Social Constraints for Immigrant Entrepreneurs 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Literature Review The following chapter outlines theoretical background and past researches on the topic. Immigrant Entrepreneurship Immigrants are a driving force for human capital which is important for mobilizing entrepreneurial activity base for...

Semiconductor quantum dots

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Semiconductor quantum dots Quantum dots (QDs) are nanometer size structures in which the motion of carriers is restricted in all spatial directions. This 3D conflnement makes the energy spectrum of a single carrier...

Intelligent Glasses: a visuo-tactile ETA for the blind

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Design and Characterization of SMA Helical Springs This chapter presents the design, modeling and implementation of a NiTi SMA helical spring intented to be the active element of a miniature actuator for tactile...

Inuence of spin-orbit coupling on the magneto-conductivity

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Electronic transport properties The motion of charge carriers in graphene has some unique properties as a consequence of its electronics band structure, such as the ambipolar eld eect and minimum conductivity. This phenomenon...

Long range energy transfer in self assembled nanoplatelets 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Introduction of colloidal nanoplatelets (NPLs) With the development of nanoscience and nanotechnology, it has been of increasing importance to understand the physics in semiconducting materials with size reduced to the nanometer scale. This...

Neutral Diversity in Experimentally Nested Populations 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » A fixed collection of species Slowly, Science distanced itself from the goal of mapping similarities in nature in order to unveil its secrets. The new reductionist paradigm, illustrated by the obviousness criterion of...

Stochastic processes in statistical mechanics

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Stochastic processes and simulation methods In this Chapter I present analytical and numerical tools required to tackle the challenges of the biological models used in the Chapters that follow. Stochastic processes in statistical...

Extreme-value statistics of fractional Brownian motion 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Statistical physics and disordered systems This thesis takes place in the large context of the study of disordered systems from a statistical physics point of view. The general idea of statistical physics is...

Doing Well and Doing Good: A Multi-Dimensional Puzzle

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » CSR AS EXTERNALITY INTERNALIZATION AND PUBLIC GOOD PROVISION Most CSR activities, based in particular on environmental and social factors, aim at reducing negative externalities (e.g. pollution abatement) or generating positive externalities (e.g. financing...

Poverty, Base of the Pyramid and Corporate social responsibility

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Poverty, Base of the Pyramid and Corporate social responsibility This first section introduces the progressive shift in the vision of solutions to global poverty which increasingly adopted a market-based perspective. Then it focuses...