Powder metallurgy (PM) components are widely used in the auto industry due to the advantage of net-shape forming, low cost, and high efficiency. Still, usage of PM components is limited in the auto industry when encountering rigorous situations, like heavy load, due to lower strength, hardness, wear resistance, and other properties compared to wrought components due to the existence of massive ...

development of technological capability is one of the effective methods for promoting the firm competitive performance. transfer of suitable technology help the firm to make a strong position in its industry faster than using in-house r&d.; successfulness of a firm based on technology transfer process can be measured with different scales such as measurement of firm competitive performance thro...

People frequently form small groups in many social and professional situations: from conference attendees meeting at a coffee break, to siblings gathering at a family barbecue. These adhoc gatherings typically form into predictable geometries based on circles or circular arcs (called F-Formations). Because our lives are increasingly stored and represented by data on handheld devices, the desire...

In this paper I analyze the development and competitiveness of mobile telecommunications industry across the European Union. I estimate a reduced form and structural model of mobile industry using panel data for the EU countries in years 1998-2002. The competitiveness level is significantly influenced by the regulation policy. The regulation implemented throughout the liberalization process of ...

This paper studies the added values, both qualitative and quantitative that can be gained by using mobile devices at a construction industry. Some pilots have already been made in the Finnish construction industry that involves the usage of mobile devices. The problem is still to locate the “bottlenecks” that the construction industry has and find a suitable mobile solution that could help in t...

We are living in an era where a lot of disruptive technologies that change the entire perspective market arriving very often. One such is emergence Mobile App Development, which completely changed way users utilized software. Even though software development generally meant stand-alone or Web application past, now it has enormous space given to Development. Standalone demanded user have Persona...

This paper tests predictions from bargaining theory about how private information, patience, and bargaining disutility affect the division of surplus between negotiating parties. We do so using the responses to a novel survey of 1,500 new car buyers in California that asks buyers detailed questions about their bargaining behavior, their search for information, and their individual characteristi...

This paper presents an approach for reconstructing a realistic 3D model of a building from its uncalibrated video sequences taken by a hand-held camera. The novelty of this approach lies in the integration of some prior scene knowledge in the auto-calibration stage of the structure from motion (SFM) problem. The line parallelism and plane orthogonality are transformed into the constraints on th...

With the constant development of customer relationship management (CRM) theory and the maturity of business intelligence technology, the analysis-based CRM has become a hot topic in the academic field. Some enterprises have begun to put the analysis-based CRM to practice; however, there have been few successful applications because of the inadequate mastery of business intelligence technology a...