All moving objects possess six degrees of freedom – three linear and three rotary. The task of a linear motion guideway is to eliminate, as closely as possible, five of these degrees of freedom, leaving a single rotary or linear axis of motion. Air bearings are the purest and highest performance means of defining linear or rotary motion, and have substantial advantages over conventional mechani...

Lo this paper, we define jurisdictional advantage, the recognition that location is critical to firms' innovative success and that every location has unique assets that are not easily replicated. Drawing from the well-developed literature on corporate strategy, we consider analogies to cities in their search for competi­ tive advantage. We argue that jurisdictions may benefit from a strategic o...

M en might build more muscle, but women are better at keeping what they have, if results from Deasy et al. (page 73) are any indication. The group shows that female muscle stem cells are better than their male counterparts at regenerating lost muscle. The authors were led into the realm of muscle and sex when they realized that they were relying heavily on cell lines derived from female mice to...

Introduction Competitive advantage is obtained when an organisation develops or acquires a set of attributes (or executes actions) that allow it to outperform its competitors. The development of theories that help explain competitive advantage has occupied the attention of the management community for the better part of half a century. This chapter aims to provide an overview of the key theorie...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has been the engine that has driven the remarkable growth of the sleep field over the last 25 years. Although the medical community and the general public have been interested in the performance and quality-of-life problems that result from sleep apnea, the real concern has been the potential relationship between OSA and the cardiovascular system. This goes back as...

The development of sustainable competitive advantage has long been the “holy grail” of western management. However, evidence presented in this paper shows that at least one of the world’s leading companies has sought to achieve advantage by leverage knowledge and skill within its complete supply chain. The company involves is Toyota of Japan. A description of the benefits involved and the story...

Identification of genetic loci in complex traits has focused largely on one-dimensional genome scans to search for associations between single markers and the phenotype. There is mounting evidence that locus interactions, or epistasis, are a crucial component of the genetic architecture of biologically relevant traits. While discussion about the best way to identify models for complex traits is...

We investigate the long held but empirically untested assumption that diverse networks drive performance by providing access to novel information. We build and validate an analytical model of information diversity, develop theory linking network structure to the distribution of novel information among actors and their performance, and test our theory using a unique ten month panel of email comm...

We study the advantage of pure-state quantum computation without entanglement over classical computation. For the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm we present the maximal subproblem that can be solved without entanglement, and show that the algorithm still has an advantage over the classical ones. We further show that this subproblem is of greater significance, by proving that it contains all the Boolean...

This report compares industrial state-of-the-art products (TTTech, DaVinci and dSPACE) for development of dependable real-time applications with the methodology introduced by Giotto and refined by the Timing Definition Language (TDL). Giotto/TDL aims at a paradigm shift in the development of dependable real-time control systems by focusing on the application rather than on the platform. It repr...