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Initial Coin Offering (ICO) as a Fundraising Strategy : A Multiple Case Study on Success Factors

2019

Cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) are some of the more prominent examples of currently used blockchain technology applications. Especially software startups have leveraged ICOs to gain funding early on in their lifecycles, going on to develop and create new blockchain based applications. Recently, larger companies such as Facebook have also begun to show interest in cryptocurrency, although thus far not for funding purposes in the form of ICOs. In this paper, we investigate factors that positively affect the abilities of companies to meet their fundraising goals via ICOs. We first identify a set of factors from extant literature and then seek to further confirm the effect of…

OPTIMIZING PREIMPLANTARY OFFER TROUGH PIEZOSURGERY TECHNIQUES

2016

Introduction. In most of the cases, duet o post-extractional atrophy the bone offer is insufficent for placing implants. Piezosurgery splitting techniques represent the modern and non-invasive alternative used for ridge remodeling, sinus lift and other surgical bone preservation maneuvres. Purpose. The purpose of this study is to present new surgical techniques that radically simplify maxillary sinus interventation, avoiding membrane perforation and new splitting tecniques in advanced bone and ridge atrophy. Material and method. In this study, sinus lifting was performed using piezo-elevation of the membrane and the pressure ogenerated by the saline solution. Out of 67 patients, 20 have had…

Regular Strength and Sprint Training Counteracts Bone Aging: a 10- year Follow-up in Male Masters Athletes

2021

According to cross-sectional and interventional studies, high-intensity strength and impact-type training provide a powerful osteogenic stimulus even in old age. Longitudinal evidence on the ability of high-intensity training to attenuate age-related bone deterioration is currently lacking, however. This follow-up study assessed the role of continued strength and sprint training on bone aging in 40- to 85-year-old male sprinters (n=69) with long-term training background. pQCT-derived bone structural, strength and densitometric parameters of the distal tibia (5% distal-proximal tibia length) and tibial midshaft (50% length) were assessed at baseline and after 10 years. The groups of well-tra…

Overland flow generation on hillslopes of complex topography: analytical Solutions

2007

The analytical solution of the overland flow equations developed by Agnese et al. (2001; Hydrological Processes15: 3225–3238) for rectangular straight hillslopes was extended to convergent and divergent surfaces and to concave and convex profiles. Towards this aim, the conical convergent and divergent surfaces are approximated by a trapezoidal shape, and the overland flow is assumed to be always one-dimensional. A simple ‘shape factor’ accounting for both planform geometry and profile shape was introduced: for each planform geometry, a brachistochrone profile was obtained by minimizing a functional containing a slope function of the profile. Minima shape factors are associated with brachist…

CO-CREATING THE PLACE BRAND OF FINNISH LAPLAND : Mental associations and visual representations

2019

Master's thesis Innovative governance and public management ME523 - University of Agder 2019 Brands are living in an era of customer-centric life where alltheir potential, present and former customers are regardedas co-creators. The center of attention is in customers’ daily lives and they have an enormous amountofpower to influence on brands.Social media hasaccelerated the pace of communication and this has connected also cities and counties into the new brand co-creation paradigm. Places have adopted branding practices from the business world to persuadepeople to move, do business or travel in their area. In Finland, Lapland has been one of the first counties to execute place branding act…

Brukeradopsjon av ACOS Individuell plan hos plankoordinatorene : En studie med kombinerte metoder om påvirkningsfaktorer for plankoordinatorenes bruk…

2018

Masteroppgave i helse- og sosialinformatikk HSI500 - Universitetet i Agder 2018 Individual care plan is a comprehensive plan to assist users in need of long-term and coordinated services. Individual care plan is one of several service areas in the municipality digitized for better flow of work procedures, lower costs and increased user involvement. The ACOS IP program enables electronic IP in the municipalities. The study has investigated which main factors affect the plan coordinators user adoption of ACOS IP. User adoption looks at why and how a program is used. The purpose is to look at it from the plan coordinator's perspective, but also how the management at the coordinating unit's fra…

Reply to Dal Moro

2013

Transitions from grid-connected to island operation of Smart Microgrids

2019

In this paper a control methodology is presented to perform a bumpless transition from the on-grid to the offgrid of a smart microgrid. The derived controller manages the internal production in order to get to zero the tie-line active and reactive power flows so that the opening of the tie line breaker does not produce significant perturbations. Experimental tests performed on the microgrid built at the Polytechnic University of Bari demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.

Further Results on Modeling, Analysis, and Control Synthesis for Offshore Wind Turbine Systems

2014

Renewable energy is a hot topic all over the world. Nowadays, there are several sustainable renewable power solutions out there; hydro, wind, solar, wave, and biomass to name a few. Most countries have a tendency to want to become greener. In the past, all new wind parks were installed onshore. During the last decade, more and more wind parks were installed offshore, in shallow water. This chapter investigates a comparative study on the modeling, analysis, and control synthesis for the offshore wind turbine systems. More specifically, an \( {\mathcal{H}}_{\infty } \) static output-feedback control design with constrained information is designed. Constrained information indicates that a rema…

Novel constant current driver for ISFET/MEMFETs characterization

2001

Abstract In the present work a new constant current driver for ISFETs and MEMFETs sensors has been developed. The proposed circuit maintains the ISFET/MEMFET operation point at constant drain–source current and voltage. The combination of some programmable current sources and an appropriate selection of a simple precision resistor allow a good ISFET/MEMFET polarization. The use of operational amplifiers with low offset and drift are required to provide the buffering function needed by the sensor.