Стратегическое управление через призму повышения конкурентоспособности отечественных предприятий

Рассмотрены предпосылки появления и отличительные особенности основных теоретических концепций стратегического управления, даны предложения по их использованию в практической деятельности для повышения конкурентоспособности отечественных предприятий.Розглянуто передумови появи і відмітні особливості основних теоретичних концепцій стратегічного управління, дано пропозиції щодо їх використання у практичній діяльності для підвищення конкурентоспроможності вітчизняних підприємств.The paper considers main theoretical conceptions of strategic management and their specific features. The proposals are given to apply them in practice in order to raise the competitiveness of the domestic enterprises

Novel Reforming Catalysts

Aqueous phase reforming is useful for processing oxygenated hydrocarbons to hydrogen and other more useful products. Current processing is hampered by the fact that oxide based catalysts are not stable under high temperature hydrothermal conditions. Silica in the form of structured MCM-41 is thermally a more stable support for Co and Ni than conventional high surface area amorphous silica but hydrothermal stability is not demonstrated. Carbon nanotube supports, in contrast, are highly stable under hydrothermal reaction conditions. In this project we show that carbon nanotubes are stable high activity/selectivity supports for the conversion of ethylene glycol to hydrogen

A Pipeline to Determine RT-QPCR Control Genes for Evolutionary Studies: Application to Primate Gene Expression across Multiple Tissues

Because many species-specific phenotypic differences are assumed to be caused by differential regulation of gene expression, many recent investigations have focused on measuring transcript abundance. Despite the availability of high-throughput platforms, quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-QPCR) is often the method of choice because of its low cost and wider dynamic range. However, the accuracy of this technique heavily relies on the use of multiple valid control genes for normalization. We created a pipeline for choosing genes potentially useful as RT-QPCR control genes for measuring expression between human and chimpanzee samples across multiple tissues, using published microarrays and a measure of tissue-specificity. We identified 13 genes from the pipeline and from commonly used control genes: ACTB, USP49, ARGHGEF2, GSK3A, TBP, SDHA, EIF2B2, GPDH, YWHAZ, HPTR1, RPL13A, HMBS, and EEF2. We then tested these candidate genes and validated their expression stability across species. We established the rank order of the most preferable set of genes for single and combined tissues. Our results suggest that for at least three tissues (cerebral cortex, liver, and skeletal muscle), EIF2B2, EEF2, HMBS, and SDHA are useful genes for normalizing human and chimpanzee expression using RT-QPCR. Interestingly, other commonly used control genes, including TBP, GAPDH, and, especially ACTB do not perform as well. This pipeline could be easily adapted to other species for which expression data exist, providing taxonomically appropriate control genes for comparisons of gene expression among species

Palladium Catalysis for Energy Applications

Palladium (Pd) is an attractive catalyst for a range of new combustion applications comprising primary new technologies for future industrial energy needs, including gas turbine catalytic combustion, auto exhaust catalysts, heating and fuel cells. Pd poses particular challenges because it changes both chemical state and morphology as a function of temperature and reactant environment and those changes result in positive and negative changes in activity. Interactions with the support, additives, water, and contaminants as well as carbon formation have also been observed to affect Pd catalyst performance. This report describes the results of a 3.5 year project that resolves some of the conflicting reports in the literature about the performance of Pd-based catalysts

Novel Reforming Catalysts

Aqueous phase reforming is useful for processing oxygenated hydrocarbons to hydrogen and other more useful products. Current processing is hampered by the fact that oxide based catalysts are not stable under high temperature hydrothermal conditions. Silica in the form of structured MCM-41 is thermally a more stable support for Co and Ni than conventional high surface area amorphous silica but hydrothermal stability is not demonstrated. Carbon nanotube supports, in contrast, are highly stable under hydrothermal reaction conditions. In this project we show that carbon nanotubes are stable high activity/selectivity supports for the conversion of ethylene glycol to hydrogen

Yield Sooting Index Database Volume 1

A database of experimentally measured Yield Sooting Indices (YSI’s) which indicate the relative tendency of different pure hydrocarbons to produce soot particulates in combustion conditions

Yield Sooting Index Database Volume 2: Sooting Tendencies of a Wide Range of Fuel Compounds on a Unified Scale

A database of experimentally measured Yield Sooting Indices (YSI’s). YSI characterizes the intrinsic chemical propensity of a pure compound or a fuel mixture to produce soot particles in combustion devices. Volume 2 combines all of the measurements from Volume 1 into a single scale and adds some new compounds. New versions of Volume 2 are expected to be issued periodically as additional compounds are studied