L’habitation maya by Fabienne de Pierrebourg, Marie-Charlotte Arnauld, Helios Figuerola, Jean-Michel Hoppan, Olivier Le Guen, Perla Petrich

“…In this preliminary research, which makes use of archaeological, epigraphic and ethnological information, we present certain arguments showing a linguistic and conceptual continuity in the Mayan dwelling as a delimited space. The visible and invisible boundaries that temporarily or permanently enclose or divide up its space seem quite similar in the various regions and periods considered. …”
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Evaluation of High-Temperature Heat Pumps’ Potential to Replace Gas Boilers in Industrial Buildings by Talaba Ovidiu, Serban Alexandru, Hiris Paul Daniel, Balan Mugur Ciprian

“…A single heat pump will achieve an annual COP of 2.66 without the PV system while in the proposed configuration with 3 heat pumps, the annual COP will be 2.37 without the PV system. The payback period for the configuration with 3 heat pumps is 3.10 years without the PV system and 3.26 years with the PV system.…”
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The evolution of ASEAN's language policies: A diachronic analysis of official documents and website. by Chen Zhang, Ronghui Zhao, Yan Huang

“…This study seeks to investigate the evolution of ASEAN's language policy by examining its official documents and website. We employed the Wayback Machine to trace the development of the ASEAN official website and adopted a corpus-based approach, utilizing tools such as AntConc and Sketch Engine, to analyze the Chairman's Statements of the ASEAN Summit (CSAS). …”
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Financial analysis and feasibity study of bamboo cultivation by Husnul Khotimah, Sutiono Sutiono

“…The results showed that the NPV (IDR 36,644,364.08) was greater than zero, the Net B/C ê-2.56 êwas greater than one, the IRR (11 %) was greater than the rate of 6%, and the payback period on the ninth year was less than the project life 15 years. …”
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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a PVGS on the Electrical Power Supply of a Small Island by Cheng-Ting Hsu, Roman Korimara, Tsun-Jen Cheng

“…After that, the cost-benefit analysis of payback years (PBY) and net present value (NPV) method is derived considering the cash flow from utilities annual fuel and loss saving, the operation and maintenance (O&M) cost, and the capital investment cost. …”
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Un lugar repleto de dioses. Nota preliminar sobre el programa escultórico de la Subestructura II C de Calakmul, Campeche, México by Daniel Salazar Lama

“…The project “Art that creates places” aims to study the impact of images in the Mayan built environment and the ability of these images to inscribe or materialize a meaning in space by splicing with the connotations and the functional utilities of architectural forms and other environmental elements. …”
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Provably secure private key protection scheme for smart mobile terminal by Jun MA, Jian-feng MA, Yuan-bo GUO

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Optimized design of sensing transmission and computing collaborative industrial Internet by Jingbo LI, Li MA, Yang LI, Yingxun FU, Dongchao MA

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2D-TDOA passive location based on geodetic longitude and latitude by Fangli MA, Yang XU, Peng XU

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Robust analysis of photovoltaic plants: A framework based on prediction uncertainties by machine learning by Seyyed Shahabaddin Hosseini Dehshiri, Bahar Firoozabadi

“…Additionally, the Levelized cost of electricity and payback period were in the range of 48–56 $/MWh and 13–16 years, respectively. …”
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Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Concentrated Solar Power in China by Shuxia Yang, Xianguo Zhu, Weishang Guo

“…Due to the important impact of the cost-benefit on the investment decisions and policy-making, this paper adopted the static payback period (SP), net present value (NPV), net present value rate (NPVR), and internal rate of return (IRR) to analyze and discuss the cost-benefit of CSP demonstration plants. …”
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Financial and Performance Analyses of Microcontroller Based Solar-Powered Autorickshaw for a Developing Country by Abu Raihan Mohammad Siddique, M. Shamim Kaiser

“…The Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) analysis, Net Present Worth, payback periods, and Benefit-to-Cost Ratio methods have been used to evaluate the financial feasibility and sensitivity analysis of m-SBAR, grid-powered BAR, and PR. …”
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Custo da legalidade na extração madeireira no estado de Mato Grosso: implantação de manejos florestais by Alessandra Maria Filippin dos Passos, Wylmor Constantino Tives Dalfovo, Michele Jackeline Andressa Rosa

“…The following data were used: Internal Rate of Return (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), PAYBACK, and a detailed costing (fixed and variable). …”
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The Application Study in Solar Energy Technology for Highway Service Area: A Case Study of West Lushan Highway Low-Carbon Service Area in China by Xiaochun Qin, Yi Shen, Shegang Shao

“…Taking the investment of the solar systems into account, the payback period of solar photoelectric systems and solar water heating systems was calculated. …”
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Technical and economic analysis of a specific spruce wood material drying process by Terziev Angel, Ivanov Martin, Vassilev Momchil, Stankov Borislav

“…The results show that only the annual energy costs of the option with a heat pump system are lower than the base case, with the cash savings amounting to USD 4,884/year, payback period of 9.47 years and 99.93 t/year CO2 emissions. …”
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Petrochemical Wastewater Treatment by Eggshell Modified Biochar as Adsorbent: Atechno-Economic and Sustainable Approach by Andy G. Kumi, Mona G. Ibrahim, Manabu Fujii, Mahmoud Nasr

“…According to an economic feasibility estimation, the biochar application for treating 1 m3 of PIW would offer a payback period of 6.9 yr. The study outputs could be linked to the restoration of water-related ecosystems, biochar modification for industrial applications, and climate change mitigation, adopting the 2030 agenda and its sustainable development goals (SDGs).…”
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Algunas reflexiones sobre la representación del tiempo en la imaginería maya antigua by Erik Velásquez García

“…This work registers and explores some of the many strategies that Mayan artists of the Classic period (AD 250-900) used to represent or suggest the flow of time: the containment of sculptural volumes, the manipulation of dates, the conventional distribution of figures in the pictorial field, the juxtaposition of different times and spaces, the simultaneous angles of view, the displacement between causes (indicated in the texts) and their effects (represented in the images), the sequence in praesentia, the sequence in absentia, and the peripeteia or eloquent instant that suggests psychologically the feeling of change or turning. …”
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Dusung Dati and Dusung Pusaka in a Livelihood Sustainability (Case Study in Ullath Village Maluku) by Jeanee Belthia Nikijuluw

“…For their households’ livelihood sustainability, they did tipar mayang jobs by keeping and renting the dusung, and implementing the maano system. …”
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Evaluation of barley genotypes for the content of <i>β</i>-glucans in grain and other valuable features in Eastern Siberia by V. I. Polonskiy, N. A. Surin, S. A. Gerasimov, A. G. Lipshin, A. V. Sumina, S A. Zute

“…According to the minimum value of the studied qualitative trait (3.18–3.43%), cultivars of Siberian breeding were identified: ‘Mayak’ (k-29622, Krasnoyarsk Territory) and ‘Tarsky 3’ (k-30719, Omsk Province), plus cv. …”
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On the Methodology for Calculating the Economic Efficiency of Energy Storage Systems by K. V. Dobrego, S. A. Fursov, S. S. Dubnovitski, V. L. Charvinski

“…Calculations of the simple payback period for investments in the installation of an ESS for an enterprise with several options for payment terms for electricity are given. …”
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