On a pan-European basis, industrial property values have only increased marginally following the global financial crisis. Yet, despite continued financial pressures in the region, Prologis research indicates the recovery of industrial values in Europe should continue at a stronger pace compared with the other real estate sectors. Cyclical factors, including a deficit in Class-A space and attrac...

Cercospora leaf spot (CLS) epidemics in sugar beet have been increasing in recent years causing higher use of fungicides. Concomitantly, the availability of effective fungicides is at risk because of resistance development in the fungus, the lack of new active ingredients as well as restrictive approval practices. A key option for an integrated management of CLS is cultivation of resistant vari...

Analog synthesis tools have traditionally traded quality for speed, substituting simplified circuit evaluation methods for full simulation to accelerate the numerical search for solution candidates. I will argue that this is no longer an acceptable tradeoff: for a synthesis strategy to have practical impact, it must use a simulator-based evaluation engine identical to that used to validate ordi...

This paper employs a Generalised Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity in Mean (GARCH-M) model to consider the effect of macroeconomic factors on Australian property returns over the period 1985 to 2002. Three direct (office, retail and industrial property) and two indirect (listed property trust and property stock) returns are included in the analysis, along with market returns, short,...

History demonstrates that the numerous factors determining which paths technologically innovative industrial clusters follow often fall into place serendipitously. Paul Krugman notes, “given a slightly different sequence of events, Silicon Valley might have been in Los Angeles, Massachusetts, or even Oxfordshire.” Not surprisingly, advantageous circumstances rather than carefully premeditated p...

at a superficial level it seems that owning a monopolistic right is in contrast with competitiveness of the market, and exercising this right will prevent the free trade from being competitive. but the truth is that the existence of monopoly is not always a violation of competition law to be harmful to the trade, quite the reverse, in some cases it interacts with principles of competition law, ...