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Concerns over the excessive use of mobile phones, especially among youths and young adults, are growing. We present, to our knowledge, the first estimates of both behavioral spillover and contextual peer effects, as well as the first comprehensive evidence of how own and peers' mobile app usage...
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We study the optimal design of subsidies in an equilibrium setting, where the decisions of individual recipients impose externalities on one another. We apply the model to the case of post‐Katrina rebuilding in New Orleans under the Louisiana Road Home rebuilding grant program (RH). We...
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Biomass-fueled combined cooling, heating, and power (CCHP) system is a sustainable distributed energy system to reduce fossil energy consumption and carbon dioxide emission. This study proposes a biomass CCHP system that contains a biomass gasifier, a heat pipe heat exchanger for recovering...
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How to choose an energy-efficient, environmentally friendly and economically affordable municipal solid waste (MSW) management system has been a major challenge to be taken up by decision makers. Although life cycle assessment (LCA) has been widely used for the evaluation of energy consumption...
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Vapor recompression heat pumps are used in distillation processes to reduce energy consumption. For sub-ambient distillation, one of the largest difficulties is to produce liquid reflux since the condensation of highly volatile components requires expensive refrigeration energy. Thermally...
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Failure of a component in BCHP (building cooling, heating and power) system may result in failure of a sub-system or of the whole system. The reliability and availability analysis of BCHP system is helpful to the designer to decide the redundancy in case of equipment failure. This paper presents...
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I develop and estimate a structural equilibrium model of the college market. Students, having heterogeneous abilities and preferences, make application decisions subject to uncertainty and application costs. Colleges, observing noisy measures of student ability, choose tuition and admissions...
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Biomass gasification based building cooling, heating, and power (BCHP) system is an effective way of increasing and improving the use of biomass resources and distributed generation. The key step in designing a BCHP plant is to determine the best configuration in terms of the integrated...
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