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A review of solar energy driven desalination technologies

Sharon, H.; Reddy, K.S. - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 41 (2015) C, pp. 1080-1118

potable water by desalination. Desalination industry has shown increased threats of CO2 emissions and severe environmental … impacts. Desalination industry can be made sustainable if they are integrated with renewable energy and if proper brine … disposal methods are followed. In this review different desalination units integrated with renewable energy with special …

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Multi-objective design of reverse osmosis plants integrated with solar Rankine cycles and thermal energy storage

Antipova, Ekaterina; Boer, Dieter; Cabeza, Luisa F.; … - In: Applied Energy 102 (2013) C, pp. 1137-1147

This paper addresses the optimal design of desalination plants that integrate reverse osmosis, a Rankine cycle … desalination with solar collectors and thermal energy storage leads to significant environmental savings at a marginal increase in …

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Reducing foreclosures: No easy answers

Foote, Christopher L.; Gerardi, Kristopher; Goette, Lorenz - 2009

This paper takes a skeptical look at a leading argument about what is causing the foreclosure crisis and what should be done to stop it. We use an economic model to focus on two key decisions: the borrower's choice to default on a mortgage and the lender's subsequent choice whether to...

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Why don’t lenders renegotiate more home mortgages? The effect of securitization

Adelino, Manuel; Gerardi, Kristopher; Willen, Paul - 2010

Securitization does not explain the reluctance among lenders to renegotiate home mortgages. We focus on seriously delinquent borrowers from 2005 through the third quarter of 2008 and show that servicers renegotiate similarly small fractions of securitized and portfolio loans. The results are...

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Modification of Traditional RSA into Symmetric-RSA Cryptosystems

Mohit, Prerna; Biswas, G. P. - In: International Journal of Business Data Communications … 13 (2017) 1, pp. 66-73

This paper addresses the modification of RSA cryptography namely Symmetric-RSA, which seem to be equally useful for …

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Maximizing the Value of Packaged Software Customization: A Nonlinear Model and Simulation

Balint, Bryon - In: International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems … 13 (2017) 1, pp. 1-16

Organizations that purchase packaged application software – for example, an Enterprise Resource Planning system – must make choices about customization. Packaged software vendors and practitioners recommend that organizations customize software as little as possible, and instead adapt their...

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The Application and Modification of Delegation - Agent model in Agricultural Insurance

Xue, Hai-Lian; Zhang, Hai-Xia - 2010

The delegation-agent models in agricultural assurance are established both under the circumstances of information symmetry and information asymmetry. Insurers choose effort level —a* according to the first order optimal condition of at the present stage when the information is symmetric. While...

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Beware the performance of an algorithm before relying on it: Evidence from a stock price forecasting experiment

Tse, Tiffany Tsz Kwan; Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Mao, Bolin - 2022

We experimentally investigated the relationship between participants' reliance on algorithms, their familiarity with the task, and the performance level of the algorithm. We found that when participants could freely decide on their final forecast after observing the one produced by the algorithm...

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Modification-Management

Stufler, Josef - 2009

ein empirisch orientiertes, umsetzbares System (Modification- Management), mit dem dieser Problematik nachhaltig begegnet …

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Results of Covid -19 on small and medium practice auditing firms

MCHEDLISHVILI, Manana; ZAZADZE, Nana - 2021

As a result and the influence of covid-19, many enterprises faced problems like they had never before. For many small businesses, it is important to have a trusted consultant in the form of small and medium-sized audit firms, who we can ask for help and advice during the current crisis. Although...

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