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Publication date: 23 November 2010

Jochen Borris, Michael Thomas, Antje Dohse, Claus‐Peter Klages, Andreas Möbius, Danica Elbick, Ulrich Prinz, Karl‐Heinz Wandner and Ernst‐Rudolf Weidlich

The purpose of this paper is to present details of the plasma printing and packaging technology (P3T), a new reel‐to‐reel technology under development for the cost and resource…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present details of the plasma printing and packaging technology (P3T), a new reel‐to‐reel technology under development for the cost and resource efficient manufacture of flexible printed circuits (FPC).

Design/methodology/approach

The first two process steps of P3T include reel‐to‐reel patterned activation of polymer film at ambient pressure in the so‐called plasma‐printing process and subsequent selective electroless plating of the plasma‐activated areas of the polymer film. The concept underlying the P3T project includes processing of flexible films with widths up to 400 mm.

Findings

Copper, palladium and nickel metal structures with widths down to less than 100 μm were produced on various polymers. Peel strengths according to the German DIN Standard 53494 of copper on polyimide film reached values in the region of 1 N/mm, sufficient for electronic applications. Sufficient wetting of the solder on copper metallisations and solderability were found.

Research limitations/implications

P3T covers the whole manufacturing chain for FPCs from surface patterning of the dielectric carrier to component assembly and soldering. This paper focuses, however, essentially on the first two process steps including plasma activation and electroless plating.

Originality/value

A unique feature of the flexible circuit manufacturing technology presented here is the combination of the additive‐technique, the absence of vacuum processes, the continuous production mode and the ability to process polymer carrier films with widths of 400 mm.

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Circuit World, vol. 36 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0305-6120

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Publication date: 18 November 2013

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Circuit World, vol. 39 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0305-6120

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Publication date: 12 September 2022

Richard P. Bagozzi

Concepts equip the mind with thought, provide our theories with ideas, and assign variables for testing our hypotheses. Much of contemporary research deals with narrowly…

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Concepts equip the mind with thought, provide our theories with ideas, and assign variables for testing our hypotheses. Much of contemporary research deals with narrowly circumscribed concepts, termed simple concepts herein, which are the grist for much empirical inquiry in the field. In contrast to simple concepts, which exhibit a kind of unity, complex concepts are structures of simple concepts, and in certain instances unveil meaning going beyond simple concepts or their aggregation. When expressed in hylomorphic structures, complex concepts achieve unique ontological status and serve particular explanatory capabilities. We develop the philosophical foundation for hylomorphic structures and show how they are rooted in dispositions, dispositional causality, and various mind–body trade-offs. Examples are provided for this emerging perspective on “Big concepts” or “Big Ideas.”

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Publication date: 11 October 2011

Tim Benijts, Wim Lagae and Benedict Vanclooster

This study seeks to examine how a sport league, a unique feature of professional sport, influences the business‐to‐business marketing of teams participating in the sport league.

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Purpose

This study seeks to examine how a sport league, a unique feature of professional sport, influences the business‐to‐business marketing of teams participating in the sport league.

Design/methodology/approach

This study uses a qualitative research design based on a single case study, the UCI ProTour in professional road cycling. The primary sources consist of 27 semi‐structured interviews complemented by written sources and controlled for construct validity, external validity and reliability.

Findings

From a theoretical point of view, a sport league is a marketing channel network (a specific type of an intentionally developed business network or IDBN). Theoretical analysis also reveals that the teams' business‐to‐business marketing is positively related to the network's value‐creating system. Empirically, it is argued that the introduction of a marketing channel network has a positive influence on the financial value of the teams' business‐to‐business market but does not result in a change in the business demographics of corporate sponsors.

Research limitations

The study has possible sport‐specific limitations.

Practical implications

Business‐to‐business marketers and sport league managers should pay attention to the characteristics of the sport league as these influence the teams' business‐to‐business market. This is especially valid for sports in which teams rely strongly on sport sponsoring and, to a lesser extend, on gate revenues, television rights and prize money.

Originality/value

For the first time, this study examines and provides data on the business‐to‐business environment of teams in professional road cycling. It contributes to the literature of international sport marketing and professional road cycling, a sport gaining momentum in various countries and which is understudied in comparison to other sports.

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Publication date: 22 May 2019

Greg Morgan

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Rewriting Leadership with Narrative Intelligence: How Leaders Can Thrive in Complex, Confusing and Contradictory Times
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78756-776-4

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Publication date: 1 January 2004

Umut Asan, Seçkin Polat and Seyda Serdar

Many recent modular design methods and approaches have focused on the modularization process – decomposition and composition. This paper suggests an integrated methodology that…

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Many recent modular design methods and approaches have focused on the modularization process – decomposition and composition. This paper suggests an integrated methodology that includes additional tools and stages for a complete modular architecture design. The borders of the modular design process are expanded by adding strategic issues, appropriateness to modularity, degree of modularity and modularity strategies, in an operationalized manner. The methodology presents a “requirements analysis‐ decomposition‐composition‐design evaluation” structure. The “modularization process” is designed so as to choose from three different perspectives – customer‐based, function‐based and structure‐based design. To test and validate the methodology it was applied to a domestic gas detector product family. As a result, a new modular product architecture with eight modules was developed.

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Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, vol. 15 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1741-038X

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Publication date: 19 June 2007

Dwijesh K. Dutta Majumder and Swapan K. Dutta

To develop a mathematical and algorithmic approach of avoiding the limitations of deterministically computing the values of energy, time, position and momentum imposed by…

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Purpose

To develop a mathematical and algorithmic approach of avoiding the limitations of deterministically computing the values of energy, time, position and momentum imposed by Heisenberg's uncertainity principle (HUP) which is of profound significance from the point of view of some emerging science and technology like quantum computing, nano scale technology and chaotic dynamical systems.

Design/methodology/approach

A parametric method of establishing deterministic solutions for energy and momentum on the basis of quantized energy limits (instead of HUP) if developed in the non‐infinite non‐zero quantized energy limits where hidden deterministic solutions can be obtained for micro/nano structures.

Findings

The philosophical foundations of quantum mechanics as developed by Max Planck, Neils Bohrz, Werner Heisenburg, Dirac and Edwein Schrodinger is based on a duality concept of complimentarity notions. In most general logical sense for any physical reality qualitative dualism have to have a quantitative dualism may be hidden or virtual. The upper and lower limits of the dynamical quantum mechanical observables are determined based on the dimensional considerations for the physical constants H, C, G and H0. The conceptual basis and mathematical framework of the paper in based Norbert Wiener's work on theory of cybernetics and D. Dutta Majumdars' unified cybernetic and general dynamical systems theory.

Research limitations/implications

The testability of the theory needs to be established.

Originality/value

Without challenging HUP this is a contribution of tremendous practical implications.

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Kybernetes, vol. 36 no. 5/6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0368-492X

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