Organizational climate, as form of manifestation of the management of the communication, gives birth to the idea that the management of communication represents the link vector between the formulation of the organization’s objectives and the adoption of decisions, fulfilling in the same time...

Pubic water rights allocation, in which water resources are allocated to users administratively as shared public property, is an effective and powerful policy for water resource management. Dozens of public water right allocation systems have been established in China since 1998 without any...

A general and widely applicable methodology to assess and present the performance of wave energy converters (WEC) based on sea trials is presented. It is meant to encourage WEC developers to present the performance of their WEC prototypes, on a transparent and equitable way while taking care of...

This paper describes the process of applying the technique of simulation to conventional and renewable energy systems as used to provide the heating, cooling and power needs of a building. Several brief case studies are presented on the use of the ESP-r system to study air conditioning, passive...

The main purpose of this study is to find solutions to measure and improve the efficiency of DP-World ports. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a well-known technique that has been used to serve as an effective tool for such purposes. On one hand, it helps in cutting down costs which are...

Regulations for the long-term disposal of high-level radioactive wastes command that the performance of the disposal facility be assessed for very long periods of time and quite extensive spatial scales. By nature, then, the analysis of the performance of a disposal facility relies on the...

The site-specific evaluation of a solar photovoltaic technology helps in identifying its suitability for that location. The objective of the present study is to assess the suitability of different PV technologies under Indian climatic conditions. The performance assessment of photovoltaic...