The classic model of consumer decision making runs something as follows: Consumers make themselves as well off as they are able. This statement can be broken down into two parts. First there is the notion that consumers always want to make themselves better off. Second is the admission that they are constrained in this pursuit “as they are able”. In the last note we introduced the Budget Constr...

We report a low temperature C lithographic method for fabricating hybrid metal oxide/organic field-effect transistors (FETs) that combine a zinc–indium–oxide (ZIO) semiconductor channel and organic, parylene, dielectric layer. The transistors show a field-effect mobility of 12 0.8 cm V s , on/off ratio of 10 and turn-off voltage of V. This work demonstrates that organic and inorganic layers can...

A fundamental issue in active learning of Gaussian processes is that of the exploration-exploitation trade-off. This paper presents a novel nonmyopic -Bayes-optimal active learning ( -BAL) approach [4] that jointly optimizes the trade-off. In contrast, existing works have primarily developed greedy algorithms or performed exploration and exploitation separately. To perform active learning in re...

New aspects and advancements in classical uncertainty propagation methods were used to develop a nutrient budget with associated uncertainty for a northern Gulf of Mexico coastal embayment. Uncertainty was calculated for budget terms by propagating the standard error and degrees of freedom. New aspects include the combined use of Monte Carlo simulations with classical error propagation methods,...

Information technology management challenges managers to create a robust platform for other systems in the organization. However, it is not only about robustness, the infrastructure also needs to adapt to changes in operations. It is also important, that technological platform can be managed with costs that fit the overall budget. Understanding resources that are needed and activities in inform...

 Cost-competitive with petroleum fuels  Long-term stable price for budget forecasting  Made from sustainable, renewable Biomass residuals  Storable and pumpable liquid similar to petroleum fuels  Clean burning fuel without the sulfur and particulates from petroleum fuels  Low greenhouse gas emissions Sustainability issues have become an important part of the supply chain for operati...

A major challenge of software-defined radio (SDR) is to realize many giga operations per second of flexible baseband processing within a power budget of only a few hundredmW. A heterogeneous hardware architecture with the programmable vector processor EVP as key component can support WLAN, UMTS, and other standards. A detailed rationale for the EVP architecture, based on the analysis of a numbe...

under an intensive competitive environment, the construction industry is facing pressure to meet the higher customer expectations under a tighter budget. on the other hand, construction is one of the main sectors generating greenhouse gases. according to published statistics, construction industry is one of the most important resources of greenhouse emissions in the world. therefore, based on t...

cumin (cuminum cyminum) is an annual suitable for the dry and semi-dry areas of iran. recently, farmers have chosen to plant cumin because it requires less water and growth time. however, at harvest time, the resistance of cumin seed to shatter is low and, if careful attention is not paid to this fact, a major portion of the crop can be lost. when the connection force of the seed decreases, see...

DC-offset and DC-suppression are key parameters in bioelectric amplifiers. However, specific DC analyses are not often explained. Several factors influence the DC-budget: the programmable gain, the programmable cut-off frequencies for high pass filtering and, the low cut-off values and the capacitor blocking issues involved. A new intermediate stage is proposed to address the DC problem entirel...