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Electricity Market Design: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Peter Cramton

Peter Cramton

This paper examines principles of market design as applied to electricity markets. I illustrate the principles with examples of both good and bad designs. I discuss one of the main design challenges—dealing with market power. I then discuss FERC’s choice of a standard market design.

From Alchemy To Atomic Bombs. Book Review By George Kauffman, Fathi Habashi

Fathi Habashi

Review of the book "From Alchemy to Atomic Bombs" by Fathi Habashi published by Métallurgie Extractive Québec. The review is written by Professor George Kauffman at California State University, Fresno.

Big Push Industrialization: Some Empirical Evidence For East Asia And East Europe, Christine Sauer, Kishore Gawande, Geng Li

Geng Li

No abstract provided.

Ultrapassando O Debate Entre Convergência E Divergência Urbanas: A Arquitetura E O Urbanismo Em Um Contexto Global, Clara Irazabal

Clara Irazabal

Alguns pesquisadores argumentam que as cidades do Terceiro e do Primeiro Mundo estão se tornando cada vez mais semelhantes. Outros discordam dessa teoria da convergência, alegando que tais similaridades são apenas superficiais. O presente trabalho sustenta que as discrepâncias entre as duas teorias são mais aparentes que reais e propõe que se aborde a convergência mais no âmbito das soluções do que no âmbito dos problemas, chamando a atenção para o papel da participação cidadã e da governança urbana em bem-sucedidas experiências em cidades tanto do Terceiro Mundo como do Primeiro Mundo. O texto também reflete sobre a arquitetura e …

Do Pruitt-Igoe Ao World Trade Center: Planejando A Ex/Implosão Do (Pos)Modernismo, Clara Irazabal

Clara Irazabal

O artigo discute, em meio a conceitos de pós-modernidade, as semelhanças na destruição de dois marcos da arquitetura moderna: o conjunto residencial Pruitt-Igoe (PI) e o World Trade Center (WTC). Argumenta que a destruição, tanto do PI como do WTC, deveu-se não apenas à questão física (no PI, uma destruição planejada pela sociedade, e no WTC, uma destruição por ela não planejada); pelo contrário, a queda de ambos os edifícios seria uma materialização do fim do pensamento modernista, do qual seriam símbolos. Contrariamente ao que foi dito a respeito do 11/09/2001, propõe que naquela hora o mundo já havia mudado …

O Varejo Supermercadista Sob Perspectiva, Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.

Políticas Públicas Nos Anos Noventa: Um Ensaio Sobre As Causas E Implicações Da Crise Do Estado Brasileiro De Bem-Estar Social, Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.

Trabalho Voluntário Vis-A-Vis A Marginalização Do Idoso: Um Paradigma De Integração Social, Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.

Can One Or A Few Cases Yield Theoretical Gains?, Dietrich Rueschemeyer

Dietrich Rueschemeyer

No abstract provided.

Review Of Charles Ragin's "Fuzzy-Set Social Science", Dietrich Rueschemeyer

Dietrich Rueschemeyer

No abstract provided.

Ciudad Y Centros Históricos. Centros Históricos Y Actores Patrimoniales, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

La problemática de los centros históricos se ha convertido en un tema de debate y discusión en el ámbito de las políticas urbanas en América Latina. Hoy, por lo menos, se trata de uno de los puntos centrales de la polémica sobre la ciudad.

Esta conversión tiene que ver, entre otros, con los siguientes tres hechos que merecen ser destacados: El deterioro que sufren las áreas históricas de las ciudades latinoamericanas es consecuencia de situaciones sociales, económicas y naturales, así como de los procesos de modernización que se desarrollan en cada uno de los países y ciudades de la región. …

Procesos De Descentralización En La Comunidad Andina, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Desde finales de los años ochenta, los países que conforman la Comunidad Andina de Naciones buscan impulsar sus procesos de democratización y modernización y tomar como estrategia fundamental la descentralización. Tal situación es una respuesta a la crisis que viven los Estados centralistas ante el proceso de globalización y las crecientes demandas de la sociedad civil local y regional. Y esta reforma está cambiando de manera importante las estructuras estatales.

Este proceso depende, en gran medida, de la decisión política de los gobiernos, del proceso de concertación y de la adecuación de los marcos jurídicos. La adopción de los marcos …

Historie Centers: Public Imaginaries From Quito, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

In the histories centers, the most varied media and forms of communication converge (telephony, radio, television, postal service, cinema, theater, schools); they embrace the greatest concentration of socializing places (public and civic spaces); they possess the greatest accumulation of concentrated information (1ibraries, archives, buildings); they have the greatest number of symbolic manifestations (churches, monuments, squares); they contain the most diverse means of transportation (ports, railways, vehicles); and they attract multiple users.

In this context, communication plays a central role. Its defects can produce alterations in the functionality and quality of life of the population that lives in the city. But …

De La Violencia Urbana A La Convivencia Ciudadana, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

La violencia urbana se expande, cada vez con mayor fuerza, en las ciudades de la región. El incremento real de los actos delictivos y la nueva percepción de la población al respecto provocan cambios manifiestos en las urbes latinoamericanas. Allí están las transformaciones en el urbanismo (amurallamiento de la ciudad, nuevas formas de segregación residencial), en los comportamientos de la población (angustia, desamparo), en la interacción social (reducción de la ciudadanía, nuevas formas de socialización) y en la militarización de las ciudades, amén de la reducción de la calidad de vida de la población.

Según el Banco Mundial, el fallecimiento …

Conceptualizing Mediation Use By Patrol Police Officers, Christopher C. Cooper

Christopher C. Cooper Dr.

Police officers assigned to patrol duties, in America's big cities in particular, can mediate disputes to which they respond; as well as should make referrals to mediation\conflict resolution centers. When police officers employ excellent social interaction and problem solving skills, situations are de-escalated; the safety of officers and citizens alike is better insured and positive police-citizen interaction is achieved.

Inventory Changes And The Closing Of Econometric Models, Riccardo Fiorito

riccardo fiorito

Inventory changes can help econometric models to balance the supply and the demand side and to endogenize utilization variables without resorting to an arbitrary potential output estimate. Both results stem from formulating inventory-augmented production functions in which inventory changes act as a stationary ECM mechanism between value added and final sales. The empirical implementation refers to the Italian Treasury Econometric Model (ITEM) in which inventory changes are obtained as residuals from endogenous value added and spending components.

Inventory Changes And The Closing Of Macroeconometric Models, Riccardo Fiorito

riccardo fiorito

Inventory changes can help econometric models to balance the supply and demand side of the aggregate economy. This occurs formulating inventory-augmented production functions that apply to sectotal value added and allowing to obtain an endogenous GDP. Spending components are also endogenous and inventory changes are obtained as the difference between the estimated aggregate supply and demand.

Oil And Product Price Dynamics In International Petroleum Markets, Alessandro Lanza, Matteo Manera, Massimo Giovannini

Matteo Manera

In this paper we investigate crude oil and products price dynamics. We present a comparison among ten price series of crude oils and fourteen price series of petroleum products, considering four distinct market areas (Mediterranean, North Western Europe, Latin America and North America) over the period 1994-2002. We provide first a complete analysis of crude oil and product price dynamics using cointegration and error correction models. Subsequently we use the error correction specification to predict crude oil prices over the horizon January 2002-June 2002.The main findings of the paper can be summarized as follows: a) differences in quality are crucial …

Star-Garch Models For Stock Market Interactions In The Pacific Basin Region, Japan And Us, Giorgio Busetti, Matteo Manera

Matteo Manera

We investigate the financial interactions between countries in the Pacific Basin region (Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan), Japan and US. The originality of the paper is the use of STAR-GARCH models, instead of standard correlationcointegration techniques. For each country in the Pacific Basin region, we find statistically adequate STAR-GARCH models for the series of stock market daily returns, using Nikkei225 and S&P500 as alternative threshold variables. We provide evidence for the leading role of Japan in the period 1988-1990 (pre-Japanese crisis years), whereas our results suggest that the Pacific Basin region countries are more closely linked with the …

Modelling The Load Curve Of Aggregate Electricity Consumption Using Principal Components, Matteo Manera, Angelo Marzullo

Matteo Manera

Since oil is a non-renewable resource with a high environmental impact, and its most common use is to produce combustibles for electricity, reliable methods for modelling electricity consumption can contribute to a more rational employment of this hydrocarbon fuel. In this paper we apply the Principal Components (PC) method to modelling the load curves of Italy, France and Greece on hourly data of aggregate electricity consumption. The empirical results obtained with the PC approach are compared with those produced by the Fourier and constrained smoothing spline estimators. The PC method represents a much simpler and attractive alternative to modelling electricity …

Synthesis Of 3- Or 4-Phenyl-1,8-Naphthyridine Derivatives And Evaluation Of Antimycobacterial And Antimicrobial Activity, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

No abstract provided.

Environmental Perceptions And Environmental Reality: When More Is Less, Philip E. Graves

PHILIP E GRAVES

There is no abstract for this article.

Non-Optimal Levels Of Suburbanization, Philip E. Graves

PHILIP E GRAVES

Suburbanization has many causes, among which is the attempt to relocate to acquire a more desirable vector of local public goods. The traditional economists' procedure for valuing public goods involves vertical aggregation of marginal willingness to pay, at a given income level. This approach is flawed by failing to recognize that individuals will not work for goods that cannot be acquired individually with higher incomes. There will be a parallel input market failure any time there is a public good output market failure, thus the `given income' of the traditional valuation method is too low. Hence, traditional valuation methods result …

I Don't Know, Philip E. Graves

PHILIP E GRAVES

This is a non-fiction novel, titled I Don't Know. I is in three parts, the first economic (which will seem "liberal" to most), the second political (which will seem "conservative" to most), and the third theological (which will seem weird to most). I think you will find it a fun read, and feel free to distribute it at will.

Princípios Do Direito À Cidade: Território Da Cidadania, Rafael De Oliveira Alves, José Luiz Quadros De Magalhães

Rafael de Oliveira Alves

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Historical Development Of Islamic Libraries Internationally And In South Africa : A Case Study Of The Islamic Library In Gatesville, Roldah Adams

Roldah Adams

The purpose of the study was to examine the historical development of Islamic libraries internationally and in South Africa and to examine the Islamic Library in Gatesville as a case study in order to understand in which way communities have sought to provide a solution for adequate library facilities for the specific needs of the Muslim community in the greater Cape Town area. The following objectives are derived from this purpose, namely to examine the:

-- Historical development of Islamic libraries internationally and in South Africa

-- Historical background of the Islamic Library in Gatesville

-- Services rendered at the …

Wildlife Knowledge Among Migrants In Southern Sumatra, Indonesia: Implications For Conservation, Philip J. Nyhus, Sumianto Tilson, Ronald Tilson

Philip J. Nyhus

The value of traditional ecological knowledge for biodiversity research and conservation is widely recognized. The value of wildlife knowledge provided by recent migrants is less clear. Photographs of 10 mammal species were shown to 622 individuals in communities near Way Kambas National Park in Sumatra, Indonesia, to assess wildlife knowledge among recent migrants and to identify socio-economic variables that can be used to identify more knowledgeable informants. Knowledge scores were categorized by taxonomic family, genus and species. Large, charismatic and abundant animals were identified more frequently than smaller and more secretive animals. Higher knowledge scores were significantly associated with males, …

Dangerous Animals In Captivity: Ex Situ Tiger Conflict And Implication For Private Ownership Of Exotic Animals, Philip J. Nyhus, Ronald L. Tilson, J L. Tomlinson

Philip J. Nyhus

The risks associated with tiger attacks on people in the wild are well documented. There may currently be more tigers in captivity than in the wild, but relatively little is known about the risks of injury or death associated with owning and managing captive tigers and other large carnivores. The purpose of this study was to conduct a global assessment of attacks by captive tigers on people, with particular emphasis on cases in the United States. Our analysis of 30 international media sources and additional documents uncovered 59 unique incidents in 1998-2001 in which people were reportedly injured or killed …

Review Of Reviewing The Movies: A Christian Response To Contemporary Film, Rory Patterson

Rory Patterson

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Teaching Experience (2003 - Present), Chin-Chung Chao

Chin-Chung Chao

Teaching Interests: Organizational Communication; Leadership; Public Speaking; Communication & Theory; Interpersonal Communication; Intercultural Communication; Small Group Communication; Interviewing, and Qualitative & Quantitative Research Methods; Mass Communication Research; Communication for Business and Professions