The choice of mechanism for allocating tradable emissions permits has important efficiency and distributional effects when tax and trade distortions are considered. We present different rules for allocating carbon allowances within sectors (lump-sum grandfathering, outputbased allocation [OBA], and auctioning) and among sectors (historical emissions and value-added shares). Using a partial equi...

The hydro-thermal reaction of Cd(NO(3))(2)·4H(2)O, 1,3-di-4-pyridylpropane (BPP) and 4,4'-oxydibenzoic acid (OBA) led to the formation of the title compound, C(13)H(14)N(2)·C(14)H(10)O(5). The asymmetric unit consists of one mol-ecule of OBA and one of BPP. In the OBA mol-ecule, one COOH group is nearly planar with its attached benzene ring [dihedral angle = 0.9 (1)°], while the other COOH grou...

The setting of alarm levels plays a vital role in a machinery condition monitoring and diagnostic system. Two approaches to set vibration alarm levels using vibration signals produced by shipboard fire pumps are presented for the time and frequency domains. In the time domain, cross peak analysis (CPA) is proposed to extract the dominate peak points. The distribution of these cross peak points ...

Online behavioral advertising (OBA) refers to the practice of tracking users across web sites in order to infer user interests and preferences. These interests and preferences are then used for selecting ads to present to the user. There is great concern that behavioral advertising in its present form infringes on user privacy. The resulting public debate — which includes consumer advocacy orga...

BACKGROUND The study seeks to evaluate the difference in access of long-term family planning (LTFP) methods among the output based approach (OBA) and non-OBA clients within the OBA facility. METHODS The study utilises a quasi experimental design. A two tailed unpaired t-test with unequal variance is used to test for the significance variation in the mean access. The difference in difference (...

In this paper, we introduce OBA – an application for NLP-based annotation of natural language texts with ontology classes and relations. OBA provides support for different tasks required for semi-automatic semantic annotation. Among other things, it supports creating manual semantic annotations in order to enrich the set of lexical patterns, automatically annotating large corpora based on speci...

This paper presents two proactive resource allocation algorithms, called RBA* and OBA, for asynchronous real-time distributed systems. The algorithms consider an application model where timeliness requirements are expressed using Jensen’s benefit functions and propose adaptation functions to describe anticipated application workload during future time intervals. Furthermore, the algorithms cons...

This paper compares two bush-based traffic assignment algorithms, the origin-based algorithm (OBA) and the local user cost equilibrium algorithm (LUCE). The two algorithms are closely related with one major difference: they solve the decomposed elementary node-based subproblem using different methods. Specifically, LUCE employs a greedy algorithm that is able to solve the subproblem exactly, wh...

Boundary pixels of rivers are subject to a spectral mixture that limits the accuracy of river areas extraction using conventional hard classifiers. To address this problem, unmixing and super-resolution mapping (SRM) are conducted in two steps, respectively, for estimation and then spatial allocation of water fractions within the mixed pixels. Optimal band analysis for the normalized difference...

Computer Science is recognized as a young growing field compared with many other sub-degree and even undergraduate programs. Recently, many educators in this field teaching in community college as well as university have been recommended to redesign and restructure the program studies according to outcome-based teaching and learning approach. However, the issues related to how to define objecti...