Using data from representative samples of the Australian population in the 1980s and 2000s we make two main contributions to analysis of the economic effects of beauty. First, we broaden analysis of the effects of beauty beyond the labour market to examine its relation to household income. We find that beauty significantly affects total household income – primarily via respondents’ probability ...

The chaotic characteristics and maximum predictable time scale of the observation series of hourly water consumption in Hangzhou were investigated using the advanced algorithm presented here is based on the conventional Wolf's algorithm for the largest Lyapunov exponent. For comparison, the largest Lyapunov exponents of water consumption series with one-hour and 24-hour intervals were calculate...

One of two topics explored is the limitations of the daily average in summarizing pollutant hourly profiles. The daily average of hourly measurements of air pollutant constituents provides continuity with previous studies using monitoring technology that only provided the daily average. However, other summary statistics are needed that make better use of all available information in 24-hr profi...

Nowadays, a large part of the traded volume in power markets represents energy to be consumed or produced in the future as a forward or future product. Hence, the need for precise forecasting of load demand and prices arises for all market players. This project proposes an hourly load model for Germany with focus on long term forecast using tools provided from the econometrics theory, such as r...

abstract evapotranspiration as one of the most important components of the hydrologic cycle, plays a key role in water resources management, crop yield simulation and irrigation scheduling. therefore, presenting a low cost and precision model is very essential for calculations of hourly eto. although, there are empirical formulas, their performances are not all satisfactory due to the complicat...