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Like companies, consumers can also obtain benefits from SSTs, including employee mood avoidance, service demand fluctuation, time and money savings, reduction in dependency on time and location, quick responses to complaints, a more consistent service, and without human employee contact [46].
Mimetic pressures Mimetic pressures occur when social actors believe that only following or imitating actions taken by successful and high-status actors (e.g. celebrities, politicians, and entrepreneurs) will yield positive outcomes (e.g. reduction in research costs and experimentation costs, and avoidance of risks inherent from being the first-movers) [37, 41].
Regarding normative pressures, SST providers can build a data base of SST users and then create normative expectations through the data [37].

In particular, additive construction applied to the production of dies and electrodes, directly from digital data, is defined as rapid tooling (RT) [9].
The initial cost increase can thus be repaid through a reduction of costs and time for the following phases of development, engineering and production, as well as trough non-monetary advantages [17].
The outcome of the experimental study will be helpful to provide data for industrial application of the considered technology.
There is unnoticeable effect of work piece volumes (within the selected range) on reduction of shell wall thickness as regards to dimensional accuracy/ tolerance grades are concerned Acknowledgements The authors are also thankful to AICTE, New Delhi for financial support under CAYT.

Main advantages of LCM processes are related to the capability of manufacturing geometrically complex products with remarkable precision, flexibility of reinforcement architecture and reduction of human exposure to dangerous emission of volatiles.
The actual fiber volume fraction in the composite is given in Eq. 1: φf= VfVf+Vr+Vu= VfVc= Wf ρcρf (1) The void content can be defined as given in Eq. 2: φu= VuVc= Vc -Vf+VrVc= wcρc- wcρc0wcρc= ρc0-ρcρc0 (2) ρc0 is the density of the composite in the absence of voids, calculated from the TGA data (Eq. 3): ρc0= wcVf+Vr= wcwfρf+wrρr (3) where vf is the volume of fibers, vr is the volume of epoxy matrix, vu is the void volume, ρf is the density of the fiber, ρr the density of epoxy matrix, and the value used as ρc was the mean density measured by immersion on three specimens for each kind of laminates.
As shown in the Figs. 6 and 7 a better response to bending is likely to be obtained with an infusion pressure higher than 500 mbar but the data revealed an unusual behavior of carbon fibers reinforcement obtained with 1000 mbar.
In general, the results showed that the reduction of vacuum pressure alters significantly the void content for the carbon fibers while the value of information decreases since only slightly detectable changes in the mechanical properties are provable.

Therefore, reduction CO2 emission from coal power station generation plays predominant role in mitigating climate change.
In China from 1978 to 2009, the average proportion of coal to energy production total amount is 74.60% Calculated by the data National Bureau of Statistics of China, 2010, Information on: http://www.stats.gov.cn/, time: 2011.09.05
CCS could contribute at least 19 per cent of CO2 emission reductions by 2050 [1].
Fig.2 Visualization of US CCS projects actor networks This figure was created by social network analysis based on 20 US CCS demonstration projects, data source: http://sequestration.mit.edu/ , Time: 2012/01/05, Source: Analysis by author.

The research results of the division not only can provide basic data for geological hazard division in Shaanxi province to gradually form geological disasters research theory system, but also can provide basis for Shaanxi government landslide disaster prevention plan so as to reduce casualties and property losses effectively.
Carry out the research of dangers of geological disasters, vigorously strengthen disaster reduction, is an important part of our country, s path of sustainable development.
In order to collect based data easily and have an opportunity to access cheaply and the result of practical application can be used for the prevention and mitigation future of disaster areas, we take the administrative divisions as basic unit for research.
Natural disaster hazards and disaster-reduction in Hebei province[J].

The benefits of DG include voltage improvement, loss reduction, relieved transmission and distribution congestion, improved utility system reliability and power quality.
Table-I shows the data associated with sections and load point.
DATA FOR 33-BUS RADIAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM Section From bus To bus Length of Sections (km) Load (KW) 1 1 2 1 100 2 2 3 5.3471 90 3 3 4 3.9696 120 4 4 5 4.1334 60 5 5 6 8.8829 60 6 6 7 2.0304 200 7 7 8 18.561 200 8 8 9 11.171 60 9 9 10 11.323 60 10 10 11 2.1323 45 11 11 12 4.0607 60 12 12 13 15.921 60 13 13 14 5.8742 120 14 14 15 6.4100 60 15 15 16 8.0944 60 16 16 17 13.980 60 17 17 18 7.9393 90 18 2 19 1.7787 90 19 19 20 16.314 90 20 20 21 4.4414 90 21 21 22 7.6887 90 22 3 23 4.8937 90 23 23 24 9.7397 420 24 24 25 9.7180 420 25 6 26 2.2017 60 26 26 27 3.0824 60 27 27 28 11.485 60 28 28 29 8.7223 120 29 29 30 5.5043 200 30 30 31 10.568 150 31 31 32 3.3677 210 32 32 33 3.6985 60 Case study 1: Simple radial system without tie-switch and DG A fault is considered at section 4 in a 33 bus radial distribution system.
Goswami, “Optimum allocation of distributed generations based on nodal pricing for profit, loss reduction, and voltage improvement including voltage rise issue,” Elect Power Energy System 2010, 32:637-44

These results are compared to the theoretical curve. 3.4 Discussion The results of the loading indicate that there was no significant reduction in the strength of the plate, while the plate which was embedded with the SMART Lyer® is more flexible.
Signal generation and data acquisition were conducted using the ACESS ® software, which was purchased from its developer Acellent technologies inc.
The results of the loadings indicated that there was no significant reduction in the strength of the plate, while the plate which was embedded with the SMART Layer® was more flexible.
"Can Damage be Detected without any Baseline Data?"

The Method of Study This research has been carried out in three phases: at first a phase of historical research, then a second phase of analysis of the causes of the decay in situ; at last all the data which had been gathered from the previous phases were compared one with the other.
In particular, in the most outstanding cases where the cracks might potentially be still active, the data derived from the historical researches have helped to define the areas where to check these cracks by means of scientific instruments.
The reduction of the piers at the base of the building; their thickness resulted thinner than 4 ounces as regards that on the upper levels.
New causes of decay: the XIXth and the XXth century restorations During the two centuries several restorations have been carried out, even though they sometimes caused further structural problems: 1. the opening of the two large French windows on the first level, towards Palazzo della Ragione, took the place of two pre-existing windows determining a further reduction of the masonry. 2. in 1942 the restoring executed by the architect Aldo Andreani (A.Andreani, 1915 and 1942) involved the demolition of the tower which was connected to Palazzo della Ragione.

This results in considerable reduction of amount of segregation.
Hence any reduction in the quantity of formwork is reflected in economy.
The only way is to formulate an empirical equation from the data obtained of experimental procedure or from field data or to formulate a theoretical model using the mechanical as well as rheological properties of SCC.

Separate research carried out by Lee et al. [13] showed significant reduction in the weld hardness due to the evolution of bigger grain size in the weld zone of FSW AZ31 alloy.
In Section 3, the data of temperature filed, microstructure and mechanical performance of welded joint in three dimensions are presented.
The average tensile data showed a joint efficiency of about 75.8% respect to the UTS (234Mpa).It can be seen that the FSW process led to a 25% decrease of the tensile strength, and also to a reduction of the elongation to failure.