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Water‐Energy Nexus: Benchmarking the Energy Efficiency of Drinking Water Treatment Plants Accounting for Heterogeneity

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The assessment of energy efficiency in water facilities is receiving increasing attention as a key strategy in the transition toward an energy‐neutral urban water cycle. This study evaluates the energy efficiency of 146 drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs) in Chile by applying a latent class stochastic frontier analysis (LCSFA) to account ...
Alexandros Maziotis   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The gravity equation with micro-founded trade costs [PDF]

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Gravity Equations are broadly used to estimate the impacts of trade impediments on trade flows. It is often stated that results are implausibly high. In theoretical foundations of the gravity equation, trade costs usually enter as icebergmelting-costs ...
Rudolph, Stephan
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Project Management Methodologies of International Development Agencies and the Concept of Sustainable Project Management

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores to what extent the ideas and notions of sustainable project management (SPM) are reflected in the project management methodologies of three selected international development agencies. A conceptual framework is developed, and a deductive content analysis is performed.
Jan Christoph Albrecht   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Productivity Growth, Bounded Marginal Utility, and Patterns of Trade [PDF]

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The workhorse model of the New Trade Theory fails to explain four strong and central patterns of postwar trade data. These patterns are, first, the massive increase in trade volumes, second, the small fraction of traded varieties the average country ...
Philip Sauré
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Sustainability Practices by the Banking Sector to Support Small Organizations Toward SDG 9

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The banking sector plays a critical role in fostering sustainability by directing capital toward environmentally and socially responsible projects. Yet, there is a perceived need for studies that shed some light on their activities in this field.
Walter Leal Filho   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Antimicrobial resistance, equity and justice in low- and middle-income countries: an intersectional critical interpretive synthesis. [PDF]

open access: yesNat Commun
Davis K   +25 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Financial choice in a non-Ricardian model of trade [PDF]

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We join the new trade theory with a model of choice between bank and bond financing to show the differential effects of financial policy on the distribution of firm size, welfare, aggregate output, gains from trade, and the real exchange rate in a small ...
Diego Valderrama, Katheryn N. Russ
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Crime, Gender and Policing: The Role of Women Officers in Addressing Gender‐Based Violence in India

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether an increased presence of women in Indian police forces results in enhanced justice for victims of gender‐based crimes and improves the overall effectiveness and responsiveness of the police. It employs focus group discussions and qualitative system dynamics modelling to examine the dynamics of women in law ...
Kandaswamy Paramasivan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biomimicry-Based Design of Underground Cold Storage Facilities: Energy Efficiency and Sustainability. [PDF]

open access: yesBiomimetics (Basel)
Kshirsagar M   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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