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Replication Data for: Climate finance intermediation: interest spread effects in a climate policy model
No full textCode and data for the replication of figures and tables in Climate finance intermediation. The model is coded in GAMS, post-processing scripts are written in R. It is recommended to download all files as a ZIP archive to maintain the folder structure, and to use GNU make to build the figures/tables, but see details for individual figures/tables in 00README
Climate thresholds and heterogeneous regions: implications for coalition formation
No full textThe threat of climate catastrophes has been shown to radically change optimal climate policy and prospects for international climate agreements. We characterize the strategic behavior in emissions mitigation and agreement participation with a potential climate catastrophe happening at a temperature threshold. Players are heterogeneous in a conceptual and two numerical models. We confirm that thresholds can induce large, stable coalitions. The relationship between the location of the threshold and the potential for cooperation is non-linear, with the highest potential for cooperation at intermediate temperature thresholds located between 2.5 and 3 degrees of global warming. We find that some regions such as Europe, the USA and China are often pivotal to keeping the threshold because the rest of the world abandons ambitious mitigation and the threshold is crossed without their participation. As a result, their incentives to cooperate can be amplified at the threshold. This behavior critically depends on the characteristics of the threshold as well as the numerical model structure. Conversely, non-pivotal regions are more likely to free-ride as the threshold inverts the strategic response of the remaining coalition
Free thinking - running
No full textWe've been running for two million years give or take. Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott explore contemporary running as solitary inspiration and communal activity with the Geographer and 1999 Scottish Hill Running Champion, Hayden Lorimer, the artists Kai Syng Tan and Angus Farquhar, and the literary scholar and bare-foot artiste, Vybarr Cregan-Reid. Conversation ranges from feeling empowered on city streets to teaming up with the wind to the horrid history of the treadmill and explore whether Running deserves better representation in the arts. Guests: Vybarr Cregan-Reid - author of Footnotes How Running Makes Us Human Angus Farquhar, Creative Director of NVA Public Art, author of a blog 'The Grim Runner' Hayden Lorimer Running Geographer Kai Syng Tan, Artist and curator of a biennial festival Run Run Run Producer: Jacqueline Smith
Avoiding Carbon Lock-In: Policy Options for Advancing Structural Change
No full textA major obstacle for the transformation to a low-carbon economy is the risk of a carbon lock-in: fossil fuel-based ('dirty') technologies dominate the market although their carbon-free ('clean') alternatives are dynamically more efficient. We study the interaction of learning-by-doing spillovers and the substitution elasticity between the clean and the dirty sector in an intertemporal general equilibrium model. We find that the substitution possibilities between the two sectors have an ambivalent effect: although a high substitution elasticity requires less aggressive mitigation policies than a low one, it creates a greater lock-in in the absence of regulation. The optimal policy response consists of a permanent carbon tax as well as a learning subsidy for clean technologies. A single policy instrument can also avoid high welfare losses, but a more stringent mitigation target can only be achieved at painful costs. We demonstrate that the policy implication of [Acemoglu et al. 2012] is limited in scope. Our numerical results also highlight that infrastructure provision is crucial to facilitate the low-carbon transformation.structural change, low-carbon economy, carbon lock-in, mitigation policies, learning-by-doing
Kong Kai Bertangga Nada Selendro: Kajian Organologi Kong Kai Pada Masyarakat Helong Di Pulau Semau
No full textThe purpose of this study was to examine the structure of Kong Kai's music in the Helong community on Semau Island. This research focuses on Kong Kai sounds that have not been made in a particular musical scale. Kong Kai has a different sound than the others. The author intends to establish a standard for the uniform sound settings in all of Semau Island. The author intends to explore how to make and play kong kai. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. With the interview and observation approach, the writer seeks information about Kong Kai. Waditra Kong Kai can be measured with conventional western musical scales. Kong Kai has the same musical scales as Slendro.
Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengkaji struktur musik Kong Kai pada masyarakat Helong di pulau Semau. Penelitian ini berpusat pada bunyi Kong kai yang belum dibuat dalam tangga nada tertentu. Kong kai mempunyai bunyi yang berbeda dari yang lainnya. Penulis bermaksud membuat standar penyeragaman setingan bunyi kong kai di seluruh Pulau Semau. Penulis bermaksud menelusuri cara membuat dan memainkan kong kai. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah deskriptif kualitatif. Dengan pendekatan wawancara dan observasi, penulis mencari informasi mengenai kong kai. Waditra Kong kai dapat diukur dengan tangga nada konvensional barat. Kong kai memiliki tangga nada yang sama dengan slendro.  
Renewable Energy Subsidies: Second-Best Policy or Fatal Aberration for Mitigation?
No full textThis paper evaluates the consequences of renewable energy policies on welfare, resource rents and energy costs in a world where carbon pricing is imperfect and the regulator seeks to limit emissions to a (cumulative) target. We use a global general equilibrium model with an intertemporal fossil resource sector. We calculate the optimal second-best renewable energy subsidy and compare the resulting welfare level with an efficient first-best carbon pricing policy. If carbon pricing is permanently missing, mitigation costs increase by a multiple (compared to the optimal carbon pricing policy) for a wide range of parameters describing extraction costs, renewable energy costs, substitution possibilities and normative attitudes. Furthermore, we show that small deviations from the second-best subsidy can lead to strong increases in emissions and consumption losses. This confirms the rising concerns about the occurrence of unintended side effects of climate policy { a new version of the green paradox. We extend our second-best analysis by considering two further types of policy instruments: (1) temporary subsidies that are displaced by carbon pricing in the long run and (2) revenue-neutral instruments like a carbon trust and a feed-in-tariff scheme. Although these instruments cause small welfare losses, they have the potential to ease distributional conflicts as they lead to lower energy prices and higher fossil resource rents than the optimal carbon pricing policy.Feed-in-Tariff, Carbon Trust, Carbon Pricing, Supply-Side Dynamics, Green Paradox, Climate Policy
General Chiang Kai-shek : the builder of new China
No full textGeneral Chiang Kai-shek"Significant speeches [by General Chiang]": p. [51]-107.by Chen Tsung-hsi, Wang An-tsiang and Wang I-ting; with an introduction by Dr. Chenting T. Wang and a preface by Dr. Wang Chung-hui
[[alternative]]The Reaserch of the Role and Function in Administrative Corporation of the National Chiang Kai Shek Cultural Center
No full text[[abstract]]In 1975, Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall was established as the first national performing arts center in memory of the former president Chang Kai-Shek. However, this organization had not been granted a decided status because of the limitation of the administration organization system and lots of laws until the year of 1992 when it was officially named National Chiang Kai Shek Cultural Center. Afterward, its system was assessed many times in order to go with the international trend and domestic opinion; then the Administrative Corporation was passed by the Executive Yuan at the Third Reading on January 9, 2004. Through this system, the only international performing arts center in Taiwan was reformed and its long-term problem of uncertain status was also solved on March 1, 2004.
In this research, I want to probe into the different roles and functions before and after the Administrative Corporation in National Chiang Kai Shek Cultural Center through literature analysis and deep interview. Besides, I hope to collect opinions and advices from related arts groups, scholars and experts in order to get the best conclusion and suggestion.
By literature analysis and deep interview, I find National Chiang Kai Shek Cultural Center has more different roles after the Administrative Corporation, but it is still not fully- functioned, especially as a broker to business and government. In the part of Future Envision, non-governmental performing arts groups have great expectations to National Chiang Kai Shek Cultural Center. In sum, non-governmental performing arts groups approve Administrative Corporation of National Chiang Kai Shek Cultural Center, and they think there are gap between the former and later roles of National Chiang Kai Shek Cultural Center.
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Jetting, In-Nozzle Meniscus Motion and Nozzle-Plate Flooding in An Industrial Drop-on-Demand Print Head
No full textThe state of the ink film at and near the nozzles of a drop-ondemand(DoD) print head during jetting has a direct impact on
printing performance and reliability. We have developed highspeed imaging apparatus and analytical techniques to investigate
the ink film dynamics on an industrial print head nozzle-plate in real-time. In addition to a direct correlation between the jet
emergence velocity and drive voltage, drive-dependent variations in the oscillation of the ink meniscus in adjacent nozzles were also observed. Using a ray-tracing model to analyze the meniscus shape, the meniscus oscillations for both printing and nonprinting nozzles were found to be complex and involve elements such as pre-oscillation and high-order surface waves. The flooding of non-firing nozzles, deliberately caused by the application of maximum drive voltage to a neighboring nozzle, has been recorded and analyzed dynamically. The build-up of fluid in an annulus around the nozzle (flooding rate) has been characterized and compared with models for the net ink flow
through the nozzle
Author Disambiguation by mining the coauthor graph
No full text現今，我們常依靠搜索引擎來查詢學術論文。許多主流的搜索引擎都提供了專門搜索學術文章的服務，像是Google Scholar、Microsoft Academic Search等。許多論壇也擁有自己的線上論文庫。這些系統要面對的難題之一就是作者名稱歧異問題，因為一個作者可能會在不同的地方用不同的方式寫自己的名字，搜索引擎必須要能夠辨認一個人名的多種寫法才能返回精確又完整的結果。作者名稱是用戶主要用於搜索的關鍵字之一，因此消除作者名稱歧異是搜索引擎所需具備的重要能力。 造成作者名稱歧異問題的原因有很多，其中一項主要原因就是名字可能有很多種寫法。要解決這個問題通常需要依賴一定的與作者個人相關的輔助信息，但這些信息並非總是那麼方便取得。在這篇論文中，我們設計了一個系統嘗試解決由於作者用不同方法來寫名字所造成的作者名稱歧異問題，我們只需要作者的在論文上的屬名以及共同作者網路作為輔助信息。實驗證明我們的系統相較於一些傳統的方式更為有用。Nowadays, we rely mostly on search engines when surveying academic papers. Many mainstream search engines provide searches specific to academic articles such as Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search … etc. Many conferences also host their online paper archive. One of the challenging problems to these systems is author name disambiguation. An author may represent their name differently in different locations. Because the name is one of the most keyword used to search papers, it became crucial for search engines to recognize different names from the same person to generate accurate and complete results. Through author name ambiguity may be caused by many reasons, one of the most common reasons that lead to this author identity ambiguity is different name representations. Solving this problem generally require much supplementary information about authors that may not be available. In this paper, we purpose a system that tries to resolve the author name ambiguity issue caused by the different way the author write his/her name, the only information it requires is author’s name and co-author relationship. The experiment shows the effectiveness of our system compared to some traditional methods
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