Robust design of microgrids using a hybrid minimum investment optimization
EnergyStar++: Towards more accurate and explanatory building energy benchmarking
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd Building energy performance benchmarking has been adopted widely in the USA and Canada through the Energy Star Portfolio Manager platform. Building operations and energy management professionals have long used this simple 1–100 score to understand how their building compares to its peers. This single number is easy to use but is...
The effect of landowner amenity rents in conservation easement policies
This paper examines landowner and societal motivations behind land conservation, and specifically conservation easement policy. Andreoni (1988) and others have shown that people receive a “warm glow” when they contribute to public goods. This raises the question of how much society should pay for conservation when private landowners have a warm glo...
Die Kosten für „orphan drugs“ – eine europäische Perspektive
Published in Pädiatrie & Pädologie
In hochentwickelten Gesundheitssystemen können auch hohe Kosten von Innovationen immer integriert werden. Die Konsequenzen aus der Orphanisierung in Diagnostik und Therapie verlangen aber strikte Selbstdisziplin. Beide – die hohen Kosten und die Orphanisierung – erfordern ein effektives Management und eine Abkehr von Einzelfallentscheidungen. Vorau...
Is migration a unique field of study in social sciences? A response to Levy, Pisarevskaya, and Scholten
Published in Comparative Migration Studies
The emergence of a new research field or area of study in the social sciences always is fraught with controversy, fits and starts, theoretical, methodological, and even epistemological debates. Migration studies is no different, but some things are relatively unique about this ‘new’ field of study, while others are more conventional. The article on...
What do scientists and managers know about soil biodiversity? Comparative knowledge mapping for sustainable forest manag...
status: published
Forecast Error Variance Decompositions with Local Projections
© 2019 American Statistical Association. We propose and study properties of an estimator of the forecast error variance decomposition in the local projections framework. We find for empirically relevant sample sizes that, after being bias-corrected with bootstrap, our estimator performs well in simulations. We also illustrate the workings of our es...
Cost-effectiveness of adrenaline for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
...Published in Critical Care
BackgroundThe ‘Prehospital Assessment of the Role of Adrenaline: Measuring the Effectiveness of Drug Administration In Cardiac Arrest’ (PARAMEDIC2) trial showed that adrenaline improves overall survival, but not neurological outcomes. We sought to determine the within-trial and lifetime health and social care costs and benefits associated with adre...
Socio-economic and psychological impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on private practice and public hospital radiologists.
Published in European journal of radiology
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an urgent reorganisation of the healthcare system to prevent hospitals from overflowing and the virus from spreading. Our objective was to evaluate the socioeconomic and psychological impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on radiologists. French radiologists were invited to answer an online survey during the pandemic thro...
The nexus of environmental sustainability and agro-economic performance of Sub-Saharan African countries
Published in Heliyon
Environmental science; Economics; Agricultural value added; Urbanization; Total natural rent; Carbon emissions; Sub-Saharan African countries.
