CO(2) conversion will be at the core of the future of low-carbon chemical and energy industry. This review gives a glimpse into the possibilities in this field by discussing (i) CO(2) circular economy and its impact on the chemical and energy value chain, (ii) the role of CO(2) in a future scenario of chemical industry, (iii) new routes for CO(2) utilization, including emerging biotechnology ro...

Zahlreiche Kongresse, Tagungen und Symposien werden unter dem Begriff „Industrie 4.0“ abgehalten. Für eine breite Anwendung in Unternehmen fehlt es oft an Umsetzungsideen mit entsprechender Bewertungsmöglichkeit. Das Reifegradmodell Industrie 4.0 ist ein strategiegeleitetes Vorgehensmodell für Unternehmen, das in den Dimensionen Daten, Intelligenz und Digitale Transformation den Industrie 4.0 R...

OBJECTIVE To describe the nature and timing of, and population exposure to, Philip Morris USA's three explicit corporate image television advertising campaigns and explore the motivations behind each campaign. METHODS Analysis of television ratings from the largest 75 media markets in the United States, which measure the reach and frequency of population exposure to advertising; copies of all...

The year 2014 represents an opportunity to acknowledge the 30 th anniversary of the 1984 dawning of the crack cocaine epidemic. The Journal of Equity in Health devotes the present Volume (3, No. 1, February, 2014) to a series of articles that highlight the significance of the public health crisis that began with the dawning of the crack epidemic. Meanwhile, crack remains a focus of public healt...

This study investigates the cross-industry determinants of capital structure. Sample consists of firms from three main industries (textile, cement and power industry) of Pakistan. Five year data from 2005 to 2009 is collected for 199 firms out of which 149 firms from textile industry, 23 from cement industry and 27 from power industry. Leverage is taken as a dependent variable and Profitability...

There is, perhaps, no more visible financial dilemma in the software industry today than that of software piracy. In this paper, we detail the development and empirical validation of a predictive model of software piracy behavior by computer-using professionals. The model was developed from the results of prior research in software piracy and the reference disciplines of the theory of planned b...

Software piracy has become a global problem that hinders the development of software industry. Therefore, it is important to understand the underlying mechanisms that drive users’ software piracy behavior. Previous literature on this issue heavily relied on the general deterrence theory (GDT) suggesting that two key punishment perceptions namely punishment severity and punishment certainty dete...

0026-2714/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.microrel.2011.04.016 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (K.-N. C Semiconductor industry currently utilizes copper wafer bonding as one of key technologies for 3D integration. This review paper describes both science and technology of copper wafer bonding with regard to present applications. The classifi...

BACKGROUND Although most countries now have at least some restrictions on tobacco marketing, the tobacco industry meet these restrictions by re-allocating expenditure to unregulated channels, such as at point-of-purchase. METHODS Longitudinal data from 10 Canadian provinces in the International Tobacco Control Survey was analysed to examine adult smokers' support for a ban on tobacco advertis...

The paper investigates, in a non-technical fashion, the economic determinants of interchange fees in payment card systems and the potential need for their regulation. Among other things, it demonstrates that the proposal for a cost-based regulation of interchange fees relies on an erroneous, vertically organized, model of the payment card industry.