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Competition Policy and Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 1 (No Poverty): The Role of Mergers and Acquisitions Adjudications in South Africa

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT South Africa faces persistently high poverty and inequality alongside a highly concentrated economic structure, raising questions about whether merger control, especially public‐interest provisions, can contribute to poverty reduction. However, empirical evidence directly linking merger adjudication outcomes to poverty remains limited.
Nicholas Ngepah, Charles Shaaba Saba, Ariane Ephemia Ndzignat Mouteyica   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preventing Plasma‐Induced Resist Hardening in Molybdenum Disulfide Transistors via Sacrificial Metal Mask Lithography

Small, EarlyView.
Photoresist (PR) residue significantly degrades the electrical performance of 2D semiconductors such as MoS2. In particular, the intrinsically ultrathin nature of these materials makes them highly susceptible to damage during conventional PR cleaning procedures.
Dahyeon Kim, Yanfeng Zhao, Sungyeon Kim, Seungchan Lee, Sangmin Eom, Tae Yeon Kim, Hyun Seok Lee, Joonki Suh, Byungjo Kim, Myungsoo Kim   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

CMA-ES for Safe Optimization

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
In several real-world applications in medical and control engineering, there are unsafe solutions whose evaluations involve inherent risk. This optimization setting is known as safe optimization and formulated as a specialized type of constrained optimization problem with constraints for safety functions. Safe optimization requires performing efficient
Kento Uchida, Ryoki Hamano, Masahiro Nomura, Shota Saito, Shinichi Shirakawa   +4 more
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Merger Efficiency and Coordinated Effects: Nothing to Sneeze at? Evidence From Cough and Cold Medicines in the Philippines

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the competitive effects of a merger in the cough and cold medicines segment between GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Pfizer. The parties offered efficiency gains, and authorities concluded the merger would not lessen competition. Using product‐level data from the Philippines, we estimate a structural demand model to assess efficiency ...
Farasat A. S. Bokhari, Sean Ennis, Carlos Vega, Weijie Yan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Molten CMAS resistance strategy for PS-PVD TBCs based on laser textured and Al-modified bionic structure

npj Materials Degradation
Plasma spray-physical vapor deposition (PS-PVD) is a promising third-generation thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) technique. Feather-like columnar TBCs with excellent strain tolerance and low thermal conductivity can be achieved using PS-PVD.
Xueshi Zhuo, Xiaomao Sun, Jian Wu, Hao Dong, Peng Shen, Xiaofeng Zhang, Xuesong Mei, Jianlei Cui, Zhengjie Fan   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dominican Republic CMAS II Summary [PDF]

As the U.S. science-based public health and disease prevention agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plays an important role in implementing the U.S.

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Properties of Desert Sand and CMAS Glass [PDF]

, 2014
As-received desert sand from a Middle East country has been characterized for its phase composition and thermal stability. X-ray diffraction analysis showed the presence of quartz (SiO2), calcite (CaCO3), gypsum (CaSO4.2H2O), and NaAlSi3O8 phases in as ...
Bansal, Narottam P., Choi, Sung R.
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Chemical Stability between NiCr2O4 Material and Molten Calcium-Magnesium-Alumino-Silicate (CMAS) at High Temperature

, 2017
NiCr2O4 as a potential protection for thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) against the attack of molten calcium-magnesium-alumino-silicate (CMAS) was studied by a CMAS-contacting experiment. Atmospheric plasma sprayed coatings and sintered bulk materials were
Zhuang Ma, Ling Liu, Yanbo Liu, Xing Li
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The Application of Hydrochar Composite Briquettes for Sustainable Slag Foaming in the Electric Arc Furnace Process

steel research international, EarlyView.
Hydrochar‐mill‐scale briquettes with varying C/O molar ratios (0.07–0.90) have been tested at 1650 °C to evaluate their slag foaming performance for electric arc furnace application. All seven briquette recipes developed succeed in promoting slag foaming.
Yu‐Chiao Lu, Andrey Karasev, Björn Glaser, Chuan Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The CMA Evolution Strategy: A Tutorial

CoRR, 2005
ArXiv e-prints, arXiv:1604.00772, 2016, pp.1 ...
openaire   +3 more sources