I alliances are widely recognized as critical to product innovation, particularly in hightechnology markets. Many new product development (NPD) alliances tend to be asymmetric, that is, they are formed between a larger firm and a smaller firm. As is the case with alliances in general, asymmetric alliances also typically result in changes in the shareholder values of the partner firms. Are the c...

there are a number of techniques available to estimate saturated-liquid molar or specific volumes or densities of liquids. in this study, a new empirical correlation is presented to calculate volume of saturated liquids as a function of critical volume, reduced temperature and acentric factor. an optimization algorithm is utilized to obtain unknown parameters of this correlation by fitting them...

New algorithms for automatic correlaiion of geologic strata are introduced. The algorithm are exiensions of the Smith and Waierman (1980) dynamic programming technique and include several features rhat greatly increase the utility for sedimentary sequences. Gaps in correlation (unconformiiies) caused by local nondeposiiion or eroded strata can include in a single “event” several strata. Furiher...