discourage supplier investments. Open technology can induce supplier investments, but may also lead to intensified future competition. In this paper, we study competing manufacturers’ open-technology strategies. We show that despite the risk of intensifying future competition, open techno...

From Closed to Open Systems*

Weyl asymptotics: from closed to open systems.

We present microwave experiments on the symmetry reduced five-disk billiard studying the transition from a closed to an open system. The measured microwave reflection signal is analyzed by means of the harmonic inversion and the counting function of the resulting resonances is studied. For the closed system this counting function shows the Weyl asymptotic with a leading exponent equal to 2. By ...

Open and Closed Membership among English and Welsh Baptists*

among English and Welsh Baptists* Q UESTIONS concerned with" open" and" closed" membership among the English Baptists are closely related to, but are also separate from, those concerned with "open" or "closed" communion. Indeed, many churches which still practice "closed" membership open their communion table to Christians who have not been baptised as believers and hence practice "open" commun...

Anesthesia in Cardiac Surgery (Open-Closed Heart)

In this paper the duties of an anesthesiologist and his right of i=;electing patient is discussed. La,ter, we di:=:cuss the <::mergencies cf heart surgery, pre up visit and alsc few dcails of pre up medication cf thei,e pati<mts. We also touch on the stages of anesthPsia and point to our preference for the use cf artery and vein for arterial and venous cannulation. In this paper we discuss in b...