Commercial Side Research Articles

Machine learning-based modeling of heating process, case study: a greenhouse prototype

ABSTRACT Heating demand is the most energy-consuming aspect of controlled environment agriculture (CEA) and seeks the attention of researchers and the commercial side of the industry. Here an experimental methodology to model the microclimate by considering the capacity of the heater as a variable is introduced. Different tests were applied on an exclusive prototype with broad capabilities to prepare sets of data for developing the noted model. A four-layered fully connected neural network which is considered one of the most used machine learning approaches was employed due to its perception for this application. Five different heater capacities with the same initial conditions warmed the microclimate till reaching the steady-state condition. These data were used to train the algorithm capable of predicting the whole process of heating. Two other tests, one with a capacity inside the range and one outside, were conducted additionally in order to validate the model. This model can be used in various optimization problems with great width. It can be used to run different types of simulations to solve an optimization problem in which minimum energy is desired, or to find the optimum heating capacity which satisfies the needs of a specific greenhouse.

A Review of Emerging Revenue Models for Low-carbon Hydrogen Technologies

Adoption of Low-Carbon Hydrogen (LCH) technologies is considered promising to curtail carbon emissions in the industrial sectors and substitute high carbon-intensive fuels. However, LCH technologies are still evolving and face several technical & commercial barriers. On the commercial side, they face economic viability and financial risks and, therefore, fail to attract investments. Recently, some countries have developed policy support to incentivize LCH technologies, but their reward mechanisms and design vary widely and lack a standardized approach. The paper aims to contribute to the current knowledge by discussing the theoretical underpinning of LCH revenue models. It reviews emerging revenue models for LCH technologies in Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK. The review covers CCfD (Carbon Contract for Difference) in Germany, SDE++ (Stimulation of Sustainable Energy Production and Climate Transition) in the Netherlands, and HPBM (Hydrogen production Business Model) in the United Kingdom (UK). The review highlighted CCfD acts as simple hedging instrument against CO2 market price fluctuations without any visibility on hydrogen prices in the market. In contrast, SDE++ and HPBM are found to more comprehensive incentive schemes for LCH development.

Fabrication and Characterization of Eco-Friendly Polystyrene Based Zinc Oxide-Graphite (PS/ZnO-G)

One of the most significant environmental challenges nowadays is the rising manufacturing of non-biodegradable polymer wastes like polystyrene. In order purpose of manufacture environmentally friendly polystyrene that easily decomposes, a solvent approach was used to create polystyrene based zinc oxide- graphite composites. The surface morphology and materials contained in the modified polystyrene were evaluated by scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive X-ray analysis to verify the dispersion and distribution of the nanoparticles by scanning electron microscopy and the material contents by energy dispersive X-ray analysis. While the crystal structure, chemical bonds, and functions were determined by X-ray Diffraction and Fourier transform infrared, no change in the chemical structure occurred in polystyrene. Thermogravimetric analysis was used to assess the thermal decomposition. And its results found that the temperature of the decomposition was 46.78° lower in zinc oxide and graphite-based polystyrene composites than in pure polystyrene. It came to light that the presence of zinc oxide nanoparticles causes phase separation and consequently impacts the thermal behaviour of graphite-based polystyrene composites. The phase separation was demonstrated by the Thermogravimetric curves showing two degrading steps. This satisfies the urgent demand to synthesize polystyrene that is eco-friendly and easy to thermally decomposition, as well as easy to recycle, which benefits both the environment and the commercial side.

Иван Гончаров как объект поэтический рефлексии

The paper presents an analysis of references to I. A. Goncharov in Russian poetry. The study materials were poetic works from the beginning of the 1850s to the second half of the twentieth century, in which the name of the writer is mentioned. The research did not deal with the texts containing only references to the works of I. A. Goncharov. The “Goncharov” poetic subcorpus does not record an assessment of the creative manner of the writer, and with rare exceptions (N. A. Nekrasov) his famous novels are not mentioned. Russian poetry addresses Goncharov primarily not as a writer, but as a writer involved in public life. In poems, he appears first of all as a traveler and the author of the essays “Frigate Pallada”, and secondly as a participant in literary battles, censor and editor. As a novelist, he attracts the attention of poets not from the artistic, but from the commercial side, since his contemporaries were haunted by his high fees. There are warm mentions of Goncharov as a friend and teacher, including faceless odic enthusiastic assessments. In the poem by D. D. Minaev, I. A. Goncharov is portrayed already as a parody character, placed in hell and endowed with Oblomov features.

“Le domaine du Cant et du Puff ”: Villiers, Anti-Americanism, and the French Edisonades

Abstract This essay builds on recent scholarship on romans d’anticipation and the popular press to read French Edisonades by Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam (L’Ève future, Contes cruels), Alphonse Allais (“La Vérité sur l’exposition de Chicago,” “Supériorité de la vie américaine sur la nôtre,” etc.), and Gustave Le Rouge and Gustave Guitton (La Conspiration des milliardaires) as marking a fundamental anxiety about France’s slipping world-power status in the face of America’s industrial and economic ascendancy. In these fin de siècle technological fictions, the American inventor emerges as an ambivalent figure hovering between scientific genius and hucksterish humbuggery. The real-life rivalry between Thomas Alva Edison and Charles Cros over the 1878 invention of the phonograph led to satiric forms of resistance to the United States as a land of vulgar mercantile utilitarianism threatening to decenter Paris as the cultural capital of the nineteenth century. Although evolving drafts of Villiers’s metaphysical novel seem to highlight the divine creative potential of “le ‘Sorcier de Menlo Park,’” L’Ève future retains less idealistic references to Edison’s commercial side as a Barnum-like businessman from America. Meanwhile, Le Rouge and Guitton’s fantasy of French scientific triumph over American millionaires counters the troubling lure of technical wonder and speculative energy from the land of the almighty dollar.

Jumping from mother monkey to bored ape: the value of NFTs from an artist’s and intellectual property perspective

ABSTRACT 2021 was a miraculous year for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which led to confusion among observers of the phenomenon from both the art industry and regulatory authorities. This article provides a dispassionate analysis of the value of NFTs from an artist’s and intellectual property (IP) perspective. In the longer term, NFTs could improve the fate of artists to authenticate their works, set their conditions and get a resale compensation per transaction. This could happen, once their underlying works can be minted too, so that an NFT entails more than just a self-referential certificate. The article focuses on the US jurisdiction where the NFT phenomenon originated and only touches upon the EU jurisdiction in regard to the droit de suite right and Chinese jurisdiction in regard to the transmutation of NFTs into the speculation-proof ‘digital collectibles’. The introduction provides a primer on the blockchain, NFTs, and the paradox of digital uniqueness and authenticity. Section II addresses the value game of art before and after the emergence of NFTs. Section III investigates the commercial side of NFT art and its new version of Maecenas. Section IV provides an analysis of the rights of the NFT holder versus the rights of the artist from an IP perspective; and focuses on unauthorized use of underlying works and regulation in the US and China. Section V provides the conclusions and contemplates whether NFTs will redefine the future of art and artists: from a showcase of bragging rights to an essential tool for artists to protect their IP rights.

An Experimental Study on How SEs Build Rhetorical Legitimacy and Its Effects on Consumer Responses

Legitimacy has long been a central construct of interest by organizational scholars. The burgeoning research on legitimacy has increasingly seen the importance of legitimacy building for emerging and novel organizations, especially social enterprises (SE) that embrace a hybrid organizational logic. However, little is known about how SEs can build legitimacy effectively, particularly legitimacy as it is assessed by consumers, and whether the legitimacy-building efforts will translate into favorable consumer responses. Drawing on cultural entrepreneurship theory, we designed a scenario-based experiment to examine whether using different rhetorical strategies will help SEs acquire legitimacy as assessed by consumers and to what extent legitimacy drives positive consumer responses. Our experiment results reveal that the use of social and membership discourse in SEs’ identity building will effectively enhance SEs’ legitimacy as perceived by consumers. More importantly, this legitimacy will further catalyze desirable consumer responses on both social and commercial sides. This research offers novel contribution by addressing “legitimacy-consumer” gap in organization and SE literature, enriches consumer studies in SE by bringing the social dimension of consumer responses into the field, and demonstrates the use of experiment as a promising method in advancing SE studies. This research also provides practical implications for SE practitioners and policymakers to harness the rhetorical tools for SEs’ legitimacy building.

WAWASAN KEBANGSAAN DALAM BINGKAI PEMBERITAAAN SEBAGAI STRATEGI MANAJEMEN KONFLIK UNTUK MENGUATKAN MODERASI BERAGAMA

Indonesia is a country consisting of various ethnic groups, cultures, languages, beliefs, customs and various other attributes of difference. It can be said that diversity is the face of the Indonesian nation itself. This is confirmed by the motto of the Indonesian nation, namely Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, which has been proclaimed since the time of the Majapahit Kingdom in the 14th century. In another perspective, the face of the Indonesian nation is the potential for enormous division and conflict. One of the most easily ignited potential conflicts is about religious issues. Due to the spirit of spreading religion and defending the truth in an inclusive manner, conflicts in Indonesian society are often triggered because of religious issues. This potential is also often deliberately triggered by certain parties for economic, political, and personal or group interests. Often this conflict in the community is exacerbated by unprofessional, one-sided reporting, or focusing on sensationalism to increase the number of readers or viewers. The commercial side of the media industry must be balanced with the spirit of national insight from the media workers themselves as a means of control in reporting on religious conflicts. National insight itself is a concept or perspective of this nation on itself which aims to build and develop unity and integrity. This spirit of national insight should be rekindled in the community, especially among journalists and the media as a means of conflict management in religious moderation in Indonesia.

Why Hearing Aids Fail and How to Solve This.

Hearing is one of the human's foremost sensors; being able to hear again after suffering from a hearing loss is a great achievement, under all circumstances. However, in the long run, users of present-day hearing aids and cochlear implants are generally only halfway satisfied with what the commercial side offers. We demonstrate here that this is due to the failure of a full integration of these devices into the human physiological circuitry. Important parts of the hearing network that remain unestablished are the efferent connections to the cochlea, which strongly affects the faculty of listening. The latter provides the base for coping with the so-called cocktail party problem, or for a full enjoyment of multi-instrumental musical plays. While nature clearly points at how this could be remedied, to achieve this technologically will require the use of advanced high-precision electrodes and high-precision surgery, as we outline here. Corresponding efforts must be pushed forward by coordinated efforts from the side of science, as the commercial players in the field of hearing aids cannot be expected to have a substantial interest in advancements into this direction.

Artificial intelligence and big data in the Maritime Silk Road Initiative: The road towards Sea Power 2.0

China’s Belt and Road Initiative continues to attract considerable attention from scholars and observers in diverse fields. However, students of the Belt and Road Initiative (‘the Initiative’) have focused extensively on the land and sea dimensions of this grand project while only tentatively touching on its other dimensions. This article draws attention to the digital and maritime dimensions of the Initiative, which are respectively known as the Digital Silk Road Initiative and the Maritime Silk Road Initiative. Specifically, the article focuses on how artificial intelligence and big data, as promoted under the Digital Silk Road Initiative, intersect with the Maritime Silk Road Initiative to produce what the author refers to as Sea power 2.0. To contextualise this intersection, the article draws on patent data to show how artificial intelligence and big data are adopted in supply chains. The results from the patent analysis show that artificial intelligence and big data will play a crucial role in future supply chains, and hence, the Maritime Silk Road Initiative. Although the article focuses mostly on the commercial side of Sea power 2.0, it concludes by pointing out how artificial intelligence and big data could serve military objectives. Keywords: artificial intelligence, big data, supply chain, sea power, Maritime Silk Road Initiative

Terms of Reference of The Iraqi Commercial Court

In light of the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council No. (74) for the year 2000 and its influence on the economic and commercial side, this study attempts to illustrate the viability of founding the Iraqi Commercial Court. It is the whole seed. The goal is to make commercial conflicts more swiftly and efficiently resolved through establishing an expert commercial judiciary. Specialized judges with high expertise and knowledge help ensure that court judgments are successful in both processes and causes. In light of the statement published by the Supreme Judicial Council No. (74) for the year 2020, the research focuses on the efficacy of the Iraqi commercial Court in addressing commercial disputes. This article reveals that the Iraqi legislative attempts to attract international investment and the Iraqi executive branch's continued efforts to resolve investor concerns by modifying the Investment Law. The Iraqi court has successfully developed a stable legal environment for multinational firms. Commercial courts, acknowledged as fair by international businesses, were established to accomplish this. As a result of Iraq's communist past, foreign investment was viewed as a source of skepticism and mistrust for many years. These courts will undoubtedly play a significant role in advancing Iraq's progress. However, courts alone will not provide the long-term guarantees needed to transform Iraq's legal framework for domestic and foreign businesses to operate inside. Civil law countries like Iraq necessitate significant reforms to the country's intellectual property, investment, and arbitration regimes.

Understanding The Importance Of Application Of Love Accounting To Tax Reporting And Paying

This study aims to analyze how to uncover the importance of applying love accounting to tax reporting and payment (Case Study on CV. Citra Panca Mandiri). This type of research uses qualitative, with phenomenological approach. This research was conducted at the CV. Citra Panca Mandiri and Account Representative (AR) At KPP Madya Makassar, the informants consisted of 4 CPM staff, namely 3 people from the accounting division, 1 person from the tax division and 2 informants from KPP Madya Makassar. Data collection techniques used were interviews and documentation. The technique of data analysis consists of data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion. While checking the validity of data using triangulation of sources. Based on the results of data analysis, that it is very important to instill a sense of love in reporting and paying taxes, where by linking between commercial parties having transaction partners who commit fraud, they do not report to the state but they have taken the value of 23 pph on the commercial side and when the commercial party wanting to report a pph 25 will have an impact on paying taxes to countries that cannot be credited. But according to the researcher's view it can be minimized when instilling love, because with love, accounting related to tax reporting and income tax 23 will have an impact on their ethics and morals in reporting and paying taxes. So with a sense of love can be minimized the occurrence of fraud that can be troubling commercial parties.

Living in between: The commercial side of Silvanus P. Thompson 's engineering

Historians have hitherto lacked an integrated account of the commercial activities, practices, and entrepreneurial strategies of S. P. Thompson during his career from the 1870s until his death in 1916. This article demonstrates the practical, financial, and moral dimensions and intricacies of his passage from the academic to the industrial and commercial world. We highlight the different patterns of correlation between patenting, consulting, expert-witnessing, and text-book publishing. The article shows his expertise, how he managed the production of knowledge, and the ways that practical and family contingencies influenced the management of his intangible assets. Reconciliation of the engineering culture of the period with the principles of his Quakerism and the practice of the commercialization of knowledge was not an easy task. In order to make the analysis meaningful, we compare his performance with those of some of his London-based colleagues who shared a culture of scientific engineering that could be commercialized.

The Confusion of Language Creativity in Labelling Millennial Business Unit in Public Spaces

The purpose of this study was to document the confusion of the written language use development in the millennial era, especially in creative economic domains of business units, such as restaurants, coffee shops, cafes, or other millennial generation businesses. The study used a phenomenological qualitative research. The data of the research were business unit labels found in the public areas to attract the consumers. All labels of millennial business units were qualitatively analyzed using syntactic techniques. The research revealed various labels of business units as products of language creativity leading to language confusion. This was a phenomenon deliberately chosen by millennial business owners to get commercial value for consumers. Based on these findings, the research concluded that the labelling of millennial business units could be categorized into several variations, namely: 1) naming millennial business units with the absorption of foreign languages, 2) spelling, and 3) meaning. Therefore, the research suggests to conduct socialization to the millennial business unit owners about the rules of language uses in public spaces so that the existence of the Indonesian language and the commercial side could go hand in hand.

Waiting time in two-sided platforms: The case of the airport industry

This paper investigates the concept of manipulating waiting time in airports, an interesting but relatively unexplored example of the two-sided platform. In this context, “waiting time” refers to the time that users (i.e., airlines/passengers) must spend within/dealing with a platform (i.e., the airport) before accomplishing their goal (i.e., boarding). Even if users on one side dislike waiting time, many two-sided platforms have an incentive not to minimize it in certain situations in order to gain more revenues from users on the other side (i.e. in-terminal concessionaires), who may benefit from waiting time. I argue that passengers’ waiting time before being able to board their flights—that is, airside waiting time—tends to increase when management of the commercial side is outsourced. This effect will be reinforced when the commercial side, rather than the airside, is the more prominent source of revenue generation. Further, I find that concentration of concessionaires on the commercial side positively moderates the waiting time. Overall, this paper contributes to the emerging studies on nonpricing strategies in two-sided platforms.

Męskości w soczewce. Neotelewizyjne konstruowanie tożsamości w programie MTV Ex na plaży Polska

The article presents an analysis of an MTV’s show Ex on the Beach Poland, which focuses on male characters who exhibit masculinity “patterns” promoted (“constructed”) by the reality show in question. First off, the show’s “format” is presented, including its specificity in the context of reality show genre development in relation to the theory of paleo- and neo-television. The article’s subsequent sections analyse the characters appearing in the second series of Ex on the Beach Poland. In the end, the conclusions are presented that pertain most of all to entirety of commercial side of promoting particular “patterns” of masculinity.

Green interior walls and their use in sustainable commercial spaces

The environmental, economic and social dimensions represent the basic pillars of sustainable development - and the environmental dimension aims at achieving ecological balance, preserving the natural and constructed environment from the negative effects and its repercussions on human health and productivity. One of the most important pillars of sustainable architecture is to achieve a healthy internal environment where it must be ensured The system of materials and buildings does not cause the emission of toxic gases in the internal environment, and to ensure the quality of the indoor air through continuous purification, and to take advantage of the properties of plants used in the indoor spaces. Green interior walls are one of the solutions of contemporary interior architecture, which began to be used mainly in architectural facades, and moved to the interior spaces to realize its multiple benefits - which include environmental, psychological and economic aspects, and green interior walls require adequate awareness of the structural and design style of it, and Drainage and feeding operations, taking into account the insulation system, and its construction loads. The research studies green interior walls, and the most important design and technical considerations for them Its multiple benefits in contemporary commercial interior spaces, which include the environmental aspect such as indoor air purification, the design aspect in which the properties of these plants are employed in terms of the external line, color and texture of the selected plants, and the commercial side, where they can be used as central attractions that achieve advertising goals for institutions Commercial.

AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHIGAN REPRESENTATIVE BRANDT IDEN WHO HAS SPEARHEADED THE STATE'S RECENT EFFORTS TO LEGALIZE ONLINE GAMING AND SPORTS BETTING

AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHIGAN REPRESENTATIVE BRANDT IDEN WHO HAS SPEARHEADED THE STATE'S RECENT EFFORTS TO LEGALIZE ONLINE GAMING AND SPORTS BETTING

Optimization of the mixture of building types in a neighborhood and their energy and environmental performance

This paper presents optimization technique of residential and commercial buildings mixture within a mixed-use neighborhood, for enhanced energy performance and less GHG emission. The study, conducted for a Northern high latitude location, investigates several parameters related to building types, their density, floor area as well as ratio of specific building types to the total built area. Several methods are employed in the investigation, including energy simulations, statistical methods, optimization and decision making. A selection method of single optimal neighborhood scenario, based on the analysis of seasonal average hourly load is proposed. The results show that an optimal commercial to built land area ranges between 22% and 32%, with the remaining area dedicated to residential buildings. Multiple combinations of residential buildings that enhance energy performance while reducing GHG emissions are formed by 50% of detached houses and 50% of combined townhouses and apartment units (with different ratios). On the commercial side, near optimal combinations of commercial buildings area is constituted by 46–75% offices, 18–45% retails, and 6–9% supermarkets. Optimizing the hourly energy load profile, a scenario combining commercial land area of 25% with equal composition of office and retail buildings (47.5%), to residential area consisting of equal proportion of single detached and townhouses (48% each) can be selected.

The data economy: How technological change has altered the role of the citizen-consumer

Citizenship and consumption have been linked for over a century, emphasizing the pivotal role played by the citizen-consumer in society as a whole, and the voting power of the consumer's money. In the modern, digitalized world of the data economy, citizen-consumers are being assigned new roles: active market party, content producer, distributor, and an important source of economic value formation. This article examines how the role of the citizen-consumer is transforming in the data economy, giving a simplified account of historical continuities and discontinuities. We concentrate on the commercial side of consumer citizenship, scrutinizing two periods in the history of technology: first, the 1930s–40s when the mobile citizen-consumer was invented, designed, and promoted by the US car industry; and second, the post-1990s when an even greater sense of mobility was introduced by cell phones and the Internet, drawing examples from outlying yet technologically advanced Finland. We close with a discussion of how the digital turn has given citizen-consumers new channels of operations, querying how technological change has influenced their everyday lives.