Last few years, several projects under the Egovernment initiative have emerged; they are aiming to bring public administration such as for i.e. taxation service, closer to citizens and industrials. Today most of governments are aware that the use of information communication tools represents a powerful means to increase collaboration and cooperation between different public institutions. The ai...

The strongest feature of ad hoc networks is its capability to be rapidly deployed anywhere and anytime without relying on a pre-existing infrastructure. From there, ad hoc networks offer the advantages to be auto-organized, ubiquitous, dynamic and completely autonomous. As a counter part, securing them becomes a more difficult task, especially because of the absence of centralized entities in t...

In the barrier option model of corporate security valuation, firm’s creditors impose a default-triggering on firm value to protect their claim. Two disputed issues in literature are whether implied default is positive, and it above or below book liabilities. We extend Brockman Turtle (2003) by embedding asset payouts valuation shareholders’ equity. Using sample US stocks from NYSE, AMEX, NASDAQ...

Vacuum assisted resin infusion (VARI) processes are widely used for the fabrication of large composite parts. For some years now, wind blades designed with thermoset materials, however, recyclability is often missing brick. The recent advent thermoplastic materials such as ELIUM©, developed by ARKEMA, shows possibility to consider manufacture very parts turbine recyclable constituents [1]. Fren...

The increased use of biostimulants in conventional agriculture and organic farming requires the implementation rapid tests to determine their effectiveness enhancing plant growth protection against abiotic stresses. However, innocuity health has rarely been demonstrated. We used Vicia faba Micronucleus Assay, as described by standard AFNOR EN ISO 29200(2020-05) reveal biostimulant, genotoxic cy...

Oil price fluctuations affect equity values in North American, European, and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock markets, as evidenced by prior studies. However, they only focus on market-wide level analysis. This study, through both market level and sector level analyses, examines the sensitivity of Malaysian stock returns to oil price fluctuations over the period from January 2000 to March 2...

The AMRA project, carried out by a consortium including industrials and research partners, aims at implementing an Augmented Reality (AR) system for mobile use in industrial applications such as train maintenance and repairs in industrial sites. The adopted solution is a video see-through system where a tablet-PC is used as an augmented window. The overall architecture of a prototype is unfolde...

There are very similar features between Chinese Railways and European Railways in terms of train operation mode and train control. ETCS (European Train Control System), supported by the European Union and the European Industrials, has been finalized as the technical standard of train control systems in Europe after more than ten years effort. There is more than 71,500 kilometers of railway oper...

Everybody knows about failure problems in software: it is an admitted fact that most large software do contain bugs. The cost of such bugs can be very high for our society and many methods have been proposed to try to reduce these failures. While merely reducing the number of bugs may be economically sound in many areas, in critical software (such as found in power plants or aeronautics), no fa...

Rapidly rising domestic natural gas prices and the development of higher-priced synthetic fuels have made marketability a key issue for the natural gas industry, both for distribution companies and for producers and interstate pipelines in making reserve acquisition decisions. This paper describes the methodology underlying a detailed model that characterizes the interfuel competition between g...