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1. Recent Topics in Economic Research - Feature Papers for Cerebrating the 10th Anniversary of Economies.

Author

Fendel, Ralf, Anwar, Sajid, Czudaj, Robert, and Fendel, Ralf

Subjects
Development economics & emerging economies, Brazil, CO2 emissions, COVID-19, China, Condorcet cycle, Condorcet paradox, Condorcet winner, DEA-approach, European region, Hypothetical Extraction Method, Input-Output, Knightian uncertainty, Mozambique, Okun's law, Portugal, Ramsey planner, SMEs, Tobit, US recessions, Vietnam, World Bank Enterprise surveys, active internationalization behavior, agent-based modelling, ambiguity premium, applied econometrics, bibliometric analysis, brand name medicines, business cycles, capital tax, carbon tax, complexity theory, conceptual structure, contingency theory, conventional, decomposition analysis, developed and developing countries, discounting future, dynamic stochastic integrated general equilibrium (DSIGE), economic destabilization, economics, efficiency performance, electoral cycles, employment, energy, energy consumption, environmental degradation, environmental uncertainty, expenditure, explanatory factors, export performance, female owned firms, financial development, financial information, firm survival, food production, forward and backward participation, future time reference, gender, global value chain, government institutional support, green economy, health, health care utilization, health problem, hospitality, household expenditure patterns, household saving behaviour, import penetration, income-related inequality of health, informal labor markets, innovation capabilities, international trade, job search, jobless recovery, linguistic structures, linkage analysis, macroeconomics, microfinance, multidimensional issue space, multiplier preferences, network analysis, non-financial information, non-parametric, obesity, online pharmacies, organizational performance, out-of-pocket payments, political budget cycles, poverty, price dynamics, propensity score matching, public policy, radial symmetry, random-effect, reactive internationalization behavior, region, regionalization, religion, remittances, robust Arrow-Debreu asset prices, social planner, social structure, spatial modeling, survey, sustainable development, systematic review, textile and apparel, time-series, tourism, unemployment, wages
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Summary: In 2023, Economies celebrates its 10th anniversary. Thanks to the incredible support from all of you, the journal has developed into a well-respected academic journal. Economies has been included in several journal rankings, has a decent and growing number of submissions by well-known experts, and obtains very satisfactory citation scores given its young age. We acknowledge these achievements with a dedicated Special Issue. Therefore, researchers from all areas of economic research have been invited to submit their contributions to this Special Issue. The Special Issue is titled "Recent Topics in Economic Research" and covers a broad range of topics that are currently at the forefront of economics research and that are within Economies' scope. This includes original research papers as well as comprehensive review papers on topics of actual importance in economics.

2. Future Challenges in the Framework of Integrated and Sustainable Environmental Planning. Case Studies and Innovative Proposals.

Author

Veintimilla, Salvador García-Ayllón, Tomás, Antonio Espín, and Veintimilla, Salvador García-Ayllón

Subjects
Research & information: general, 2030 Agenda, ANGSt method, Beijing, Hulunbeir grassland, Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC), Panel Vector Autoregression (PVAR), SIMUS, SLEUTH model, STIRPAT model, SUMP, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), accessibility, agriculture green technology diffusion, ammonium, analytic hierarchy process, barriers, city planning, climate change, coastal erosion, copper mine tailings, decision-support systems, decomposition, decoupling analysis, dissipative structure, ecological capacity, ecological footprint, ecological restoration, ecological security, ecological security pattern, economic complexity indicator (ECI), economic growth, energy consumption, enterprise technology innovation, entropy change, environment-related routine, environmental equity, environmental impact, environmental planning, environmental policy, environmental uncertainty, fertilization, good governance, government subsidies, green university, hybrid methodology, improved coupling coordination model, information transparency, integrated coastal zone management, intersectionality, land, legislation, migration of nitrogen forms, mine tailing stabilization, mining environmental liabilities, monitoring, multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methods, natural capital utilization, natural green space accessibility, nitrate, obstacle degree model, paper consumption, people with disabilities, plastic consumption, policy scenario analysis, population, population-resource management framework, post-COVID-19 higher education, public green space, public use, quality criteria, shrinking cities, social network analysis, socio-ecological system, spatial policy, stakeholders, stewardship, strategic planning, student campus, sustainable environment, tailing bricks, territorial sustainability, two-stage dynamic fuzzy programming with Hurwicz criterion, urban growth simulation, urban mobility, urbanization, virtual reality, vulnerability assessment, water consumption, water resource security, weighted sum method (WSM), willingness to pay
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Summary: The correct management of territory and its planning based on scientific criteria in the face of the anthropogenic impacts of human activities is one of the main challenges in the 21st century. This publication includes some of the latest advancements in environmental planning and spatial analysis related to the ecological management of territory from a multidisciplinary perspective. The research papers from different researchers, scholars and experts in this field included in this collection were published by the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health after undergoing a rigorous anonymous peer review process.

3. Characterising temporal aspects of residential electricity consumption using statistical learning

Author

Satre Meloy, Aven Peter, Grünewald, Phil, and Eyre, Nicholas

Subjects
333.793, Statistical methods, Energy policy, Climate change mitigation, Energy consumption
Abstract

Achieving ambitious climate change mitigation targets requires a comprehensive transformation of the energy system. As part of this transformation, early, rapid, and full decarbonisation of the electricity sector is essential. Residential buildings contribute substantially to electricity consumption, so pathways for electricity system decarbonisation similarly depend on accelerated change in the residential sector. Delivering further and faster reductions in emissions from residential buildings requires not only reductions in electricity demand but also more responsive demand. Flexibility in the residential sector can support the supply-side transition to renewable energy while also helping reduce the costs of electricity provision during times of peak demand. Understanding the potential contributions of residential buildings to ambitious mitigation pathways through demand reduction and flexibility requires more detailed characterisations of demand. In particular, it necessitates stronger evidence on the structural and occupant factors that shape electricity demand and its resulting emissions. This thesis contributes to these research areas and is guided by three primary research questions. The first focuses on improving methods for characterising residential electricity consumption, the second considers advancing our knowledge of factors influencing consumption, and the third relates to the policy implications of having deeper insight into the temporal aspects of demand. The three research questions are: • What statistical learning approaches can improve efforts to characterise residential electricity consumption patterns? • What factors explain electricity consumption in residential buildings at annual, daily, and hourly temporal resolutions? • How does a more detailed understanding of the temporal aspects of residential electricity consumption inform energy efficiency and flexibility interventions? This thesis consists of four original research papers, each of which makes methodological, empirical, and policy contributions in answering these research questions. The papers’ methodological contributions are the development and application of methods from statistical learning and the sub-fields of regularisation and sparsity. These techniques are the subject of a rich literature in statistics disciplines but are not commonly used in energy research. The papers show the utility of these techniques for analysing complex data sets and addressing challenges inherent to building energy modelling. The papers make empirical contributions to the literature on determinants of electricity consumption through statistical analyses of factors that influence consumption at different temporal resolutions in households. The variety in types of data considered, such as interval electricity, household-level survey, and time-use data, facilitates a deep investigation of the factors that shape residential electricity consumption. In this way, the papers contribute to the evidence base on effective intervention policies for achieving further demand reduction and flexibility in the residential sector. Demand-side solutions are underrepresented in the literature on climate change mitigation, but these solutions have considerable potential to achieve ambitious emissions reduction targets. They therefore require a more thorough assessment. This thesis research presents new analytical methods, data, and evidence to investigate how residential buildings can contribute to accelerated decarbonisation pathways.

Published
2020

4. Circular Economy in Low-Carbon Transition.

Author

Mazzi, Anna, Mazzi, Anna, and Ren, Jingzheng

Subjects
History of engineering & technology, Industry & industrial studies, Technology: general issues, Aspen Plus, CHP, CiteSpace, GHG emissions, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), bibliometric analysis, built environment, carbon label, carbon labeling scheme, circular economy, digitalization, easy-to-repair design, eco-efficiency, economic assessment, energy consumption, energy efficiency, environmental impact, food chain, gas boilers, gasification, heat pumps, life cycle assessment, low-carbon energy, n/a, product policy, purchase intention, resource efficiency, rice husk, short food supply chains (SFSCs), simulation, waste-based bioenergy, willingness to pay
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Summary: The circular economy, as a new business model that is different from the economy, can achieve the reuse and recycling of waste for waste minimization, improve the efficiency of resource utilization, and mitigate carbon emissions. It is no doubt that promoting the development of the circular economy can facilitate the transition to low-carbon processes and carbon-neutral development. However, there are still several questions that need to be answered: (1) How can the circular economy contribute to a low-carbon transition? (2) How do we address the fact that the circular economy model may also cause some new environmental problems, and how should we identify what the most environmentally friendly solution is among multiple alternatives for the circular economy? (3) Governmental regulation, policies and incentives play a significant role in promoting the development of the circular economy, so what are the policy instruments that can contribute to its development? (4) How can technological progress and solutions contribute to the circular economy? (5) How can environmental impact assessments contribute to the circular economy? (6) How can we achieve a circular economy or low-carbon transition through changes in consumption behaviors? In order to answer the above-mentioned questions, we launched a Special Issue in Energies. There are a total of six papers published in this Special Issue. This e-book collects these papers to build a platform for sharing advanced concepts, tools and methods for the users to take actions to achieve a circular economy.

5. Quantitative Methods for Economics and Finance.

Author

Trinidad-Segovia, J.E., Sánchez-Granero, Miguel Ángel, and Trinidad-Segovia, J.E.

Subjects
Coins, banknotes, medals, seals (numismatics), Bitcoin, Chinese listed companies, DCC, DEA, EGARCH, EVT, Ethereum, FD4 approach, GARCH, Hurst exponent, Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation, P 500, P500, Ripple, S&amp, SRA approach, Tobin's q, United States, VaR, academic cheating, asset pricing, autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA), bilateral investment treaties, biotechnological firms, bitcoin, cash flow management, centered model, co-movement, cointegration, commodity prices, computational finance, copula, copulas, corporate prudential risk, correlation risk premium, cryptocurrency, decision-making process, decreasing impatience, deep learning, deep recurrent convolutional neural networks, delay, derivation, detection, discount, dispersion trading, dynamically simulated autoregressive distributed lag (DYS-ARDL), econometrics, eigenvalues, elasticity, energy consumption, ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD), essential multicollinearity, financial distress, financial distress prediction, financial markets, forecasting, foreign direct investment, futures prices, generalized Pareto distribution, genetic algorithm (GA), gold, historical simulation approach, hurst exponent, induced risk aversion, informality, intercept, intertemporal choice, liquidity constraints, liquidity risk, local optima vs. local minima, long memory, macroeconomic propagation, mean square error, multicollinearity, multiperiod financial management, multiple periods, non-linear macroeconomic modelling, non-parametric efficiency, noncentered model, nonessential multicollinearity, number of factors, option arbitrage, pairs trading, peaks-over-threshold, pharmaceutical industry, policy uncertainty, precautionary savings, probability, probability of volatility cluster, productivity, profitability, raise regression, regional trade agreements, risk, scale economies, stock prices, structural gravity model, student t-copula, support vector regression (SVR), tax evasion, the financial accelerator, threshold regression, unconstrained distributed lag model, variance inflation factor, volatility cluster, volatility series, volatility trading
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Summary: This book is a collection of papers for the Special Issue "Quantitative Methods for Economics and Finance" of the journal Mathematics. This Special Issue reflects on the latest developments in different fields of economics and finance where mathematics plays a significant role. The book gathers 19 papers on topics such as volatility clusters and volatility dynamic, forecasting, stocks, indexes, cryptocurrencies and commodities, trade agreements, the relationship between volume and price, trading strategies, efficiency, regression, utility models, fraud prediction, or intertemporal choice.

6. End-Users' Perspectives on Energy Policy and Technology.

Author

Huh, Sung-Yoon and Huh, Sung-Yoon

Subjects
Research & information: general, CO2 emissions, Honduras, Indonesia, LCOE, South Korea, choice experiment, clustering, conceptual framework, cost-benefit analysis, data center, energy consumption, energy demand, energy efficiency, energy security, energy strategy, energy technology, households, improved cook stoves, intervention, machine learning, multinomial logit models, occupant behaviour, persuasion, pro-environmental behavior, pro-environmental behaviour change, public opinion, renewable energy, socio-economic profile, solar PV, stochastic, survey, thermal characteristics analysis, unsupervised learning, willingness to accept, workplace
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Summary: This Special Issue (SI) deals with different end-users' perspectives on newly developed energy policy and technology. Although the importance of end-users' preferences is not totally new to the energy sector, this issue needs to be urgently and consistently addressed if new policies, projects, and technologies are to be introduced successfully. The eight papers included in this SI are focused on various issues such as modeling the future energy demand, household energy consumption behavior, public perceptions of new energy technologies and projects, and ICT-energy efficiency interrelationship. Some papers also analyze end-users' experiences with recently introduced energy technologies. Based on these eight articles with various topics, this SI will provide fruitful insights in assessing and forecasting the evolution of the future energy sector. I hope this SI can contribute to the increase in communication and cooperation among academic researchers as well as practitioners in energy fields.

7. Contemporary Issues in Business and Economics.

Author

Chang, Chia-Lin, Chang, Chia-Lin, and Vo, Duc Hong

Subjects
Technology: general issues, ASEAN, Asia, Asian region, CO2 emissions, DGMM, DOLS, Driscoll and Kraay, EKC, FMOLS, Fintech, GMM, Global Financial Crisis, Granger causality, PMG, Reinhart and Rogoff, VECM, Vietnam, agricultural commodity prices, bankruptcy, capital structure, competitiveness, corporate financial distress, corporate social responsibility, crude oil prices, cultural distance, developing countries, distance to default, double taxation treaty, economic growth, emerging markets, endogenous growth, energy consumption, entry mode, equity joint venture, exchange rate, exchange rate regime, financial development, financial inclusion, fiscal autonomy, fiscal decentralisation, fiscal decentralization, fiscal importance, foreign direct investment, foreign direct investment (FDI), fundamentals, gravity model, impulse response functions, income inequality, industry level, internationalization, listed firms, organizational slack, pecking order theory, performance, risk, structural vector autoregressive model, textile and garment industry, trade, trade off theory, urbanization, volatility, wholly owned subsidiary
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Summary: This book is a collection of high-impact papers accepted and presented at the 2019 Vietnam's Business and Economics Research Conference (VBER2019) organised by Ho Chi Minh City Open University held on 18th-20th July 2019. The Special Issue is associated with a broad coverage of the contemporary issues in Business and Economics in Vietnam and other emerging markets reflecting a key theme of VBER2019: Vietnam's Place in the Asia Pacific Region. A total of 14 papers were published from more than the 120 submissions to the VBER2019 Conference. Published papers had been undergone a rigorous reviewing process conducted by the Journal of Risk and Financial Management. The papers incorporated in this book address contemporary issues in business and economics from Vietnam and other emerging markets in the Asian region from various angles such as economics, finance, and statistics to management science. At the time of writing this note, some of the papers have attracted more than 1000 downloads in 3 months. In particular, a paper on "Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth from Developing Countries in the Short Run and Long Run" by Trang Thi-Huyen Dinh and her team has attracted almost 6000 downloads in 3 months. These statistics indicate that the papers published in this Special Issue have attracted the wide interest of readers. Among these 14 published papers, three main areas of important contemporary issues in Business and Economics in the Asian region can be identified. First, a block of papers deals with various important and fundamental issues in the emerging markets the Asian region, from exchange rate regime, financial inclusion, and financial development to energy consumption and environmental degradation. On the issue of CO2 emissions, energy consumption and economic growth in the ASEAN, Vo, Vo, and Le utilized various time series econometrics approaches. Key findings from this paper indicate that there are no long-run relationships among carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, energy consumption, renewable energy, population growth, and economic growth in the Philippines and Thailand, but a relationship does exist in Indonesia, Myanmar, and Malaysia. Loo, in his paper on financial inclusion for the ASEAN, concluded that advancing internet capability and availability present investors an opportunity to offer financial technology or Fintech to meet the need for financial services in this digital era. Second, a challenge in quantitative studies for a single country, such as Vietnam, with limited data is generally noted. However, various empirical studies on Vietnam's business and economics issues have been conducted. Nguyen, Quan, and Pham examined the cultural distance and entry mode of foreign direct investment in Vietnam. A key finding from their paper is that when there is a great cultural difference between Vietnam and their home country, foreign-invested firms prefer wholly owned subsidiaries over equity joint ventures. Within the Vietnamese market, Pham, Vo, Ho, and McAleer conducted a study on the issue of corporate financial distress. The authors conclude that the corporate financial distress prediction model, which includes accounting factors with macroeconomic indicators, performs much better than alternative models. In addition, the evidence confirms that the global financial crisis (GFC) had a damaging impact on each sector, with the Health & Education sector demonstrating the most impressive recovery post-GFC, and the utilities sector recording a dramatic increase in bankruptcies post-GFC. At another extreme of the spectrum, Van and Nguyen considered that competitive context, social influences, the understanding of managers about corporate social responsibility (CSR), and the internal environment of companies are the four drivers of CSR. The authors also argued that in the four drivers, competitive context has the strongest impact on adopting CSR. Third, last but not least, various papers focus on an important aspect of public finance. For an example, Pham, Pham, and Ly documented the effect of double taxation treaties on the bilateral trade of Vietnam with ASEAN member states, thereby making an extensive comparison with its EU partner countries. Their findings indicate the significant contributions of the tax treaties to Vietnam's trade performance, not exclusively with ASEAN but also with EU partner countries. In addition, regarding public finance for Vietnam, Nguyen, Vo, Ho, and Vo investigated the contribution of fiscal decentralisation to economic growth across provinces in Vietnam. For the first time in Vietnam, the fiscal decentralisation index together its two subcomponents, including fiscal importance and fiscal autonomy, are developed. Findings from this paper indicate that while fiscal importance and an overall level of fiscal decentralisation have provided negative impact on provincial economic growth, fiscal autonomy has a positive impact on economic growth across provinces in Vietnam.

8. Challenges and Directions Forward for Dealing with the Complexity of Future Smart Cyber-Physical Systems.

Author

Törngren, Martin, Aravantinos, Vincent, Fersman, Elena, Gürdür, Didem, Lawson, Harold, and Törngren, Martin

Subjects
History of engineering & technology, Automatic Code Generation, CBD, Cyber Physical Systems, EAST-ADL, Embedded Systems, Fixed-Priority Preemptive Scheduling (FPPS), GPU, GPU component, IDE, Internet of Things, Model-Based Design, Reactive Systems, adaptation, allocation, ampliative reasoning mechanism, architecture layer, autonomous cyber-physical systems, complexity, component allocation, component-based development, component-based software engineering, computational functions, cyber-physical systems, data-driven system control, distributed control, distributed design, distribution network, embedded systems, energy consumption, ethics, field test, human/socially-centered applications, microgrid, mixed-criticality systems, mode, mode-switch, model testing, multi-core, mutation testing, n/a, nano-bio-info-cogno technologies, plug-n-play, procedural abduction, real-time, real-time systems, resilience, run-time acquired data, scheduling, self-adaptation capability, self-generated intelligence, self-similar architecture, smart cyber-physical systems, software component, systems engineering, time-triggered system, uncertainty
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Summary: A key aspect of cyber-physical systems (CPS) is their potential for integrating information technologies with embedded control systems and physical systems to form new or improved functionalities. CPS thus draws upon advances in many areas. This positioning provides unprecedented opportunities for innovation, both within and across existing domains. However, at the same time, it is commonly understood that we are already stretching the limits of existing methodologies. In embarking towards CPS with such unprecedented capabilities, it becomes essential to improve our understanding of CPS complexity and how we can deal with it. Complexity has many facets, including complexity of the CPS itself, of the environments in which the CPS acts, and in terms of the organizations and supporting tools that develop, operate, and maintain CPS. This book is a result of a journal Special Issue, with the objective of providing a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange their latest achievements and to identify critical issues, challenges, opportunities, and future directions for how to deal with the complexity of future CPS. The contributions include 10 papers on the following topics: (I) Systems and Societal Aspects Related to CPS and Their Complexity; (II) Model-Based Development Methods for CPS; (III) CPS Resource Management and Evolving Computing Platforms; and (IV) Architectures for CPS.

9. Building Energy Audits-Diagnosis and Retrofitting.

Author

Balaras, Constantinos A. and Balaras, Constantinos A.

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Research & information: general, EPCs, EUI, HeLLo, KPIs, airing, assessment tools, audit, baselines, benchmarks, brick 1, building energy simulation, buildings, built environment, carbon emission intensities, citizen involvement, co-ownership in renewable energies, daylight, decision-making process, demand response, dynamic conditions, electricity consumption, embodied energy, embodied energy intensity (EEI), energetic rehabilitation 4, energy audits, energy community (EC), energy consumption, energy efficiency measures, energy performance, energy performance certificates, energy recovery time, energy retrofit, energy use intensities, energy use intensity (EUI), feature selection, field measurements, final energy, heat flow 3, historic wall, home energy management system, human comfort factor, hygrothermal measurement, hygrothermal simulation, in situ, indoor climate, key performance indicators, lighting, lighting control, machine learning, moisture 2, neighbourhoods, non-destructive test, non-destructive test 5, non-residential buildings, nonresidential buildings, occupancy behaviour, occupant preferences, occupant satisfaction, operational energy, photosensor, post-occupancy evaluation, prediction of energy consumption, primary energy, renewable energy sources (RESs), renovations, retrofitting, school building, school buildings, single-family houses, survey, sustainability, thermal comfort, thermo-modernization, validation, visual comfort, windows and door opening
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Summary: The book "Building Energy Audits-Diagnosis and Retrofitting" is a collection of twelve papers that focus on the built environment in order to systematically collect and analyze relevant data for the energy use profile of buildings and extended for the sustainability assessment of the built environment. The contributions address historic buildings, baselines for non-residential buildings from energy performance audits, and from in-situ measurements, monitoring, and analysis of data, and verification of energy saving and model calibration for various building types. The works report on how to diagnose existing problems and identify priorities, assess, and quantify the opportunities and measures that improve the overall building performance and the environmental quality and well-being of occupants in non-residential buildings and houses. Several case studies and lessons learned from the field are presented to help the readers identify, quantify, and prioritize effective energy conservation and efficiency measures. Finally, a new urban sustainability audit and rating method of the built environment addresses the complexities of the various issues involved, providing practical tools that can be adapted to match local priorities in order to diagnose and evaluate the current state and future scenarios towards meeting specific sustainable development goals and local priorities.

10. Renewable Energies for Sustainable Development.

Author

Esteban, María Dolores, Esteban, María Dolores, López-Gutiérrez, José-Santos, and Negro Valdecantos, Vicente

Subjects
Technology: general issues, BPSO, Basel, CO2 emissions, Dijkstra Algorithm, GA, Greece, HEM, Hybrid energy system, Jiangxi province, LMDI, Load scheduling, Monte Carlo Simulation, NEDC, NEV credit regulation, PHEV, PV sizing, RE in Bangladesh, RE prospects and challenges, RE regulations and policy, Tapio decoupling, WLTP, artificial neural network, battery storage, biomass, carrying capacity distribution, compact pigeon-inspired optimization, converters, cost analysis, design and performance, distributed generators, distribution system, economic growth, emergetic ternary diagrams, emergy, energy consumption, energy systems assessment, energy-growth nexus, environmental loading, fault, feasibility analysis, floating buoy, frequency control, geographic information systems, geothermal energy, grid integrated solar PV systems, grid reliability and voltage source converter, heaving point absorber, hierarchical control, hosting capacity, hydroelectric power station, induced seismicity, influence factors, integrated system, inverters, isolated systems, less developed regions, maximum power point tracking, maximum short-term generation, non-negative spring stiffness, off-grid electrification, offshore structure, offshore wind farms, optimization, optimization strategies, photovoltaic, photovoltaic carrying capacity, photovoltaic generation, photovoltaic power plants, photovoltaic spatial planning, photovoltaics (PV), planning adjustment, poroelasticity, portfolio analysis, power plant efficiency, power system stability, principal component analysis, pumped storage, reliability evaluation, renewable electricity, renewable energy, renewable energy resources, renewable manufacturing, renewable-growth hypothesis, residential energy-related CO2 emissions, simple payback period, site selection process, solar updraft tower, spatial and temporal variation, strategic planning, subsidy policy, sustainability, sustainable power generation, swarm intelligence, urban and rural regions, utility grid, variable renewable energy sources, wave energy converter, wave energy converters, wave overtopping rate, wind farm, wind power, wind power plants
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Summary: In the current scenario in which climate change dominates our lives and in which we all need to combat and drastically reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, renewable energies play key roles as present and future energy sources. Renewable energies vary across a wide range, and therefore, there are related studies for each type of energy. This Special Issue is composed of studies integrating the latest research innovations and knowledge focused on all types of renewable energy: onshore and offshore wind, photovoltaic, solar, biomass, geothermal, waves, tides, hydro, etc. Authors were invited submit review and research papers focused on energy resource estimation, all types of TRL converters, civil infrastructure, electrical connection, environmental studies, licensing and development of facilities, construction, operation and maintenance, mechanical and structural analysis, new materials for these facilities, etc. Analyses of a combination of several renewable energies as well as storage systems to progress the development of these sustainable energies were welcomed.

11. Renewable Energy Consumption and Economic Growth.

Author

Fuinhas, José Alberto, Fuinhas, José Alberto, Koengkan, Matheus, and de Barros Santiago, Renato Filipe

Subjects
Business strategy, Africa, CCO2 emissions, CO2 emissions, China, Chinese economic growth, DEA, European Union, Lisbon, MINT nations, Portugal, Stochastic Frontier, autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL), battery electric vehicles, bilateral trade, carbon dioxide emissions, carbon emissions, club convergence, competitiveness index, corruption, cultural industry, diffusion of innovation, disintegrated trade, domestic investment, eco-efficiency, ecological footprint, econometrics, economic complexity, economic growth, education, empirical, energy consumption, energy consumption structure, energy economics, energy efficiency, energy policy, energy poverty, energy regulation, environmental pollution, environmental quality, export quality, financial deepening, financial development, foreign direct investment, forest products business, fsQCA, greenhouse gas emissions, human capital, income level, industrial structure, industry leaders, institutional quality, investment, method of moments quantile regression, n/a, natural resources, panel ARDL model, panel quantile regression, panel regression models, philanthropy, policies, qualitative interviews, renewable energy, residential heating technology, sustainability, sustainable energy supply, wood economy, wood pellets
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Summary: This reprint explores the complex relationship between renewable energy consumption and economic growth. The reprint contains 14 papers covering a wide range of topics related to energy use efficiency in various countries and economic sectors. The articles include studies on adopting renewable energy sources, the impact of battery electric vehicles on greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union, the influence of philanthropy on eco-efficiency, and the impact of energy efficiency regulations on energy poverty. This reprint also includes studies on the race to zero emissions in MINT economies, the competitiveness of the cultural industry and its impact on Chinese economic growth, and the impact of education levels on the energy-growth-environment nexus. This reprint serves as a call to action for all stakeholders to contribute to the global energy transition by identifying and analyzing the effects of renewable energy consumption on economic growth. It inspires policymakers, researchers, and practitioners to embrace sustainable energy practices and support the development of measures that foster green growth. Therefore, this reprint provides important insights into energy use efficiency theories, methods, and diverse applications, making it a valuable resource for anyone interested in the future of energy and its impact on the global economy.

12. Process Control and Smart Manufacturing for Industry 4.0.

Author

Yurish, Sergey Y. and Yurish, Sergey Y.

Subjects
Chemistry, Research & information: general, 3D printing, COVID-19, FDM, H-Swish, Industry 4.0, NDT, RSW, acoustic emission, agent-based, batch process, beetle antennae search algorithm, business compass, community innovation governance, community transformation, condition monitoring, core data model, coupling and coordination analysis, cyclone, data fusion, deep learning, drive train, earliness, electrode tip-dressing, electrode wear, energy consumption, energy-saving, equipment selection decision, erosion, forklift AGV, gas dynamics, gas-solid, grey wolf algorithm, industrial robotic manipulator, injection molding, lean implementation, lean manufacturing, lean principles, low-carbon, machine learning, magnetic particle inspection, make-to-order, master production scheduling, mathematical programming, mechatronics line, multi-mode, multi-phase, mushrooming, optimization, overtime, partial least squares, personal protection, phase private data model, phase rule filter, plateau forming, process monitoring, processing time, product morphology, production control mechanisms, production processes, protective face shields, pull principle, quality control, rapid prototyping, resistance spot welding, semantic segmentation, separator, steel alloys, storage system, sustainable blank dimension design, tardiness, ternary space, vibration, visual servoing system, wheeled mobile robot
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Summary: This reprint, entitled "Process Control and Smart Manufacturing for Industry 4.0", contains the extended papers from the Series of annual IFSA conferences on Automation, Robotics and Communications for Industry 4.0/5.0 (ARCI) on the following topics: Process Automation, Process Control and Monitoring, Design Principles in Industry 4.0, Smart Manufacturing and Technologies, Smart Factories, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing. The reprint contains 13 chapters written by 54 ARCI conference participants from seven countries: China, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Poland and Romania. This reprint will inform readers of cutting-edge developments in the field and provide effective starting points and a road map for further research and development. All chapters follow the same structure: firstly, an introduction to the specific topic under study; secondly, a description of the field, including sensing or/and measuring applications. Each chapter ends with a curated list of references, including books, journals, conference proceedings and websites. "Process Control and Smart Manufacturing for Industry 4.0" is intended for researchers and scientists from academia and industry, as well as for postgraduate students.

13. Micro-Electro Discharge Machining: Principles, Recent Advancements and Applications, Volume II.

Author

Fassi, Irene, Fassi, Irene, and Modica, Francesco

Subjects
History of engineering & technology, Technology: general issues, Nd: YAG LBµM, Reverse-μEDM, Taguchi, accumulative difference, alumina, analytical hierarchy process, antimicrobial, array electrode, burrs, carbon nanofiber, efficiency, electrical discharge machine, electrical discharge machining, energy consumption, high-speed camera, interelectrode gap, material removal, material removal rate, metal erosion rate, metal matrix composite, micro electrical discharge machining, micro-EDM, micro-EDM milling, micro-hardness, micro-holes, micromachining, n/a, nanosilver colloid, near-dry wire electric discharge machining (WEDM), nitinol, optimization, performance, polymer composite materials, processing precision, protrusions, quality, residual stress, shape memory alloys, silicon, structured surface, surface roughness, teaching-learning based optimization (TLBO) algorithm, tool electrode wear, tungsten carbide, vibration assisted electrical discharge machining (EDM), wire electro-discharge machining
Abstract

Summary: The second volume of the Special Issue on "Micro-Electro Discharge Machining: Principles, Recent Advancements and Applications" confirms the growing interest in the micro-EDM technology as a suitable and efficient technology for machining novel, multilateral components, with demanding requirements in terms of precision, accuracy, and productivity.This volume consists of 10 original research papers which involve several approaches to micro-EDM and cover the enhancement of the process performance, such as the material removal rate, surface roughness, or machining accuracy, using advanced optimization methods. Some studies also consider several dielectric fluid additives and investigate the processability of new materials. Others investigate the combination of Reverse-micro-EDM with laser beam micromachining or explore new applications for the micro-EDM for fabricating antimicrobial nanosilver colloid.