High levels of energy consumption in residential buildings and global warming are important issues. Thus the energy performance of buildings should be improved in the early stages of design. This article describes an approach for developing guidelines on sensitive and robust design parameters...

Micro gas turbines are considered an efficient alternative to costly generation and transmission of electricity, especially in remote areas and in combined heat and power (CHP) applications. Tools for remote monitoring and diagnostics, which are easy to apply, would be needed for the realization...

This paper addresses, for a composite hypothesis about a subvector of the parameters in the parametric model, the issues posed by Rao and Mukerjee (1995) [22] and Li (2001) [14] on the power under a sequence of local alternatives. It is shown that a partially adjusted test statistic in a class...

Extant observational studies generally support the existence of a link between neighborhood context and health. However, estimating the causal impact of neighborhood effects from observational data has proven to be a challenge. Omission of relevant factors may lead to overestimating the effects...

Scenario Analysis (SA) plays a key role in determination of operational risk capital under Basel II Advanced Measurement Approach. However, operational risk capital based on scenario data may exhibit high sensitivity or wrong-way sensitivity to scenario inputs. In this paper, we first discuss...

Aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) is a cost-effective technology that enables the reduction of energy use and CO2 emissions associated with the heating and cooling of buildings by storage and recovery of large quantities of thermal energy in the subsurface. Reducing the distance between...

Hot deck imputation is a common method for handling item nonresponse in surveys, but most implementations assume data are missing at random (MAR). A new hot deck method for imputation of a continuous partially missing outcome variable that harnesses the power of available covariates but does not...

This study aims to examine the impact on investment decisions of risk information reported by banking companies in Indonesia pursuant to Indonesia SFAS 60, adopted from IFRS 7. The standard requires banking companies in Indonesia to prepare a complete report (qualitative and quantitative) either...

In this paper we consider a class of BSDEs with drivers of quadratic growth, on a stochastic basis generated by continuous local martingales. We first derive the Markov property of a forward-backward system (FBSDE) if the generating martingale is a strong Markov process. Then we establish the...

In the context of multidimensional poverty measurement, it seems plausible to assume that when individuals are deprived in some dimensions and non-deprived in the remaining ones, the latter can be allowed to play a non-trivial role in the assessment of those individuals' poverty levels. Yet,...