In many industries, such as leisure boat production, product design and process engineering are often based on diffuse criteria and a lack of data about the actual use of the products. If design and process development are not based on facts, there is a great risk of setting the wrong quality criteria and performance requirements. In the leisure boat industry the lack of data from how customers...

The geometries and energies of the conformers of oxocane, the isomeric diand trioxocanes, and of 1,3,5,7-tetroxocane were calculated by molecular mechanics. A boat-chair conformation was preferred by all molecules. From the preference of oxygen in the boat-chair conformations of oxocane (position 3 over 1 over 4) the preferred boat-chair form of all other oxocanes can be derived. The results ar...

The title compound, C(32)H(49)ClO(4), was obtained along with nitrile and lactam products in the POCl(3)-catalysed Beckmann rearrangement from 3β-acet-oxy-12-hydroxyiminoolean-28-olic acid methyl ester. The mechanism of the transformation leading to the title compound remains unclear and requires further investigation. Rings A, B and E are in chair conformations, ring C has a twisted-boat confo...

This paper uses simple game theory to analyze a situation where two agents compete in the transport market. The modeling frame is that of a mode choice model, where the two mode options are boat or car transportation. The basic findings are that non pareto optimal (car, car) equilibrium outcomes, may occur in a surprisingly large amount of cases. Additionally, the possible different Nash equili...

The expressive power of language lies in its ability to construct an infinite array of ideas out of a finite set of pieces. Surprisingly, few neurolinguistic investigations probe the basic processes that constitute the foundation of this ability, choosing instead to focus on relatively complex combinatorial operations. Contrastingly, in the present work, we investigate the neural circuits under...

The structure of dibenzo-18-crown-6-ether (DB18C6) and its hydrated clusters has been investigated in a supersonic jet. Two conformers of bare DB18C6 and six hydrated clusters (DB18C6-(H(2)O)(n)) were identified by laser-induced fluorescence, fluorescence-detected UV-UV hole-burning and IR-UV double-resonance spectroscopy. The IR-UV double resonance spectra were compared with the IR spectra obt...

Techniques for three-dimensional visualization of a surface ship bubbly wake using a high-frequency narrow beam profiling sonar are reported. Instrumentation, experimental set-up, and data processing are described. An Imagenex profiling sonar is mounted on the side of a boat at about 1 m below the water surface. The narrow pencil beam scans the water through the sectors whose plane is perpendic...

This paper presents the research findings of interactions between bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and a dolphinwatching Tour Boat in Bunbury (Western Australia). Sixtyfour hours of surface behaviour observations were collected with "focal group sampling" assessed over three minute intervals. The study compared behaviour patterns both with and without the presence of the Tour Boat. The ...

The expressive power of language lies in its ability to construct an infinite array of ideas out of a finite set of pieces. Surprisingly, few neurolinguistic investigations probe the basic processes that constitute the foundation of this ability, choosing instead to focus on relatively complex combinatorial operations. Contrastingly, in the present work, we investigate the neural circuits under...