in the second half of the last century, tremendous efforts were devoted to identifying sources of economic success by a few countries and causes of failure by most. in this process a voluminous literature ranging from the neo-classical to marxist, neo-marxist, and dependency theories has been developed to answer the question of disparity among different countries of the north vis-à-vis those of...

Mass consumption of energy is a big problem. Energy-saving activities which are a solution to this problem have been attracting a lot of attention. Nevertheless, in order to engage in thorough energy-saving activities, consumers need support; on the other hand, even with support, the effects seem to be only temporary. In this paper, to obtain a long-term effect, we focus on developing a method ...

Taking the provincial capital, labor and energy as inputs, regional GDP as output from 1995 to 2007, the paper quantifies the vertical and lateral energy saving potential by introducing the radial adjustment and slack adjustment of DEA. The results show that by the vertical, the achievement of energy saving in 2007 is better than their respective historical performances. By horizontal, in 2007 ...

Falling long-term interest rates worldwide have led some policy-makers to speculate on the emergence of a glut of global saving (Bernanke, 2005). The global trend contrasts markedly with that of the United States, where the public discussion has focused on an ongoing decline of private saving and the re-emergence of large budget deficits. The absence of saving in the United States, in conjuncti...

Previous works in IEEE 802.16e power saving mainly focused on standard Type I or Type II power saving class. The limitation of adopting Type I or Type II was discussed in our previous work, and the idea of applying traffic modeling and measurement called Load-Based Power Saving (LBPS) was proposed. The base station in LBPS measures the traffic load and estimates the sleep window size for mobile...

Power consumption in data centers has been growing remarkably recent years, and power saving of their servers is essential. For power saving of these servers, power saving of an online transaction processing (OLTP) systems, which are major applications in data centers, is important. The OLTP system consumes relatively large amount of power because it is often equipped with a lot of computing an...

Economic saving is an elaborate behavior in which the goal of a reward in the future directs planning and decision-making in the present. Here, we measured neural activity while subjects formed simple economic saving strategies to accumulate rewards and then executed their strategies through choice sequences of self-defined lengths. Before the initiation of a choice sequence, prospective activa...

This paper examines the impact of family size on household saving. We first study a theoretical life-cycle model that includes finite lifetimes and saving for retirement and in which parents care about the consumption of their dependent children. The model implies a negative relationship between the number of dependent children in the family and the household’s saving rate. Then, we test the mo...

KEYWORDS Parallel discrete event simulation, hybrid state saving , rollback-recovery mechanisms, performance evaluation. ABSTRACT Optimistically synchronized parallel discrete event simulators must sometimes undo, by rolling back parts of the system state, the erroneous over optimistic computation deriving from the decentralized management of the event list. For this reason, an essential part o...

Genuine saving is a measure of net investment in produced, natural and human capital. It is a necessary condition for weak sustainable development that genuine saving not be persistently negative. However, according to data provided by the World Bank, resource-rich countries are systematically failing to meet this condition. Alongside the well-known resource curse on economic growth, resource a...