The dramatic rise in volumetric productivity for cell culture-based manufacturing has been a mixed blessing for bioprocessors. Although desirable from a cost of goods perspective, protein concentrations in the gram-plus per liter range stress the capabilities of processes designed for much lower titers. The article outlines that what's good for...
Everyone moves Fear from the back of their minds to the front of their minds by shifting their concentration away from their own courage, and choosing instead to focus on that which frightens one. Not only does that action change Fear's location, but through the process of concentration, it means...
Sunday night. In a study of 3,500 adults, conducted by hotel chain Travelodge, more than half reported restless Sunday nights, leading to sick days and otherwise unproductive Mondays. Here's an excerpt from the BBC News report on the study: Disrupted sleep has been blamed for a lack of concentration at...
The New York Times moved into a brand-new office building this week, and already rival news sources are jumping at the opportunity to point out the weaknesses, including mice and poor office design. Putting aside the thought that this is sour-grapes reporting from journalists who might be...
This paper studies relationship between prices and market concentration in the Auto Rental Industry. An original database has been developed that includes the number of auto rental operating firms at every commercial airport in the country. The data is particularly interesting as a large variation has been observed in market...
Previous research reported on the reconceptualisation of mentoring using a three layered model. The model provided a conceptual framework which viewed mentoring as developing through a series of overlapping layers. Within each layer of the model, characteristics and outcomes were identified which were indicative of each layer. This paper explains...
The deregulation of financial services in the European Union, together with the establishment of the Economic and Monetary Union, aimed at the creation of a level-playing-field in the provision of banking services across the EU. The plan was to remove entry barriers and to foster competition and efficiency in national...
Legal rules, politics and behavioral factors have all been emphasized as explanatory factors in analyses of the determinants of the concentration of corporate ownership and stock market participation. An extension of standard tax clientele arguments demonstrates that changes in the progressivity of taxes can also significantly influence patterns of equity...
Public policy debates and theoretical disputes motivate this paper's examination of the relationship between bank concentration and banking system fragility and the mechanisms underlying this relationship. It finds no support for the view that concentration increases the fragility of banks. Rather, banking system concentration is associated with a lower probability...
This paper proposes a simple model of the managerial corporation. By rooting the conflicts of interests between managers and shareholders upon the control of internal funds, paper investigates the link between profit uncertainty, growth options and decisional powers. The model has implications for the optimal degree of equity concentration, the...
The U.S. consumer products industry will retain its characteristic modest revenue growth rate, moderate leverage and strong cash flow generation in 2005. For the mature U.S. consumer products industry, 2005 will be a year of many moving parts against a continuing backdrop of strengthening retail concentration. There is continued focus...
This paper uses the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index HHI to compute the concentration of commercial health insurance markets in most of the states during the past four years. Market concentration provides an important benchmark for antitrust analysis, but it does not, standing alone, indicate the presence of problematic anticompetitive behavior or a...
The U.S. pulp and paper industry has experienced an increasing degree of consolidation through a series of mergers and acquisitions. Based upon a structure conduct-performance model and using panel data for the pulp, paper, and paperboard sectors from 1970 to 1997, this paper investigates the effect of industry structure on...
Mutual fund managers may decide to deviate from a well-diversified portfolio and concentrate their holdings in industries where they have informational advantages. This paper studies the relation between the industry concentration and the performance of actively managed U.S. mutual funds from 1984 to 1999. The results indicate that, on average,...
This paper reports on the investigation on graft copolymerisation of methacryloyloxyethyl trimethyl ammonium chloride monomer METAC onto polyamide knitted fabrics using sodium persulfate as initiator. The contents of METAC quaternary ammonium groups on polyamide fabrics are extremely valuable for further surface modifications (dyeing, printing, etc.). The effect of factors that...
A two-electrode chemical cell, with a proton-conducting polymer as electrolyte, is used to detect the CO concentration in a H2-rich gas. The anode is exposed to the gas flow, while the cathode is immersed in water to retain the polymer conductivity. The disturbance of the H2-oxidation current is a measure...
In water treatment, silica is a problem because of its tendency to form deposits. It is often necessary to include reducing silica concentration to permit increased cycles of concentration without scale. Silica that exists in water in equilibrium with ion silicate can be removed by strong base anion-exchange resins operated...
The paper reveals that the permeate quality of seawater reverse osmosis SWRO plants is suitable neither for drinking water nor for irrigation purposes. Thus, treatments must be adjusted to decrease boron concentration and post-treatments are required to improve water mineralization in order to correct its corrosiveness. Several chemical strategies were...
This work reveals that biologically treated textile wastewaters were subjected to ozonation as a pre-treatment stage to NF. The aim was to reduce organic matter in order to prevent membranes from fouling and to oxidize organic wastewater compounds that could damage the membrane material. NF experiments were carried out in...
At the outset the project had a number of objectives each of which were crucial in the development of the Rolls-Royce Integrated Planar Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (IP-SOFC) concept and in bringing it to a state of readiness for field trial demonstrations. Both the reforming material and the fuel cell...
