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Declining Discount Rates: Evidence from the UK [PDF]

, 2005
We estimate schedules of declining discount rates for cost benefit analysis in the UK. We highlight the importance of model selection for this task and hence for the evaluation of long-term investments, namely climate change prevention and nuclear build.
Groom, Ben, Koundouri, Phoebe, Panopoulou, Ekaterini, Pantelidis, Theologos   +3 more
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In Situ Change in Contact Angle of a Sessile Droplet on a Magnetoactive Elastomer

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Contact angles of persistent μL$\mu{\rm L}$‐sized water droplets on a mechanically soft MAE surface under time varying magnetic fields differ from those of newly deposited droplets. The ability to quickly alter the material properties allows one to observe intriguing droplet‐material interactions.
Raphael Kriegl, Alexander Kovalev, Stanislav Gorb, Mikhail Shamonin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scalable Task Planning via Large Language Models and Structured World Representations

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This work efficiently combines graph‐based world representations with the commonsense knowledge in Large Language Models to enhance planning techniques for the large‐scale environments that modern robots will need to face. Planning methods often struggle with computational intractability when solving task‐level problems in large‐scale environments ...
Rodrigo Pérez‐Dattari, Zhaoting Li, Robert Babuška, Jens Kober, Cosimo Della Santina   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Multidirectional Textile Interface for Remote Control Using Dynamic Area‐Based Capacitance Modulation

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Here, we present a textile, wearable capacitive interface enabling multidirectional remote control by dynamically modulating electrode overlap and spacing via a freely gliding upper electrode. A forearm‐mounted prototype drives robotic and media tasks with 12–15 ms latency, maintains < 0.8% drift after 500 cycles, and remains stably functional at 90 ...
Cagatay Gumus, Fulya Yenilmez, Kadir Ozlem, Hakan Kestir, Eren Tasdemir, Berkant Bakisli, Gökhan Ince, Ozgur Atalay, Asli Tuncay Atalay   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
wiley   +1 more source

Performance–Complexity Trade‐Offs in Battery Lifetime Prediction with Task‐Aware Transformers

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
FAST‐BatPro integrates convolutional feature extraction, flash Attention, and sparse attention for efficient battery lifetime prediction. Using limited early‐cycle data across multiple chemistries and operating conditions, it achieves robust accuracy while reducing inference latency, computational cost, and energy consumption.
Jingyuan Zhao, Misheng Cai, Zhenghong Wang, Yan Wang, Yuqi Li, Bo Dong, Hewu Wang, Andrew F. Burke, Simona Onori, Stephen J. Harris   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

A critical view on benefit-cost analyses of silvicultural management options with declining discount rates

Forest Policy and Economics, 2017
Abstract The long planning perspective is one of the unique features of forestry. How to value money flows expected in the far distant future is therefore a crucial question. Applying time declining discount rates (DDR) may offer an appropriate alternative to conventional discounting, but few studies have applied DDRs in forest economics.
Thomas Knoke, Carola Paul, Fabian Härtl
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Insights Into CO2 Loss, pH Effects, and Tafel Kinetics in Ni Single Atom‐Driven Bicarbonate Electroreduction

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Selective CO formation in bicarbonate electrolysis is achieved by retaining reactive CO2 and tuning pH, while the competing hydrogen evolution reaction occurs at the interface. The rate‐determining step couples the chemical equilibrium of bicarbonate/CO2 with electrochemical charge transfer, offering insight into optimizing reaction conditions for ...
Lin Li, Yi‐Jie Kong, Ting Zhang, Xu Han, Kristine Aalestrup, Steen Uttrup Pedersen, Xin‐Ming Hu, Kim Daasbjerg   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Extra Climate Benefits From Afforestation Due to Reduced Forest Fragmentation in China

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Afforestation in China reduced forest fragmentation in 2015, transforming 51.8 M ha of edge forests into interior forests. This enhanced carbon sequestration (1.4±0.2 Pg CO2e, a cooling biogeochemical effect), while reduced albedo (−0.9 Pg CO2e, a warming biophysical effect) partially offset the gain, yielding a net extra climate benefit of ...
Nan Meng, Wei Li, Philippe Ciais, Martin Brandt, Xiaowei Tong, Yanzheng Yang, Guofeng Shen, Wei Du, Lei Zhu, Yi Leng, Minxuan Sun, Mengjie Han, Xuemei Zhang, Jie Zhang, Nan Wang, Dan Tong, Chao Wu, Wenhao Dong, Shu Tao, Bo Pan   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Automated Extraction of Multicomponent Alloy Data Using Large Language Models for Sustainable Design

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A large language model (LLM) based pipeline is developed to automatically extract a comprehensive and accurate multicomponent alloy database from literature corpus. The extracted dataset is integrated with sustainability indicators to identify potential alloys that outperform existing industrial benchmark materials in terms of both performance and ...
Aravindan Kamatchi Sundaram, Mohit Chakraborty, Sai Mani Kumar Devathi, B. Pabitramohan Prusty, Rohit Batra   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source