Rebound effects occur when improvements in energy efficiency stimulate the direct and indirect demand for energy in production and consumption. This phenomenon may act to partially or wholly erode potential energy savings. We extend on previous sensitivity analyses of rebound effects by examining whether the structure of the production function itself has an impact on the presence and magnitude...

Natural and man-made hazards may affect industrial production sites by both direct losses (due to physical damage to assets and buildings) and indirect losses (production losses). Indirect losses, e.g. from production downtimes, can exceed direct losses multiple times. Thus, the vulnerability of industrial sectors to indirect losses is an important component of risk and its determination is an ...

A general circulation model (GCM) of intermediate complexity (Planet Simulator) is subjected to an analysis of the entropy budget and its sensitivity. The entropy production is computed directly based on temperature and temperature tendencies and estimated indirectly based on boundary fluxes. For indirect estimates, the model shows reasonably good agreement with observations. The direct computa...

the objectives of this research were to investigate influences of energy inputs and energy forms on output levels and evaluation of co2 emissions for hazelnut production in guilan province of iran. moreover, the sensitivity analysis was done by marginal physical productivity (mpp) method for energy inputs and energy using linear regression. initial data were collected from 120 orchardists in se...

background determinants of health or health production function in health economics literature constitute noticeable issues in health promotion. this study aimed at estimating a health production function for east mediterranean region (emr) based on the grossman theoretical model.   methods this ecological study was performed using the econometric methods. the panel data model was used in order...

Biological conversion of solar energy into hydrogen is naturally realized by some microalgae species due to a coupling between the photosynthetic electron transport chain and a plastidial hydrogenase. While promising for the production of clean and sustainable hydrogen, this process requires improvement to be economically viable. Two pathways, called direct and indirect photoproduction, lead to...