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Housing Price Hikes by Negative Real Interest Rate? A Difference-in-Difference Model Test on Hong Kong and Macau
No full textThe path to reform? Problematic treatments and patient experience in nineteenth-century female inebriate institutions
No full textA non-linear subdiffusion model for a cell-cell adhesion in chemotaxis
No full textThe purpose of this work is to propose a non-Markovian and nonlinear model of subdiffusive transport that involves adhesion affects the cells escape rates form position x, with chemotaxis. This leads the escape rates to be dependent on the particles density at the neighbours as well as the chemotactic gradient. We systematically derive subdiffusive fractional master equation, then we consider the diffusive limit of the fractional master equation. We finally solve the resulted fractional subdiffusive master equation stationery and analyse the role of adhesion in the resulted stationary density
Modelling, assessment and Sankey diagrams of integrated electricity-heat-gas networks in multi-vector district energy systems
Full text linkThe widespread use of decentralised multi-energy supply solutions such as gas-fired Combined Heat and Power (CHP), heat pumps, gas boilers, and so forth is more and more increasing the linkages between electricity, heat and gas distribution networks. However, there is currently no model able to model the three networks in an integrated manner and with a suitable level of detail for operational purposes. A multi-temporal simulation model, which has been implemented in a relevant MATLAB-Excel VBA tool, is presented in this paper to carry out integrated analysis of electricity, heat and gas distribution networks, with specific applications to multi-vector district energy systems. The network linkages have been modelled through a multi-vector efficiency matrix specifically developed to map the transformation of final demands into network energy flows while taking into account the inter-network locations of the individual supply technologies. The relevant coupled electrical, heat and gas flow equations have been solved simultaneously using a Newton-Raphson approach. A real case study of a district multi-energy system in the Campus of the University of Manchester illustrates the quantitative use of the model in different scenarios for technical, economic and environmental studies. Sankey diagrams of the energy flows across the networks are also presented to give a visual picture of the multi-energy interactions and losses in the district in different scenarios. The model can be flexibly adapted to generic network topologies and multi-energy supply technologies, and can thus be used for practical operational implementations as well as to inform planning of low carbon multi-vector energy systems
A novel technique to incorporate structural prior information into multi-modal tomographic reconstruction
No full textExperimental and numerical investigations into electrochemical milling
No full textThis paper presents experimental and numerical investigations into electro-chemical (EC) milling of simple features such as slots and pockets. Preliminary experimental investigations into the machining of a slot enabled appropriate process parameters to be selected; these were then used to machine a simple square pocket and finally a pocket with a human-being shaped protrusion. These features were machined with tools having circular and square cross-sections. The pocket with the protrusion was machined with tool paths of zig–zag and contour-parallel type. The experimental results indicated that the machining accuracy depends upon, amongst other things, on the tool shape and process parameters. A boundary element of the EC machining process was used to predict the shape of the pockets and in most cases, the predicted shapes compared favourably with the actual machined features
Novel non-invasive techniques for measurement of glomerular dysfunction and structural damage in experimental glomerulopathy mice
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