drying is a high energy consuming process. solar drying is one of the most popular methods for dehydration of agricultural products. in the present study, the performance of a forced convection solar dryer equipped with recycling air system and desiccant chamber was investigated. the solar dryer is comprised of solar collector, drying chamber, silica jell desiccant chamber, air ducts, fan and m...

Technical abstract The paper uses an applied general equilibrium model, calibrated to the situation in Belgium in 1990, to evaluate the welfare effects of small policy changes in the presence of transport externalities. The model incorporates three types of externalities: congestion, which has a feedback effect on the behaviour of the economic agents, air pollution and accidents. The model is u...

considered supply chain in this article consists of one vendor and multiple retailers where the vendor applies vendor managed inventory. considering vendor as a leader and retailers as followers, stackelberg game theory is applied for modeling and analyzing this system. a general mixed integer nonlinear model is developed which can optimizes the performance of the system under revenue sharing c...

This technical note describes CRM at a high level and how tax administrations can implement framework to significantly strengthen revenue outcomes. A administration’s primary role is collect revenues on behalf of government fund the country’s social economic goals. Taxpayers are expected comply with their obligations as stated in law. Compliance degree which taxpayers meet obligations, whether ...

Distributional impacts of environmental policies have become an increasingly important consideration in policymaking. To evaluate the distributional carbon pricing with different revenue recycling schemes for USA, we integrate national economic model USA household microdata that provides consumption patterns and other socio-economic characteristics thousands households. Using this combined mode...

This paper develops a contest model of a professional sports league in which clubs maximize a weighted sum of profits and wins (utility maximization). The model analyzes how more win-orientated behavior of certain clubs affects talent investments, competitive balance and club profits. Moreover, in contrast to traditional models, we show that revenue sharing does not always reduce investment inc...