The central focus of the project is to optimize the energy and resource efficiency design for the proposed tall building: Blue Star, which is located in Chicago, as well as incorporating potential LEED credited features with it. Based on the weather analysis, some innovative energy efficient...

RESUME:Cette note évalue les conséquences de la politique des réserves obligatoires (ro) sur l’équilibrede long terme dans économie en développement à la Bencivenga et Smith (1992). Ces derniersmontrent que le taux des réserves obligatoires optimal est constant. Dans cette...

Flood control decisions are often involved with quantitative and qualitative criteria. In this paper, a decision model is presented for flood control operations based on the theory of variable fuzzy sets. Using dual comparison, two models computing relative membership grades with qualitative and...

This paper describes the World Bank's technical assistance and lending efforts in support of developing countries facing power shortages. The paper reviews the World Bank's experience in helping governments to mitigate power shortages in Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Latin America regions....

Microscopic bouncing balls, i.e., particles confined within a positive one-half-dimensional gravitational potential, display Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC) not only in the thermodynamic limit but also in the case of a finite number of particles, and the critical temperature with a finite...