This paper presents results of Swim experimental examinations of stress concentration influence to fatigue life of butt welded joints with K-groove, produced from the most frequently used structural steel S355J2+N.One group of experiments comprised examinations carried out on the K-groove specimens with stress concentrators of edged notch type.Spec
Abstract In recent years, simultaneous localization and mapping in dynamic environments (dynamic SLAM) has attracted significant attention from both academia and industry.Some pioneering work on this technique has expanded the potential of robotic applications.Compared to standard SLAM under the static world assumption, dynamic SLAM divides feature
The informality of the money lender business is closely related to transaction costs and risks in carrying out its business.Trust is vital and plays an important role in the Espresso Machine (Prosumer) sustainability of money lender businesses.Trust serves to reduce transaction costs, mortgage loan risks and the determination of collateral.This stu
The literature recognizes several endogenous and exogenous factors influencing the behavior and performance of companies in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).The aim of the study is to analyze the effect of culture (Hofstede dimensions) on CSR in BRIC countries.The sample comprised 397 companies from Brazil, Russia, India and China, using Kolmo
The distribution of abundance amongst species with similar ways of life is a classical problem in ecology.The unified neutral theory of biodiversity, due to Hubbell, states that observed population dynamics may be explained on the assumption of per capita equivalence amongst individuals.One can thus dispense with differences between species, and di