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This article seeks to address current debates on ongoing China’s urban development and makes a theoretical proposal that links financialization and ecological civilization through the perspective of the increasing role of consumption in today’s transition ...

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Experimental museology: immersive visualisation and cultural (big) data

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book addresses how recent and painful pasts can be incorporated into the plans of a yet-to-come Museum of Memory in Bogota, Columbia. It analy ...

Routledge2021

Airline customers connection time preferences in domestic U.S. markets

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Within the United States, there have been evolving perceptions on the benefits and disadvantages of using peaked flight schedules. Arguments in favor of using peaked schedules have centered on a traditional assumption that consumers prefer itineraries with ...

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The Advent of Practice Theories in Research on Sustainable Consumption: Past, Current and Future Directions of the Field

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The application of practice theories in the domain of sustainability research in consumer studies is increasingly advocated based on the premise that this allows to analyse consumption as a social phenomenon. Consequently, the applications of social practi ...

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Product Pricing in a Peer-to-Peer Economy

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The emergence of a collaborative economy has been driven by advances in information technology that allow consumers to borrow and rent goods among peers on a secondary sharing market. In a dynamic setting, consumers make intertemporal decisions about purch ...

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Computationally efficient background subtraction in the light field domain

Martin Vetterli, Mahdad Hosseini Kamal, Alireza Ghasemi

Since the invention of first camera, people have always thought of new ways to capture moments. With the advent of digital photography, not only imaging systems have progressed, but also technology provides new user experience. The recently introduced ligh ...

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SmartD: Smart Meter Data Analytics Dashboard

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The ability of smart meters to communicate energy consumption data in (near) real-time enables data analytics for novel applications, such as pervasive demand response, personalized energy feedback, outage management, and theft detection. Smart meter data ...

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Effective Consumption Scheduling for Demand-Side Management in the Smart Grid using Non-Uniform Participation Rate

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Periods of peak consumer demand in today’s electricity sector are expensive to satisfy and can be the source of power failures. One possible solution is the use of demand-side management (DSM) applying dynamic pricing mechanisms. However, instead of reduci ...

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Working in the action/research nexus for education for sustainable development; two case studies from Ireland

Roland John Tormey

Purpose – Higher education has a key role and responsibility in creating change and addressing issues of fundamental human concern such as inequality and social justice, globalisation and development, environmental protection and sustainability. The purpos ...

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