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Prospective voluntary agreements to escape carbon lock-in
No full textThe paper looks for co-evolutionary policy responses to carbon lock-in - a persistent state that creates systemic market and policy barriers to carbon low technological alternatives. We address the coordination role for authorities rather than the corrective optimisation and analyse experiences from environmental voluntary agreements and foresight activities. The paper argues that combining the virtues of these tools into a new policy tool, named Prospective Voluntary Agreement (PVA), can help facilitate an escape from carbon lock-in and provide policy resources for addressing lock-in related issues.Lock-in , Carbon, Policy responses, Agreements
IE WP 23/04 Prospective Voluntary Agreements to Escape Carbon Lock-in
No full textThe paper looks for co-evolutionary policy responses to carbon lock-in – a persistent state that creates systemic market and policy barriers to carbon low technological alternatives. We address the coordination role for authorities rather than the corrective optimisation and analyse experiences from environmental voluntary agreements and foresight activities. The paper argues that combining the virtues of these tools into a new policy tool, named Prospective Voluntary Agreement (PVA), can help facilitate an escape from carbon lock-in and provide policy resources for addressing lock-in related issues. The merit of PVA lies with the enhancement of collaborative policy culture and inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary stakeholder learning that creates commitment to desired action for escaping lock-in.environmental voluntary agreement; foresight; increasing returns; lock-in; path-dependence
Technology transfer and sustainable development in emerging economies
No full text(WP 01/03 Clave pdf) This paper aims to show how the process of diffusion of "clean technologies" confronts a variety of forces at the macro level that create systematic, technological and institutional barriers to their adoption. There is abundant literature on the role of technology transfer in the development of emerging economies, but this perspective is clearly new. What needs to be borne in mind is the possibility that the transferred dominant technology may be subject to a techno-institutional lock-in at its source that does not allow the diffusion of environmentally superior alternative technologies.Developing economies, Sustainable development, Techno-institutional lock-in, Technology transfer
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Letter from A.L. Monmerqué de Courmont.
No full textLetter from A.L. Monmerqué de Courmont, possibly Adélaïde Louise de Monmerqué (1767-1835) who had been married to Louis Marie Le Bas de Courmont (1741-1794), dated 10 pluvoise. It is not addressed but was presumably sent to Philippe-Antoine Merlin, as it comprises the verso of one of his requisitions from 1802. In this letter the author requests a day and an hour when she (or he) might meet with the recipient
The application of scripts to deadlock avoidance
No full textWe describe the prototype of an expert system software advisor for the lock manager of a database system. The software advisor, called EAGLE (Expert Advisor for Granting Locks Effectively), is intended to become an embedded expert system within a database management system. EAGLE maintains a record of lock request and lock status within a database management system as an application processes transactions. Eag uses this dynamic lock data to avoid the granting of locks which could lead to a future deadlock. The sequence of lock requests and lock grantings is held as a script(s). EAGLE uses its collected record of lock request sequence to match against stereotypical lock event sequence (script base) and to learn to avoid such sequences in future. As EAGLE gains experience of lock event sequences leading to deadlock it recognises patterns which have led to deadlock, an avoids granting locks which would repeat a previous deadlock-inducing sequence of locks, thereby reducing the occurrence of deadlock. EAGLE treats the deadlock problem as a plan recognition issue rather than a problem resolution issue. We describe the general design of EAGLE, present some results from the EAGLE prototype implementation and discuss planned enhancements to EAGLE
Tobin, Geo. (Birth, 1882-12-08)
No full textAddress: 84 Lock St.6778/Pg 192/1882/M W/Ire./Ire./A.L. Carrick,MD.Original record filed in drawer labeled 'TINSLEY- TRAGECER'
Dietary factors influencing conjugated linoleic acid synthesis in the dairy cow
No full textSIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:DXN042660 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo
Whittaker, Mary (Death, 1885-05-22)
No full textAddress: 12 Lock St.Age at death: 65 yrsPg.61/335/1885/F W W/Ireland/Dr. A.L. Carrick/Mulvihill/St.Joseph's NewOriginal record filed in drawer labeled 'WHITE- WIDRIG'
S.L.I.M., a small linear interdependent model of eight EU-member states, the USA and Japan
No full textInternational Economics;EU
A Review of Some Updates in the 13th Edition of “Sears and Zemansky’s University Physics with Modern Physics” (Authors: Hugh D. Young and Roger A. Freedman; contributing author, A. Lewis Ford; 2012)
No full textYoung, H.D.; and Freedman, R.A.; Ford, A.L. (contributing author). 2012. Sears and Zemansky’s University Physics with Modern Physics. 13th ed.Pearson Education, Inc., Addison-Wesley, San Francisco, CA, USA
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