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The multi-scale nature of architectured materials raises the need for advanced experimental methods suitable for the identification of their effective properties, especially when their size is finite and they undergo extreme deformations.…
We revisit the identification of the conduct parameter in homogeneous goods markets. Lau (1982) argues that the conduct parameter is not identified if and only if the inverse demand function is separable, except for a specific separable…
Extrinsic faulting has been discussed previously within the so called difference method and random walk calculation. In this contribution is revisited under the framework of computational mechanics, which allows to derive expressions for…
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