We study the vertical integration and sabotage decisions of a regulated bottleneck monopoly that sells "access" to independent firms and may own a subsidiary downstream. We extend the literature in four directions by: (i) ...

The narrow structure of bottlenecks poses a very challenging problem for automated visual inspection systems and surprisingly, this issue has received little attention in literature. Bottleneck inspection is highly relevant ...

The bottleneck model introduced by Vickrey in 1969 has been recognized as a benchmark representation of the peak-period traffic congestion due to its ability to capture the essence of congestion dynamics in a simple and ...

Human exploitation can lead to genetic bottlenecks associated with reduced genetic variability and lower fitness. The population of California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) in the Gulf of California, Mexico, was hunted ...

We report extensive numerical simulations of the flow of anisotropic self-propelled particles through a constriction. In particular, we explore the role of the particles' desired orientation with respect to the moving ...

The use of Graphic Processing Units (GPU) for General Computing (GPGPU) has become increasingly common in recent years. In this type of processor, memory bottlenecks are a critical issue and the way data are commissioned ...

This paper investigates a multi-terminal source coding problem under a logarithmic loss fidelity which does not necessarily lead to an additive distortion measure. The problem is motivated by an extension of the information ...

Issues on the correlation of viral genetic diversity and treatment response to the hepatitis C infection remain uncertain. The bottleneck effect dictates the characteristics of the viral population that will establish the ...

In the last decade, recent synthetic advances have launched carbon-based π-conjugated hoops to the forefront of theoretical and experimental nvestigation not only for their potential use as bottom-up templates for carbon ...