Pre-open auctions have been widely implemented across trading exchanges.Pre-open auctions tend to reduce information asymmetry and trading risks.Call auctions have been encouraged to enhance price discovery.This paper explores Health the shifts in information content of the pre-market auction session over time.We derive that the information content
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are increasingly used in environmental monitoring applications.They are designed to operate for several months by featuring low activity cycles in order to save energy.In this paper, we propose a Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for suchWSNs with very low duty-cycles of 1% and less.Nodes are activated randomly Sa
Background: Infertility is defined as failure in pregnancy after one year of unprotected intercourse.Several centers have reported different causes of infertility.The most common causes of infertility are: male factor such as sperm disturbance, female factor such as ovulation dysfunction and tubal factor, both male and female factor, and unexplaine
Orientation: Franchising is a popular and multifaceted business arrangement that captures a sizeable portion of the restaurant industry worldwide.Research purpose: The study empirically investigated the influence of various site location and branding factors on the growth of franchised fast food restaurant brands across the greater Gauteng region.M
Different strategies have been employed to provide adequate nutrients for engineered living tissues.These have mainly revolved around providing oxygen to alleviate the effects of chronic hypoxia or anoxia that result in necrosis or weak neovascularization, leading to failure of artificial tissue implants and hence poor clinical outcome.While differ