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CASRAI discussion notes
(2016-10)Transcribed summary of discussion on CASRAI (Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information ) at RepoFringe 2016 under the theme 'The Nuts and Bolts of Open'. -
CCS for Industrial Sources of CO2 in Europe
(SCCS, 2013-08)CCS for Industrial Sources of CO2 in Europe -
Certificates for CCS at reduced public cost: securing the UK's energy and climate future, Energy Bill 2015
(SCCS, 2015-09-09)This Paper concerns the Energy Bill, which starts its Committee stages in the Lords on Monday 7th September and Wednesday 9th September 2015. The Bill is mainly tasked to create the OGA (Oil and Gas Authority). In addition ... -
Changing planetary rotation rescues the biological clock mutant lhy cca1 of Arabidopsis thaliana
(bioRxiv at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2015-12-17)Background: Pervasive, 24-hour rhythms from the biological clock affect diverse biological processes in metabolism and behaviour, including the human cell division cycle and sleep-wake cycle, nightly transpiration and ... -
Clean Growth Strategy – Consultation Response: SCCS response to the UK Government consultation on the Clean Growth Strategy
(SCCS, 2017-12)Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage (SCCS) welcomes the UK Government’s Clean Growth Strategy, and its commitment to carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, particularly from ... -
Cognitive skills matter. The employment disadvantage of the low-educated in international comparison
(The University of Edinburgh, 2011)It is now a widely acknowledged fact that the low-skilled are facing important risks of labour market exclusion in modern economies. However, possessing low levels of educational qualifications leads to very different ... -
Comment by Stuart Haszeldine on Zoback and Gorelick (2012)
(SCCS, 2012-06-20)Zoback and Gorelick PNAS 2012 Comment by Stuart Haszeldine Professor of CCS, University of Edinburgh This article by Zoback and Gorelick (PNAS 2012, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1202473109) presents a well argued ... -
Comments on Little and Jackson
(SCCS, 2010-10-17)The potential impacts of CO2 on freshwater aquifers outlined by Little and Jackson, 2010 appear, incorrectly, to slay all hope of storing CO2 below ground and retaining safe drinking waters. Without doubt the effects of ... -
Company Value and Economic Currency Risk: an empirical study of UK-listed importers and exporters
(Management School and Economics. The University of Edinburgh, 1998)This study examines the impact of economic currency exposure on UK share prices using both daily and monthly data. It makes use of survey information to identify two types of firm on the basis of exchange rate sensitivity ... -
Comparative forecasting performance of symmetric and asymmetric conditional volatility models of an exchange rate.
(Management School and Economics. The University of Edinburgh, 2002)The relative out-of-sample forecasting quality of symmetric and asymmetric conditional volatility models of an exchange rate differs according to the symmetric and asymmetric evaluation criteria as well as a regression-based ... -
Comparing wave power from a Northern and a Southern site
(The University of Edinburgh, 1978)Instantaneous wave power at a single site varies considerably with time. Combining the power outputs from two distant sites could be a way of reducing the variation in instantaneous power output. Wave data from Boyle, ... -
Complementing or replacing old age insurance? The growing importance of funded pensions in the French pension system
(The University of Edinburgh, 2010)The French pension system has for long been characterised by its very low reliance on funded pensions, which have almost become a taboo subject since the Second World War. While other countries have often complemented ... -
Components of Risk for Investment Trusts
(Management School and Economics. The University of Edinburgh, 1996)Risk assessment is a topical subject in the investment trust sector. Several fund management groups have started issuing risk gradings from their investment trusts. Money Management and Micropal now publish volatility ... -
Congestion, Capacity, Carbon: Priorities for National Infrastructure – Consultation Response: SCCS response to the National Infrastructure Commission consultation on priorities for national infrastructure
(SCCS, 2018-01)Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a set of technologies that can reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) at source to prevent increased atmospheric concentrations of the gas, which cause climate change. The approach of ... -
Corporate Governance & The UK Split Capital Investment Trust Crisis
(Management School and Economics. The University of Edinburgh, 2005)The recent boom and bust within the UK split capital investment trust sector was, in the true sense of the word, extraordinary. It tested investment trust directors in a way unknown for at least a generation and brought ... -
Cross-Sectional Variation in Investment Trust Discount Volatility
(Management School and Economics. The University of Edinburgh, 1998)Discount volatility is generally an important component of total risk for closed-end funds but there is considerable cross-sectional variation in the magnitude of this discount volatility. These are interesting aspects of ... -
Customer Participation in the Support System for Small Grocery Retailers
(Management School and Economics. The University of Edinburgh, 2004)In the previous research (Terashima and Dawson, 2004), we discussed a support system for small grocery retailers in order to regenerate them. The purpose of this paper is to show a mechanism which increases customer value ... -
‘Day students’ in Higher Education: widening access students and successful transitions to university life
(Institute of Geography; The School of Geosciences; The University of Edinburgh, 2005)This article explores the experiences of widening access students at two prestigious Universities in Scotland. It is based on interview data collected from a small sample of young and mature students who had all attended ... -
The dependent variable problem in quantitative studies of Active Labour Market Programmes: Uncovering hidden dynamics?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2011)The question of what explains variation in expenditures on Active Labour Market Programs (ALMPs) has attracted significant scholarship in recent years. Significant insights have been gained with respect to the role of ... -
Deregulation of the Japanese Markets - Opportunities for the Edinburgh Investment Community
(Management School and Economics. The University of Edinburgh, 1997)The proposed deregeulation of the Japanese financial markets, first announced in November 1996 is intended to make the financial system more competitive and to make better use of the country's Y1200 trillion of personal ...