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Due to low energy price, economic optimization of consumption has no justification for users in Iran. Nowadays, the issue of ending fossil fuels, production of greenhouse gases and the main role of building in consumption of considerable amount of energy has drawn the focus of global researches to a new concept called net zero energy building. In this study, modeling, simulation and energy anal...

OBJECTIVE To explore factors associated with household coping behaviours in the face of health expenditures in 15 African countries and provide evidence for policy-makers in designing financial health protection mechanisms. METHODS A series of logit regressions were performed to explore factors correlating with a greater likelihood of selling assets, borrowing or both to finance health care. ...

In a not so far future, private houses will be provided with devices that can produce renewable energy, and this will give the owners the chance of selling the unused energy to neighbors. The fact that this selling will be based on peer to peer negotiation (i.e., between single producers and single consumers), will make this market deregulated. This situation could lead to advantages for both p...

Arena is a software package intended to help e-commerce strategy researchers and designers test buying and selling strategies under different scenarios. It implements and adheres to a set of design criteria intended to ensure its simulation ability as well as prolonging its usable lifetime. The process of implementing Arena involved conducting background research into current strategies and the...

We consider the pricing problem faced by a monopolist who sells a product to a population of consumers over a finite time horizon. Customers are heterogeneous along two dimensions: (i) willingness-to-pay for the product and (ii) arrival time during the selling season. We assume that the seller knows only the support of the customers’ valuations and do not make any other distributional assumptio...

Usability is an important quality characteristic of software (SW) products and systems. Usability costbenefit analysis models outline the potential benefits and costs of usability. These models are important for selling the usability activities for management. The implications of open source software (OSS) development context on usability cost-benefit considerations have not been addressed. Bas...

E-commerce sites currently provide poor access to information and knowledge. Accessibility is a key issue, both for selling individual products and services, and for selling the concept of e-commerce ahead of other modes of commerce. This report uses the concept of Features, Advantages and Benefits (FAB) to define knowledge-level accessibility requirements (KAR). The KAR criteria are applied in...

This paper analyzes the market for financial information and the incentive of institutions, such as Reuters, to provide information to traders in decentralized financial markets. We derive the following results. (i) The optimal selling strategy consists of selling identical information (Reuters’ screen) to all traders. (ii) The traders buy information from the same providers. If the traders may...