The ricardian model of energy service companies transboundary cooperation

In this article the arguments confirming practicability of the Ricardian model of comparative advantage and the performancecontracting model system integration for the efficiency improvement of energy service companies’ transboundary cooperation are given. The basic aspects of the proposed system model are formalized and the results of computer calculations which confirm its efficiency are presented. У статті викладено аргументи на користь доцільності системного поєднання рікардіанської моделі порівняної переваги та моделі перфоманс-контрактингу в задачі підвищення ефективності транскордонної взаємодії енергосервісних компаній. Формалізовано основні аспекти побудови запропонованої системної моделі та представлено результати розрахунків, що підтверджують її ефективність

Mechanisms to encourage regulation and economic incentives for businesses to energy savings

http://vsed.oneu.edu.uaIn this article the arguments for practical use of market mechanisms to encourage regulation and economic incentives for businesses to save energy and improve energy efficiency are presented, methods and mechanisms of regulation focused on the development of public-private partnerships are systematized

Expectations and Outcomes of Interregional IT Training for Teachers

The experience gained in performing the sequence of Joint European Projects sponsored by EU TEMPUS Program in the field of IT further education of teachers in Ukraine, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan is summarised. The international consortia headed by Leipzig University of Applied Sciences in-volves, besides partner country institutions, Universities from Germany, Swe-den, Italy, Poland and Slovak Republic. The consortia have been working as a well organized team successfully establishing a collaborative network for IT training. The Polish project Interkl@sa served as a sample for the project Inter- Collegia which was the first one in this package of school-oriented projects. Thereafter the network of schools patronised by the University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy has been extended to comprise special schools for visually impaired students. Consequently the network went over borders involving further rather distant countries

Phase coexistance in polydisperse mixture of hard-sphere colloidal and flexible chain particles

A theoretical scheme for the calculation of the full phase diagram (including cloud and shadow curves, binodals and distribution functions of the coexisting phases) for colloid-polymer mixtures with polymer chain length polydispersity and hard-sphere colloidal and polymeric monomer sizes polydispersity is proposed. The scheme combines thermodynamic perturbation theory for associating fluids and recently developed method used to determine the phase diagram of polydisperse spherical shape colloidal fluids (L.Bellier-Castella {\it et al.}, {\it J.Chem.Phys.} {\bf 113}, 8337(2000)). By way of illustration we present and discuss the full phase diagram for the mixture with polydispersity in the size of the hard-sphere colloidal particles.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure

Web Portal for Support of Joint European Projects

Our task was primary design and development of web-portal for Joint European Projects under aegis of European Commission. The portal should provide a friendly and clear access to any dedicated information and concrete JEP portals themselves. In other words, the task was to create a modern web-resource with all necessary information about Projects, Commission, consortia and partners; ability to add new Joint European Projects and their pages; eFolio for members; storage of materials(articles, files) and ability to add/modify them; news, calendar of events and so on

Self Consistent Molecular Field Theory for Packing in Classical Liquids

Building on a quasi-chemical formulation of solution theory, this paper proposes a self consistent molecular field theory for packing problems in classical liquids, and tests the theoretical predictions for the excess chemical potential of the hard sphere fluid. Results are given for the self consistent molecular fields obtained, and for the probabilities of occupancy of a molecular observation volume. For this system, the excess chemical potential predicted is as accurate as the most accurate prior theories, particularly the scaled particle (Percus-Yevick compressibility) theory. It is argued that the present approach is particularly simple, and should provide a basis for a molecular-scale description of more complex solutions.Comment: 6 pages and 5 figure

Equilibrium phase behavior of polydisperse hard spheres

We calculate the phase behavior of hard spheres with size polydispersity, using accurate free energy expressions for the fluid and solid phases. Cloud and shadow curves, which determine the onset of phase coexistence, are found exactly by the moment free energy method, but we also compute the complete phase diagram, taking full account of fractionation effects. In contrast to earlier, simplified treatments we find no point of equal concentration between fluid and solid or re-entrant melting at higher densities. Rather, the fluid cloud curve continues to the largest polydispersity that we study (14%); from the equilibrium phase behavior a terminal polydispersity can thus only be defined for the solid, where we find it to be around 7%. At sufficiently large polydispersity, fractionation into several solid phases can occur, consistent with previous approximate calculations; we find in addition that coexistence of several solids with a fluid phase is also possible

Thermodynamically consistent Reference Interaction Site Model theory of the tangent diatomic fluid

Thermodynamic and structural properties of the tangent diatomic fluid are studied in the framework provided by the Reference Interaction Site Model (RISM) theory, coupled with a Modified Hypernetted Chain closure. The enforcement of the internal thermodynamic consistency of the theory is described in detail. The results we obtain almost quantitatively agree with available or newly generated simulation data. We envisage the possibility to extend the consistent RISM formalism to generic, more realistic molecular fluids.Comment: Typeset with LaTeX, 6 pages, 3 figures (5 subfigures), 28 references, submitted to Chem. Phys. Let