What does it do to build consumer confidence in the product, in buying a "gem" that will become MORE PRECIOUS ouer time? If cultured pearts lose value, why should consumers put much money into them at aUF Rarity is what has driven prices historically. Fine quality cul- tured pearts are...
This trust-generating mechanism does, in turn, provide an alternative to informal, less transparent collection systems. A look inside the company's headquarters shows a refined organisation of device pre-processing (cleaning, sorting, and separation) for reuse (see Figure 5). Every batch of ...
By nucleation of holes, we mean the quasi-reversible detachment of an initial number of flat monomers from a flat cluster and their random intercalation with the water molecules on top of the BLM. In other words, a hole is just a flat monomer that, upon detachment from a flat cluster, ...
Its amplitude is lower than that of the quadrennial QSW and it does not reach the easternmost part of the basin; therefore, its contribution to the genesis of the ENSO is weak. 2.1.4. Genesis of the ENSO According to the current theory, the ENSO is defined by its effects, that is, ...
The paper does not present any detailed "solutions" to the problems/research challenges we discuss, but does try to give some idea of what might be involved in applying OR and systems methodologies to them. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 reviews the IoT, ...
Male swimming crabs (mean carapace width: 100.36 ± 7.23 mm, N = 90) were collected from an aquaculture facility in Jiaozhou, Shandong Province. The swimming crabs were housed individually in a glass aquarium (45 × 30 × 30 cm) for two weeks prior to the start of the experiment. During...
The remaining mean values of the analysed coefficient of comparable phytocoenoses did not exceed the threshold of 0.43. The classification analysis with the Jaccard coefficient as the measure of similarity, performed both for the sites and the species, provides more complete statistical information. A...