... (the vehicle’s speed is constrained by the speed of vehicles ahead of it The vehicle adjusts its speed and position to keep a Safe Distance (SD) from the one ahead of it) Figure illustrates the ... the values of all parameters used in the simulation The following metrics are computed to evaluate the impact of each mobility model on theperformanceofthe Bypass-AODV as well as the original ... (1) The routing overhead ratio is the ratio ofthe amount in bytes of control packets transmitted to the amount in bytes of data packets received This measure is important to estimate the cost of...
... kg Using the vehicle parameters and the road load equation, the power required ofthe batteries at a speed of 55 milesrh Ž24.6 mrs is 10.8 kW For the battery pack weight of 600 kg, the specific ... displace lead oxide material and not occupy any ofthe pore volume Therefore, the 30% by volume number is with respect to the volume ofthe lead oxide particles This Table Results of model with additive ... development program, the lead–acid battery can meet theperformance requirements for these vehicles In Section 2, we will discuss the models used to estimate theperformanceofthe designs developed...
... electrode on theperformanceof VRLA cells Based on the results presented herein, we can conclude the following Ž1 The XRD analyses showed that the major constituent ofthe additive Na SO4 in the cured ... can reduce the 4BS size of electrode materials w10x, leading to a large capacity In this work, we studied the effect of Na SO4 additive in the positive electrode on theperformanceof VRLA cells ... cycle-life performance This work also attempted to determine the effects of different amounts of Na SO4 additive on cells’ performance Six groups of cells with various amounts of Na SO4 additive...
... paste The additions of polyaspartate improve the utilization ofthe negative active material and thus enhance the cell capacity compared to the reference cell The capacity ofthe cell with PASP added ... to the electrolyte has a beneficial effect on theperformanceofthe negative plate under HRPSoC operation The additive controls the crystallization of PbSO4 and modifies the shape and size ofthe ... crystals The addition of PASP to the paste and to the electrolyte improves the utilization ofthe negative active material and reduces the internal resistance ofthe negative plate The results...
... I : General knowledge of advertising Some typical concepts of advertising Classifications of advertising Part II : The role of advertising in society Economic effects of advertising a On governments ... consumers and persuades them to buy things they don't need Defenders of advertising offer a number of rebuttals to these criticisms First, they point out that a substantial amount of advertising is ... market position They are probably related to each other but need not be the result of advertising Proponents of advertising offer several other counterarguments to the claim that advertising increases...
... from the solar radiation, the tank wall heats a thin vertical layer of water along the tank wall Part of this heat is then transferred by diffusion towards the core ofthe tank The water ofthe ... August and the theoretical results of [1] in June Figure 10 The time variation of solar radiation and stored energy ofthe present experimental study in August and the theoretical results of [1] ... noticed at the beginning ofthe day due to the heat storage in water followed by a more temperature gradient as more radiation is absorbed The results ofthe present study verified the model used...
... depth) The objective of this work is to investigate the effect of brine depth on the productivity and efficiency of solar still under laboratory conditions Table shows a summary of some ofthe studies ... that of greater thickness, but the productivity diminishes rapidly after turning the heaters off On the other hand, the still with the higher brine depth has a larger production during the period ... as nocturnal production in the outdoor tests) These values are the initial value ofthe production line in the figures This may be due to the large thermal capacity of water, which is directly...
... reiterating the words that can touch the senses of clients, the advert will encourage more powerfully the readers to think ofthe products and buy them For example, in one ofthe products of Abbott ... addressing ofthe reader, with ample use of interrogative and imperative forms, in conscious effort to engage the reader rather than simply convey information as one ofthe main emphases of advertising ... purposes For example, in the advertising slogan of Lipton tea brand, the advertisers put 100% at the beginning of two successive clauses instead of any other adverbs of degree such as absolutely,...
... board of directors, the Free Trade Alliance, AVANCE, Christus Health Futures Task Force, the Advertising Forum ofThe University of Texas at Austin School of Advertising, The University of Texas ... past-president ofthe Siwanoy Country Club, home ofthe first PGA He has also been on the board ofthe Big Apple Circus, a passion of his, trying to put smiles on the faces of children across the Northeast ... solves the problem the brand is facing in the marketplace The product or brand moves in the marketplace, and the advertising effort has either helped it to grow or stopped the erosion of sales If the...
... have had if they had no adaptation deficit? Because the adaptation deficit deals with current climate variability, the cost of closing the deficit is part ofthe baseline and not ofthe adaptation ... climate change The difference between these two worlds entails a series of actions to adapt to the new world conditions And the costs of these additional actions are the costs of adapting to climate ... necessarily reflect the views ofthe Executive Directors ofthe World Bank or the governments they represent The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy ofthe data included in this work The boundaries,...
... delineate the mechanisms by which miR-27 inhibits adipogenic differentiation, we investigated the 2350 effect of miR-27 on the expression ofthe well-defined key transcription factors of adipogenic ... into the potential biologically relevant role of miR-27 in the regulation of adipose tissue functions in vivo, we examined the expression of miR-27 in the genetically obese ob ⁄ ob mice The 2352 ... the regulation of adipose functions associated with obesity Results miR-27 inhibits adipogenic differentiation In order to investigate the role of miRNAs in the regulation of adipogenic differentiation,...
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... confusion In the theoretical literature there have traditionally been two dominant views ofthe role of advertising, which we will refer to as the “information” and the “market power” views In the information ... their tastes Increased advertising intensity, to the extent that it alters market share of a brand, will change the composition of consumers who buy the brand in terms of their distribution of ... and ad intensity is encouraging from the perspective of identification of price and advertising effects Regardless of whether we use GRP or household-level TV ad exposures as our measure of advertising,...
... support the charities ofthe 14 companies‟ ranked bottom ofthe list less than 0.01% ofthe profits Looking at the other side ofthe coin, according to the research center on the management of Ashridge, ... indirectly, by the actions ofthe firm In the traditional view ofthe firm, the shareholders view, the shareholders or stockholders are the owners ofthe company, and the firm only addresses the needs ... meets the expectations ofthe community So the responsibility for disclosing information about the CSR will be made to become a legal entity The legitimacy ofthe theory can also explain the influence...
... focused on the cost performance index (CPI) in DoD programmes.1 The CPI is the ratio ofthe budgeted cost to the actual cost ofthe work performed The trends and stability of this metric over ... areas or zones ofthe ship These metrics are generally used towards the end of production Other metrics are those we gathered that did not fit into the categories above Examples of such metrics ... metric they used during the various phases of production—that is, their main method of assessing progress Figure 2.1 shows the amount of shipyards that reported using a metric from one ofthe six...
... public law had assumed the continued existence With the systematic dispersal ofthe sites of power beyond the confines of what we had learned to recognise as the state, the old certainties of public ... the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto The Hon Madame Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dube is a Justice ofthe Supreme Court of Canada Hudson Janisch is Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor ... linkages between the papers First of all, a word of explanation is necessitated by the ubiquity ofthe term "public law" The reference in the title of this book to administrative law, rather than to...
... Along the lines ofthe previous researches, they reported the negative influence of fund size on manager performance While digging deeper towards the origin of these diseconomies of scale, the ... diversification of portfolios The results ofthe first hypothesis showed that the companies had better control on systematic risk than other components The result ofthe second hypothesis by combined ... and performance Then, when the significance ofthe relationship or the error limit was tested to accept or reject the hypothesis, the value was far higher than the minimum limit of 5% Thus; the...
... product of its inputs The experiments measure the effect of varying the selectivity ofthe scans on the inputs to the join as follows (1) Varying the selectivity ofthe outer collection (v1) The ... joins The amount of work done by the navigational joins is unaffected by the addition ofthe filter on the result ofthe join As a result, changing the selectivity ofthe scan on the inner collection ... Cardinality ofthe left input Cardinality ofthe right input Length ofthe predicate Type ofthe object Number of objects Extent ofthe database (e.g AtomicParts) Number of pages Size of a bucket...
... account of these factors Finally, we attempt to evaluate the possible gains for the Canadian economy by examining the research on the sources of immigrant earnings gaps Rest of Canada Over the past ... majority of immigrants settle Exhibit shows the average wage gap in the three largest Canadian cities, compared to the average for the rest of Canada Immigrants in these cities had a wage gap of nearly ... members ofthe population aged 16–64, who are in the labour force at the time ofthe survey; for the wage regressions, only full-time employees are included The wage data is for the year 2005 The...
... currently take advantage ofthe prior probabilities ofthe senses, so they would be at a disadvantage relative to the baseline if one ofthe senses had a very high prior, as is the case for the test ... estimate ofthe lower bound on performance Table shows the baseline performance for each ofthe twelve words in Table Note that performance is generally above the baseline as we would Many ofthe ... performance could be somewhat misleading, especially when there is an unusual trade-off between the cost of a Type I error and the cost of a Type II error Nevertheless, the proposed baseline does seem...