We consider a moral-hazard problem in a principal-agent relationship. Each party can renege on the signed contract since verification of effort is costly and subject to uncertainty. It is shown that ex-post litigation can restore incentives of the agent. Moreover, when the litigation can be settled by the parties the pure threat of using the legal system may suffice to implement the first-best ...

In this note, we give a new one-sided inequality for fusion frames in Hilbert C*-modules, which corrects one corresponding result. We also present some double inequalities which, compared to previous ones on topic, possess different structures.

A novel water-soluble nanorod is discussed, which is prepared via the self-assembly of pristine C60 and a double-sided porphyrin projecting four beta-cyclodextrins from each face.

In February 2007, the fourth stage of the Mainz Microtron, MAMI-C, started operations with a first experiment. The new Harmonic Double-Sided Microtron delivers an electron beam with energies up to 1.5GeV while preserving the excellent beam quality of the previous stages. The experimental program at MAMI is focused on studies of the hadron structure in the domain of non-perturbative QCD. In this...

PURPOSE The most commonly used technology currently used for autoradiography is storage phosphor screens, which has many benefits such as a large field of view but lacks particle-counting detection of the time and energy of each detected radionuclide decay. A number of alternative designs, using either solid state or scintillator detectors, have been developed to address these issues. The aim o...

A new technique for manufacturing double-sided structured Si(Li) detectors has been established. The position-sensitive structure on the implanted p–contact can be made smaller than 100 m by photolithography followed by plasma etching of grooves to separate the position elements. By modifying this technique position-sensitive structures on a thin ( 30 m) Li-diffused contact were created. Areas ...

Welding time and joint preparation are among the most important factors dominating the cost and productivity of welding. If the desired penetration of the weld pool can be achieved in a single pass, the welding speed will be the major factor that determines the welding time. When the thickness of the part increases, grooves may have to be machined so that the desired penetration may still be ob...

The National Archives of Singapore keeps a large volume of historical handwritten documents. One common problem with the archives is that over the years, ink sipped through the pages of these documents such that characters on the reverse side become visible and interfere with the characters on the front side. This paper addresses this problem and develops a novel algorithm to extract clear text...

—This paper investigates the problem of proportionally fair double-sided energy auction involving buying and selling agents. The grid is assumed to be operating under islanded mode. A distributed auction algorithm that can be implemented by an aggregator, as well as a possible approach by which the agents may approximate price anticipation is considered. Equilibrium conditions arising due to pr...

In this paper, a method of using double-sided adhesive tape when mounting microwave circuit-boards is discussed. In particular, one type of adhesive tape with good features is described. The tapemounting is simple and fast to use and it is cheap. The tape that was used is soft and it can handle both high and low temperatures. These two features make the tape useful in places where parts with di...