Energy accountancy concept

Department Accountancy, Finance and Insurance, K.U.Leuven

Racialized Gendering of the Accountancy Profession: towards an Understanding of Chinese Women’s Experiences in Accountancy in New Zealand

In the last two decades or so there has been lively academic and political debate about the continued gendering process of the accountancy profession. Less attention, however, has been given to the impact of racialization of the accountancy profession on the lives of ethnic minorities and even less attention to ethnic minority women. Yet a growing body of evidence has forced critical researcher...

A New Energy Harvesting Design Concept: Multimodal Energy Harvesting Skin

This paper proposes an advanced design concept for a piezoelectric energy harvesting (EH) device, multimodal EH skin structure, a thin and compact harvester which can generate power from multimodal vibration. Multimodal EH skin is an extended study of our previous works, EH skin, which is a new conceptual design for piezoelectric energy harvester by combining a vibrating skin structure and an a...

Effective energy: a concept of energy utilization applied across species

An energy system is described in which, in both single-stomached and ruminant animals, the heat increment of feeding is considered to be linearly related to five measurable quantities. For both kinds of animals three of the quantities, with their heat increments in parentheses, are urinary N (wu; kJ/g), faecal organic matter (wd; kJ/g) and positive protein retention (wp; kJ/g). In ruminants the...

The Energy Hub – A Powerful Concept for Future Energy Systems

Introduction Many of today's energy infrastructures evolved during the second half of the twentieth century and it could be questioned if they meet the requirements of tomorrow. Besides congested transmission systems, many facilities are approaching the end of their prospected life time. In addition to that, other issues such as the continuously growing demand for energy, the dependency on limi...