The planning bureaus are knowledge institutes that provide the Dutch government with knowledge about the present and future state of the country and how it is affected by the government’s policies. The name is somewhat misleading, as planning may invoke associations with the faltering centralisation policies of the darker days in really existing socialism. These institutes are not involved in p...

With ever rising concerns regarding global warming and other dangerous effects of C0 2 , there had been efforts to reduce CO 2 emissions all around the world by adopting more efficient technologies and alternate green or carbon neutral fuels. However, these technologies require large investments and hence to make them economically viable there should be suitable incentives from the government i...

sandwich sheet rolling process is investigated using an analytical method (slab method) and a numerical method (finite element method). the horizontal stress distribution in the layers, the rolling pressure along the contact interface and the neutral point between the roll and the sheet are investigated. then the affects of the parameters such as the friction between the sheet and the roll, she...

This paper presents H∞ control problem for input-delayed systems. A neutral system approach is considered to the design of PD controller for input delay systems in presence of uncertain time-invariant delay. Using this approach, the resulting closed-loop system turns into a specific time-delay system of neutral type. The significant specification of this neutral system is that its delayed coeff...

In this paper, we study the impact of tax policy on wage negotiations, workers' effort, and employment when effort is only imperfectly observable. We show that the different wage-setting motives – rent sharing and effort incentives – reinforce the effects of partial tax policy measures but not necessarily those of more fundamental tax reforms. We show that a higher degree of tax progression alw...

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is the most widely-used network management protocol for TCP/IP-based networks. The functionality of SNMP was enhanced with the publication of SNMPv2. However, both versions of SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 lack security features, notably authentication and privacy. The SNMPv3 solves these deficiencies but it has some inefficiency to deal with the access, service re...