This paper focuses on the EU Takeover Directive and the impact of its transposition into French law. Takeover regulation is employed as a test case in assessing the importance of the EU in inducing harmonisation within European varieties of capitalism. French outcomes diverge from EC aspirations for greater clarity and uniformity. Heightened uncertainty and differentiation exacerbate problems o...

There are two important aspects to good injector performance in rocket engines—the atomization performance (droplet size and distribution, for example) and uniformity of operation (even distribution of droplets in time and space). In general, both of these aspects are affected by the geometry and operating conditions of the injector. In studying atomization performance, prior work has largely f...

We return today to property testing and a surprising application of F2 estimation (or equivalently `2-norm approximation) for the problem of testing the closeness to uniform of a probability distribution. We consider discrete distributions on the domain [n]. Each such distribution is given by a probability vector p = (p1, . . . , pn). The uniform distribution U on [n] has Ui = 1/n for all i ∈ [...

In this thesis, we step inside an unexplored region of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) research. Nowadays, almost all WSNs research relies upon a hidden uniformity assumption. This assumption involves deployment, distribution and radio transmissions. Unfortunately, the real world is not uniform. In the thesis, we break the uniformity assumption and study the non-uniformity influence in WSNs. In...

In this paper, a neural network model is presented to characterize the thickness and the uniformity of the cellgap process for flexible liquid crystal display (LCD). Input factors are explored via a D-optimal design with 15 runs and used as training data in the neural network. In order to verify the fitness of the model, three more runs are added as test data. Latin hypercube sampling and error...

The Exact Geometric Computing approach requires a zero test for numbers which are built up using standard operations starting with the natural numbers. The uniformity conjecture, part of an attempt to solve this problem, postulates a simple linear relationship between the syntactic length of expressions built up from the natural numbers using field operations, radicals and exponentials and loga...

One of the basic problems in the analysis of circularly distributed data is to find whether a given set of observations on the circumference of the unit circle indicate any preferred direction or whether the data can be considered to have come from a uniform distribution on the circumference. We shall assume, throughout this discussion, that the observations are given in terms of angles measure...