RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) recently has gained enormous attention in various industry sectors, the media, and in academic research. This paper focuses in early RFID applications in the retail supply chain. It takes a quick look at the available literature and then explains the technological issues including the need for standardization and the challenges on the data, network, and app...

This paper explains market turbulence, such as the recent dot-com boom/bust cycle, as equilibrium industry dynamics driven by the synergy between new and existing technologies. When a major technological innovation arrives, a wave of new firms implement the innovation and enter the market. However, if the innovation complements existing technology, some new entrants later will be forced out as ...

The Multi-Chip-Module-Deposited (MCM-D) technique has been used to build hybrid pixel detector assemblies. This paper summarises the results of an analysis of data obtained in a test beam campaign at CERN. Here, single chip hybrids made of ATLAS pixel prototype read–out electronics and special sensor tiles were used. They were prepared by the Fraunhofer Institut für Zuverlässigkeit und Mikroint...

The calculation of electromagnetic (EM) fields and waves inside finite-sized structures comprised of different media can benefit from a diakoptics method such as linear embedding via Green’s operators (LEGO). Unlike scattering problems, the excitation of EM waves within the bulk dielectric requires introducing sources inside the structure itself. To handle such occurrence, we have expanded the ...

We address a question posed by T. Sibley and Stan Wagon. They proved that rhombic Penrose tilings in the plane can be 3-colored, but a key lemma of their proof fails in the natural 3D generalization. In that generalization, an object is built from bricks, each of which is a parellelopiped, and they are glued face-toface. The question is: How many colors are needed to color the bricks of any suc...

An experimental study is conducted on three ½ scales, single-story, single-bay, frame specimens. The first specimen was a reinforced concrete frame with solid-brick infill. The second specimen was a reinforced concrete frame with hollow clay perforated-brick infill. The last specimen was a reinforced concrete frame without any infill. These three specimens were tested by pseudostatic method. Di...

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For each rational number q ≥ 1, we describe two partitions of the vertex set of a graph G, called the q-brick partition and the q-superbrick partition. The special cases when q = 1 are the partitions given by the connected components and the 2-edge-connected components of G, respectively. We obtain structural results on these partitions and describe their relationship to the principal partition...

K.D. Glover, R.G. Hall, L.E. Osborne, J.A. Ingemansen, and J.R. Rickertsen, Plant Science Dep., South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD 57007; J.C. Rudd and R.N. Devkota, Agricultural Research and Extension Center, West Amarillo, TX 79106; Y. Jin, USDA-ARS and Dep. of Plant Pathology, Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108; D.D. Baltensperger, Dep. of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M Univ., Co...

Burnt bricks lined with mortar were among the materials used in the construction of historical load-bearing structures. The need to know the strength characteristics of masonry material arises during repairs of historical structures and their subsequent static securing. These can be investigated either by sampling a masonry specimen, or the employment of non-destructive testing methods. With de...