Background: Intuitively speaking, there is an inverse proportional relationship between exports and overcapacity, which means in export’s busy season, enterprises would expand output and improve capacity utilization rate but control yields to avoid dull sale in slack season, causing exacerbated excess capacity. However, this is just the reflections of “sales effect” on overcapacity by export fl...

Literature in capital theory takes it for granted that the capital stock is quasi-…xed and always fully utilized and that net investment to the capital stock is the main source of variation in capital input. This study integrates varying capacity utilization into capital investment models with irreversibility under uncertainty. The result shows that the capacity utilization rate varies as uncer...

T he relationship between capacity utilization and inflation is quite variable. Figure 1 shows the time paths of utilization and inflation for the United States over the period 1953:1 to 1995:4. Two features characterize this relationship. First, inflation and utilization often move in opposite directions. The most dramatic episodes of negative comovement coincided with the 1973/1974 and 1979 p...

fertilizer plant waste carbon slurry has been investigated after some processing as an adsorbent for the removal of dyes and phenols using columns. the results show that the carbonaceous adsorbent prepared from carbon slurry being porous and having appreciable surface area (380 m2/g) can remove dyes both cationic (meldola blue, methylene blue, chrysoidine g, crystal violet) as well as anionic (...

The standard linear AIMD algorithm employed in TCP (transmission control protocol) describes probing strategies that evolve in cycles, each cycle having two phases. The first phase of the cycles is instantaneous. It occurs when capacity is reached, users are notified and each responds by down-scaling its utilization-rate (abruptly) by a multiplicative factor. This phase is called the Multiplica...

The IEEE 802.16m based broadband wireless access is a brand-new technology to provide high speed and wide range communications for wireless users. However, how to exploit the optimal utilization of the radio frequency bands resource in such networks is a big challenging issue as it covers the radio channel capacity optimization, channel bandwidth utilization optimization and utilization perform...

BACKGROUND Safe and cost-effective programs for implementing early infant male circumcision (EIMC) in Africa need to be piloted. We present results on a relative cost analysis within a randomized noninferiority trial of EIMC comparing the AccuCirc device with Mogen clamp in Zimbabwe. METHODS Between January and June 2013, male infants who met inclusion criteria were randomized to EIMC through...

wileyonlinelibrary.com lower than counterpart anodes. [ 5–7 ] The energy density of current lithium ion batteries is mainly limited by cathode materials. Due to a high theoretical capacity of 1672 mAh g −1 , sulfur has been considered as the next generation cathode for high energy Li-ion batteries, [ 8–12 ] and it has attracted considerable research interest from both academy and industry. Howe...

Asset utilization is a major mid-term lever to increase shareholder value creation. Since rough-cut planning of capacity (dis-)investments is performed at the long-term level, detailed timing of adjustments remains for the mid-term level. In combination with capacity control measures, capacity adjustment timing can be used to optimize asset utilization. This paper provides a corresponding frame...

Spinal cord arteries and arterioles of adult female rats were examined histochemically to determine their metabolic profiles. The metabolic pathways evaluated included those related to aerobic (oxidative phosphorylation, Kreb's cycle and respiratory chain) and anaerobic (glycolysis) capacity, hexosemonophosphate-shunt activity, beta-oxidation of fat and adenosine triphosphate utilization. The a...