The asset wall (AW) model is widely used by energy companies to forecast the retirement size of equipment. AW a method arranging historical data in chronological order and then using extrapolation predict trends volumes over time. However, most studies treat all equipment as whole perform flat mechanically, ignoring impact technological improvements price fluctuations. Furthermore, there are re...

the present study illustrates the long-term changes in selected socioeconomic variables (population,industrial activities, settlement dispersion, and land-use) together with climate aridity trends in thriasio, the larger industrial area of greece located twenty kilometers far from athens. this region, originally devoted to agriculture, experienced fast industrial and economic development during...

Objective. The hospital occupancy rate is a key metric in hospital capacity planning, despite the fact that this metric neglects economic efficiency and offers the abnormal incentive to artificially increase the length-of-stay with detrimental effect on medical and economic performance. We suggest a modification of the occupancy metric to alleviate these shortcomings. The resulting metric incor...