We develop an approach to utilize anisotropic metamaterials to solve one of the fundamental problems of modern plasmonics--parasitic scattering of surface waves into free-space modes, opening the road to truly two-dimensional plasmonic optics. We illustrate the developed formalism on the examples of plasmonic refractor and plasmonic crystal, and discuss limitations of the developed technique an...

Warranty data contain useful information about product quality and reliability, but they are usually coarse data because they may be aggregated, delayed, censored, missing or vague. They might, however, be the only forms of warranty data a manufacturer has, analysing such data are therefore needed and can also be of benefit to manufacturers in identifying early warnings of abnormalities in thei...

Warranty data contain useful information about product quality and reliability, but they are usually coarse data because they may be aggregated, delayed, censored, missing or vague. They might, however, be the only forms of warranty data a manufacturer has, analysing such data are therefore needed and can also be of benefit to manufacturers in identifying early warnings of abnormalities in thei...

5.1 INTRODUCTION Up to now, warranty cost models for new products have been analyzed. In view of the present day market, customers are more attracted towards the secondhand products. Thus the present and the succeeding chapters of this thesis focus on analyzing the secondhand products by providing two-dimensional warranty for such products. A two-dimensional warranty policy is characterized by ...

The cost of servicing a warranty depends, amongst other factors, on the type of repair performed under warranty. Although ‘‘all minimal repair’’ and ‘‘all replacement’’ policies are easy to implement and analyze, they are not always feasible and/or practical. Having a combination of different types of repair often leads to lower warranty servicing costs. In this article, to reduce the warranty ...

This paper addresses the impact of warranty of malfunctioning and warranty of misinforming on making informed purchase decisions over the adoption period. We propose mathematical models for quantification of the risk of misinforming by exploring customers’ learning evolution. These measures, dynamic in their nature, allow evaluation of customer’s satisfaction or dissatisfaction as a function of...

In this study, by integrating preventive maintenance (PM) into a two-dimensional warranty region, with customized PM (2D PM) is proposed from the manufacturer’s perspective to reduce cost. The cost of 2D derived. tradeoff between and minimal repair saving obtained choosing proper reliability threshold number PMs, advantage illustrated. Second, post-warranty period, bivariate (BPWM) policy consu...

1. This document is HS-872, one of a series of the Horticultural Sciences Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Publication Date: April 2002. Please visit the EDIS Web site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 2. Ed Stover, assistant professor, Horticultural Sciences Department, Indian River Research and Education Center, ...

The document presents the results obtained by TREND partners working on core, metro networks, data centers and cloud. More efficient network and data centers design and architectures are proposed. Energy-efficient network operation using load proportionality are presented and more efficient network design are proposed Keyword list: Core networks, OFDM transmission format, network architecture, ...