New technologies, rising customer demands and severe exhaust gas regulations led to a rapid advancement of combustion engines. Nowadays, engines are characterized by more and more complex structures, whereby maintenance and trouble shooting becomes more and more complicated. Therefore the development of suitable fault detection and diagnosis methods is necessary, whereas the use of model based ...

This paper analyzes the nature of FDI local networks in production and R&D activities in China and discusses their implications for technological dynamism and regional development. We investigate foreign ventures (or foreign-invested enterprises, FIEs) in the information and communication technology (ICT) industry, based on a large-scale survey of ICT firms conducted in three mega-city regions ...

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Monitoring large-scale systems is of fundamental importance in modern infrastructures. Many of these large-scale systems are complex interconnections of sub-components which interact by means of communication channels with limited bandwidth. Therefore the information must be encoded in order to be transmitted. Given a class of encoders, the problem of detecting faults affecting some of these su...

The article examines an opportunity of corruption restriction exercised by international business community in Russia. Integration of Russian economy into the international business does not reduce corruption inside the country. Foreign actors investing in Russia under the condition of obtaining their required rates of returns will be reluctant to harm their investments by involving into antico...

According to the World Investment Report 2004, the structure of FDI has shifted towards services. Further, the composition of services FDI is also changing from trade and finance to such industries as electricity, water, telecommunications, storage and transportation. In the latter sector the value of FDI stock rose 16-fold between 1990 and 2002. Incorporating a transport sector dominated by mu...

The recent proliferation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) codes and standards has been matched only by the boom in writings on the subject. This paper will focus mainly on the interaction between these codes and formal legal requirements, at national and international levels. It starts from the perspective that the recent spate of voluntary corporate codes for TNCs must be understood in...

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This paper describes a method for designing sliding mode observers for detection and reconstruction of faults, that is robust against system uncertainty. The method uses H∞ concepts to design the observer, minimising the effect of the uncertainty on the reconstruction of the faults. A VTOL aircraft example taken from the fault detection literature is used to demonstrate the method and its effec...