-Evapotranspiration experts often need to make decisions relating to the precision of the results of various existing methods such as traditional and satellite methods. For these reasons a decision support system (EVA) is developed in order to provide evapotranspiration experts with a tool for evaluating the results of a variety of existing methods for estimating potential and real evapotranspi...

Distorted performance measures in compensation contracts elicit suboptimal behavioral responses that may even prove to be dysfunctional (gaming). This paper applies the empirical test developed by Courty and Marschke (2008) to detect whether the widely used class of Residual Income based performance measures —such as Economic Value Added (EVA)— is distorted, leading to unintended agent behavior...

Value based financial performance measures like Economic value added (EVA), Shareholder value added (SVA) has attracted the attention of investors, policy makers and researchers in the recent time due to their superiority and ability to reflect the true valuation of the companies. Investor’s in developing countries are shifting their attention from traditional mandated corporate performance mea...

Poly (ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) (EVA) is the major polymer used for photovoltaic (PV) modules encapsulation. Its degree of cross-linking (related to its gel content) is taken as a major quality reference. Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) has been proven to be fast and effective but is to determine the gel content, however, destructive for the PV module. With the aim to develop a non-des...

Microcrystalline cellulose acetate (MCC) was incorporated in poly (ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) (EVA) at different loading. The morphology, swelling properties and drug release profile were studied with respect to MCC loading to study its potential application as ocular inserts. The XRD patterns showed a good compatibility between the components. However swelling ratio and in-vitro degradation of...

Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) will become a large part of the astronaut’s work during the construction phase of International Space Station (ISS). It is already well known that long duration space missions inside a spacecraft lead to radiation doses that are high enough to be of significant health risk to the crew [1]. The doses during EVA, however, have not been quantified to the same degree....

Mutations of SLC26A4 are associated with incomplete partition type II (IP-II) and isolated enlargement of the vestibular aqueduct (EVA). We experienced a congenitally deaf 6-year-old boy with a rare p.Thr410Met homozygous mutation in SLC26A4 who underwent bilateral cochlear implantation. He had bilateral inner ear malformation, in which the dilated vestibule and EVA were identical to those in I...

This paper presents a nonlinear controller based on Sontag’s feedback to render the electromechanical valve actuator (EVA) globally asymptotically stable (GAS). Electromechanical valve actuators have received much attention recently due to their potential for improving the performance of the internal combustion engine. Various control schemes for the EVA have been proposed, however stability is...

Prior to the East Asian financial crisis scholars found the necessity of a true financial performance measure in Malaysia. After more than one decade of the crisis Malaysian firms still stick with the conventional performance measures, which are criticised due to general accepted accounting principles. In this vein, this study aims to study a value based financial performance measure which can ...

A series of ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) nanocomposites using four kinds of EVA with 40, 50, 60, and 70 wt% vinyl acetate (VA) contents and three different carbon-based nanofillers-expanded graphite (EG), multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT), and carbon nanofiber (CNF) have been prepared via solution blending. The influence of the matrix polarity and the nature of nanofillers on the morphology ...