Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation focuses on the life-cycle environmental performance of products. EPR has significant implications for management theory and practice. However, there is very little operations management research that examines the influence of EPR policy parameters on product design, the interactions among these parameters, and strategic managerial responses to ...

It is shown that high-frequency electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and electron-nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) spectroscopy are excellent tools for the investigation of the electronic properties of semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). The great attractions of these techniques are that, in contrast to optical methods, they allow the identification of the dopants and provide information about t...

This paper is based upon detailed research that has taken place on the implementation strategies for city road user charging (RUC) in the UK and Italy. In the UK, both in London and Durham, the RUC schemes required new legislation, and were implemented rapidly. The time from announcement to implementation took three years and the schemes were introduced after short periods of intensive planning...

Like many non-heme iron enzymes, reduced iron superoxide dismutase (Fe(2+)SOD) reacts with nitric oxide (NO) to yield an [Fe-NO]7 system. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) data obtained for this Fe-NO adduct of FeSOD (NO-FeSOD) exhibit two rhombic S = 3/2 signals of comparable population; E/D = 0.128 (42%) and 0.154 (58%). While similar results were previously reported for NO-FeSOD [Niederh...

Flexible geometry of three- to six-protein side-chain ligands to non-heme iron in proteins is the basis for widely diverse reactivites ranging from iron transport to redox chemistry. The gap between fixed states determined by x-ray analysis can be filled by spectroscopic study of trapped intermediates. EPR is a versatile and relatively quick approach to defining intermediate states in terms of ...

In the medical scenario, electronic information management and wireless computer networks provide ubiquitous access possibilities to medical databases which may comprise hundreds of thousands of electronic patient records (EPRs). Such records may contain personal and highly sensitive patient data, and it is therefore necessary to limit the accessibility of such data to only concerning medical p...

This paper describes the development and implementation of a dynamic congestion pricing scheme, augmented with a game-theoretic evolutionary learning model, into a realistic urban highway in Athens, Greece. The model recognizes several important behavioral features related to the response of users to the congestion pricing strategy. Such features include day-to-day as well as within-day adjustm...

This Perspective reviews some of the contributions that EPR spectroscopy has made for the understanding of the bonding and electronic structure of molecular species with metal-to-metal multiple bonds. The goal is to show how useful this technique can be in (a) elucidating whether unpaired electrons reside in metal-based or ligand-based molecular orbitals, (b) providing information on the metal ...

Nowadays it is reiterated in the literature to put more emphasis on Transportation Demand Management (TDM) strategies rather than the traditional transportation strategies which are based on “supply-side” tactic specifically in rapidly growing developing countries. The experiences of many cities reveal that as capacity is increased, demand increases at a similar rate, and subsequently in the lo...

BACKGROUND Many different brands of primary care electronic patient record (EPR) software are available to general practitioners (GPs). Their ability to support GPs in improving prescribing varies greatly. OBJECTIVE To assess, using a ten-item tool, the quality of drug information provided by EPR software to support the appropriateness of prescriptions and to propose a list of quality standar...