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Demand charges reduction with photovoltaics in industry
HeliyonDemand charges are widely used for commercial and industrial consumers. These costs are often not well known, let alone the effects that PV can have on them.
Ángel Ordóñez +3 more
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Are prices enough? The economics of material demand reduction. [PDF]
Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci, 2017 Recent policy proposals to achieve carbon targets have emphasized material demand reduction strategies aimed at achieving material efficiency. We provide a bridge between the way economists and engineers think about efficiency. We use the tools of economics to think about policies directed at material efficiency and to evaluate the role and rationale ...
Aidt T, Jia L, Low H.
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Developing competencies for drug demand reduction [PDF]
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2008 Since the last quarter of the 20th Century, public policies in different countries have highlighted the goal of reducing the demand for legal and illegal drugs. The same orientation is followed by international organizations which, allied to governments, are developing programs to facilitate the achievement of this goal.
Mendes, Isabel Amélia Costa +1 more
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Making demand reductions permanent [PDF]
Nature Energy, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic led to drastic adjustments in how people live and work, resulting in substantial reductions in energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. New research shows how energy and climate policy can capitalize on these changes to achieve long-term emission reduction.
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Feedback in energy-demand reduction [PDF]
Building Research & Information, 2018 The development of domestic network services (gas, electricity, water, telephone etc.) has gone hand in hand with methods of metering and payment that prioritized consumer convenience over control;...
Kathryn Buchanan +2 more
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Implementing failure demand reduction as part of a demand management strategy [PDF]
Public Money & Management, 2021 Police forces, like much of the UK public sector, have struggled to meet the demand placed upon them because of real-term funding cuts and increases in some types of demand. Where increases in resource are not possible, attention has to be paid to the reduction of demand or the increase in effective capacity through efficiency gains.
Morris, Gareth, Walley, Paul
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Conservation Science and Practice, 2022 Wildlife trade threatens global taxa. While interest in consumer behavior is increasing, such studies are scarce, particularly for plants and fungi, around questions of consumer characteristics, preferences, and perceptions.
Jun He +5 more
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Conservation Science and Practice, 2020 The unsustainable wildmeat trade has been long recognized as a threat to wildlife. Yet, its impact on marine species has been underresearched. Sea turtles have been historically threatened by unsustainable trade, but there are few studies of consumer ...
Diogo Veríssimo +4 more
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Discouraging the Demand That Fosters Sex Trafficking: Collaboration through Augmented Intelligence
Societies, 2023 Augmented intelligence—as the fusion of human and artificial intelligence—is effectively being employed in response to a spectrum of risks and crimes that stem from the online sexual exploitation marketplace.
Marcel Van der Watt
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On-demand compute reduction with stochastic wav2vec 2.0
Interspeech 2022, 2022 submitted to Interspeech ...
Apoorv Vyas +3 more
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