It is Worth More When It is Shared: Exploring Values Related to Shared-Use New Products

Recent research has shown that exchange value goes beyond utilitarian and functional aspects of goods or services. Value can be considered as symbolic, social or emotional. Postmodernism resurgence enhances significantly the appearance of new value categories. The growing importance of new behaviors shed a new light on a specific consumption way: shared consumption, i.e. simultaneous and coordinated consumption of the same product by more than one person. However, literature has brought mainly an individualistic response by identifying values for the sake of the individual consumer. Therefore, our research aims at investigating dimensions of value creation in case of innovative products linked to sharedusage. Three focus groups have been conducted. Subjects were asked to give their perceptions about three products concepts whit inherent shared-use characteristics. We ask them to imagine themselves in a real situation of concept use. Content analysis has revealed the categorization of news values, namely Synergy, Shared Expertise; Accuracy/Shared Contemplative Sensitivity, Conviviality, Integration/Domination, Reassurance, Tribalism and Communion. From a theoretical standpoint, this typology completes the individualistic Holbrookian model. Managerial contribution remains in the fact that this new typology can help R&D managers to explore shared-use values in new product development and use it in the different steps of new product elaboration

Study of multicharged heavy ion generation from CO2 laser-produced plasma

The results of lead ion generation with charge state from Pb10+ to Pb35+ from laser-heated plasma are presented. CO2 lasers producing 10.6-μm wavelength radiation at power densities in the range 4.1011-6.1014 W/cm2 in TBKI and CERN were used. Results of detailed numerical simulations presented in the paper are in good agreement with the experimental data. Work done in collaboration with CERN, ITEP, and TBKI was aimed at the specification of requirements for a laser system that will be able to drive an ion source for the hadron collider (LHC) at CER

Integration for Sustainable Development: A Report for Practitioners

A report based on research undertaken for the Ashford’s Integrated Alternatives (AIA) Project, 2009-2011EPSRC - under the Ashford's Integrated Alternatives Projec

Integration for sustainable development: A report for practitioners

This report is an important output of a government-funded research project under EPSRC’s Sustainable Urban Environment programme. The aim of this project – Ashford’s Integrated Alternatives – was to examine the benefits and difficulties of planning, specifying and delivering more integrated utility provision as a component of sustainable development (specifically water and energy) through the lens of the delivery of substantial housing targets in Ashford, Kent (a designated growth area)

Emission spectra and intrinsic optical bistability in a two-level medium

Scattering of resonant radiation in a dense two-level medium is studied theoretically with account for local field effects and renormalization of the resonance frequency. Intrinsic optical bistability is viewed as switching between different spectral patterns of fluorescent light controlled by the incident field strength. Response spectra are calculated analytically for the entire hysteresis loop of atomic excitation. The equations to describe the non-linear interaction of an atomic ensemble with light are derived from the Bogolubov-Born-Green-Kirkwood-Yvon hierarchy for reduced single particle density matrices of atoms and quantized field modes and their correlation operators. The spectral power of scattered light with separated coherent and incoherent constituents is obtained straightforwardly within the hierarchy. The formula obtained for emission spectra can be used to distinguish between possible mechanisms suggested to produce intrinsic bistability.Comment: 18 pages, 5 figure

An overview of Old Tibetan synchronic phonology

Despite the importance of Old Tibetan in the Tibeto-Burman language family, little research has treated Old Tibetan synchronic phonology. This article gives a complete overview of the Old Tibetan phonemic system by associating sound values with the letters of the Tibetan alphabet and exploring the distribution of these sounds in syllable structure