A New Mode for Medium and Long-Term Electricity Trade Based on Standardized Futures
Zhongguo dianli, 2021 The electricity futures are a kind of electricity financial contract that can effectively lower the trading risk in the electricity spot market. With the advance of China's electricity market reform, the marketization degree of electricity trade is ...
Junqiang SHI, Zeyu LIU, Donghan FENG
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Multinationals and futures hedging: An optimal stopping approach [PDF]
, 2010 This paper examines the optimal design of a futures hedge program for a risk-averse multinational firm (MNF) under exchange rate uncertainty. All currency futures contracts are marked to market and require interim cash settlement of gains and losses. The
Meng, R, Wong, KP
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Co-design as a Networked Approach to Designing Educational Futures
Postdigital Science and Education, 2023 Design is a contested term, and this has implications for designing educational futures. Described through five senses to elucidate its complexity, design can be conceptualised as domain, as process, as plan, as the resulting product, and as the ...
D. Wardak, Stephanie Wilson, S. Zeivots
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Designing for Irrelevance [PDF]
, 2016 My job title is ‘designer’ but I’m reluctant to describe myself as a designer for a number of reasons: first, because the practice has a lot to answer for; and second, because I don’t do a whole lot of design.
Scott-Kemmis, Will Owen
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A journey to literacy in design futures: Revelations from the global south
The Design JournalThis study explores an experimental pedagogical approach to design futures by analyzing three speculative scenarios and artefacts demonstrating novelty in envisioning the future.
Hadassah Myers
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Comparing gate and annealing-based quantum computing for configuration-based design tasks
Design ScienceComplete exploration of design spaces is often computationally prohibitive. Classical search methods offer a solution but are limited by challenges like local optima and an inability to traverse dislocated design spaces.
Oliver Schiffmann +2 more
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Envisioning Futures of Design Education: An Exploratory Workshop with Design Educator [PDF]
, 2018 The demand for innovation in the creative economy has seen the adoption and adaptation of design thinking and design methods into domains outside design, such as business management, education, healthcare, and engineering.
Lotz, Nicole +2 more
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Exploring the Roles of Artifacts in Speculative Futures: Perspectives in HCI
SystemsIn an era where technology increasingly blurs the boundaries between humans and machines, artifacts have become crucial mediums for critically examining the technological, social, and ethical dimensions of Human–Computer Interaction (HCI).
Lin Zhu, Jiayue Wang, Jiawei Li
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In silico engineering of Pseudomonas metabolism reveals new biomarkers for increased biosurfactant production [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background Rhamnolipids, biosurfactants with a wide range of biomedical applications, are amphiphilic molecules produced on the surfaces of or excreted extracellularly by bacteria including Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Annalisa Occhipinti +4 more
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Games as speculative design:allowing players to consider alternate presents and plausible futures [PDF]
, 2016 As games are inherently about exploring alternative worlds this paper proposes the utilisation of games as a medium for speculative design through which players can explore scenarios that represent plausible alternative presents and speculative futures ...
Burnett, Dan +2 more
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