This paper compares technologies across space and time on the basis of factual and counterfactual substitution elasticities and argues that differences in estimated substitution elasticities should be decomposed into two counterfactual components. While the first component is designed to indicate how the ease of substitution is altered by varied economic circumstances, the second addresses the ...

At present, the severe oil crisis and greenhouse effect are booming, which is a growing worry for China. Over a long period of study, choosing the development of biological diesel is a feasible way in the desertification region in China. With considering the adaptability of Micro-algae in desertification region and analyzing energy consumption and carbon calculations of Micro-algae biodiesel pr...

Table 1 shows the growth rates of output volume, population and employment in Ireland over various periods since 1926. I take the last period, 1993-2000, as the Celtic Tiger phase. In 1993, total employment was just back to the 1980 level after the large fall in the first half of the 1980s during the worldwide recession following the second oil crisis, and the 1993 level was still 7 percent bel...

Introduction The present day oil crisis and need for more fuel economy has driven the demand for diesel powered automobiles. Diesel soot is one of the primary emissions of diesel combustion and accurate modeling of soot formation is a challenging area for combustion researchers. The soot formation in diesel engine combustion has been previously modeled using a twostep phenomenological model whi...

60 December January 2011 threatening H1N1 pandemic. Add to this list the run-of-the-mill business crisis such as a product recall (e.g., Toyota), labor strikes, and class action lawsuits (e.g., Wal-Mart), as well as new crises sparked by the proliferation of social media and you may begin to wonder whether crises, generally defined as rare and extreme high-impact events, have become the new nor...

THE FEDERAL BANKING REGULATORS: AGENCY CAPTURE, REGULATORYFAILURE, AND INDUSTRY COLLAPSE DURING THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISISbyJUSTIN REXAugust 2013Advisor: Dr. Marjorie Sarbaugh-ThompsonMajor: Political ScienceDegree: Doctor of Philosophy This dissertation examines the process of agency capture at four federal bank regulatoryagencies leading up to the 2008 finan...

The Yemen conflict has caused a severe humanitarian crisis. This study aims to evaluate the Yemen crisis by making use of time series nighttime light images from the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite sensor (NPP-VIIRS). We develop a process flow to correct NPP-VIIRS nighttime light from April 2012 to March 2017 by employing the Defense Meteorolo...

An influential approach to engineering ethics is based on codes of ethics and the application of moral principles by individual practitioners. However, to better understand the ethical problems of complex technological systems and the moral reasoning involved in such contexts, we need other tools as well. In this article, we consider the role of imagination and develop a concept of distributed ...

The Nigerian Armed Forces personnel have over the years maintained a track record of effective peace keeping campaigns in the world. The role Nigeria played in especially crises ridden Sierra Leone and Liberia can not be overemphasized. Paradoxically though, this record does not seem to be playing out in their security and crisis operations in the country. Analysts would quickly make reference ...

The resilience test carried out by ZEW researchers includes all significant export-sector crises since the 1970s. This enables researchers to distinguish long-term crisis-management patterns within the observed economies that are not immediately evident when examining individual current crises. The study defines an export-sector crisis as a decline in exports relative to gross domestic product ...