Ford Europe has outlined its plans to cut costs by £75m as part of the company's global £9bn cost-cutting drive. The motor manufacturer is adopting a three-pronged cost-cutting program. Projects that are not judged to be important to customers or manufacturers or are not aimed at ...
A hotly debated question in contemporary psycholinguistics is whether the regular use of multiple languages has consequences for cognition more generally (Adesope, Lavin, Thompson, & Ungerleider,2010). It is widely assumed that words in each of a bilingual’s two lexicons are active during language...
water Article The Cost of Clean Water in the Delaware River Basin (USA) Gerald J. Kauffman ID Water Resources Center, School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA; jerryk@udel.edu; Tel.: +1-302-831-4929 Received: 22 September 2017; Accepted:...
International Journal of Molecular Sciences Article A Novel Method Facilitating the Simple and Low-Cost Preparation of Human Osteochondral Slice Explants for Large-Scale Native Tissue Analysis Jacob Spinnen 1,* , Lennard K. Shopperly 1, Carsten Rendenbach 2, Anja A. Kühl 3, Ufuk Sentürk 4, ...
infrastructures Article A 5D Building Information Model (BIM) for Potential Cost-Benefit Housing: A Case of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) Ibrahim Alrashed 1 and Komali Kantamaneni 2,* 1 MOMRA (The Saudi Arabia Ministry of Municipalities and Rural Affairs), Riyadh 13531-3337, Saudi Arabia; ...
A reduction of 9.8% in the total cost was obtained for a cooling capacity of 16 kW (11,537.2 $·year−1 vs. 12,794.5 $·year−1), while a reduction of 12% was obtained for a cooling capacity of 100 kW (31,338.1 $·year−1 vs. 35,613.9 $·year−1). The optimization ...
energies Article A Cost-Effective Decentralized Control for AC-Stacked Photovoltaic Inverters Hua Han 1, Chao Luo 1, Xiaochao Hou 1 ID , Mei Su 1, Wenbin Yuan 1, Zhangjie Liu 1,* and Josep M. Guerrero 2 ID 1 School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, ...
2.2. RMNCE Theory If there are two redundant measurements for the same signal with uncorrelated zero-mean white noises, the variances of the noises can be estimated just based on the measurement differences. Theorem. Assuming that Z1(k) and Z2(k) are independent redundant measurements of a ...
electronics Article On the Design of Low-Cost IoT Sensor Node for e-Health Environments Nikos Petrellis 1,* , Michael Birbas 2 and Fotios Gioulekas 3 1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, ATEI of Thessaly, 41110 Larissa, Greece 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,...
All of these advances, combined with chemometric analysis in the cloud and integration with smartphones [24,25] pave the way for decentralized and immediate on-farm analysis. Various commercial hand-held devices, such as the Polychromix PHAZIR™ (Polychromix Inc., Wilmington, MA, USA) [26,27...