specialized assets and vertical integration in the aluminum industry

... steep increase in net inflows in the second quarter recording net inflows of €70 billion, compared to inflows of €42 billion in the first quarter Both the United States and Europe enjoyed increased ... pain, S weden, S witzerland, Turkey and UK; 2010 data includes Ireland in money market, long-term and total net sales only (2) 37 countries reported in 2010:Q1; 40 in 2010:Q2, 2010:Q3 and 41 in ... dollar– denominated basis investment fund assets in the United States increased 1.0 percent in the second quarter, compared with a 0.8 percent decrease on a Euro-denominated basis The following graphs...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 17:20

... reflects the depreciation of the US dollar vis-à-vis the euro during the quarter The following graphs show the net asset growth of the six largest countries/regions Geographical Trends in Investment ... net inflows in the fourth quarter Bond funds reported €86 billion of net inflows in the United States, up from €51 billion in the previous quarter In Europe net inflows totaled €49 billion during ... €1 billion of net outflows in the fourth quarter of 2011 These inflows into balanced/mixed funds were €21 billion in the United States and €8 billion in Europe in the first quarter Money market...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 17:20

... that sailfish indeed undertake a seasonal movement southward into the Florida Keys during the winter and spring, then moving northward through the summer The movement of the majority of the tagged ... tagging.—Prior to deployment, all PSATs were allowed to cycle through the full internal activation process The captain of the pelagic longline vessel identified incoming sailfish on the line, and individuals ... spawning, as they are consistent with the postspawning movements northward along the shelf edge described in Jolley and Irby (1979) The spawning period for sailfish in the southern Gulf of Mexico and...

Ngày tải lên: 04/09/2015, 17:12

... remains to be seen whether this conference results in any permanent interchange of ideas between academic and industrial engineers and whether the ideas expressed influence research in the coming ... because there were obvious dislocations between the current needs of the industrial chemical engineer and the research being done at universities, on the one hand, and the slow acceptance of new theoretical ... Florida Gainesville, FL Illness and accident cut short their careers in 1976 and have left us with their last contribution In Phase Equilibria and Fluid Properties in the Chemical Industry; Storvick,...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 16:19

... some indirect benefits in generating valuable technologies These benefits include enhancing the skills and capabilities of human resources, fine-tuning the engineering design and tool and the ... Figure 2.1 and not to test their causal relationship In the subsequent sections I present the research method and results In the last section I discuss the implications of the findings and the limitations ... For instance, the importance of technological search is explained by 19 Rosenkopf and Nerkar (2001) using the optical disk drive industry They show that in the optical disk drive industry the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:07

... identified, and complementary studies in the mouse and zebrafish provide an avenue for understanding the roles of these genes in ear development and function Two new protein-coding genes implicated in ... genes in human families and mouse models and have gained tremendous understanding of the roles of these genes in inner-ear development and function This meeting signaled a new era of hearing research, ... separately and in combination led to significant reduction in numbers of hair cells in the anterior and posterior macular epithelium of the embryonic inner ear without apparent changes in the embryonic...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... bluff cylinder interaction, and the presence of the downstream cylinder has little effect in altering the beat frequencies in the combined wave current flow With an offset of 0.6 D in the downstream ... beat phenomenon, in the form of amplitude modulation, exists both in the kinematics of the flow field and also in the force time histories acting on the downstream slender cylinder The beat signatures ... from the time averaged kinematics in the wake and compared with those obtained by Price (1984), for a cylinder spacing of x = ½ D Figure 132 shows the CD plot by Price for an infinitely long cylinder...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:54

... cylinders In extreme cases where the locked in vortex shedding frequency, the natural frequency of the cylinder, and the vibration frequency coincide, the body motions of the cylinder in the ... concerned with the flow in the wake of a bluff vertical cylinder, in combined wave and current flows Past model tests in the industry had revealed the existence of a beat phenomenon in the relative ... understanding the kinematics in the upstream cylinder wake, downstream cylinder forces, and the evolution of the beat phenomenon Chapters and present the CFD techniques used in this study, and CFD...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:54

... images of a single cylinder in combined waves and currents flow T = 0.7 s, C = 50 mm/s, at time increments of T / 10 Figure C2 PIV images of a single cylinder in combined waves and currents flow ... time increments of T / 10 Figure C3 PIV images of a single cylinder in combined waves and currents flow T = 0.7 s, C = 100 mm/s, at time increments of T / 10 Figure C4 PIV images of a single cylinder ... cylinder at x = ½ D, y = in combined waves and currents flow, T = 0.7 s, C = 50 mm/s, at time increments of T / 10 Figure C9 PIV images of downstream cylinder at x = ½ D, y = in combined waves and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:54

... H = 25 mm Single Cylinder Run WHM X = -2 m WHM WHM X = 10 m X=0m Figure F10: Wave height monitors in the wave tank at (a) x=-0.84 m, (b) x=+0.84 m, (c) x=+9.24 m for combined waves and currents, ... X=0m Figure F11: Wave height monitors in the wave tank at (a) x=-0.84 m, (b) x=+0.84 m, (c) x=+9.24 m for combined waves and currents, C = 100 mm/s, Single Cylinder Run 355 Wave Height Plots along ... plots of wave and currents run, C =50mm/s, T =0.7s, at time intervals of T’ (At Stable Beating Downstream cylinder spacing at x = ½ D, y = 0.6 D) Figure H6 Iso surface plots of wave and currents...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:54

... bone graft in the damaged site and on the other hand, it creates an environment with a rich content of HA, with all the advantages deriving from the phenomenon The present study’s clinic and radiologic ... for the tools and facilitate the direct clinical view of the defect [fig 3-4] A full-thickness flap was elevated and the granulation tissue was removed showing the true extension and depth of the ... membrane in the treatment of infra bone defects, our clinical results are encouraging considering that in a similar study a mean value of the increase of the bone height of 0.5 mm was obtain with...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:35

... of the coastline Winds acting on this sub-region are generated from strong typhoons directly approaching the coastline between Hai Phong and Ninh Binh, the coastline of Thanh Hoa and the southern ... placed at the level above the windows and door (to be replaced the lintel) in the brick wall and continuously run around the house The starting rebars should be arranged at the location where the roof-trusses ... typhoons and inundation are one of the many factors causing hunger and poverty hindering the socio-economic development of Vietnam Therefore, planning and construction of houses and buildings against...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2013, 22:47

... the world will sufficiently accommodate and feed its human population with out destroying the enviroment and depleting natural resources???” Land used by region and country group, 1961,1991 and ... wastes Weeds, marginal land Rice straw, corn stalk Other crop wastes trees, marginal land Poultry (Chicken, Duck & Turkey) Pig and small ruminant (Pigs, Goat & Sheep) Large ruminants ( Cattle, ... research and knowledge management Science based solutions to emerging issues 49 Livestock in a changing world  Genetics and breeding  Feed resources and Utilization  Human resource  International...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2013, 10:35

... phosphorus was then accumulated in the sludge in the subsequent oxic tank by normal oxygen-utilizing PAOs The residual phosphorus was removed in the final anoxic tank without oxygen Especially in Phase ... ozonation) and effluent of the phosphorus adsorption column are shown in Fig During the operation, about 70% of the phosphorus in the sludge was solubilized by ozonation, and a large part of the solubilized ... 2008) The reactivated adsorbent was packed into the column again, and phosphorus was effectively adsorbed Figure Concentration of each type of phosphorus in the influent and effluent of the phosphorus...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

... and periphery of the Seto Inland Sea The location of the research area and the distribution of the citrus groves in Matsuyama region are shown in Fig Matsuyama is situated in Shikoku Island in ... 66m, and 60m, respectively Stream water samples were collected at the middle parts of the grove from points Sampling points St.1 and St.2 are in the same stream, and sampling point St.3 is in the ... in the other stream The two streams flow together to be one stream and the sampling point St.4 is situated in the joined stream, which is the only stream that flows into the reservoir The reservoir...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:17

... was removed within days in every run Assuming the zero-order kinetics, the average cadmium removal rates within the days calculated from the linear approximations of the plots in Fig were estimated ... concentration in giant reed as a result of Run 6, indicating that the cadmium was highly concentrated in the rhizome The transportation index, Ti, indicates the ability of the plant to translocate the ... cadmium, and is synthesized from glutathione (GSH) Inouhe et al (1994) reported that the cadmium binding complex containing PCs has an important role for the cadmium-tolerance of seedlings of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:17

... shown in Figure And in the center there is point (E) which we intend to calculate the vertical velocity using the finite differences method Notice that this method assumes the wind field varies linearly ... stable weather, while at January, the vertical motion was ranging between upward and downward and this is due to the prevailing weather at that time and the nature of the region Therefore, the values ... velocity In areas that were dominated by the high pressure, especially in winter, the weather was clear, and vertical motion was downward The results showed also clear sky in summer in the region...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 17:03

... cyclical and the structure of the industry causes instability Hecker (2005) argues that the inherent instability of the airline industry can be traced to the structure of the industry and its ... compensation and firm performance in the U.S airline industry may aid those seeking to invest in the industry as well as forward looking investment decisions by various groups interested in the U.S airline ... by the CEO of publicly traded airlines in the United States History of the U.S Airline Industry The aviation industry began in 1903 with the first successful flight by the Wright brothers in...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2013, 11:44

... optical fiber, the region on the right is the ferrule, and the thin section in the middle is the epoxy Notice how the fiber is lower than the ferrule in the right photo This is the phenomenon ... be the original position of the new apex We can then use these values of x0 and y0 to calculate the new apex location, x and y, by inserting these values into (7) and (8) Now that we have the ... permanently withdraw into the ferrule if the epoxy holding the fibers creep If the initial fiber height is too recessed into the ferrule, the fiber may creep too far back into the ferrule causing loss of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2013, 18:15

... customers For instance, in the on-line service industry, after initially pursuing a nonstandard strategy, late entrants into the field, such as Microsoft and AT&T, followed the standards in foundation ... are unable to match each other’s investments, like in the microprocessor industry or in the software industry For instance, in 2002, Intel invested more than $200 million in more than 100 companies ... research and development contracts with industry, for example, with France Telecom R&D and Alcatel 60 Corporate and Marketing Strategies in the High-Tech Industry 2.4.4 Hiring from the industry Hiring...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 07:20