The future use of structural composite materials in the automotive industry Enrico Mangino Centro Ricerche Fiat‚ Strada Torino 50‚ 10043 Orbassano (TO)‚ Italy enrico.mangino@crf.it Joe Carruthers NewRail‚ School of Mechanical & Systems Engineering‚ University of Newcastle upon Tyne‚ NE1 7RU‚ UK joe.carruthers@ncl.ac.uk Giuseppe Pitarresi Dipartimento di Meccanica‚ University of Palermo‚ Viale delle Scienze‚ 90128 Palermo‚ Italy pitarresi@dima.unipa.it Abstract: The automotive
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Important structural variables in structure conduct performance (SCP) Structural characteristics often change slowly and can be regarded as fixed over time. Government policies can alter industry structure. We can identify the following as some of the more important structural variables. • Concentration This refers to the amount of market power held in the hands of a few firms and is normally measured by the share of total industry sales‚ assets or employment controlled by the largest firms
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apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud’s structural model of the psyche; they are the three theoretical constructs in terms of whose activity and interaction mental life is described. According to this model of the psyche‚ the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual (instinctive‚ accustomed‚ inherent‚ involuntary‚ spontaneous) trends; the ego is the organised‚ realistic part; and the super-ego plays the critical and moralising role. Even though the model is "structural" and makes reference to an "apparatus"
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Functionalism focuses on what is good for the whole of society. Functionalists took a similar way as biologists to explain this perspective. Social systems were dissected into their parts‚ or institutions (family‚ education‚ economy‚ polity‚ and religion)‚ and these parts were examined to find out how they worked and their importance for the larger social system. The idea of the functionalists was to create a science of society that could examine the parts of human social systems and make them
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1 Michael Phillips February 24‚ 2014 World History Structural Realism and the Cold War Though classical and structural realism both fall under the basic realist theory‚ there is a distinct difference between the two. The evolution of the theory of Realism from classical to structural has allowed it to remain a dominant theory in the discussion of international relation. The general definition of realism is a theory that characterizes international affairs as a power struggle among states and
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‘Using Material From Item A and elsewhere‚ assess the contribution of functionalism to our understanding of families and households’ According to functionalist sociologists‚ the family is a key institution of society. It performs vitals functions for the maintenance of society as a whole and for the benefit of all its individual members‚ for example according to George peter Murdock‚ it provides for the stable satisfaction of the sex drive and thus avoids the social disruption and conflict
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economic recovery‚ most African countries had to adjust and re-structure their economies. According to Dasgupta (1998)‚ structural adjustment was seen as a fact of life. Thus in the 1980s‚ most African countries initiated economic policies which were sponsored by the World Bank and supplemented by the International Monetary Fund(IMF) in the form of stabilisation and structural adjustment programmes (SAP). Between June 1986 and July 1987 alone twenty one SSA countries went through World Bank/IMF SAP
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Paper presented at NZARE AARE‚ Auckland‚ New Zealand. Bennett‚ Tepper‚ Paul & Percy (1999). Structural Validity of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire. Educational and Psychological Measurement 1994 54: 734 Burns‚ J. M. (1978) Leadership. New York: Harper & Row Bryant‚ E. (2003).The role of transformational and transactional leadership in
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An Application of Structural Filter and Gabor Deconvolution for AVO Processing Jiangbo Yu* and Dong Liu‚ University of Houston Summary This paper discusses two seismic data conditioning processes – Structural Filter (SF) and Gabor deconvolution. We found that these two techniques can improve AVO analysis in CMP and CRP gathers. Structural Filter greatly enhances the S/N of gathers by removing abnormal single high amplitude events‚ outliers and strong random noise. At the meantime‚ the relative
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Using material from Item A and elsewhere‚ assess the contribution of functionalism to our understanding of families and households. In this essay‚ with the use of information from Item A and elsewhere‚ I will go into an extent to explain the functionalist view of understanding of the role of families and households. Functionalists believe that society is based on a shared value consensus‚ this is a set of shared norms and values into which society socialises its members‚ This enables society
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