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The WORLD6 Integrated System Dynamics Model: Examples of Results from Simulations

The WORLD6 model is a fully integrated dynamic world systems model. It includes a biophysical global economic model, based on first principles of physics and thermodynamics, forcing it to be fully consistent with the underlying mass- and energy balances. T ...

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Equilibrium commodity prices with irreversible investment and non-linear technologies

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We model oil price dynamics in a general equilibrium production economy with two goods: a consumption good and oil. Production of the consumption good requires drawing from oil reserves at a fixed rate. Investment necessary to replenish oil reserves is cos ...

2018

Design and Validation of a Low-Cost Wearable Assistive Device for Carrying Back Loads

This paper discusses about a low-cost wearable assistive device designed for people carrying back loads in mountainous regions of Uttarakhand, a northern state of India. People usually carry commodities like stationeries, gas cylinders, cow feeds and other ...

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CONFIDENTIAL

Denise Bertschi

In the three-screen installation "CONFIDENTIAL" (2018) Bertschi traces the spirit of six buildings in Johannesburg’s Central Business District and Pretoria. In South Africa's National Archives, she discovered correspondence documenting the extensive purcha ...

self-published2018

Can a circular economy provide a backbone for a more sustainable, fair and social market economy in europe?

Most of us would readily subscribe the statement that our planet needs a transition towards a circular economy decoupling raw material use from economic growth. In a circular economy deserving this label, pressure on our earth’s natural resources will defi ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Modelling of Solar Thermochemical Reaction Systems

Sophia Haussener

This article reviews the progress, challenges and opportunities in numerical modelling of thermal transport, thermochemical reactions and thermomechanics in high-temperature solar thermochemical systems. Continuum-scale models are presented in mathematical ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Supply Chain Management in Process Industries: Empirical Investigations for Commodity Markets

Philipp Urs Moser

Process industries (PI) have thrived in recent decades, but structural changes in the markets are currently putting both growth and profitability at risk. In a period of tumbling prices, supply chain management (SCM) is increasingly viewed as an essential ...

EPFL2016

Penciling A Triboelectric Power Source On Paper

Jürgen Brugger, Xiao Sheng Zhang

We present a novel triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) based on a paper-Teflon configuration fabricated by an easy and cost-efficient process. Carbon electrodes were hand-drawn by means of a graphite pencil on commercial paper cards, and the conductivity wa ...

Ieee2016

Three Essays on Asset Pricing

Emmanuel Leclercq

In the first chapter,which is a joint work with Mathieu Cambou and Philippe H.A. Charmoy, we study the distribution of the hedging errors of a European call option for the delta and variance-minimizing strategies. Considering the setting proposed by Heston ...

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Systemic Risk in Energy Derivative Markets: A Graph-Theory Analysis

Franck Claude Raynaud

This article uses graph theory to provide novel evidence regarding market integration, a favorable condition for systemic risk to appear in. Relying on daily futures returns covering a 12-year period, we examine cross- and inter-market linkages, both withi ...

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