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Innovation has been a topic of considerable interest to researchers and practitioners. Particularly, the networks within which firms operate and their properties (e.g., structural holes) are suggested to affect firms’ innovation performance. One stream of research finds that structural holes are conducive to firms’ innovation because of the heterogeneous information about alternatives that firm...

Very preliminary version; 09/23/07. I am grateful to John Hagedoorn and Wilko Letterie for their invaluable support and advice. I am also very appreciative of the helpful comments and suggestions offered

Due to the uneven temperature field and gradient introduced by an efficient cooling structure, analysis of stress is necessary. In this study, characteristics such as thermal thermomechanical impingement/effusion system were investigated employing a fluid–thermal-structure coupling simulation method. The effects film hole injection angle (30°–90°) blowing ratio (0.5–2.0) studied. results showed...

A Pleural fluid accumulates when pleural fluid formation exceeds pleural fluid absorption. Normally, fluid enters the pleural space from the capillaries in the parietal pleura and is removed via the lymphatics situated in the parietal pleura 1 . Fluid can also enter the pleural space from the interstitial spaces of the lung via the visceral pleura or from the peritoneal cavity via small holes i...

Nowadays, developed and applied hydrology become very important thing in the life due to the wide verity advantages for the applications of this field. Hydraulic Structures such as crump weir are placed in channels to estimate or measure flow rate and flow control devices. In this study there is a new performance for crump weir which appears by adding opening holes in the model  of crump weir. ...

Abstract Background: Pleural effusion is the accumulation of excess fluid in the pleural cavity. Most information available about pleural effusion is obtained from studies on adults and little evidence is available in children. Therefore, it is necessary to identify the existing status and explain the disease process, signs, treatment, and prognosis. Children with pleural effusion who were admi...

We consider the possibility of adding a stage to a dilution refrigerator to provide additional cooling by "filtering out" hot atoms. Three methods are considered: (1) effusion, where holes having diameters larger than a mean-free path allow atoms to pass through easily; (2) particle waveguidelike motion using very narrow channels that greatly restrict the quantum states of the atoms in a channe...