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Techno-economic analysis of lignocellulosic ethanol: A review

Edgard Gnansounou, Arnaud Dauriat

Lignocellulosic ethanol is expected to be commercialised during the next decade as renewable energy for transport. Competiveness with first generation bioethanol and with gasoline is commonly considered in techno-economic analyses for commercial stage. Sev ...

Elsevier2010

How regular is a regular-interval timetable? From theory to application

Panagiotis Tzieropoulos, Daniel Emery, David Tron

Initially, choice of regular-interval timetable was mostly addressing operational concerns, aiming to increase the network throughput and to smooth the day-today tasks of the personnel. Separation between infrastructure management and train operations, ind ...

Wit Press, Ashurst Lodge, Southampton So40 7Aa, Ashurst, England2010

Corporate Finance, Asset Returns, and Credit Risk

Philip Valta

This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter empirically investigates how the intensity of product market competition affects the cost of debt. Using a large sample of loans to publicly traded US manufacturing firms, the chapter provides ...

EPFL2010

Mathematics in the Wind

Alfio Quarteroni, Nicola Parolini

In any sport or human endeavor, coaches regularly state “play to your strengths.” One might not guess that a land-locked, mountainous country like Switzerland would have strengths that would give them a chance at winning the oldest, most competitive sailin ...

2009

A Study on the Impact of Competition on Airport Congestion

Niklaus Eggenberg

Air transportation in the US is increasingly faced with the problem of airport congestion: airlines tend to over-schedule to attract market share and revenue. Unfortunately, the airlines share a limited resource - airport capacity. The underlying question ...

2009

Trade Policy: Home Market Effect vs Terms of Trade Externality

Chiara Forlati

We study trade policy in a two-sector Krugman-type trade model with home market effects. We allow for three different instruments: tariffs, export taxes and production subsidies. For each instrument, we consider unilateral trade policy without retaliation. ...

Center for Fiscal Policy Working Paper Series2009

Effect of competing ions and complexing organic substances on the cadmium uptake by the soil bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti

Rita Hajdu Schenk

In an effort to improve the understanding and prediction of Cd uptake by soil bacteria, adsorbed and intracellular Cd were determined in unpolluted and highly polluted model soil solutions within a concentration range spanning from 10-9 to 5  10-5 M of ca ...

2009

The effect of liberalisation on incumbent's innovation

Cátia Alexandra Pereira Felisberto

The network industries have been undergoing a process of reform, where liberalisation is one of the main features. This thesis studies the effect of liberalisation, with and without competition, on the incumbent's incentives to innovate. A model of incumbe ...

EPFL2008

A Rate-based Prefiltering Approach to BLAST Acceleration

Dionysios Pnevmatikatos, Sotiria Fytraki

DNA sequence comparison and database search have evolved in the last years as a field of strong competition between several reconfigurable hardware computing groups. In this paper we present a BLAST preprocessor that efficiently marks the parts of the data ...

2008

Evidence on the effect of liberalisation and competition on innovation in the postal sector

Cátia Alexandra Pereira Felisberto

This paper empirically assesses the effect of liberalisation and competition on innovation in the postal sector. The analysis is restricted to end-to-end competition. The effect on the incentives to innovate of public ownership, letter volume, and other co ...

2008