Varieties of Democracy Project Description

An Overview of the Direct Energy Conversion Proof of Principle Power Production Program

12th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, Volume 2 ◽

10.1115/icone12-49458 ◽

2004 ◽

Author(s):

D. King ◽

G. Rochau ◽

D. Oscar ◽

C. Morrow ◽

P. Tsvetkov ◽

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Keyword(s):

Energy Conversion ◽

The United States ◽

Department Of Energy ◽

Future Research ◽

United States Department ◽

Commercial Development ◽

Direct Energy Conversion ◽

Project Description ◽

Direct Energy ◽

Proof Of Principle

The United States Department of Energy, Nuclear Energy Research Initiative (NERI) Direct Energy Conversion Proof of Principle (DECPOP) project has as its goal the development of a direct energy conversion process suitable for commercial development. We define direct energy conversion as any fission process that returns usable energy without an intermediate thermal process. A prior Direct Energy Conversion (DEC) project [1] has been completed and indicates that a viable direct energy device is possible if several technological issues can be overcome. The DECPOP program is focusing on two of the issues: charged particle steering and high voltage hold-off. This paper reports on the progress of the DECPOP project. Two prototype concepts are under development: a Fission Electric Cell using magnetic insulation and a Fission Fragment Magnetic Collimator using magnetic fields to direct fission fragments to collectors. Included in this paper are a short project description, an abbreviated summary of the work completed to date, a description of ongoing and future project activities, and a discussion of the potential for future research and development.

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Erratum to: Development of the patient-based outcome instrument for the foot and ankle. Part 1: project description and evaluation of the outcome instrument version 1

Journal of Orthopaedic Science ◽

10.1007/s00776-011-0168-6 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 16 (6) ◽

pp. 839 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hisateru Niki ◽

Shinobu Tatsunami ◽

Naoki Haraguchi ◽

Takafumi Aoki ◽

Ryuzo Okuda ◽

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Keyword(s):

Foot And Ankle ◽

Outcome Instrument ◽

Project Description

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euandi: Project Description and Datasets Documentation

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2553919 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Diego Garzia ◽

Alexander H. Trechsel ◽

Lorenzo De Sio ◽

Andrea De Angelis

Keyword(s):

Project Description

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LIMITED AVAILABILITY IN CROWDFUNDING PROJECTS – GUARANTEE FOR PROFITABILITY?

Eurasian Journal of Economics and Finance ◽

10.15604/ejef.2020.08.04.005 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 246-260

Author(s):

Alexander Fox ◽

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Jana Neuland ◽

Keyword(s):

Early Stage ◽

Impact Factors ◽

Alternative Form ◽

Special Focus ◽

Limited Availability ◽

Project Description ◽

Database Technology ◽

Stage Development ◽

The Impact ◽

Analyze Data

Scarcity is an instrument that is often used in crowdfunding. Crowdfunding is an alternative form of financing, especially for entrepreneurs in the early-stage development phase. This paper deals with the characteristics of profitable crowdfunding projects. Hereby, we examine the impact factors of crowdfunding’s profitability, with a special focus on limited availability (scarcity), depth of project description and the size of pledging goals as follows. Therefore, we analyze data from kickstarter.com, one of the world’s largest crowdfunding platforms, and used 494 projects and 4,224 pledge levels from the broad category technology as our database. Technology projects lend themselves particularly well to the study, as they usually contain the project result as a tangible return, thus facilitating or even enabling the monetary evaluation of the success in contrast to, for example, cultural projects. Hence, our sample includes 32% of pledge levels with limited availability. We provide empirical evidence that the limited availability in the crowdfunding projects in terms of scarcity management is positively related to the profitability of the included pledge levels. We conclude that crowdfunding projects with limited availability on pledge levels are more profitable for investors.

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