Evaluating the sustainable operation of community-owned and community-operated renewable energy projects is complex. The development a project often depends on actions diverse stakeholders, including government, industry communities. Throughout cycle, these interrelated impact sustainability project. In this paper, typical cycle micro-hydropower plant in Nepal used to demonstrate that key event...

Given the backdrop of pressing infrastructure needs, this paper argues that higher German public investment would not only stimulate domestic demand in near term, but also raise output over longer-run as well generate beneficial regional spillovers. Although time-to-build delays can weaken impact stimulus short-run, expansionary effects are substantially strengthened by an accommodative monetar...

The existence of a strong internal magnetic field allows probing of the interior through both long term changes of and short period fluctuations in that magnetic field. Venus, while Earth's twin in many ways, lacks such a strong intrinsic magnetic field, but perhaps short period fluctuations can still be used to probe the electrical conductivity of the interior. Toward the end of the Venus Expr...

To what extent is simultaneous visual and auditory perception subject to capacity limitations and attentional control? TlIW experiments addressed this question by asking observers to recognize test tones and test letters under selective and divided attention. In Experiment I, both stimuli occurred on each trial, but subjects were cued in advance to process just one or both of the stimuli. In Ex...

We propose a very weak type of generalized distance called weak τ -function and use it to weaken the assumptions about lower semicontinuity in existing formulations of Ekeland’s variational principle for a kind of minimizers of a set-valued mapping, which is different from the Pareto minimizer, and in recent results which are equivalent to Ekeland’s variational principle.

Stigma devalues individuals and groups, producing social and economic disadvantages through two distinct but reinforcing processes: direct discrimination (e.g., a White person not hiring a Black person based on race) and stigma internalization (e.g., women believing men are more qualified for leadership positions). We review strategies that individuals can use to not only cope with but also cha...