this study aims to estimate economic capacity and, in turn the utilization rate of economic capacity in iran’s electricity generation industry during 1350-1388. aggregate time series data for thermal power plants are used. with parametric restrictions for linear homogeneity in input prices imposed, capital demand function is first derived and estimated. this allows the derivation of economic ca...

Owing to their high thermal conductivities, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are promising for use in advanced thermal interface materials. While there has been much previous research on the properties of isolated CNTs, there are few thermal data for aligned films of single wall nanotubes. Furthermore, such data for nanotube films do not separate volume from interface thermal resistances. This paper use...

The heat capacity of supercooled water, measured down to -37°C, shows an anomalous increase as temperature decreases. The thermal diffusivity, i.e., the ratio of the thermal conductivity and the heat capacity per unit volume, shows a decrease. These anomalies may be associated with a hypothesized liquid-liquid critical point in supercooled water below the line of homogeneous nucleation. However...

Measurement of thermal conductivity of rocks is important to understand the thermal properties of earth materials, the characteristics of terrestrial heat flow, and the formation of oil. In this paper we report thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity, and heat capacity data for 12 conglomerate, sandstone, and gypsum-bearing samples from the Paleogene Kuqa River profile in Kuqa, China. Samples...

In this paper, we derive an upper bound on the channel capacity of MIMO systems in the presence of correlated noise. We isolate the noise correlation factor in the channel capacity formula, enabling the identification of the noise correlation contribution on the MIMO channel capacity. We analyze the thermal noise correlation due to the mutual coupling effect. Then, we calculate the thermal nois...

Optical communication channels are ultimately quantum-mechanical in nature, and we must therefore look beyond classical information theory to determine their communication capacity as well as to find efficient encoding and decoding schemes of the highest rates. Thermal channels, which arise from linear coupling of the field to a thermal environment, are of particular practical relevance; their ...