In this paper, we compare the competitiveness between clustered and dispersed Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesian food processing industry. This study was driven by the important role of SMEs in Indonesian food processing industry for helping low income people access the low price foods. Furthermore, as Indonesian Government implements policy that support clustered SMEs, it could be e...

Chicken genomes contain approximately 30,000 chicken repeat 1 (CR1) elements scattered among single-copy sequences, but no information has yet been presented to account for how these elements could have dispersed. The fact that CR1 elements have common (although atypical) 3' ends and variable 5' truncations suggested to us that they might belong to the class of non-long terminal repeat retrotra...

Oil (liquids with low surface tension and practically immiscible with water) drops can be dispersed in air if relatively oleophobic particles are available. However, such particles with oil-repellent surfaces cannot simply be prepared by controlling the particle surface chemistry alone. Herein the preparation of oil-in-air materials (oil marbles, dry oils) by changing the wetting behavior of pa...

In this paper, one of the evolutionary algorithm based method, Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA) has been presented for the Volt / Var control in power distribution systems with dispersed generation (DG). The proposed method is better suited for volt/var control problems. Genetic algorithm approach is used due to its broad applicability, ease of use and high accuracy. A multi-objec...

In this paper, we explore whether the geography of bank services has been converging toward the market since banking geographic deregulation. We use Illinois as a study area and examine changes in various market segments such as metro and non-metro markets, and regional markets. We adopt the Spatial Concentration Index (SCI) and the related supply and demand SCI deviations to measure changing s...

Gas-particle and other dispersed-phase flows can be described by a kinetic equation containing terms for spatial transport, acceleration, and particle processes (such as evaporation or collisions). However, computing the dispersed velocity is a challenging task due to the large number of independent variables. A level set approach for computing dilute non-collisional fluid-particle flows is pre...

The thermal diffusivity of a series of solid solutions of alumina and chromia transformation toughened with a dispersed phase of unstabilized zirconia was measured by means of the laser-flash method from room temperature to 1400 ~ C. It was found, in general, that the thermal diffusivity could be decreased significantly by the combined effects of solid solution alloying, microcracking and by th...