Economic Impact of Hospital Closure on Small Rural Counties, 1984 to 1988: Demonstration of a Comparative Analysis Approach

This work entails producing load forecasting through lstm and lstm ensembled networks and put up a comparative picture between the two. Our work establishes that lstm ensemble learning can produce a better prediction compared to single lstm networks. We tried to quantify the improvement and assess the economic impact that it can have on the utility companies.

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Voters and Mobile

Handbook of Research on Human Social Interaction in the Age of Mobile Devices - Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0469-6.ch008 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 150-170

Author(s):

Oarabile Sebubi

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Data Security ◽

Voter Participation ◽

Analysis Approach ◽

Future Research ◽

Electoral Process ◽

Barriers To Adoption ◽

High Potentials ◽

Potential Impact ◽

Individual Choices

The objective of democracy is to allow people the freedom to vote at ease and according to their individual choices. Mobile Election has high potentials of transforming and improving efficiency of the current electoral process, thereby enabling convenient and ubiquitous elections, hence, revolutionizing the institution of democracy. With so much potential though, its adoption is extremely low worldwide because the barriers to adoption are extremely high as mobile election is still lacking in addressing the critical and sensitive requirements of the electoral process worldwide. This chapter explores the potential impact of mobile elections to democratic establishments such as politics and voter participation. It then adopts a comparative analysis approach in exploring the barriers to adoption and possible solutions. Lastly, it provides recommendations for future research in the areas of voter trafficking, network and data security, inter-operability issue, digital/democratic divide issue, and voter satisfaction.

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Controlling CO2 emissions for each area in a region: the case of Japan

Carbon Balance and Management ◽

10.1186/s13021-019-0135-7 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Tetsuya Tamaki ◽

Wataru Nozawa ◽

Shunsuke Managi

Keyword(s):

Global Warming ◽

Comparative Analysis ◽

Economic Impact ◽

Co2 Emissions ◽

Integrated Assessment ◽

The Other ◽

Output Gap ◽

Emission Target ◽

Emission Quota ◽

Capital Transfer

Abstract Background Global warming is the most serious problem we face today. Each country is expected to ensure international cooperation toward minimizing risk. To evaluate the countermeasures, many researchers have developed integrated assessment models (IAMs). Then, how can each country achieve its emission quota? This study proposes models that analyze the economic impact of global warming in a region based on the results obtained by the global model. By using these suggested models, we perform a comparative analysis on three policy cases: a different regulations case, a unified regulation case, and an output redistribution case. Results We analyzed Japan as one of the case studies and found that more developed areas should implement stricter regulations in all scenarios. In addition, the case of applying different regulations by area (in a region) is not always preferable to using unified regulations in the region. Alternatively, the output gap between the output redistribution case and the different regulations case is much higher than the gap between the unified regulation case and the different regulations case. In all scenarios, the present values of the output of the output redistribution case are also higher than the other cases. Conclusions The different regulations case and the unified regulation case are based on the model without capital transfer between areas, whereas the output redistribution case is based on the model with free capital transfer between areas. Although both models are extreme situations, the regions close to the without capital transfer situation possibly have an incentive to use the different regulations policy, depending on the emission target. The regions close to the situation with free capital transfer would probably prefer unified regulation.

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