So far the literature on DSGE models with energy price shocks uses energy on the production side only. In these models, energy shocks are responsible for only a negligible share of output fluctuations. We study the robustness of this finding. The aim of our paper is to model the response of household behavior to energy shocks in more detail as in the existing literature. Specifically, in additi...

Expectations and challenges of modern sustainable engineering architecture stimulate intensive development structural analysis design techniques. Designing durable, light eco-friendly constructions starts at the conceptual stage, where new efficient optimization tools need to be implemented. Innovative methods, like topology optimization, become more often a daily practice engineers architects ...

I document that durable consumption growth is highly persistent and predicted by the price-dividend ratio. This provides strong and direct evidence for the existence of a highly persistent expected component. I also document robust evidence that durable consumption growth is left skewed and exhibits time-varying volatility. These properties motivate a model for durable consumption growth as dri...

OBJECTIVES The development, implementation, and evaluation of policies may play an important role in promoting health behaviours such as physical activity. The Ontario Ministry of Education (OME) recently mandated Memorandum No. 138 requiring daily physical activity (DPA) for Ontario elementary students in grades one through eight. The purpose of this paper is to examine implementation strategi...

A Charge Recycling Sense Amplifier Based Logic is presented. This logic is derived from the Sense Amplifier Based Logic, which is a logic style with signal independent power consumption. It has been proven previously to protect security devices such as Smart Cards against power attacks. Experimental results show that the use of advanced circuit techniques, which enable charge recycling and inte...

The systematic uncertainty on the W mass and width measurement resulting from the imperfect knowledge of electroweak radiative corrections is discussed. The intrinsic uncertainty in the 4-f generator used by the DELPHI Collaboration is studied following the guidelines of the authors of YFSWW, on which its radiative corrections part is based. The full DELPHI simulation, reconstruction and analys...

as typical example, but all four-fermion final states originating from W -boson pairs can be treated in a similar way. Since the RADCOR 98 conference took place our results have been finalized and discussed elsewhere . A highlight of the main points is given here. For related issues, see these proceedings . A complete calculation of O(α) radiative corrections to a process with six external part...

© 2010 ETRI Journal, Volume 32, Number 1, February 2010 We investigate the possibility of using adiabatic logic as a countermeasure against differential power analysis (DPA) style attacks to make use of its energy efficiency. Like other dual-rail logics, adiabatic logic exhibits a current dependence on input data, which makes the system vulnerable to DPA. To resolve this issue, we propose a sym...

We describe algorithms to scalably support durable subscriptions in a publish-subscribe system. Durable subscriptions are guaranteed exactly-once message delivery, despite periods of disconnection from the system. Our algorithms persistently log each message only once in the system, and can support administratively specified ’early-release’ policies that reclaim persistent storage in the presen...