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Experimental assessment of drag reduction by traveling waves in a turbulent pipe flow
, 2010 We experimentally assess the capabilities of an active, open-loop technique for drag reduction in turbulent wall flows recently introduced by Quadrio et al. [J. Fluid Mech., v.627, 161, (2009)].
A. Baron +6 more
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Attitudes in Physics Education: An Alternative Approach to Teaching Physics to Non-Science College Students [PDF]
, 2000 In this article, we present an alternative way of teaching conceptual physics for non-science majors by depicting the role of physics in today\u27s technology.
Brown, B. L. +2 more
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Advances and challenges in innovation studies [PDF]
The article discusses recent advances and future challenges in innovation studies. First, it separately considers four main strands of research, studying innovation at the organisational, systemic, sectoral and macroeconomic levels. Then, considering the
Castellacci, Fulvio +3 more
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Scenarios and roots of climate change [PDF]
, 2012 There have been more and more words about climate change and global warming in the last few decades. But what do we really understand them? Is it logic that the climate change derived by human behaviour or is it an independent process of nature that ...
Hegedűs, Krisztina
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When is a Wave a Wave? Long Waves as Empirical and Theoretical Constructs from a Complex Systems Perspective [PDF]
While long waves have been seriously discussed by economists for almost one hundred years, to date there is no scientific consensus that particular frequency components are in any way privileged in the undoubtedly fluctuating history of modern economic ...
Silverberg,Gerald
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Australia’s Longrun Economic Strategy, Performance, and Policy: A New Dynamic Perspective [PDF]
This essay attempts to quantify and explain the economic performance of Australia from the first European settlement to the present, and beyond. A general dynamic theory – the ‘dynamic-strategy’ theory – has been employed to provide a new interpretation ...
Graeme Snooks
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Democratization is the determinant of technological change [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between democracy and technological innovation. The primary findings are that most free countries, measured with liberal, participatory, and constitutional democracy index, have higher ...
Mario Coccia
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Recession, Depression, and Financial Crisis: Everything Economists Want to Know But Are Afraid to Ask [PDF]
Once again the economic experts are telling us that the current (October 2008) financial “crisis” will lead to a deep recession or depression. The financial press is even claiming that we are headed for “global meltdown”. Heard it all before?
Graeme Donald Snooks
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Positive and negative stress in business cycle behaviour [PDF]
The economic theory shows as business cycles have longer periods of expansions than contractions. The purpose of this paper is to analyze their behaviour in order to present a metrics that assesses the negative and positive stress of the economic system.
Mario Coccia
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