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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"Additional costs"”.
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Additional costs of FAS and PFAS learners in the classroom: An estimate for public primary schools in the Western Cape
… of variables associated with educator time use. Additional costs as a result of the use of educator's time by learners with FAS/PFAS were scaled up using risk differences and published statistics to reflect a cost burden to the WC Education Department. Results: The additional cost burden of …
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An analysis of the excess cost of educating military connected handicapped children in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia
… connected handicapped children, what the additional costs were to the LEAs to educate these children, and what percentage of military parents of handicapped children were assigned to the Tidewater area due to the special educational needs of their children. Analysis of the data indicated …
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Factor of two : halving the fuel consumption of new U.S. Automobiles by 2035
… weight must be reduced by 20-35% from today. Theadditional cost of achieving this factor-of-two target would be about 20% more than a baseline scenario where fuel consumption does not change from today's values, although these additional costs would be recouped within 4 to 5 years from the …
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Grounded by the prices : Internal carbon pricing as a means to reduce corporate air travel
… and emission estimates different travel options. Additional costs such as the per diem allowance and lost work time due to longer travel times are included as well. The results show that the commonly proposed methods for setting an ICP, such as using carbon credits or social cost of carbon as a …
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The value of flexible design : real estate investment and development strategy under uncertainty
… be economically viable, even when substantial additional costs are incurred.
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A suction-based reversible attachment and locomotion mechanism for an underway vessel hull cleaning and inspection robot
… Any vessel down time brings significant additional costs to the industry. A common source of vessel downtime is the colonization of the vessel hull by marine life, known as permanent marine bio growth. Marine bio growth brings significant risks and costs associated with it, the most …
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Heuristics for airline schedule recovery via the virtual hub model
Airlines incur significant additional costs when bad weather at a hub-airport causes delays and cancellations throughout their entire network. One new recovery strategy called the virtual hub alleviates the effects of large delays at a hub-airport by setting up and diverting flight legs to nearby …
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Increasing accessibility and enhancing value of two university small vertebrate collections through digitization and online database publication
… their preexisting value without significant additional costs. With this project I digitized and published the mammal collection (2,525 records) and, separately, the ornithology collection (403 records). Upon publication these records are the only mammal and bird datasets from the state of …
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Interferência de medicamentos em exames laboratoriais.
… patients, new clinical trials, that resul t in additional costs being so necessary. The probability of interference occurring increases as the patient uses more than one drug, which should always be checked by health professionals before the examinations. Note that the study of these important …
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Adopting Obligations: Duties to Existing Children
… ARTs are clearly willing and able to assume additional costs in order to have a child. Consequently, there is a relevant difference between these two groups that justifies focusing on the latter.
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Hur påverkar elektrifieringskrav, drivna av EU-politik och stora transportköpare, små åkeriers konkurrensförutsättningar i den svenska logistikkedjan
… particular challenges due to high investment costs, uncertain payback period, limits of infrastructure, reduced flexibility in some transport operations and difficulties passing additional costs on to customers. The study concludes that electrification is not only a technological transition …
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On the performance of B-trees using dynamic address computation
… of the B-tree. It is shown that the additional costs associated with Dynamic Address Computation result in an implementation that is competitive with traditional implementations only for small applications. For very large B-trees, additional work is required to make the performance …
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Optimization of RFID System Coverage in a Manufacturing Environment
… whether higher coverage layouts are worth the additional costs associated with the higher number of antennas required. It was found that the non-overlapping network of antennas in a hexagonal lattice formation, which covers 90.7% of the production floor area, provides the highest amount of …
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The Effects of Motivational and Content Control on Dispute Mediation (Negotiation, Power, Arbitration)
… in the form of making the parties aware of additional costs of nonsettlement (or both or neither technique). Results indicated that mediators using content control increased the number of multi-issue disputes that were resolved and increased the likelihood of a compromise agreement. …
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Improving supply chain resilience
… many disruptions. These disruptions often incur additional costs; and require time to respond to and recover from these disruptions. The base paper supply chain was identified as the most vulnerable area of the Company A Jurong and South & Southeast Asia Cluster supply chain; and a multi-stage …
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Improve supply chain resilience by multi-stage supply chain
… many disruptions. These disruptions often incur additional costs; and require time to respond to and recover from these disruptions. The base paper supply chain was identified as the most vulnerable area of the Company A Jurong and South & Southeast Asia Cluster supply chain; and a multi-stage …
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Improving supply chain resilience by multi-stage supply chain
… many disruptions. These disruptions often incur additional costs; and require time to respond to and recover from these disruptions. The base paper supply chain was identified as the most vulnerable area of the Company A Jurong and South & Southeast Asia Cluster supply chain; and a multi-stage …
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Airbus A320/321 Quick Change Market Analysis - A Case Study
… of a particular airline. Direct operating costs and payload range data for all three aircraft were calculated.</p> <p>To evaluate the competitiveness of the A320/321 QC under actual conditions, a linear programming fleet planning model was developed that considers more than the direct …
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Electricity market integration of stochastic renewable resources : efficiency and risk tradeoffs
… like wind and solar energy can increase the costs of supplying reliable electricity. Competitive markets for wholesale electricity are widely used in the United States, but the regulatory details that govern their treatment of stochastic resources can have significant effects on efficiency …
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Cost Utility Analysis of Balloon Kyphoplasty and Vertebroplasty in the Treatment of Vertebral Compression Fractures in the United States
… related quality of life and high health care costs. Balloon kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty are vertebral augmentation procedures, widely used by spine surgeons to relieve pain in these patients. A number of studies have been conducted to compare and contrast the effectiveness of both these …
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