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    Taming digital gatekeepers: the 'more regulatory approach' to antitrust law

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    Antitrust enforcement and competition policy in the digital economy is high on the agenda of authorities and policymakers. The distinctive features of digital markets and the strategic role played by large platforms apparently require a rethinking of the antitrust regime. Several reform proposals point to the need to integrate the antitrust toolkit with ex ante measures since there is a risk that ex post enforcement would be too slow to successfully keep markets competitive and contestable. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the invoked regulatory approach reflects the distinctive structural features of digital markets or whether it is just an enforcement short-cut

    Introduzione ai contratti per il trasferimento di tecnologia. Profili contrattuali e di diritto della concorrenza

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    Questo libro rappresenta la più completa trattazione dei profili contrattuali, economici e di diritto della concorrenza dei contratti per il trasferimento di tecnologia, in particolar modo per quanto riguarda i rapporti di licenza, le cessioni, la collaborazione in ricerca e sviluppo e le forme complesse di natura verticale, così come trattate nelle fonti di diritto dell'Unione europea

    A CFD study on the effect of size of fuel sphere on PBR core

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    In this work, a thermal-hydraulic investigation of N2 as a coolant in a pebble bed reactor core has been performed using a porous media approach. Three different diameters of fuel sphere have been employed for the numerical simulations. The pebble bed reactor is a kind of packed bed reactor whose core is a long right circular cylinder with a height of 3.5 m and an outer diameter of 3.7 m. The finite volume method was used to solve the governing equations using ANSYS FLUENT 14.5. Several important thermal-hydraulic parameters have been investigated consisting of the coolant and solid temperatures, density, pressure drop, and the coolant temperature. Results show that when the fuel sphere diameter increases, the coolant temperature is almost the same, but the solid temperature increases and the pressure drop decreases

    Improvements to the hybrid method applied to the design of plate-finned tube evaporators

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    The advantage of designing plate-finned tube evaporators applying the hybrid method is to combine low computational costs with the accurate results guaranteed by the use of predictive functions based on results of either numerical, or analytical, or experimental analysis. The high flexibility of the method makes it suitable for use as an effective design tool for evaporators in a wide range of operating conditions. This paper tells about improvements and refinements to the hybrid method algorithm performed to make it even more flexible and consistent with real heat exchangers performance prediction, depending on configuration changes. Part of the algorithm code has been changed in order to extend the application range of the model and several tests have been performed by varying the operating conditions such as the temperature difference between refrigerant and air at the inlet as well as the air relative humidity. The results show how the model is sensitive to the working conditions variations
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