This study uses non-parametric distributional comparison tools to evaluate the equity effects of a transportation policy. I consider as a case study a congestion pricing plan for Stockholm, Sweden. This case is particularly relevant because the plan has been criticized for its potentially negative equity effects, and the literature is so-far inconclusive. The welfare effects for a sample of ind...

Harvesting energy from ambient vibration is proposed as an alternative to storage based power supplies for autonomous systems. The system presented converts the mechanical energy of a vibration into electrical energy by means of a variable capacitor, which is polarized by an electret. A lumped element model is used to study the generator and design a prototype. The device has been micromachined...

This paper studies how congestion in the public health sector can be used as a redistributive tool. In our model, agents differ in income and they can obtain a health service either from a congested public hospital or from a non congested private one at a higher price. With pure in-kind redistribution, agents fail to internalize their impact on congestion, and the demand for the public hospital...

This is the Lump team participation at SemEval 2017 Task 1 on Semantic Textual Similarity. Our supervised model relies on features which are multilingual or interlingual in nature. We include lexical similarities, cross-language explicit semantic analysis, internal representations of multilingual neural networks and interlingual word embeddings. Our representations allow to use large datasets i...

Vibration based techniques of structural damage detection using model updating method, are computationally expensive for large-scale structures. In this study, after locating precisely the eventual damage of a structure using modal strain energy based index (MSEBI), To efficiently reduce the computational cost of model updating during the optimization process of damage severity detection, the M...

The results of integrity narrowband and wideband lumped element circulators design methodology to the computer aided system microwave devices AWR Microwave Office are presented in article. calculation method narrow band circuits which consist serious shunt tuning capacities is investigated. simple visual ferrite isolators optimize based on circulation impedance described here. ultra circulator ...

An attempt has been made to simulate the temperature distribution in prostate cancer tissue during laser ablation using finite element approach. Parameter studies have been carried out. The results have been consolidated using tool of artificial intelligence-Artificial Neural Network. Feed forward back propagation network has been used for this purpose. It has been found that artificial neural ...