For decades, economists have debated the price-rounding effect on the economy if the penny is eliminated. Deviating from the bulk of the literature, which typically considers case-studies with empirical simulations and data manipulation, I evaluate a multiple household, deterministic model with...

This paper proposes a coexistence model for two independent companies both operating hydropower plants in the same river flow, based on a case study of the Cetina river basin in Croatia. Companies are participants of the day-ahead electricity market. The incumbent company owns the existing...

This paper presents an outline methodology and an operational framework for assessing and mapping the risk of death or serious harm to people from flooding, covering death and physical injuries as a direct and immediate consequence of deep and/or fast flowing floodwaters (usually by drowning),...

A simple deterministic model is proposed to represent the basic aspects concerning the effects of different antiretroviral treatment schedules on HIV incidence and prevalence of affected populations. The model mimics current treatment guidelines applied in Brazil. However, the model does not...

Using very symmetric graphs we generalize several deterministic self-similar models of complex networks and we calculate the main network parameters of our generalization. More specifically, we calculate the order, size and the degree distribution, and we give an upper bound for the diameter and...

The high frequency of landslide hazards has caused great human casualties and economic losses in recent years around the world. Among the current available approaches to assess landslide hazard, deterministic approach provides the best quantitative information on landslide hazard which can be...