FOOD INDUSTRY ORGANIZATION AND BEHAVIOR: SOME RECENT CHANGE FORCES

Industrial Organization,

Fundamental Properties of Metallic Nanolasers

The last two decades have witnessed tremendous advancements in the area of nanophotonics and plasmonics, which has helped propel the development of integrated photonic sources. Of central importance to such circuits is compact, scalable, low threshold, and efficient coherent sources that can be driven at high modulation frequencies. In this regard, metallic nanolasers offer a unique platform. Their introduction has enabled confinement of light at a subwavelength scale and the ultra-small size of the modes afforded by these structures allows for cavity enhancing effects that can help facilitate thresholdless lasing and large direct modulation bandwidths. In this report, I present my work on the study of the fundamental properties of metallic nanolasers. I start with a rate equation model to predict threshold behavior and the modulation response of metallic nanolasers. Next, I explain the second-order coherence measurement setup that was built, based on a modified Hanbury-Brown and Twiss experiment, to assess the intensity autocorrelation of various optically pumped metallic nanolasers. These studies concluded that metallic coaxial and disk-shaped nanolasers are capable of generating truly coherent radiation. Subsequently, design considerations are taken into account for electrically pumped coaxial nanolasers. This has led to the demonstration of electrically injected coaxial and disk-shaped nanolasers at cryogenic temperatures. Lastly, the appearance of collective behaviors in metallic nanolasers lattices is explored. Individually supporting modes that are highly vectorial by nature, when such cavities are fabricated in close proximity to one another, coupling through their overlapping fields results in the formation of a set of supermodes. The tendency of the system to minimize the overall loss leads to each element of the lattice having a geometric dependent field distribution and helps promotes single-mode lasing. We show both through simulations and experimentally that this effect can lead to the direct generation of vector vortices

Biotechnology: Implications For Agribusiness In The 1990s

products from biotechnology research are beginning to emerge into the con^ercial market. However, there has been a long gestation period which followed the investor fervor associated with the promise of new products from biotechnology and the spawning of many small biotech research firms to capitalize on these new technologies. Biotechnology in practice is typically considered to include not only genetic engineering, involving recombinant DNA procedures, but some of the older and closely related tools of cell culture, plant regeneration, monoclonal antibodies, embryo transfer, and bioprocess engineering ^Agricultural Biotechnolo^= Str^^ nn^^etitiveness. 1987). ll^ese are extensions of the age-old techniques of plant and animal breeding and selection that work with the entire organism; the effort is now with individual genes within the organism (Walbot. 1987

Investment Analysis--Capital Budgeting Methods.

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The Effect of Doctors without Borders on Low- and Middle-Income Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa

This research studies the relationship between the activity of medical disaster-response humanitarian aid and the rate of growth in developing economies. Data of total annual GDP and Doctors without Borders (MSF) activity in 23 countries was analyzed over the years 2000-2014 with correlation and regression analysis. Under this analysis results are inconclusive, with a correlation of zero between MSF activity’s within a country and change in that country’s rate of GDP growth. A conclusive response was found on the comparison between GDP growth in countries MSF was active in compared to countries with no MSF activity, showing that countries in which MSF was active in had a lower average GDP growth rate. This shows that the situations which MSF involves itself with are disasters with effects on national GDP greater than the effect of the aid provided by MSF

Investment Analysis--Break-Even Method.

2 p

Calculating Loan Payments.

2 p

Investment Analysis--Partial Budget Methods.

4 p

Building Strong Relations with Your Bank.

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