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Benefi ts of the INNOVATION programme to the strengthening of fi rms? competitiveness in the Czech Republic

Benefi ts of the INNOVATION programme to the strengthening of fi rms? competitiveness in the Czech Republic Th is paper aims at brief evaluation of the INNOVATION programme benefi ts to development of the innovation (knowledge) based competitiveness of supported companies. Th ese benefi ts are evaluated on the bases of the questionnaire survey among supported fi rms, and monitoring indicators provided by the programme steering committee. Th e programme has supported 94 projects with the total grant expenditures exceeded 1,3 billion of CZK. Although the programme was intended to support innovative activities of small and medium enterprises, their share on the number of supported fi rms amounted only 48,9 %. Th e structure of projects according to their technology intensity was relatively heterogeneous with the highest share of medium low tech and medium high tech branches. Supported companies implemented mainly product innovations (59,2 % of total implemented innovations), which were implemented in 83 % of fi rms. Regarding development of R&D activities, the signifi cantly positive infl uence of programme is evident. 81 % of fi rms declared development of their in-house R&D activities as a consequence of the programme support. Th e programme contributed to the increase of cooperation in the fi eld of R&D, mainly by involvement into national and EU R&D programmes. Competitiveness strengthening and development of R&D activities is connected with deepening of cooperation between fi rms and R&D institutions, including universities. Th is cooperation has been seen mainly in development of common R&D projects. As far as the competitiveness is concerned, supported fi rms have increased their value added, on average, by 11,5 %, number of employees by 2,1 %, turnover by 53,8 %, and created 727,5 jobs. Th e strengthening of competitiveness has proved in development of supplier-customer relations. Th e programme has signifi - cantly infl uenced competitiveness of supported companies on highly-developed markets. 81,4 % of fi rms have increased their competitiveness on the common EU market. Finally, benefi ts of the INNOVATION programme indicate that similarly oriented programmes focused on support of innovative entrepreneurship can be used as an eff ective tool leading to the strengthening of innovation based competitiveness, and establishing and deepening the cooperation between companies and R&D institutions.
Implementing an effective knowledge management program: A best practice case study

This paper is a discussion of the evolution and development of a Knowledge Management (KM) system at a major innovation and project -based software organization that delivers custom IT enabled business solutions to customers across the globe, that we will refer to as ABC, Inc.This study looks at the lessons learned in the process from the point of view of the author, who served as a consultant and a member of the KM team for a time.Some of the lessons may serve as best practices, especially for project based organizations who are embarking on an integrated approach to the leveraging and management of organizational knowledge.
THE 15-SECOND RULE FOR DRIVER INFORMATION SYSTEMS

The 15-Second Rule specifies the recommended maximum time for drivers to complete navigation-related tasks involving visual displays and manual controls in a moving vehicle. Compliance is determined by calculating task time assuming the vehicle is parked, a simplifying assumption. Task time is (1) correlated with crash risk, (2) much easier to measure than alternatives such as total eyes-off-the-road time, and (3) is computable early in development, thus supporting iterative design. This rule is the basis for a proposed Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) standard (J2364) and a related international standard to promote the safety and usability of driver interfaces. The 15-Second Rule (1) is consistent with existing national and trade association guidelines, (2) is consistent with accepted vehicle design practice and, (3) more generally, minimizes harm to drivers. Designers should realize that a good case can be made for lower task time limits (e.g., 10 seconds) to further reduce opportunities for interface-induced crashes, and achieving that limit is desired where feasible. A practical result of the 15-Second Rule is that most destination entry tasks will not be allowed in moving vehicles
Transcriptome Analysis of Muscle Reveals Potential Candidate Genes and Pathways Affecting Intramuscular Fat Content in Duroc Pigs

Background Intramuscular fat (IMF) content plays a key role in meat quality of pork. Duroc is a common commercial pig breed, which is extensively used as the terminal male parent of DLY (Duroc × Landrace × Yorkshire) commercial pigs. For identification potential candidate genes and pathways, IMF content of 28 purebred Duroc pigs were measured, and transcriptome differences of muscles from individuals with divergent IMF content were analyzed based on RNA sequencing. Results As a result, a total of 309 DEGs were detected using edgeR and DESeq2 (p < 0.05, |log2(fold change)| ≥ 1) between the the IMF-High and -Low groups. Functional analysis of the DEGs revealed 27 Gene Ontology (GO) terms, two pathways (q < 0.05) and 23 key DEGs, which closely related to lipid metabolism and fat cell differentiation. Among these key DEGs, LEP, SFRP1, CIDEC, PNPLA3 and MT3, are potential candidate genes affecting IMF content due to their biological functions, the significant correlation between these genes’ expression with IMF content values in the 28 Duroc samples and proofs from previous studies. Meanwhile, a weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) also revealed seven out of these key DEGs, including ADIPOQ, FABP4, PLIN1, CIDEA, ACAA1, CYP2A19 and ADIRF, were hub genes in turquoise module which may exhibit important functions in influencing IMF content. Furthermore, two pathways, regulation of lipolysis in adipocytes and PPAR signaling pathway, were potential pathways affecting IMF content because of their significant enrichment for the DEGs and co-expression genes of turquoise modules. Conclusions Our study demonstrates that some DEGs and pathways detected have essential role in regulating IMF content, and are supposed to be potential candidate genes and pathways affecting the trait in Duroc pigs. The study provides information for understanding molecular mechanism of IMF content, and would be of help for improving pork quality of Duroc pigs.
Deceptive Affection is Strategically Expressed Under Relational Threat—But Not Towards Partners with Low Mate Value

Individuals sometimes express affection that they do not feel. This describes deceptive affectionate messages and occurs when communicators express affectionate messages that are not consistent with their internal feelings of affection in the moment. They are commonly expressed in romantic relationships (about 3 times per week) and are argued to function as relational maintenance and retention. The present work (N = 1993) demonstrated that deceptive affectionate messages are the behavioral output of an evolved psychological system that strategically operates to maintain significant pair bonds (i.e., high mate value partners) but not non-significant pair bonds (i.e., low mate value partners). This system is uniquely and nonrandomly designed to increasingly generate deceptive affectionate messages when the individual’s highly valued partnership is perceived to be under relational threat and decreasingly deploy deceptive affectionate messages when the highly valued partnership is not under threat, but the system does not apply this relational strategy in low-valued partnerships. This supports evolutionary psychological reasoning that affectionate communication should be predicated on a cost–benefit ratio, such that deceptive affectionate messages are expressed to high value mates because the substantial costs of losing a highly valued partner outweigh the smaller risks of enacting them (e.g., discovered deception, temporary relational conflict). By establishing that deceptive affection is predicated on a cost–benefit ratio, the present work better solidifies deceptive affection, and affection exchange theory more broadly, in the human evolutionary sciences.
Navy Specification Study Report 1 Industry Survey.

Abstract : This paper presents the results of a survey of companies involved in the development and supply of complex operational computer based systems for Navy. The objective of the survey was to gain feedback from industry regarding the quality of Navy's requirements specifications. The survey is part of a more general study aimed at improving Navy's specification and evaluation practices.
Mechanisms of femtosecond laser-cornea interaction in keratoplasty

The objective of the present research work has been to study the femtosecond laser-tissue interaction in order to define optimal conditions for performing keratoplasty of pathological corneas by femtosecond laser. This is the first thesis on the subject accomplished at the Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquee (Ecole Polytechnique, ENSTA, CNRS in Palaiseau) and it has been carried out in close collaboration with the Laboratoire Biotechnologie et
The Effect of Trust and Ease of Use of E-filling on Tax Compliance in the Era of Big Data Analytics

The emergence of Big Data allows extremely large data sets to be captured and analysed computationally. The existent of e-filling system in Malaysia contribute to a large taxpayers’ information that could be analysed easily by tax authorities. Therefore, taxpayers may have trust issues that will lead to their tax compliance levels. This study aims to examine the impact of trust issues and ease of use of the e-filing system on tax compliance in the era of Big Data Analaytics. Data is collected using online questionnaires. 70 respondents have been analyzed. The results show that taxpayers have significant positive trust of the e-filing and positive perception towards the ease of use of the system. Big Data also have an impact to the tax compliance among taxpayers. These findings are expected to give insight to tax authorities in planning their activities to increase taxpayers’ compliance in the era of big data analytics.
Design considerations in an indirectly coupled multilevel motor controller

Permanent magnet (PM) motors utilising ironless stator structures have been incorporated into a wide variety of applications where high efficiency and stringent torque control are required. With recent developments in magnetic materials, improved design strategies, and power outputs of up to 40kW, PM motors have become an attractive candidate for traction drives in electric and hybrid electric vehicles. However, due to their large air gaps and ironless stators these motors can have inductances as low as 2µH, imposing increased requirements on the converter to minimise current ripple. Multilevel converters with n cells can effectively increase the motor inductance by a factor of n 2 and are an excellent approach to minimise the motor ripple current. Furthermore by indirectly coupling the outputs of each cell, improvements in converter input and cell ripple current can also be realised. This paper examines the issues in designing a high current indirectly coupled multilevel motor controller for an ironless BLDC traction drive and highlights the limitations of the common ladder core structure.
Koolstof en stikstof mineralisatie van verschillende soorten compost : een laboratorium studie

Met enige regelmaat worden nieuwe organische meststoffen voor toelating op de markt aangeboden. In het kader van de mestwetgeving is het noodzakelijk dat de stikstofwerkingscoefficient (NWC) daarvan bekend is. Een methode is het bepalen van de humificatiecoefficient (hc). Deze methode wordt in dit rapport getest. De berekening van de NWC op basis van de hc is daarom wellicht enigszins overschat, maar toch een redelijk goede maat
Subsoiling in oil palm plantations. Description of an adapted tool and conditions for its use.

L'utilisation d'engins lourds en cultures intensives, se traduit souvent par la formation au niveau du sol d'horizons tasses, prejudiciables au bon developpement des cultures. En plantations industrielles de palmiers a huile, ce type de degradation peut etre observe lorsque les preparations des terrains ont ete realisees brutalement et sans precautions, bien souvent sur des sols humides (Turner et Gillbanks, 1974): - sur precedent forestier : par des engins lourds lors de l'abattage et l'andainage de la foret; - sur precedent de savane : par de multiples passages de pulveriseurs a disques pour eliminer les adventices. Certaines techniques d'exploitation mecanique de la palmeraie peuvent egalement etre nefastes. Ainsi, des phenomenes de tassements ont pu etre mesures dans plusieurs situations de la zone elaeicole installee sur les sols ferrallitiques a texture legere ou moyenne (Dufour et Olivin, 1985; Caliman et al., 1987; Faivre, 1987; Quencez, 1988a, 1988b). Les consequences de ce phenomene et les techniques de correction ont ete etudiees sur la plantation experimentale R. Michaux (IRHO) situee dans la region de Dabou, en Cote-d'Ivoire (Caliman, 1990). Les observations effectuees font apparaitre un plafonnement du systeme racinaire des palmiers, lie a la presence a faible profondeur dans le sol, d'un horizon tasse. De ce fait la reserve hydrique utile pour la plante parait amoindrie, accentuant ainsi l'effet des deficits hydriques. Le potentiel de production des palmiers en est largement affecte. Pour tenter de corriger le phenomene, il est necessaire d'ouvrir la structure du sol, c'est a dire de fracturer les couches resistantes et de creer des agregats avant la mise en place des palmiers, afin de favoriser leur enracinement. Cependant, dans les sols a texture legere, il convient de ne pas recourir a des actions mecaniques brutales faisant appel a des phenomenes de vibrations. Il est preferable d'effectuer des travaux avec des dents fixes, de type sous-solage. Les essais de sous-solage avant replantation mis en place a Dabou ont permis d'ameliorer la croissance des jeunes palmiers et les premiers resultats de production sont interessants (Caliman, 1990; Caliman et al., 1990): + li % sur le rendement lors de la premiere campagne, ± 25 % lors de la deuxieme campagne (en sol sablo-argileux). L'objet du present" Conseil" est de decrire le materiel de sous-solage mis au point, et de preciser les conditions d'utilisation de cet outil. (Resume d'auteur)
Effects of river system behaviour on flood risk

Conditions of (re-)use of this publication The full-text of this report may be re-used under the condition of an acknowledgement and a correct reference to this publication. Abstract The aim of this study was the development of a Conceptual Framework for quantifying effects of river system behaviour on flood risks in order to allow policy makers to evaluate the consequences that particular safety-improvement measures have on the overall safety within a catchment. The developed Conceptual Framework is based on an integral flood risk analysis; the overall product of probability of flooding and its consequences. It consists of an Institutional Framework and a Computational Framework. Although several institutional aspects are briefly outlined, the study mainly focussed on developing the Computational Framework. With effects of river behaviour is meant that the safety of a particular dike-ring might depend on the safety of other dike-rings. These effects might be positive or negative. Positive effects of system behaviour might occur in case the hydraulic load on a dike-ring is reduced due to the failure of an upstream located dike-ring. Negative effects of system behaviour might occur in case due to a local dike breach, flood water from a major river branch flows into a minor river branch (f.i. from Waal to Meuse). The driving mechanism in system behaviour is the mutual interaction between geo-technical failures of dikes and the hydrodynamic response of the river system to it. The Computational Framework includes hydraulic modelling of river system behaviour, modelling of geo-technical failure mechanisms, flood risk analysis and flood-caused damage assessment. Using a simplified version of the Computational Framework two hypothetical but realistic case studies were conducted. Despite the simplifications it can be stated that, a significant step towards a more sophisticated Computational Framework was made. The first case study demonstrated that calculated flood risk reduces (i.e. positive effect) when system behaviour is taken into account. A case study focussing on demonstrating negative effects of system behaviour was not conducted. The second case study demonstrated that a deterministic design approach for an emergency retention polder that does not take uncertainties into account, may yield incorrect indications of the flood risk, and may, therefore, be misleading in the evaluation of flood protection measures. Statistical analysis showed that the applied Monte Carlo analysis provides sufficient accuracy in computed flood risk. It was concluded that for determining proper flood risks, it is a prerequisite that effects of system behaviour, …
Some Recent Findings In Flexible Pavement Research

This paper is based on sponsored research done by the Texas Transportation Institute on Texas highways. The results reported include: (1) The development of an empirical equation for estimating load-induced deflections from the thickness and laboratory-determined strength of the materials used in a highway pavement, and (2) the use of the equation, together with deflections observed on 323 highway test sections, to evaluate the regional effect in Texas. With a surprisingly large regional effect determined, the net result of the research was an equation for deflections that contained: (1) a Field Compression Coefficient for each layer dependent on both laboratory strength and regional effect, and (2) a Depth Coefficient for each layer dependent upon the thickness of the layer and its position in the structure. The equation presumably could be used in the design of flexible pavements in Texas if deflection criteria were made a part of the design procedure, and if the underlying causes of the regional effect were known.
Exploring the possibilities of using active rear steering in a car

In this master thesis the possibilities of using Active Rear Steering (ARS) in a car is investigated. The aims of the thesis are to improve maneuverability in low speeds and make the car more stable in high speeds. A Two Track model is derived and implemented in MATLAB/Simulink and is used as a simulation model of a real vehicle. Two types of controllers are used, a proportional gain (Kp) is used to improve maneuverability in low speeds and an LQ-controller for stability in high speeds. The high-speed controller utilizes a reference which is a first order transfer function which approximates the yaw rate depending on the steering wheel angle and the vehicle’s velocity. An existing parallel parking algorithm is modified to incorporate rear wheel steering to investigate if ARS contributes enough to be implemented in automatic parking. The parallel parking algorithm uses sinusoidal functions to calculate control signals for steering and velocity. The algorithm searches iteratively for a suitable collision-free path that moves the car as close as possible to a desired end position. The maneuverability is improved in low speeds and the effect got more apparent when the maximum rear steer angle is increased. However, ARS has negative impact in the current parallel parking algorithm. With a more advanced algorithm it may be possible to utilize ARS more efficiently. The behavior of the car in high speeds is highly dependent of the reference model. It is possible to adjust the reference model in order to make the car more stable or more agile. Preface The master thesis is a part of the VESC-programme (“Volvos Examens& Sommarjobb för Chalmerister”). It is a collaboration between Volvo Car Corporation (VCC) and Chalmers students looking for a summer job and a master thesis. The summer of 2011 we worked at VCC and started developing a mathematical model of a four wheel steered car. Acknowledgment First of all we would like to thank Volvo Cars for the opportunity to participate in the VESC-programme. Furthermore we would like to thank our supervisors Andreas Eriksson and Peter Wennberg at Volvo Cars and Jonas Fredriksson at Chalmers. We would like to thank Jan Hellberg at Volvo Cars and Mathias Lidberg at Chalmers for the support on modeling and validation. A special thanks to Torsten Wik at Chalmers for help and discussions about control design.
An energy-efficient communication system for ad hoc wireless and sensor networks

Existing ad hoc wireless and sensor network systems often trade off energy against performance. As such, it is hard to find a single deployable system that supports high data rates while maintaining energy-efficient operation. This research addresses the problem by designing a communication system that achieves high performance and reduces the energy needed for delivering data in multi-hop networks by a factor of 100 or more over IEEE 802.11. The system is composed of a duty cycling and pseudo-random Medium Access Control (MAC) that provides deterministic access to the shared medium. Furthermore, the MAC provides link level QOS to support high data rates required for real-time traffic as well as delay-bounded services such as voice and multi-media streaming. Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Jason Redi Title: Division Scientist, BBN Technologies Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Butler Lampson Title: Adjunct Professor, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Blockchain and Machine Learning for Intelligent Multiple Factor-Based Ride-Hailing Services

: One of the common transportation systems in Korea is calling taxis through online applications, which is more convenient for passengers and drivers in the modern area. However, the driver’s passenger taxi request can be rejected based on the driver’s location and distance. Therefore, there is a need to specify driver’s acceptance and rejection of the received request. The security of this system is another main core to save the transaction information and safety of passengers and drivers. In this study, the origin and destination of the Jeju island South Korea were captured from T-map and processed based on machine learning decision tree and XGBoost techniques. The blockchain framework is implemented in the Hyperledger Fabric platform. The experimental results represent the features of socio-economic. The cross-validation was accomplished. Distance is another factor for the taxi trip, which in total trip in midnight is quite shorter. This process presents the successful matching of ride-hailing taxi services with the specialty of distance, the trip request, and safety based on the total city measurement.
New Infrastructures for Knowledge Production: Understanding E-science

"New Infrastructures for Knowledge Production: Understanding E-Science" offers a distinctive understanding of new infrastructures for knowledge production based in science and technology studies. This field offers a unique potential to assess systematically the prospects for new modes of science enabled by information and communication technologies. The authors use varied methodological approaches, reviewing the origins of initiatives to develop e-science infrastructures, exploring the diversity of the various solutions and the scientific cultures, which use them, and assessing the prospects for wholesale change in scientific structures and practices. The book contains practical advice for the design of appropriate technological solutions, and long range assessments of the prospects for change useful both to policy makers and those implementing institutional infrastructures. Readers interested in understanding contemporary science will gain a rich picture of the practices and the technologies that are shaping the knowledge production of the future.