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Costs and benefits of electricity subsidies in Uganda
Electricity subsidies in Uganda have been pervasive in support of industrial output and government revenues since 2005, until their reduction in January 2012. While economic theory suggests that market mechanisms maximise social welfare, the necessity for subsidies arises when a markets fail. …
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Gender Differences in Perceived Costs and Benefits of Workplace Mistreatment
… mistreatment, in the form of both incivility and aggression, can have a major impact on personal and organizational outcomes. The purpose of this study was to examine the mental judgments that individuals make before engaging in either uncivil or aggressive behavior. Data was analyzed in terms …
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Costs and benefits of host use by brood parasitic birds
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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The social costs and benefits of volunteering for a public agency
Researchers have highlighted the many benefits for children who participate in youth sports. However, little research has been conducted to examine the experiences of parent volunteer coaches. The lack of research on parent volunteers is particularly surprising given the increased importance of …
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Foreign aid in Africa : an analysis of its costs and benefits
… things, stimulating growth, reducing poverty and improving governance. While Africa has received massive inflows of aid since the 1960s, the Continent is still saddled with a number of challenges. These include, poor economic performance, growing poverty, a high level of corruption, poor …
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From brains to bears. understanding brain size evolution: causes, costs and benefits
Developmental and energetic costs result in brains being expensive organs to grow and maintain, yet large brains have evolved in many mammalian species. The adaptive value of increased brain size has come under scrutiny over the past few decades and despite considerable research effort, much …
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Costs and benefits of Daphnia antipredator behavior and consequences on community stability
… effects of altered energy flow caused by costs and benefits of antipredator defenses and to study their implications for community stability, I used the planktivorous fish - Chaoborus - Daphnia system. In the laboratory, I found that clonal variance of Daphnia antipredator defenses was …
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An Analysis of Costs and Benefits to Students for Technical Agribusiness Education
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:44:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7105196.pdf: 5242689 bytes, checksum: a5ba1c203eac865a3b7c2d8a35864a93 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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Financial costs and benefits of sourcing from factories with different risk profiles
… consumer goods design, development, sourcing and logistics company for global retailers and brands. Its networks cover over 15,000 suppliers and 300 offices and distribution centers in 40 economies around the world. Supply chains in the consumer goods industry are facing challenges due to …
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Privacy in context : the costs and benefits of a new deidentification method
… Policy research continues to show people's demand for health organizations to protect patient-specific data. Health organizations need personally identifiable data for unhampered decision making; however, identifiable data are often the basis of information abuse if such data are improperly …
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Costs and benefits of extensive electricity metering at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
… a brief history of utilities conservation and a background on electricity metering in the Navy. A cost analysis is made of the savings that would be required to justify installation of meters in the operational area of the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, using net present …
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Costs and benefits of an extended phenotype: Chambers made by Manduca sexta larvae
… can serve interesting physiological functions and their externality provides ready opportunity to manipulate and examine their functions and costs. One such set of extended phenotypes are below-ground pupation chambers made by a wide range of insects and whose function is unknown and costs …
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Costs and benefits of an extended phenotype: Chambers made by Manduca sexta larvae
… can serve interesting physiological functions and their externality provides ready opportunity to manipulate and examine their functions and costs. One such set of extended phenotypes are below-ground pupation chambers made by a wide range of insects and whose function is unknown and costs …
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Irish Neutrality What are the Costs and Benefits of Ireland’s Policy of Neutrality?
Irish Neutrality - What are the Costs and Benefits of Ireland’s Policy of Neutrality? Irish Neutrality is a policy that has evolved since the foundation of the State. The exposure to major conflicts since statehood was achieved by Ireland has been relatively limited. Ireland’s policy of neutrality …
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The costs and benefits of nurse migration to their families in Maseru, Lesotho
… with the depletion of skilled human resource and Lesotho is no exception in this regard. These nurses are leaving their families, however, the impact of nurse migration is not known on the families left behind. The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the experiences of family …
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Massachusetts Military Reservation Superfund site did costs and benefits matter in remediation decisions?
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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Evaluating the costs and benefits of increased funding for public transportation in Chicago
… or slightly below break-even with respect to net benefits if the CTA cost structure and tax source of subsidy remains unchanged. In order to justify any significant additional long-term funding for the purpose of growing ridership, the CTA should make operational changes to lower its costs and …
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The Green Revolution in California: The Real Costs and Benefits of Changing Electricity Production
… problems of inequality, economic growth, and law and order. What is often called the Green Revolution has focused on the effect of industrial growth on the health of the individuals living in that society and on the effects on climate. In the United States, the State that was the first to …
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The costs and benefits of hosting colonial sociable weaver nests for arid zone savanna trees
The savanna ecosystem is water and, in some instances, nutrient-limited, creating competition among species. Species, however, coexist in this ecosystem through processing like facilitation acting together with competition. Facilitation is an ecological interaction in which one species enhances the …
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