Energy conservation and related environmental issues are of increasing interest for psychological research and intervention. In the present study, we investigated the cognitive abilities that are necessary in order for people to implement energy saving behaviors in their everyday life routines. We explored the relation between sustained attention, processing speed, and working memory and the pa...

THIS CHAPTER IS concerned with the effects that changes in demographic structure have had on Taiwan's national saving rate, and how coming changes in its age structure-notably population aging-will affect the future saving rate. We examine this topic within the framework of the life cycle hypothesis. Life cycle theory is a natural starting place, because it implies that changes in demographic s...

IEEE 802.16 is a novel broadband wireless access standard. Quality of service (QoS) guarantee and power saving are two important factor in IEEE 802.16 standard. Unsolicited grant service (UGS) is a constant bit rate QoS service and is defined in IEEE 802.16 standard. Power saving classes of type II (PSCs-II) is provided in IEEE 802.16 standard for repeat fixed active and sleep frames. However, ...