We estimate annual discontinuities in remotely-sensed crop yields at all international land borders and link them to changes in the economic freedom index by the Fraser Institute, a country-level measure of institutional quality. Each point of the ten-point index increases the discontinuity by...

As the increasing IT energy consumption emerged as a prominent issue, computer system energy consumption monitoring and optimization has gradually become a significant research forefront. However, most existing energy monitoring methods are limited to hardware-based measurement or coarse-grained...