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Steven Sonka, Hyeonsuh Lee and Sonali Shah
Excessively high levels of post-harvest loss often are a feature of agricultural systems dominated by small-holder farmers. However, this situation is something of a paradox, as technologies exist that have been shown in field demonstrations to substanti...
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Adil Al-Falahi, Falah Alobaid and Bernd Epple
Absorption refrigeration cycle is considered a vital option for thermal cooling processes. Designing new systems is needed to meet the increasing communities? demands of space cooling. This should be given more attention especially with the increasing co...
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Rolf Lüders
Pág. pp. 217 - 249
This paper studies the comparative economic record of Chile from immediately after Independence (1820) to the present, as a first step to relate economic policies to that performance in an Economic History to be written. To do the former, three variables...
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Shunyi Liao, Feng Gao, Lei Feng, Jiemin Wu, Zexia Wang and Wangyang Chen
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) causes a high mortality rate each year, which is a threat to human well-being and health. An automated external defibrillator (AED) is an effective device for heart attack-related diseases and is a panacea to save OH...
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Haiying Xu, Wei-Ling Hsu, Yee-Chaur Lee, Tian-Yow Chern and Shr-Wei Luo
The recent literature concerning globalizing regional development has placed significant emphasis on the Global Production Network (GPN 2.0). GPN 2.0 in economic geography emphasizes that regional growth is caused by a shift in the strategic coupling mod...
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Robert W. Dimand, Terrence Hines, Olivia Gong, Michael O'Reilly, Thomas Velk, Mengyue Zhao
Pág. 1 - 57
For the past several years, we have presented and published studies based on postal related data, from postmaster cash books and the Official Register, where we use postmaster salary data as a measure of local, highly disaggregate proxies for general eco...
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Qian Tan, Shan Zhang, Ran Li
Pág. 1 - 17
Many economic, social and ecological problems can be attributed to the scarcity and mismanagement of water and land resources. In this study, a multi-objective fuzzy?robust programming (MOFRP) method was developed for supporting the optimal use of land a...
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Jang-Hwan Jo, Tae Woo Roh, Seonghoon Kim, Yeo-Chang Youn, Mi Sun Park, Ki Joo Han and Eun Kyung Jang
Following the trend on focusing on a nation?s economic-growth, side effects such as resource exhaustion, environmental pollution, and social injustice have begun to appear. As a solution, eco-innovation has received a great amount of attention from Europ...
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Ross Levine
Pág. pp. 113 - 136
In spite of the recent theoretical and empirical work that suggests that financial systems exert a first-order, causal impact on economic growth, economists are still not very able of providing policy makers with detailed blueprints of how to create grow...
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Yupu Huang, Li Zhuo and Jingjing Cao
Accurately measuring industrial spatial agglomeration patterns is crucial for promoting regional economic development. However, few studies have considered both agglomeration degrees and cluster locations of industries. Moreover, the traditional multi-sc...
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Yasmine Lamari, Bartol Freskura, Anass Abdessamad, Sarah Eichberg and Simon de Bonviller
While the use of crime data has been widely advocated in the literature, its availability is often limited to large urban cities and isolated databases that tend not to allow for spatial comparisons. This paper presents an efficient machine learning fram...
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Clarke Wilson, Mary Ann McColl
Pág. 18 - 40
As Canada moves toward the passage of a federal statute assuring access and inclusion for disabled persons, inevitable comparisons arise between the statutory environments for people with disabilities in Canada and the USA. In previous research, we...
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Alexandra Leader and Gabrielle Gaustad
Clean energy technologies have been developed to address the pressing global issue of climate change; however, the functionality of many of these technologies relies on materials that are considered critical. Critical materials are those that have potent...
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Devajyoti Deka
Recent studies show that two distinct narratives have emerged about the millennials? behavior, attitudes, and preferences regarding their choice of residence and transportation. According to the optimistic narrative, by living and traveling sustainably, ...
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Antônio Carlos dos Santos, Angela Maria de Arruda, Turibio José da Silva, Paula de Carvalho Palma Vitor, Leandro Mouta Trautwein
Pág. 17 - 25
The modulus of elasticity of concrete is an important property because it is crucial for the control of deformation. The impossibility of obtaining concrete with higher elasticity modulus rates may cause economic liabilities due to the need for lar...
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Ebru Caglayan Akay,Sinem Guler Kangalli Uyar
Pág. 880 - 891
The aim of this study is to investigate that how economic conditions change when crude oil shocks occured in 1980-2013 for MIST countries. Another objective of the study is to determine accurately the functional forms of the relationships between oil pri...
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José L. Valencia, Ana M. Tarquis, Antonio Saa, María Villeta and José M. Gascó
Rainfall, one of the most important climate variables, is commonly studied due to its great heterogeneity, which occasionally causes negative economic, social, and environmental consequences. Modeling the spatial distributions of rainfall patterns over w...
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Nima Amjady and Farshid Keynia
Short-term load forecast (STLF) is an important operational function in both regulated power systems and deregulated open electricity markets. However, STLF is not easy to handle due to the nonlinear and random-like behaviors of system loads, weather con...
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Nathan Heller
Pág. 163 - 171
Like many organizations in an economic downturn, such as a recession, nonprofits have experienced a decrease in donations from individuals, corporations, and governmental funding sources. This loss of funding has resulted in a reduction of services offer...
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Nathan Heller
Pág. 163 - 171
Like many organizations in an economic downturn, such as a recession, nonprofits have experienced a decrease in donations from individuals, corporations, and governmental funding sources. This loss of funding has resulted in a reduction of services offer...
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