To promote the benign development of China's power industry in terms of efficiency improvement and environmental protection, China's power industry needs to ameliorate the market and environmental technical efficiency urgently. Based on the internal mechanism of production-supply in power...

We evaluate the impact of government spending efficiency on fiscal sustainability for a panel of 35 OECD countries during the period of 2007-2020. To answer our research question we first compute the magnitude of the responses of government revenues to changes in government spending. Next, we...

This study used descriptive statistics, budgetary analysis, and stochastic profit function to analyze data collected from 120 catfish fingerlings producers in Edo State, Nigeria to examine the profitability and profit efficiency of their production. Results from the study show that catfish...

Decarbonization is a huge challenge for the entire world, as well as for shipping industry. Energy efficiency improvements are an important part of the GHG reductions, and new possibilities for this emerge especially in the field of waste heat recovery, once the industry is transferring into...

This paper proposes a complete convolutional formulation for 2D multimodal pairwise image registration problems based on free-form deformations. We have reformulated in terms of discrete 1D convolutions the evaluation of spatial transformations, the regularization term, and their gradients for...