Parcourir par sujet "Economic and social effects"
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Energy modelling and the Nexus concept
(2018)The Nexus concept is the interconnection between the resources energy, water, food, land and climate. Such interconnections enable to address trade-offs and seek for synergies among them. Several policy areas (e.g. bio-based ... -
Estimating the benefits of increasing the recycling rate of lamps from the domestic sector: Methodology, opportunities and case study
(2020)The scope of this paper is to identify the benefits of lamp recycling from the domestic sector. Data related to the recycled lamps was obtained from two recycling companies and were compared to those related to the waste ... -
Examining gender differences of social media use for activity planning and travel choices
(2020)Background: The explosive growth of social media has rendered them powerful communication channels. User generated content is an important source of inspiration and influence among web friends, it generates new activities ... -
Exploiting trust, influence, and physical proximity for improving routing performance in vehicular ad hoc networks: The SCALE protocol
(2022)Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are receiving increased attention, and several routing protocols have been proposed already by the research community. In such a framework, social aspects and human mobility are important ... -
Feature models for big data applications: Modeling big data applications by applying feature models
(2018)Modeling Big Data Applications is a key research topic for designing, analyzing, programming and deploying data-intensive applications, with high value and long-term trade-offs. The need for unified perspectives, architectures ... -
FutureFarm: Addressing the needs of the European farm of the future: Findings of the first two years
(2010)In the future, European farmers will have to effectively manage information on and off their farms to improve economic viability and to reduce environmental impact. To this end, an integrated information system is needed ... -
Fuzzy cognitive map-based modeling of social acceptance to overcome uncertainties in establishing waste biorefinery facilities
(2018)Sustainable Waste Biorefinery Facilities (WBFs) represent multifactorial systems that necessitate the organization, cooperation and the acceptance of different social stakeholders. However, these attempts have become targets ... -
Green video delivery in LTE-based heterogeneous cellular networks
(2015)In this paper we present an optimization framework that formalizes the inherent trade-off between the user perceived quality of wireless video, and the energy consumption cost of the network. The former is formulated in ... -
Heuristics for iterative detailed standard cell placement
(2016)In cell placement a number of cells with rectangular shapes, must be placed inside a chip area so that no cells overlap and a target function is optimized. In standard cell placement all rectangles have the same width and ... -
Illumination, data transmission, and energy harvesting: The threefold advantage of VLC
(2017)Visible light communication (VLC) is a promising technology that meets illumination and information transmission requirements in an indoor environment. Because light waves convey energy, a VLC link may exploit that fact ... -
The impact of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on economic growth: the case of Greece
(2020)This study empirically investigates the relationship between renewable and non-renewable energy consumption and economic growth in Greece, using annual data from 1990 to 2016. The results reveal that there is a significant ... -
Instruction-based timing analysis in pipelined processors
(2019)Traditional timing analysis techniques for microprocessor design are based on the static analysis approach, in which clock frequency is set in accord with the worst-case delay in the processor circuit operation, regardless ... -
Investigating the role and potential impact of social media on mobility behavior
(2019)Social media are considered as a major communications channel for information exchange, opinion statement, social network enabling, decisions influencing and business promotion. New activities can be triggered by web friends ... -
Investigation and trade-offs in 3DIC partitioning methodologies: N/A
(2019)In this work, we compare alternative 3DIC partitioning methodologies, in terms of slack, number of inter-tier vias, Tier Area Ratio (TAR) and HPWL design parameters. The popular 3DIC postplacement, bin-based Fidducia-Mattheyses ... -
Investigation on Performance, Power, Area Trade-Offs using Deterministic and Monte-Carlo Process Variation Aware Synthesis Flows
(2022)Process variation has proven to be one of the higher impacting factors in modern Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) flows Quality of Results (QoR). On the one hand, the excessive MOSFET shrinking, in combination ... -
The joint effect of water price changes and pressure management, at the economic annual real losses level, on the system input volume of a water distribution system
(2015)This study attempts to examine the factors affecting the residential water demand level in the city of Kozani in Greece. Based on an 8-year (2005-12) detailed sample of residential water demand panel data, the values of ... -
Landscape protection and management in Greece: Problems, perspectives, and policies
(2003)An assessment of all actors involved to make suggestions for the establishment of the adequate bodies, services and mechanisms that would help for a new landscape strategy and policy in Greece was presented. The renewal ... -
Lca-based environmental performance of olive cultivation in northwestern greece: from rainfed to irrigated through conventional and smart crop management practices
(2021)Olive cultivation is expanding rapidly in the northwestern part of Greece, under both rainfed and irrigated practices. Irrigation can result in larger yields and economic returns, but trade-offs in the water–energy–pollution ... -
The legal framework for the establishment of the National Marine Park of Zakynthos: A context for the conciliation of environmental protection and economic development
(2003)The Presidential Decree for the Establishment of the NMPZ is a first attempt in Greece for the configuration of a legal framework combining the needs for environmental protection and economic prosperity. This aim is achieved ... -
Measuring the Effect of Economic Growth on Countries’ Environmental Efficiency: A Conditional Directional Distance Function Approach
(2017)Using a recently developed probabilistic approach of a conditional directional distance function, we measure the effect of economic growth on countries’ environmental efficiency in carbon dioxide emissions for a sample of ...