nowadays, the application of floating breakwaters in small or recreational harbors has found more popularity. these types of breakwaters are more flexible in terms of design, configuration and especially installation compared with fixed breakwaters. in the current study, the performance of floating breakwater (fbs) under regular waves was studied using the physical modeling method. for the mode...

In development of floating photovoltaic generation system, finding a suitable place of installation is as important as development of economically feasible and stable structure. Especially since floating photovoltaic system has its facility floating on water surface, it is extremely important to review the effects of weather conditions such as wind, water flow and floating matters, various fact...

M often employ market response models as decision aids and historical information of competitors’ market outcomes to aid their competitive decisions in oligopolistic settings. However, little is known about how access to a decision aid or the availability of competitors’ market outcomes impact a firm’s competitive decisions (e.g., prices) or market outcomes resulting from those decisions (e.g.,...

The way that companies choose to define market segments influences which products they develop, drives the features incorporated in those products, and shapes how they take them to market. Segmentation schemes define who is framed as competitors; and how large specific market opportunities are believed to be. Most marketers segment their markets along lines defined by the characteristics of the...

We study procurement auctions in which, as is common in practice, a group of sellers (incumbents, qualified bidders) is given an advantage, based, for example, on better reliability, quality, or incumbency status. We show conditions under which for any given first price handicap auction, there is a simple second-price design which dominates it. This generalizes a previous result for the case of...

Due to the complexity and variability of capital construction sites, real-time monitoring remains an elusive goal. As unit price continues to fall, camera networks are becoming increasingly viable sensing modalities. The benefits of combining multiple, overlapping image sources include the ability to produce 3D scene reconstruction as well as localize and track objects. In the construction doma...

In recent years, aiming to reduce the Greenhouse Gas pollution and promote energy efficiency and conservation among consumers’ energy use, price policies and price changes derived from environmental regulations have played a more important role. In this paper, using the most recent annual state-level panel data for 48 states, I estimate a dynamic partial adjustment model for electricity demand ...

Floating point units form an important component of many reconfigurable computing applications. The creation of floating point units under a collection of area, latency, and throughput constraints is an important consideration for system designers. Given the range of possible tradeoffs, most commercial or academic floating point libraries for FPGAs provide a small fraction of possible floating ...

We investigate multifractal properties of daily price changes in currency rates using the multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis (MF-DFA). We analyze managed and independent floating currency rates in eight countries, and determine the changes in multifractal spectrum when transitioning between the two regimes. We find that after the transition frommanaged to independent float regime the c...