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In this work titanium dioxide powders were synthesized by chemical vapour synthesis (CVS) and sol-gel method. Influence of process parameters (system pressure and hot-wall temperature for CVS and amount of acid and nature of the precursor for sol-gel method) on powder characteristics was examined. It was determined that by precisely controlling the parameters it is possible to finetune the powder characteristics. Characteristics of the powders synthesized by different methods were then compared to reveal any inherent advantages/disadvantages of the method. It was found that the powders had very similar characteristics (crystallinity, crystallite size, particle diameter, etc.) and that the only major difference was the degree of agglomeration which was several orders of magnitude larger for the sol-gel synthesized powders.

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Mental verbs (MVs) make reference to psychological aspects of cognition (e.g., think, remember, pretend), emotion (e.g., fear, happy, desire), or perception (e.g., see, hear). A childs understanding of her internal mental state can be revealed through analysis of the semantic and pragmatic function of these words.MVs were identified in story retells of a girl (Age 5 yrs. 0 mos. - 5 years 5 months) to assess contrastive use (reality?mentality; fact- belief) as an indication of reference to the internal world of her beliefs, thoughts, and intentions and those of others.There were 34 MVs in the stories. 21 represented a variation of "think," five "know," four "wanted" and one token each of pretend, dreaming, guess, wish. The number of MVs was not related to narrative length. Although the longest narrative (75 utterances) contained the highest number (11); the next longest (72 utterances) had one. Contextual factors contributed to the occurrence of MVs. Through contrastive use of MVs the narrator reveals her mental state. She describes an emotional state (being scared) which invites mental terms (thinking that something would happen). She expresses an understanding of her own thoughts and feelings and those of others by projecting them through the characters actions and statements.

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Globalization has a major impact on the practice of innovation across a wide range of service industries. Yet, only limited attention has been paid to the issue of service innovation in a global context. To address this critique of the literature a case study of new service development and customer interaction was conducted in a multinational financial services firm based in the US. The case study investigates the development of new services with inputs from companys customers in India. We followed a longitudinal field research method to trace the roles of local Indian subsidiary and local managers in developing and managing the overall innovation process.

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The paper will investigate the question whether teaching Business English means imposing a certain ideological background. The author will argue that teaching Business English is not confined to teaching students ?to understand and express key concepts of business and economics in English"1, but it also means teaching them the rules of interaction in professional situations. Learners, for their part, strive to learn the language of business not merely to be able to make themselves understood by other business people, but also to become part of the group. Their knowledge of this specialized language signifies their belonging to the group of their choice. It is assumed that teaching a language is impartial. Still, if what is being taught as a professional language is language in the stricter and in the wider sense of the word, do we and maybe more importantly, should we use course books or other resources that carry the dominant ideology of the profession. The paper will argue that while Business English, as a specialized language, is not ideologically embedded, the resources, course books sometimes can be. The author will present the results of a content analysis carried out on Ian MacKenzie?s English for Business Studies, the course book that has been in use at the Faculty of Economics and Business (University of Zagreb) for years. The author will analyze key units of the book that can carry an ideological message to see if this well-known and influential course book manages to stay impartial.

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Polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFC) are attracting considerable interest as alternative power sources for automobiles, stationary and portable applications. The effective three-phase interfaces in the electrodes are important for the performance of PEFC. The presence of the Nafion ionomer covering the accumulated Pt-C catalyst particles in the electrode provides H+ path from catalyst site to the membrane. However, the pores in the electrode will be blocked while Nafion expansion happens in the process of PEFC operation. If a solid proton conductor is used to play part of the Nafion's role in the electrode, the porosity will increase but the H+ path will not reduce. The fine solid proton conductor particles may also be possible as the H+ path from Pt site in the Pt-C accumulation, while Nafion plays the roles as the H+ path from the surface Pt site of accumulated Pt-C to the membrane. Hydronium-P"-Al2O3 (H3O+-P"-Al2O3) had ever been reported to be a relatively fast solid proton conductor. The polycrystalline Na+ form (Na+-P"-Al2O3) with the chemical formula of Na167Mg067Al1033O17 was synthesized by high temperature vapor reaction. Na+ form P"-Al2O3 was ion-exchanged to the H3O+-P"-Al2O3 in the condensed H2SO4, the ion exchange ratio was higher than 90%. XRD were taken for Na+ form and H3O+ form P"-Al2O3, which prove that they have the similar P" structure, and the lattice constant indicates the change of ions ( Na+ to H3O+) in the conduction plane. The main form of (H2O)nH+ in Hydronium -P"-Al2O3 is H3O+, which was confirmed by FTIR. The P" structure of H3O+-P"-Al2O3 is stable at 360C at least, and the H3O+ in the P" structure can be kept at least at 200C. The MEA with the H3O+-P"-Al2O3 in the electrode has been fabricated. The PEFC performance tests on the application of H3O+-P"- Al2O3 in the PEFC electrode are on going. The effect of adding the solid proton conductor in the electrode structure of PEFC will be reported in the meeting.

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A Sustainable Tourism Development Strategy (STDS) was drawn up to a rather remote and sparsely populated area in Finland, the eastern part of the Kainuu Province. The work was done in a joint project by the organization responsible for managing the protected areas? network in Finland, Metsahallitus (Natural Heritage Services), and the 60-member-strong regional tourism enterprises? association, Eastern Taiga. The strategy gave an overview into nature-based tourism and its objectives in eastern Kainuu in 2010. The need for the strategy arose from the perception that Eastern Kainuu supports quite a vigorous nature-based tourism, with ambitious plans for the future. An important element in the attraction and potential of nature tourism are the nature protection areas, with their expanses of taiga nature and good visitor services. The need to discuss and agree upon the forms and practices of tourism operations on protected areas was recognized. The strategy is a means to promote sustainable tourism. The project partners believe that nature-based tourism in Kainuu will grow and that the nature protection areas will have an increasing role therein. The main achievement of the project was the creation of regular contact channels to facilitate further discussion and development. Moreover, as part of the strategy, a joint 10-year Action Plan was compiled. STDS is a tool widely used in Metsahallitus on areas where tourism plays an important role in the use of protected areas. Based on the Kainuu experience, a lot can be gained by the process even in more remote areas. The strategy is an excellent starting point for joint management planning and resource use, as well as for more sustainable tourism with its mechanisms of checks, indicators and regular follow-up systems.

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Synthetic hydroxyapatite (HAP, Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2) has ability to form strong interfacial bonds with bone tissue and to improve its growth. The development of electrodeposited HAP/polymer coatings is currently being explored. The purpose of this work was to investigate the effect of lignin (Lig) concentration on morphology, phase composition and thermal behavior of HAP/Lig coatings. Therefore, XRD, XPS and TGA were used. MTT test has been conducted in order to determine the cytotoxicity of coatings. It was observed that the increase in lignin concentration causes better protection of the HAP lattice during sintering. The optimal lignin concentration was found to be 1 wt. %.

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Exact line searches along each steepest descent direction converge very slowly. Barzilai and Borwein suggested two stepsizes that ensures superlinear convergence and performs quite well. Barzilai-Borwein method is not monotone, thus it is not easy to be generalized for general nonlinear functions. A new stepsize enables fast convergence and possesses monotone property is proposed by Yuan. The new stepsize is modified to obtain modified new steepest descent method, which is for convex quadratic problems only is proposed by Yuan. The new steepest descent method uses the new stepsize after every m exact line search iterations. An algorithm for m=2 is proposed in this paper. We use quadratic functions to test the performance of our algorithm.

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This paper investigates the relative importance of country, industry and firm factors on firm performance. Using a panel data set covering the years 1989-2008, we examine a data set of firms across an extensive range of countries and industries, depending on the performance measure. Simultaneously, we also examine the relative importance of firm and industry effects outside the US. We perform a number of robustness tests of splitting samples into global samples with and without US firms, across performance measures, including market measures. The results suggest that firm effects are still dominant, though external factors can be important in certain conditions. The results offer a contrast to existing set of results primarily based on US data sets.