This study is focused on the seat allocation problem with stochastic demands airlines to determine booking limits by fare classes in airlines. In this paper, we consider the additional constraints such as customers’ booking cancellations and airlines’ refund policy. Our problem can...

Early e-business activity in the airline industry was limited to the provision of flight schedule information to customers on websites. Recently, however, many airlines have expanded the capability of their web sites for selling tickets to make use of this cheap distribution channel. Here, we...

In this paper we examine the relationship between air pollution and hospital admissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Italy, at province level, over the period 2004- 2009. To this end, we use information on annual mean concentrations of carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide,...

This paper examines the conditions under which exploration of a new, incompatible technologyis conducive to firm growth in the presence of network externalities. In particular, this study is motivated by the divergent evolutions of the PC and the workstation markets in response to a new...

Passivated emitter and rear cells (PERC) are considered to be the next-generation silicon solar cell technology because of their significant efficiency gain originating from improved surface passivation and optical reflectivity. However, the complex fabrication process of PERC solar cells is a...

Rear-side passivated solar cells are one of the next-generation concepts for industrial mass production lines. Our production line has achieved greater than 19% for a commercial-grade with a homogeneous POCl3 emitter. In this study we investigated an industrial passivated emitter and rear cell...

Universities have different research environments and attitudes toward commercialisation of their discoveries than to industries. These differences are inherent in the distinctive missions, roles, and organisational structures. Therefore, performance of technology transfer of universities...

This paper contributes to measurement of licensing performance of U.S. research institutions by suggesting an approach for identifying time-lags in the licensing process. Licensing is a multi-state process starting with a disclosure, and resulting in intermediate outcomes such as patents,...

The process conditions for high efficiency industrial crystalline Si solar cells with selective emitter were optimized. In the screen printed solar cells, the sheet resistance must be 50–60 Ω/sq. because of metal contact resistance. But the low sheet resistance causes the increase of the...