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The reduction of electricity consumption in many situations, by the disappearance of the large industrial enterprises considered as "energy-intensive" and the emergence of small and medium-sized industrial enterprises, led to the appearance of inefficient energy issues in the distribution power grids through the existence of underloaded electrical power transformers. The use of underloaded...
This paper empirically estimates the impact of sustainability development on the market value of the firm. We use a firm's receipt of a sustainability award as a proxy for its sustainability development effectiveness. Based on data from 398 announcements of sustainability awards given to the firms during the period 2010–2015, the evidence suggests that, on average, the stock market reaction to sustainability...
As of December 2, 2016, Henan has 74 listed companies, which are an important part of the capital market and contribute greatly to the economic and social development of Henan Province. This paper analyzes the problems existing in the development of Listed Companies in Henan Province from the regional and industrial distribution, market capitalization and capital structure, management level, etc,...
In this research paper, a 24-hour ahead optimal energy management system (EMS) for an isolated industrial microgrid containing wind, PV solar, diesel generator, microturbine and energy storage is developed and analyzed. The main goal of the microgrid EMS optimization model is to minimize the cost of energy production, maximize the economical benefit of the energy storage and ensure the renewable energy...
A study of the impact of utility rates on the economic viability of Community Energy Storage (CES) is presented in this paper. Using the U.S. Utility Rate Database, the residential rate structures available at each available zip code in the continental United States were analyzed to see how viable CES is for that zip code. An operational CES hardware system was also tested to verify the results from...
We focus on a coordinating issue in the presence of service free-riding in a dual-channel supply chain consisting of a manufacturer and a traditional retailer. We incorporate information asymmetry into the model where the manufacturer has incomplete information about the retailer's cost of providing service, and present an analytical framework and obtain equilibrium decisions in a centralized scenario...
Serious Games can benefit from the commercial video games industry by taking advantage of current development tools. However, the economics and requirements of serious games and commercial games are very different. In this paper, we describe the factors that impact the total cost of ownership of serious games used in educational settings, review the specific requirements of games used as learning...
This paper focuses on the construction and selection of large-scale enterprise performance evaluation. It corrects corresponding evaluation indexes for the limitation of existing evaluation system for enterprises. We adopt the actual operating data of certain province and use factor analysis method and entropy weight method to reselect key performance indexes and assign the weights, and analyze the...
The amount of public transport subsidies in Beijing increased year by year, but the effect of promoting traffic congestion is not significant. The paper analyzes the status of Beijing public transport subsidies, then establish the Beijing public transport subsidy model. Analyze the proportion of the public transport subsidy accounting for the finance revenue ranges from 4.19% to 6.92%. Based the data...
The outbreak of the US subprime mortgage financial crisis swept across the world in 2008 and international regulatory authorities adopted the most representative measure-Basel III- against the crisis in 2010. The present work brings insight into the effect of capital regulation on commercial bank based on the panel data of ten Chinese commercial banks from 2006 to 2013. This paper uses the multiple...
In the Internet age, application of the Internet has penetrated into people's daily life. It has a great influence on people's daily life and overturns people's traditional conception of thinking. Depending on the Internet's resources integration ability, Internet companies are rapidly rising and affect the traditional industry's core business. Many traditional enterprises have begun to transform...
Thermal applications of Solar Energy have gained attention in the last decades due to economical and ecological reasons. In order to be competitive with respect to fossil fuel-based power systems, investment and O&M costs have to drop. We propose an economic assessment of two thermal solar systems designed for operation in the western part of Romania. We show that deployment of a large number...
Rapid expansion of e-commerce, along with rising domestic and cross-border payments, has fueled the demand among financial institutions for cost-effective means to achieve real-time settlement of retail payments. Traditionally, retail payments have made extensive use of interbank netting systems, in which payments are accumulated for end-of-day settlement. This approach, known as deferred net settlement...
PV power systems have gained much attention in the last decades due to the clean operation and potential benefits in fossil fuel and greenhouse gas sparings. An economic analysis of grid-connected, small-scale, residential PV systems is proposed, based on the levelized cost of energy is proposed. Economy in gas emission is also estimated. All calculations rely on measured radiation and energy production...
Study of technological knowledge diffusion can provide a basis for R&D planners to invest new R&D projects with a proper direction. In this paper, we introduce a modified method to analyze the diffusion degree of technological knowledge among different technological fields using patent data at the technology patent class level. This method first generates a patent citation network related...
This paper proposes a stochastic optimization model considering the volatility of wind power and photovoltaic power in microgrid. The model optimizes the economic operation of a microgrid as well as minimizes the flow deviation at the point of common coupling(PCC) from scheduled values. First, the Latin hypercube sampling(LHS) and Simultaneous Backward Reduction(SBR) technique are introduced to describe...
Nowadays, pronounced random nature renewable energy (wind, solar) penetration in power systems is growing and therefore their management tends to become a problem for the system dispatcher. Virtual power plant strategy analyzed in this paper can be a solution to be applied in cases where a random mix of renewable sources can be combined with a small proportion of the source water that is predictable...
The aim of this paper is to formulate new and more precise predictions regarding behavioral reactions to distributive and economic development via insights from information resource theory. Distribution theory conceptualizes discrepancy as a perceived mismatch between inputs and outcomes under the different information resources. Resulting feelings of inequity development may trigger attempts to use...
The decision-making process of introducing new technologies into the health care system must minimize individual interests of policy makers and reduce possible biases and faults while building up the best health portfolio available. The main obstacles for achieving these goals may relate to the large number of technologies assessed each year while the budget available annually is limited.
In this study we examine the connection between thinking styles and learning function and satisfaction of students participating in academic e-learning courses. We also examined the connection between computer experience/skills and gender differences to these variables. The research included 188 B.A. students using the HighLearn system. The data was collected using questioners which examined thinking...
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