Economic models of climate change often take the problem seriously, but paradoxically conclude that the optimal policy is to do almost nothing about it. We explore this paradox as seen in the widely used DICE model. Three aspects of that model, involving the discount rate, the assumed benefits of moderate warming, and the treatment of the latest climate science, explain the timidity of the mode...

Nowadays, critical infrastructures are highly integrated with state-of-the-art information and communication technologies to enhance their efficiency. Due to farreaching societal and economic impacts caused by failure or malfunction of critical infrastructures, cyber security and self-healing capability are among their salient features. A new security paradigm referred to as intrusion tolerance...

This paper deals with an efficiency of current municipal expenditure on environmental protection and suggests a methodology for assessing this efficiency. A proposal of methodological procedure for evaluating efficiency of municipal environmental protection expenditure uses multi-criteria evaluation, where a dominant criterion of performance is modified method of Costeffectiveness analysis. It ...

This white paper examines the application of managing Microsoft SQL Server in a storage environment utilizing multiple storage configurations to optimize performance costeffectiveness of storage allocations. Practical examples are provided of automated data movement between storage tiers to meet performance requirements for SQL Server databases and cost-effectiveness of EMC Symmetrix VMAXTM res...

While there is growing attention to language as a central issue in education for refugees, this policy area still appears be dominated by an apolitical, technical, and instrumentalist perspective. Through comparison of language-in-education policies two refugee camp contexts, Kakuma Refugee Camp Kenya the camps along Thai-Myanmar border, paper demonstrates how are always deeply political nature...

The results of this project have lead to several improvements in the costeffectiveness of diet formulations and feeding schedules for channel catfish. Advancements in these areas will significantly improve production economics by reducing diet costs and increasing the eff iciency of feed utilization. The benefits obtained from these advancements will be substantial because over one-half of the ...