Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are increasingly used in the United Kingdom's public facilities and services provision through the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). Despite some casualties, PPP/PFI projects have been undertaken successfully, but the reasons for success are not entirely clear....

Is inflation ‘always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon’ or is it fundamentally a fiscal phenomenon? This article augments a standard monetary model to incorporate fiscal details and credit market frictions. These ingredients allow for both interpretations of the inflation process in a...

This paper presents an all-digital real-time co-simulation platform of refined Wind Energy Conversion System (WECS) model. The proposed platform is based on the Real-time Digital Simulator (RTDS) and FAST developed by National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The detailed generator and...

Wireless Sensor Network Service Applications (WSAs) are playing an important role in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), which bridge the gap between WSN and existing widely deployed Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) technologies. Function properties of WSN services are important, which assure...