A large fraction of the total electric load is comprised of end-use devices whose energy demand is inherently deferrable in time. Of interest is the potential to leverage on such latent flexibility in demand to absorb variability in power supplied from intermittent renewable generation. The challenge, however, lies in designing incentives to reliably induce the desired response in demand. To th...

Th is paper investigates the role of information technology in fi nancial reporting as well as the relationship between using information technology and its impact on the quality of fi nancial reporting. To identify the impact of information technology on quality of fi nancial reporting, a questionnaire was designed and developed. In order to test the hypotheses, T-Test, ANOVA and Duncan’s Test...

The level 1 highest weight modules of the quantum affine algebra Uq(ŝln) can be described as spaces of certain semi-infinite wedges. Using a q-antisymmetrization procedure, these semi-infinite wedges can be realized inside an infinite tensor product of evaluation modules. This realization gives rise to simple descriptions of vertex operators and (up to a scalar function) their compositions. 1 R...

The magnetic vortices which arise in SU(2) lattice gauge theory in center projection are visualized for a given time slice. We establish that the number of vortices piercing a given 2-dimensional sheet is a renormalization group invariant and therefore physical quantity. We find that roughly 2 vortices pierce an area of 1 fm. ∗ Supported in part by DFG under contract Re 856/1–3.

We consider a vertically related market where one quantity-setting and another price-setting downstream firm negotiate the terms of two-part tariff contract with an upstream input supplier. In contrast to traditional belief, we show that produces higher output earns profit than when bargaining is decentralised. Additionally, both firms produce same output, whereas under centralised.

Low- and middle-income countries are striving towards universal health coverage in a variety of ways. Achieving this goal requires the participation of both public and the private sector providers. The study sought to assess existing capacity for independent general practitioner contracting in primary care, the reasons for the low uptake of government national contract and the expectations of g...

In judicial practice, the applicable standards of legal relations in such cases civil disputes caused by takeaway riders are not uniform, and it is faced with problem how to evaluate new labor rights protection. Therefore, this paper starts specific judgment, analyzes status provider under platform economic model through attribute theory, clarifies identify relationship between platform. On bas...

In this paper, we investigate whether a pro-environmental framing influences households' stated willingness to accept restrictions on their electricity use. We use split-sample choice experiment and ask respondents choose between current contract hypothetical contracts featuring various load controls monetary compensation. Our results indicate that the makes marginally less likely prefer contra...

This study aimed to explore non-verbal executive processes in simultaneous interpreters. Simultaneous interpreters, bilinguals without any training in simultaneous interpreting, and control monolinguals performed the Wisconsin card sorting task (WCST; Experiment 1) and the Simon task (Experiment 2). Performance on WCST was thought to index cognitive flexibility while Simon task performance was ...