Using the panel data of 27 provinces between 1978 and 2008, we employed a instrumental regression technique to examine the relationship between economic growth, energy demand/production and the related policies in China. The empirical results show that forming a cross-province integrated energy market will in general reduce the response of equilibrium user costs of energy products to their loca...

The ability to model objects composed of multiple materials has become increasingly more demanded in scientific applications. The visualization of a discrete multi-material volume often suffers from voxelization of the boundary between materials. We propose a contouring method that can be efficiently implemented on the GPU to reduce the artifacts and jaggedness along the material boundaries. Ou...

The problem of business-ICT alignment lays in the difficulty of matching needs and requirements of customers over certain ICT services with the offered ICT services of suppliers. Our aim is to provide clearly determined factors and guidelines that characterize the optimal alignment in the ICT domain. To do so, we combine the e3-value methodology with the so-called service ontology. The resulted...

the current research aims to study the industrial and technological concerns within transfer process of high-tech regarding the technology readiness levels (trls). the importance of the subject is emphasized because different trls have special considerations and the risks of high-tech transfer can be reduced considering them. the main goal of this study is to identify and rank the industrial an...

common heat transfer fluids such as water, ethylene glycol, and engine oil have limited heat transfer capabilities due to their low heat transfer properties. nanofluids are suspensions of nanoparticles in base fluids, a new challenge for thermal sciences provided by nanotechnology. in this study, we are to optimize and report the effects of various parameters such as the ratio of the thermal co...