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Reflections on the use of natural light in buildings

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The use of natural light in buildings can affect our physiological and psychological health and has comfort, behavioral, economic, and environmental consequences. ...

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Social Roots of Academc (Un)Freedom

Alexander Dmitriev

The current war between Russia and Ukraine has raised the question of the possibility of resistance from the academic community. The reduction of academic freedoms in Russia and Belarus in the 21st century is also related to the general social and politica ...

2022

On the economics of social innovation - a conceptual framework and its policy implications

Dominique Foray

Social innovation addressing social, economic and environmental challenges are increasingly recognized as crucial drivers of social changes. However, the concept of social innovation remains vague. This paper builds a conceptual framework from an economic ...

2020

Environmental care and morality: An economic model with heterogeneous agents

Boris Thurm, Charles Chadi Ayoubi

Some individuals voluntarily engage in costly pro-environmental actions although their efforts have limited direct benefits. This paper proposes a novel economic model with heterogeneous agents explaining why. Each agent has a homo moralis type of preferen ...

2020

Exploring potential benefits of bridge condition assessment in highway operations

Ian Smith

In recent years, an increasing number of private firms are involved in public works using the funding strategy of public-private partnerships (PPPs), especially for civil infrastructure projects such as highways and bridges. In this paper, a framework is p ...

IABSE2019

The More Economic Approach To Predatory Pricing

The "more economic approach" was introduced to antitrust to achieve a more effect-based and theoretically grounded enforcement. However, related to predatory pricing it resulted in systematic over- and under-enforcement: Economic theory does not require do ...

2018

Polymer-Based Metal Coated Additive Manufactured V- and W-band Antenna Feed Chain Components

Juan Ramon Mosig, Emile Jacques de Rijk, Tomislav Debogovic, Santiago Capdevila Cascante, Esteban Menargues Gomez

In this paper an additive manufactured (AM) W-band monolithic feed chain is presented. The feed chain, which consists of a corrugated horn antenna and a turnstile orthomode transducer (OMT), operates over the entire W-band (75-110 GHz) and fulfills typical ...

IEEE2017

Privacy, Trust and Incentives in Participatory Sensing

Karl Aberer, Mehdi Riahi, Rameez Rahman

In this chapter, we study the socioeconomic issues that can arise in distributed computing environments such as distributed and open, participatory sensing systems. Due to the decentralized nature of such systems, they present many challenges, some of whic ...

Springer2017

Coming Full Circle Why Social and Institutional Dimensions Matter for the Circular Economy

Vincent Moreau, François Richard Vuille

In light of the environmental consequences of linear production and consumption processes, the circular economy (CE) is gaining momentum as a concept and practice, promoting closed material cycles by focusing on multiple strategies from material recycling ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press2017

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