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Tao Zhang, Xingnan Zhang, Dazhong Xia and Yangyang Liu
Land use changes are important aspects of global change and affect regional water cycles, environmental quality, biodiversity and terrestrial ecosystems. To understand the temporal and spatial land use change in the Jialing River Basin and its impacts on...
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Soonmyung Lee and Sanghoon Park
In order to expand the zero-energy building, it is necessary to evaluate the economic feasibility of the passive and active elements applied to achieve the zero-energy building. The purpose of this study is to verify the final energy consumption and inve...
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Jun-Cheol Lee and Chang-Joon Lee
The electro-mechanical impedance (EMI) change in Piezoelectric (PZT) sensors embedded in steel-fiber-reinforced mortar (SFRM) was investigated to assess the material setting time. The EMI was continuously monitored for 12 h by the PZT sensor embedded in ...
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Naveed Ahmed SHAIKH,Perveen SHAH,Najaf SHAH
Pág. 317 - 330
Present study empirically estimates the impact of consumption on Gross Domestic Product in Pakistan using annual data for 27 years (1985-2011). Stepwise regression method is applied on GDP as dependent variable and several other variables like Household ...
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Gustavo A. Marrero and Francisco J. Ramos-Real
This paper studies the change in Energy Intensity (EI) of the main economic activities in the EU15 countries, which represents approximately 45% of their final energy consumption. The purpose is, first, to measure the different patterns between th...
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Thomas Holtfort,Andreas Horsch,Martin Oehmichen
Pág. 162 - 186
By the end of July, 2017, final reviews of the Peterborough SIB, issued by several persons and institutions involved, declared this pilot SIB project a success which should spur future SIB activities. Against this backdrop, we examine Social Impact Bonds...
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Thomas Holtfort,Andreas Horsch,Martin Oehmichen
Pág. 162 - 186
By the end of July, 2017, final reviews of the Peterborough SIB, issued by several persons and institutions involved, declared this pilot SIB project a success which should spur future SIB activities. Against this backdrop, we examine Social Impact Bonds...
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Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Benoit Montreuil
Pág. 383 - 398
City Logistics and Physical Internet are two major concepts aiming to profoundly change freight transportation and logistics for increased economic, environmental and societal efficiency and sustainability. They share several basic ideas and are compleme...
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D. Das Neves,D. Fenn,P. Sulcas
AbstractIn order to determine the process organisations go through in selecting an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, a field study was undertaken on eleven cases. Based on the findings a best practice selection process is proposed.A benchmark se...
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D. Das Neves,D. Fenn,P. Sulcas
AbstractIn order to determine the process organisations go through in selecting an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, a field study was undertaken on eleven cases. Based on the findings a best practice selection process is proposed.A benchmark se...
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Oliver Volckart
The paper presents institutional competition between political authorities as a moving force behind institutional and economic change. It introduces the theoretical concept, stressing the interplay between political and economic actors and the transactio...
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Martin Wynn and Christian Weber
The development and implementation of information systems strategy in multi-national corporations (MNCs) faces particular challenges?cultural differences and variations in work values and practices across different countries, numerous technology landscap...
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Deshen Chen, Yan Zhang, Hongliang Qian, Kai Zhang and Huajie Wang
The cable-net structure of a giant active reflector is a structure with large deformations. The effective form analysis approach can help the active reflector to achieve high surface accuracy. In this paper, a new nonlinear numerical form analysis approa...
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Issana Meria Burhan,Ashfa Achmad,Putra Rizkiya,Zainuddin Hasan
Pág. 120 - 131
The dynamics of urban development, followed by various opportunities and challenges for different social groups, indicate a growing sense of complexity, unpredictability, and insecurity about cities and emphasis a need to identify new sustainability stra...
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Wahyu Wiratama and Donggyu Sim
This paper proposes a fusion network for detecting changes between two high-resolution panchromatic images. The proposed fusion network consists of front- and back-end neural network architectures to generate dual outputs for change detection. Two networ...
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This paper examines whether it is possible to shape trait professional skepticism of accounting students through undergraduate and graduate university programs. Using Hurtt’s Professional Skepticism Scale (HPSS), we surveyed 432 students of the Poz...
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Linus Zhang and Xiaoliu Yang
Given the substantial impacts that are expected due to climate change, it is crucial that accurate rainfall?runoff results are provided for various decision-making purposes. However, these modeling results often generate uncertainty or bias due to the im...
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Linus Zhang and Xiaoliu Yang
Given the substantial impacts that are expected due to climate change, it is crucial that accurate rainfall?runoff results are provided for various decision-making purposes. However, these modeling results often generate uncertainty or bias due to the im...
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Jaume Gasia, Marc Martin, Aran Solé, Camila Barreneche and Luisa F. Cabeza
In some processes, latent heat thermal energy storage (TES) systems might work under partial load operating conditions (the available thermal energy source is discontinuous or insufficient to completely charge the phase change material (PCM)). Therefore,...
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Yang Jie,Guo Guanmeng
This paper presents a preliminary analysis of thermal anomalies before the Baja California M7.2 earthquake occurred on April 4, 2010. The results show that surface air temperature of the Mexicali station, which is the closest one to the epicenter, reache...
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