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Diagnosis and causes of consumption servicization in Polish households

Murawska, Anna; Śniadeccy, Jan; Śniadeccy, Jędrzej - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 18 (2018) 2, pp. 763-774

This paper attempts to analyse the level and structure of consumption servicization in Polish households in the years 2000-2015 as well as directions of changes in this regard in the years 2005-2015. In addition, causes, advantages, and disadvantages of the increase in service expenses were...

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What is (behind) the gender gap in sickness benefits? Evidence from administrative data

Gonçalves, Judite; Rocha-Gomes, João; Amorim-Lopes, Mário - 2024

Women appear to take sick leave at a higher rate and for longer periods than men. However, the reasons for these differences are poorly understood. This study starts by outlining several channels (biological, psychological, socio-economic, and occupational) that may drive this gender gap. We...

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Crisis Diagnosis in Anti-Crisis Management Process in a Company

Meiste, Ruta; Jakstiene, Sandra - 2015

appear as crisis reason as well as crisis consequence. The relevance of the crisis situation diagnosis is confirmed by the … diagnosis decisions designed and applied in the business practice, audit reports, bank assessment methods and company's own … diagnosis system in the anti-crisis management process in a company. The paper deals with four stages of crisis development …

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The Role of Diagnostic Ability in Markets for Expert Services

Liu, Fang; Rasch, Alexander; Schwarz, Marco Alexander; … - 2020

possible. However, inefficient equilibria can also exist. If, in equilibrium, experts provide diagnosis-independent treatments …

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The role of diagnostic ability in markets for expert services

Liu, Fang; Rasch, Alexander; Schwarz, Marco; Waibel, … - 2020

In credence goods markets, experts have better information about the appropriate quality of treatment than their customers. Experts may exploit their informational advantage by defrauding customers. Market institutions have been shown theoretically to be effective in mitigating fraudulent expert...

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Reverse engineering technologies for remanufacturing of automotive systems communicating via CAN bus

Freiberger, Stefanrger; Albrecht, Matthias; Käufl, Josef - In: Journal of Remanufacturing 1 (2011), pp. 1-14

Nowadays, as mechatronic and electronic systems have found their way into vehicles, the technological knowledgebase of traditional remanufacturing companies erodes rapidly and even the industrial principle of remanufacturing is at risk. Due to the fact that modern cars incorporate up to 80 of...

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Performance and emission characteristics of diesel engine fueled with rice bran biodiesel and n-butanol

Goga, Geetesh; Chauhan, Bhupendra Singh; Mahla, Sunil Kumar - In: Energy Reports 5 (2019), pp. 78-83

Due to the depletion of petroleum products and fatal emissions from the tailpipe of diesel engines it has become a need to seek for the alternative of petroleum products for long-term use. Currently, researchers and experts have come to the conclusion that biodiesel along with higher alcohols...

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Improvement of diesel engine startability under low temperatures by vortex tubes

Celik, Adem; Yilmaz, Mehmet; Yildiz, Omer Faruk - In: Energy Reports 6 (2020), pp. 17-27

Cold start is one of the most problematic combustion phases for diesel engines. During this phase, a large proportion of pollutants are produced within the cylinder due to misfiring and incomplete combustion due to the low engine temperatures. Furthermore, exhaust after-treatment devices work...

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Experimental investigation on performance, combustion and emission characteristics of DI diesel engine using algae as a biodiesel

Subramaniam, Mohankumar; Muthiya Solomon, Jenoris; … - In: Energy Reports 6 (2020), pp. 1382-1392

Diesel Powered engines are predominately used in transport and power generators. Due to rapid depletion of fossils fuels like diesel, there is need to find alternate resources for as a fuel for transport and power sector. The use of third generation fuels like algae seems to be a promising...

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Performance and emission characteristics of a diesel engine fueled with functionalized multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs-OH) and diesel-biodiesel-bioethanol blends

Shekofteh, Mohammad; Gundoshmian, Tarahom Mesri; … - In: Energy Reports 6 (2020), pp. 1438-1447

Biodiesel is one of the renewable fuels which is similar to diesel fuel. Biodiesel fuel has more oxygen than diesel fuel and this leads to better combustion and thereby, decreases PM, CO, and UHC emissions. On the other hand, biodiesel has a higher viscosity and density than diesel fuel which...

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