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The worldwide market for luxury and fashion goods is dominated today by a handful of multinational corporations (MNCs). The way MNCs access foreign markets and organize distribution, however, remains unclear. In this paper, based on an analysis of foreign trade statistics, we take the example of watches and provide a model to highlight the most important flows as well as regional hubs in this global...
Multiple functions — Increasing Utility-Electrical Rates with lowering Energy (Solar) Costs — are influencing the decision of whether we should deploy solar for On-Grid Solutions. In this study, with a set of simulations, we look at what at the current considerations that can justify deploying Solar for On-Grid sites.
Would you pay slightly more for your electricity if you knew it was sourced from photovoltaic panels on your neighbor's roof? Or, if you are that neighbor, would you use your solar power to charge a battery and dump that energy back onto the grid at peak hours, when the price was highest? The answers to these questions-which depend on how people would behave in an open energy market-are unknown, because...
Estimates were obtained for the optimal possible sizes and the efficiencies of the organization of the West European countries' mortgage housing loan markets given the real, actual values of macroeconomic indicators of the countries. Two the most and two the least efficient markets were compared by several characteristics of their organization. The main research tool was the econometric method of...
The article presents core information about National Classification of Economic Activities, National Classification of Product by Economic Activities, National classification of fixed assets. The description of problems and their solutions is presented.
The article presents the history of centralised district heating systems in Moldova, evolution, current state and prospects for short-term investments financed by raising funds from external creditors.
Energy is one of the sectors directly affecting the economic growth and forming a significant part of overall expenses in several industry branches, especially in manufacturing. The development of the energy sector requires significant investments which can only be attracted in a stable and predictable investment environment. Therefore, Latvian energy sector is being planned in a long-term both globally...
Domestic biomass fuel combustion can become significantly polluting if the process does not develop properly; problems related to exhaust gases' emissions can actually occur in spite of the renewable nature of the fuel. The present article analyses the key questions that influence the quality of the biomass combustion process. Concerning this, high quality and controlled biomass and a technological...
FDSOI and FINFet use the same electrostatic principles for their transistor architectures: the conduction properties of a thin layer of undoped semiconductor material are influenced by an isolated gate. For the same layer thickness, FINFET has more drive current and higher packing densities and FDSOI, due to a buried back-gate, shows more design flexibility, can handle extremely low supply voltages...
A v-shaped interior permanent magnet (1PM) and a surface mounted permanent magnet (SMPM) machines with the same dimensions and magnet volume are used as WEC generators and are evaluated using the Life Cycle Cost (LCC) method. The most optimal design from the economical perspective is determined to be the SMPM.
This study focuses on one of the main concepts regarding strategies to be adopted to reach the European policy targets, regarding Green House Gas emissions (GHG). The subsidization of renewable energy sources showed its limits, due to the fact that such power plants can create several problems to the power grids they are connected to, and for this reason the implementation of new or more advanced...
This study presents the results of perception and production of L2 Mandarin tones in mono- and di-syllabic words by Swedish learners at the beginner level. Although studies of perception and production on Mandarin tones are many, those by speakers of lexical-pitch accent language such as Swedish are still very limited. The result reveals both discrepancy and agreement between perception and production...
This paper presents the current status of Open Education and MOOCs and discusses their quality following the main question: How can we introduce new design and evaluation methods and personalization strategies to improve the learning quality of Open Education? First, the dimensions of Open Education are differentiated. Then the dimensions of holistic quality development are transferred to Open Education...
The imbalance between consumption and demand, caused by the integration of intermittent renewable energy sources (ReS), increases the need of Ancillary Services (AS) for frequency support (FS). This imbalance is still regulated with the help of conventional generation, by procuring reserves for frequency support. However, as the aim is to increase the share of RES in electricity generation, they would...
Monitoring food security requires near real time information on crop growing conditions for early detection of possible production deficits. Anomaly maps and time profiles of remote sensing derived indicators related to crop and vegetation conditions can be accessed online thanks to a rapidly growing number of web based portals. However, timely and systematic global analysis and coherent interpretation...
The European Commission published the climate and energy package “20 20 20” with the principle scope of reducing the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increasing the production from renewable energy sources (RES). Electric Vehicles (EVs) contribute to lower the GHG emissions, as they produce no exhaust gas as opposed to internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. The present study is focused on the...
The aim of this study is a comparison among Italian and Brazilian electrical energy system with a particular focus on renewable energy sources. The energy sector has a key role in the sustainable development of a country, so it influences economic and political choices. The work would underline differences, common point among two country, specially, in this particular socio-economic period and it...
The global natural gas market is undergoing substantial changes by 2020. Therefore, studying these changes and their impacts is of high importance. In this study, a mixed complementarity model is used to simulate the global natural gas market for 2020. Further, scenarios on the key changes in the future natural gas system are defined and their impact investigated. In particular, shale gas developments...
The dispatching in electrical systems always has to face the problem of instantaneous balance between produced power and consumed power. In recent decades, with the advent of distributed generation, especially from non-programmable renewable sources, dispatching has become increasingly more difficult, and more and more attention was paid to the opportunity to limit the imbalances between foreseen...
This paper analyses the development of natural gas prices in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and assesses its drivers. Furthermore, the relation to recent changes in import contracts is discussed. The methodological approach consists of a panel analysis, in which wholesale gas prices in CEE countries are explained by a set of exogenous drivers, and a descriptive part on changes in contracts. The...
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