Summary of activities and research findings. This study analyses empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ), using administrative firm-level panel data from German manufacturing. We find that only import competition from high-income countries is associated with positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low-income countries is not.
Summary of activities and research findings. Experimental fluid-rock studies of the Cornwall Geothermal site
Summary of activities and research findings. 1. Summary of INTENS project on EuroStemCell xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/our-supporting-ec-consortia
2. Factsheet: Short Bowel Syndrome: how can stem cells help? xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxx
3. Video 1: Short Bowel Syndrome: how can stem cells help? xxxxx://xxx.xxxxxxx.xxx/watch?v=u2YmQ_Mur2k How are stem cells be used by stem cell researchers in the laboratory and how might they be used in the future to help people affected by Short Bowel Syndrome. Credits: Filming and production, Xxxx Xxxxx Scidelight (xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx/). This film was made through collaboration between the INTENS stem cell research consortium (xxxx://xxx.xxxxxx.xxxx/) and EuroStemCell (xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx). Both projects receive funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement numbers 668294 and 652796. We would like to thank the INTENS scientists who contributed to this film.
4. Video 2: Introduction to the INTENS stem cell research consortium xxxxx://xxx.xxxxxxx.xxx/watch?v=jdOAkojxUxM A short film about the European Commission funded INTENS research consortium. It aims to use tissue engineering to develop sections of functional bowel that could be used in the future as a treatment option for people with Short Bowel Syndrome.
5. Video 3: Introduction to Short Bowel Syndrome and current treatments xxxxx://xxx.xxxxxxx.xxx/watch?v=yrXT3A04Ob8 An introduction to Short Bowel Syndrome and an overview of the pros and cons of current treatment options.
Summary of activities and research findings. We find that automation has political effects on aggregate election returns at the district- level, leading to a tilt in favour of radical-right and nationalist parties promoting an anti- cosmopolitan agenda. Consistently, the individual-level analysis shows that individuals that are more exposed to automation are substantially more likely to vote for radical-right parties, and tend to support parties with more nationalist platforms.
Summary of activities and research findings. Given the relevance of light hydrocarbons to the ShaleX project and the availability of experimental data, the adsorption of such molecules in a carbon molecular sieve (MSC5A) was selected to be studied. The MSC5A can be modeled as a cylindrical pore. The pore geometry parameters are available in reference [3].
Summary of activities and research findings. This report is a desktop research study covering European shale gas basins. The findings are meant as a guide to outline potential shale gas regions and provide pressure and temperature estimates and measurements for depths that fall within the range of shale gas plays. The pressure-temperature conditions reflect present day conditions and are not maximum burial and maturity conditions experienced by the shale gas plays. The prospective areas shown in Figure 1 correlate with the thermal maturity range of the gas window (Ro = 0.9 to 3.0 %) that each basin experienced preserved through its geological history, as well as an economic cut-off of greater than 2% average TOC for shale plays with a thickness greater than 100 feet (approximately > 30 m). The TOC and thermal maturity data from published reports reflect borehole samples analysed within the prospective regions. These are extrapolated together with geophysical studies (where available) to show the extent of potential shale gas plays (coloured areas in Figure 1). Pressure and temperature data in the Halliburton rows (Table 1) are downhole measurements from samples with gas potential and are a reference of comparison to standard condition estimates. It is important to note that the complete range and heterogeneity of each individual basin is not represented in this report, but we have researched the broad available literature in order to summarise representative values and ranges for each region. We emphasise that the findings of this report are to be used as a starting point and guide for further research of the individual basins of interest. Table 1: Summary of European shale gas plays with present day temperature and pressure estimates and measurements for selected depths within play range. Table 1: continued.
Summary of activities and research findings. To fix ideas on the research questions we aim at exploring in this paper, consider the top 5 car makers in the world (in 2017 volumes of vehicles sold). The first, Toyota, is the largest automotive group, with almost 6,000 affiliates recorded in 2015; it is also very differentiated in terms of industries covered, and relatively 'flat' in terms of hierarchical structure: only very few affiliates populate the levels of control beyond the 4th. A similar structure is shared by Hyundai, the third largest producer: very differentiated, but also compressed in three layers of control. Yet this common 'flat' structure does not seem to be driven by the BG's size, as Hyundai is much smaller than Toyota (some 260 affiliates). On the contrary, both GM (the third largest carmaker, with some 1,070 affiliates) and Ford, the fifth largest (with some 450 affiliates) share a more hierarchical structure (both have affiliates up to 6 levels of control from the HQ). To complete the picture Volkswagen, the second largest automotive group (with some 3,000 affiliates) is organized in 9 levels of hierarchical control. Deliverable D2.1 Version 1.0 Starting from this evidence, we have analysed in our data set the extent to which regularities exist in the shape of the hierarchical structure organized by parent companies, and we have explored their potential drivers. In general, BGs seem to be organized in shapes close to `inverted' pyramids: the hierarchical layers closer to the HQ are more densely populated of subsidiaries with respect to the more distant ones. Looking within, rather than across, groups, we have also discovered that the complexity of tasks performed by subsidiaries systematically decreases as layers of hierarchy are added to the first one: subsidiaries placed in the hierarchy further away from the headquarters are associated to simpler tasks performed, while subsidiaries directly controlled by the HQ perform more complex activities. Capitalizing on these and other stylized facts, we propose a simple theoretical model based on knowledge-based hierarchies (Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxx-Xxxxxxxx, 2004 & 2015) that provides a rationale for the BGs' organizational structure in terms of the number of hierarchical layers and the number of affiliates in each layer, as a result of a profit maximization problem by the headquarters. We thus derive the optimal condition that triggers the creation of an additional layer of control based on the above trade-off, and compute the total number of ...
Summary of activities and research findings. This report is a desktop research study covering European shale gas basins. The findings are meant as a guide to outline potential shale gas regions and provide pressure and temperature estimates and measurements for depths that fall within the range of shale gas plays. The pressure-temperature conditions reflect present day conditions and are not maximum burial and maturity conditions experienced by the shale gas plays. The prospective areas shown in Figure 1 correlate with the thermal maturity range of the gas window (Ro = 0.9 to 3.0 %) that each basin experienced and preserved through its geological history, as well as an economic cut-off of greater than 2% average TOC for shale plays with a thickness greater than 30 m (approximately > 100 feet). The TOC and thermal maturity data from published reports reflect borehole samples analysed from shale gas prospective regions. These are extrapolated, together with geophysical studies (where available) to assess the extent of potential shale gas plays (coloured areas in Figure 1). Pressure and temperature data in the Halliburton rows (Table 1) are downhole measurements from samples with gas potential and are a reference of comparison to standard condition estimates. It is important to note that the complete range and heterogeneity of each individual basin is not represented in this report. Instead, we have researched the broad available literature where possible in order to summarise representative values and ranges for each region. We emphasise that the findings of this report are to be used as a starting point and guide for further research of the individual basins of interest. The results and findings of European shale rock basins are summarised in Table 1. The table includes a brief summary of the basin location and prospective region, which are shown on the map in Figure 1. The literature review rows in Table 1 include research articles and survey reports. We present data for the Xxxxxxx Shale, Midland Valley Basin, Alum Shale, Lower Saxony Basin, Paris Basin (upper and lower), Southeast Basin, Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Baltic Basin and the Lublin Basin. Table 1 excludes details on compositional variable (x). This is due to the broad mineralogical heterogeneity of shale rocks defined by their sedimentary history. However, the implications of mineralogy to shale gas prospectively should not be discounted when considering shale gas exploitation, as the mineralogy defines the “brittleness” or strength of shal...
Summary of activities and research findings. We have introduced intangible assets in a property rights model of sequential supply chains. In the resulting model firms transmit knowledge to their suppliers to facilitate inputs' customization, but they must protect the transmitted intangibles to avoid knowledge dissipation. Protection is costly and depends on both inputs' knowledge intensity and the quality of institutions protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) in suppliers' locations. Our model predicts that, when inputs' knowledge intensity increases (decreases) downstream and suppliers' investments are complements, the probability of integrating a randomly selected input is decreasing (increasing) in IPR quality and increasing (decreasing) in the relative knowledge intensity of downstream inputs. It yields opposite but weaker predictions when suppliers' investments are substitutes. We have tested and found empirical support for our model's predictions through probit regressions exploiting comprehensive data on the population of Slovenian firms from 2007 Deliverable D2.4 - The role of intangibles in organisational choices in GVCs Version 1.0 to 2010. In doing so, we have merged transaction-level trade data on firms with their outward cross-border direct investment and financial data. The firm's decision to integrate an input is estimated at the firm-country-product level.
Summary of activities and research findings. Thanks to the visit at the CarbFix site by one of us – Xx Xxxxxx, and extended discussions with Xx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx (Reykjavik Energy), we identified the pressure and temperature of interest at the Nesjavellir, CarbFix1 and CarbFix2 sites in Iceland. At CarbFix1 sampling should occur at a maximum depth of 400 m, which corresponds to the limit of the casing of the xxxxx, and to a pressure of 4 MPa. Temperature in this location has been monitored sporadically between 2005 and 2007; the data show that temperature does not exceed 20°C at that depth. This is well within the P-T range of PUSH50 instruments. At CarbFix2, the temperature ranges between 15°C at the wellhead to max 80°C at 750 meters depth, although the casing doesn’t go as deep. The important positive observation is that these conditions are well within the biotic zone for both pressure and temperature. The limitation is that pressure is too low to retrieve samples under pressure. Therefore, we will collect the samples and the water is pumped to the surface and we will pressurize again at the original pressure for transportation and further investigation. In order to prepare as far as possible according to D3.2, Xx Xxxx Xxxxxx (S4CE – engineer in high-pressure microbiology May – July 2018) launched the culture of a synthetic piezotolerant bacterial strain and natural communities, whose metabolic activities resemble those expected at the CarbFix sites, targeting the microaerophilic metabolism of nitrate and sulfur. Xx. Xxxxxx also calibrated some internal standards for the measurement in situ of the metabolic activity of sulfur using Raman spectroscopy in the diamond anvil cell. The piezotolerant strain is now stored in one PUSH50 at 10 MPa.
