Purpose: The objective of this research is to reform the current real estate tax system and establish the real estate tax system suitable for China's national conditions. Design/methodology: Based on the necessity of the real estate tax reform, the paper studies the system optimization and its...

The goal of this project was twofold. The first objective was to find out to what extent publicly available beneficiary data (from managing authorities and commercial databases) could be used for quantitative, econometric counterfactual analysis. This led to a second objective: in the countries...

The Fed’s Operation Twist (OT) is a variation of conventional open-market operations. However, as an unconventional monetary policy, its transmission mechanism and effectiveness need further exploration. In this paper, a macro-economic system is set up, which not only includes the central...

Business processes design optimization is known as the problem of creating feasible business processes while optimizing their criteria such as resource cost and execution time. In this paper, the authors propose an evolutionary multi-criteria approach based on a modified evolutionary algorithm...

The dimension synthesis problem for parallel robots in general is much more complex than their serial counterparts, due to the strong dependence of geometric parameters and their performances. In dimension synthesis for robots, typical performance characteristics that may be considered to...

This paper presents the analysis and design optimization of a coaxial surface-mounted permanent-magnet magnetic gear. The magnetic field distribution in the coaxial magnetic gear is calculated analytically in the polar coordinate system and then validated by the finite element method (FEM). The...

A thermoelectric (TE) cooler architecture is presented that employs thin film thermoelectric elements on a plastic substrate in a corrugated structure sandwiched between planar thermal interface plates. This design represents a hybrid of a conventional bulk TE device and an in-plane thin film TE...

A study has been conducted to compare the performances of the four novel RV (revolving vane) expander design variants at suction pressures of between 2 and 30 bars, a constant discharge pressure of 1 atm and operating speeds of between 600 and 1800 rev min−1. The aspects considered were...