The question addressed by the paper is whether standard procedures and widely accepted insights of competition policy remain valid when one deals with potentially anti-competitive conduct in innovative industries. The question of appropriateness arises because competition in these industries displays features that are radically different from those encountered in traditional sectors of the econ...

Equilibrium adsorption property of multi-walled carbon nanotubes with OH group was studied using experimental design for the adsorption of CO2 , CH4 and H2 . The effect of temperature, pressure, their binary interactions and quadratic terms were studied for adsorption capacity of nanotubes and the results were analyzed by the face centered central composite design method and analysis of varianc...

2 SUMMARY In this paper, we provide an introduction to wavelet representations for complex surfaces (surface wavelets), with the goal of demonstrating their potential for 3D scientific and engineering computing applications. Surface wavelets were originally developed for representing geometric objects in a multiresolution format in computer graphics. These wavelets share all of the major advant...

Statistical mechanical and artificial intelligence models are developed to predict the volumetric properties of lubricants under different conditions. It is shown that the knowledge of just liquid density at room temperature is satisfactory to approximate the PVT properties of pure lubricants in various conditions. As well, the performance of an artificial neural network (ANN) based on back pro...

equilibrium adsorption property of multi-walled carbon nanotubes with oh group was studied using experimental design for the adsorption of co2 , ch4 and h2 . the effect of temperature, pressure, their binary interactions and quadratic terms were studied for adsorption capacity of nanotubes and the results were analyzed by the face centered central composite design method and analysis of varianc...

In contrast with photorealistic visualizations, urban landscape applications, and building information system (BIM), 3D volumetric presentations highlight specific calculations and applications of 3D building elements for 3D city planning and 3D cadastres. Knowing the precise volumetric quantities and the 3D boundary locations of 3D building spaces is a vital index which must remain constant du...

In this paper, we consider the elastic deformation of arterial walls as occurring, 12 e.g., in the process of a balloon angioplasty, a common treatment in the case of atherosclero13 sis. Soft biological tissue is an almost incompressible material. To account for this property 14 in finite element simulations commonly used free energy functions contain terms penalizing 15 volumetric changes. The...

This paper describes the first outcomes of an activity aiming at validating the H-SAF soil moisture products derived from METOP-ASCAT data. For this purpose, an extensive comparison between SMOS and ASCAT derived soil moisture retrievals has been accomplished by considering the 25 km resolution ASCAT products and the SMOS level 2 products. Both Europe and Northern Africa have been considered an...

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the impact laboratory procedures for air void content determination design and mechanical performance an asphalt mixture. A dense-graded AC20 gap-graded SMA12.5 mixtures were designed using empirical volumetric methods. Volumetric properties are determined based several bulk gravity procedures: dry, SSD (saturated surface dry), paraffin coated, vacu...