Cryptographers began to search for new ways to encipher messages. The Caesar Shift was too easy to crack -- given enough time and patience, almost anyone could uncover the plaintext behind the ciphered text. Kings and priests hired scholars to come up with new ways to send secret messages....
In this paper we aim, first, to examine how an economy’s financial development affects the welfare gains from trade and, second, to uncover how large firms threaten to suppress these gains, through the exertion of market power and their confirmed preferential access to liquidity. To this purpo...
In today’s working life there is a trend towards an office concept referred to as activity-based working [1] or activity-based flexible offices (AFOs) [2]. AFOs are flexible concepts which provide unassigned and shared work areas for different kinds of work. For example, rooms for concentra...
To process small amounts of powder, the process chamber was downsized via a reduction in the coater length from 350 mm to 100 mm. In order to avoid premature melting of the top layer of the PA12/CNP powders due to the change in emissivity, the process temperature was lowered successively ...
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If we are to achieve the 1.5 °C target of the Paris agreement, the emission curve needs to be broken. The building design phase can shape this development, as a large percentage of a building project’s outcome is determined during the design phase [3]. This means that to affect the ...