Merrouche, Ouarda(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-02-16)
In 1980, seven out of the seventeen Spanish regions were devolved education
spending responsibility. Using a difference-in-differences approach, which I show
to be particularly credible in this context, I evaluate the ...
The decade of the 1990s saw the beginning of a new phase of globalisation and
continuing European integration, the collapse of socialism and the triumph
of neo-liberalism, the mainstreaming of cultural postmodernism and ...
The global financial crisis opened large budget deficit and public debt problems in the countries of the Eurozone periphery - Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain. All have been required to adopt budget retrenchment measures, ...
The so-called real-time web (RTW) is a web of opinions, comments, and personal viewpoints, often expressed in the form of short, 140-character text messages providing abbreviated and personalized commentary in real-time. ...
Recently the world of the web has become more social and more real-time. Facebook and Twitter are perhaps the exemplars of a new generation of social, real-time web services
and we believe these types of service provide ...
In this paper we focus on an approach to social search,
HeyStaks that is designed to integrate with mainstream search engines
such as Google, Yahoo and Bing. HeyStaks is motivated by the idea that
Web search is an ...
Appliance load monitoring (ALM) systems are systems capable of monitoring appliances’ operation within a building using a single metering point. As such, they uncover information on occupants’ activities of daily living ...
There are a multitude of studies made and ongoing
related to cost of wind integration. However, the results are not easy
to compare. An international forum for exchange of knowledge of
power system impacts of wind power ...