Family businesses are an important factor for technological progress and high economic efficiency, determining a significant part of economic strength. At present, inside the European Monetary Union (EMU), there are efforts to reduce public debt to fulfill the criteria imposed by the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), which are mandatory for members of the Euro zone. Due to these constraints, pub...

This paper present a study of the relationship between subglottal pressure (SGP) and intensity of the speech signal in the case of sustained French oral vowels with controlled pitch. The corpus is based on a male and a female subjects, the SGP is measured directly by tracheal puncture. The results show that the relationship between intensity and subglottal pressure varies when one considers the...

This paper introduces a new algorithm to detect aerosols and clouds based on micropulse lidar measurements. A semidiscretization processing technique is first used to inhibit the impact of increasing noise with distance. The value distribution equalization method which reduces the magnitude of signal variations with distance is then introduced. Combined with empirical threshold values, we deter...

The movie “Romanoff and Juliet” (Universal International Studios, 1961) shows Peter Ustinov as the Prime Minister of the tiny, peaceful, sleepy nation of Concordia, only a few miles across somewhere in Europe. It is the time of the cold war, and Concordia is squeezed between East andWest. Americans and Soviets are fiercly determined to dominate the neutral country. Prime Minister Ustinov learns...

in this contribution, linearized dynamic model of cumulative mass fraction (cmf) of potassium nitrate-water seeded continues mixed suspension mixed product removal (cmsmpr) crystallizer is approximated by a simplified model in frequency domain. frequency domain model simplification is performed heuristically using the frequency response of the derived linearized models data. however, the cmf fr...

An evolutionary procedure for multiple materials is presented. A material selected due to an allowable stress interval the material. The presented method includes a mesh-independent filter. proposed algorithm applied three examples with four or five materials. In examples, effect of evolution rate, filter setting, and number elements, are shown in simplified way. It that final topology structur...

• Some of my recent and ongoing work is to understand and to discover a predictive theory for microstructure evolution. Most technologically useful materials are polycrystalline microstructures composed of a myriad of small monocrystalline grains separated by grain boundaries. The energetics and connectivity of the grain boundary network plays a crucial role in determining the properties of a m...