Neoliberalising technoscience and environment: EU policy for competitive, sustainable biofuels Book Chapter How to cite: Levidow, Les; Papaioannou, Theo and Birch, Kean (2012). Neoliberalising technoscience and environment: EU policy for competitive, sustainable biofuels. In: Pellizzoni, Luigi and Ylönen, Marja eds. Neoliberalism and Technoscience. Theory, Technology and Society. Farnham: Ashga...

Sperm cooperation has evolved in a variety of taxa and is often considered a response to sperm competition, yet the benefit of this form of collective movement remains unclear. Here, we use fine-scale imaging and a minimal mathematical model to study sperm aggregation in the rodent genus Peromyscus. We demonstrate that as the number of sperm cells in an aggregate increase, the group moves with ...

A gene expression n-BDD is proposed in order to investigate co-evolutional environment. The gene expression is suitable for agent models to decide agent's behavior using information from environment. We can apply genetic algorithm to evolve behavior of agents. In a quasi ecosystem, a herbivore, a carnivore and plants make a food chain, which is a typical competitive environment and causes co-ev...

In this paper, we consider the design of large-scale hub-and-spoke transportation networks in a competitive environment. We adopt the hub arc location model that locates arcs with discounted transport costs connecting pairs of hub facilities. Two firms compete for passengers in a Stackelberg framework where the leader firm locates hub arcs to maximize its revenue, given that the follower firm w...

The study of economic behavior of service providers in a competition environment is an important and interesting research issue. A two-server queueing model has been proposed in Kalai et al. [11] for this purpose. Their model aims at studying the role and impact of service capacity in capturing larger market share so as to maximize the long-run expected profit. They formulate the problem as a t...

This paper presents a method for allocation and evaluation of reactive power (VAr) support contracts necessary to maintain system security and quality of supply. The method also quantifies the value of VAr support from individual generators or a portfolio of generators. Such information may be useful both to generating companies in preparing VAr tenders and to the market operator in assessing t...

-This paper presents a new Hybrid Fuzzy (HF) PID type controller based on Genetic Algorithms (GA’s) for solution of the Automatic generation Control (AGC) problem in a deregulated electricity environment. In order for a fuzzy rule based control system to perform well, the fuzzy sets must be carefully designed. A major problem plaguing the effective use of this method is the difficulty of accura...

in early 21st century, rapid and all- inclusive global change has transformed so much the working environment of organizations that the organizations and their managers are obliged to find new ways for their actions to adapt to global change and evolution, so that they can survive in the domestic and global competition arena. in fact, an organization will be successful that can achieve a sustai...

abstract in today's competitive business environment, intellectual capital management is widely considered as the main factor in order to gain and maintain organization competitive advantage. the main purpose of this paper is presenting a model to evaluate intellectual capital capacity in organizations. in this regard, first by the survey of the related literature, nine criteria of the int...

Most of the current e-learning systems are used as a vehicle to deliver contents to students, according to an established sequence previously defined by the teacher. Pedagogical research suggests that learning characteristics vary for each individual learner and that students prefer to use different types of resources in distinct ways. This paper introduces an ongoing research on intelligent ad...