This article aims to explain the under-researched phenomenon of why the European Commission (the Commission), as the ‘guardian of the Treaties’, tolerates member states’ noncompliance with the EU law. As the theoretical basis, I assume that the Commission is an agent-trustee hybrid when...

The sensitivity analysis for low temperature ORCs (organic Rankine cycles), as well as the thermoeconomic comparison between the basic ORC and regenerative ORC using Non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-II (NSGA-II), are conducted in this paper. The derivatives of five system parameters on...