Household-level Canadian meat purchases from 2002-2008, household-level egg purchases from 2002-2005 and Food Opinion Survey in 2008 were used to understand how consumers who have different concerns about nutrition react to BSE events and how beef consumption after BSE discoveries were shaped by...

Market-based instruments, particularly carbon tax, have recently drawn the attention of Chinese government by their cost-effective contribution to the achievement of China's climate targets. Most of the recent policy proposals have focused on its long-term impact. However, particularly for...

According to the topological structure of wind-storage-load complementation microgrids, this paper proposes a method for energy coordinative optimization which focuses on improvement of the economic benefits of microgrids in the prediction framework. First of all, the external characteristic...

In order to investigate the effects of altitude on the brake thermal efficiency of heavy-duty diesel engines, an experimental study on a heavy-duty diesel engine operating at various altitudes was conducted. Tests were conducted in low and moderate load and speed conditions. Brake thermal...

The combustion and emissions of n-butanol/biodiesel dual-fuel injection were investigated on a diesel engine based on experiments and simulations. n-Butanol was injected into the intake port, while soybean biodiesel was directly injected into the cylinder. Three different premixed ratios (rp)...

Border carbon adjustment (BCA) has had a high profile in climate and trade talks, due to differences between the EU and China. Much of the debate has revolved around the possibility of EU taxation on Chinese exported products in order to both avoid carbon leakage and support the EU's unilateral...

In recent years, export value-added tax (VAT) refund rebate and export tax (EVRRET) measures have been adopted for energy-intensive products in China. They are proclaimed to be climate policy, yet there is no explicit and unique carbon cost set on export, and the implicit export carbon tax rates...

type="main" xml:id="rssc12036-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>The paper considers data from an aphid infestation on a sugar cane plantation and illustrates the use of an individual level infectious disease model for making inference on the biological process underlying these data. The data are interval...</p>

Stainless steel mesh (SSM) with four opening sizes (20–80M) were investigated as matrixes of activated carbon air–cathodes in microbial fuel cells (MFCs). The highest power density of 2151±109mWm−2 (at 5.54±0.14Am−2) was obtained using 40M, with a value 45% higher than 1485±18mWm−2...

If buildings can change “clothes” according to seasons like human being, the energy consumption for their space heating or cooling will be saved greatly. For this purpose, the thermophysical properties of building external wall should be self-adjusted according to outdoor temperature. In...