Depending on the relative costs of technologies, different technologies could dominate in order to meet a 2°C target.
While no one can accurately call the bottom with any consistency, there are many signs that the bottom is near the relative underperformance of utilities and the relative outperformance of technology in February, just to name a couple.
A distant relative of this technology argument is that the income gap is becoming permanent and aggravated because IQs are becoming more polarized.
We use a simple model to decompose the relative contribution of technology and regulation to the rise of shadow banks.
The relative sizes of technology categories shown do not constitute a "ranking," since our sizing is not comprehensive.
A definitive conclusion as to the relative efficacy of technology-mediated versus face-to-face administered psychotherapy can only be drawn from randomized controlled trials comparing the two interventions.
Changes over time in the relative economic performance of technologies, the likelihood that people will use them, and the environmental impacts associated with their use, are being tackled with a number of techniques including agent based modelling, behavioural models, and system dynamics, among others [3, 4, 25, 45, 46].
Innovation theory outlines five attributes that influence the rate of adoption of technologies: 1) relative advantage, 2) compatibility, 3) trialability, 4) observability, and 5) complexity.
Nishimizu and Page [12] suggested decomposing TFP into the change of frontier technology and the change of relative frontier technology efficiency.
Here it is identified as an additional main determinant of the relative assessment of the technologies since it is continuously consumed.
