Adsorption cooling is a promising technology that can effectively utilize waste heat from many industrial processes for refrigeration and air conditioning. Commercially available adsorption systems are based on silica gel/water, zeolites/water and activated carbon/ammonia pairs. These suffer...

Efficient thermal management in portable electronic devices is necessary to ensure sufficiently low operating temperatures for reliability, increased installed functions, and user comfort. Using Phase Change Materials (PCMs) based heat sinks offers potential in these applications. However, PCMs...

Organic Rankine Cycle converts low grade heat sources into power utilizing organic fluids with low boiling temperature and pressure. In this cycle the design and performance of the expander has a significant impact on the cycle's overall efficiency. This work presents an integrated mathematical...

We study the effect that a series of fundamentalist-Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe had on the attitudes of Muslim immigrants in the Netherlands towards integration. Shortly after the attacks, Muslim immigrants' perceived integration, as measured by various indicators, decreased...

Using data from the UK Skills Surveys, we show that the part-time pay penalty for female workers within low- and medium-skilled occupations decreased significantly over the period 1997-2006. The convergence in computer use between part-time and full-time workers within these occupations explains...