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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Duration analysis"”.
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A logarithmic cost-duration analysis
… Indirect costs are proportional to project duration, with the penalty rate factor. Direct costs are related to the activity durations. An important problem of cost-duration analysis is how to design the trade-off between indirect and direct costs. Academics and practitioners have been …
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A Cut Search Approach to Max-Flow Min-Cut Problems and Cost Duration Analysis
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Waiting time distributions and national targets for elective surgery in UK: theoretical modelling and duration analysis
… of patients’ waiting times by applying duration analysis techniques to waiting time data from 2001/02 and 2002/03 for three specialties: general surgery, trauma & orthopaedics and ophthalmology. In Chapter 3, we examine further the variation in the way hospitals and surgeons manage their …
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Towards an economic theory of strikes: Further evidence from Brazilian data
… based on statistical methods of frequency and duration analysis. The obtained results of frequency and duration of strikes, including their relationships with some macroeconomic variables, are compared with ones from similar studies using data from the US and Canada. The comparison shows that …
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Three essays on the competitiveness of the US corn seed industry
… AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation provides an analysis of various aspects of the competitivity of the US corn seed industry. In the first essay I develop a price depend model of seed demand which provides a measure of the degree of market power in the corn seed industry. The degree of market …
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The initial unemployment duration of immigrants to Khayelitsha/Mitchell's Plain
… Town labour market by means of a discrete-time duration analysis of the time taken to find work after arrival. Low exit rates from unemployment mean that the pool of long-term unemployed stays large and puts pressure on government resources that are required to try and prevent people from …
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Three papers on the behavior modeling of the shrimp fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico
… heterogeneity into the location choice and duration models corrects the potential biasedness in estimates and improves the goodness-of-fit considerably, aside from provides intuitive economic interpretations.
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Experimental Investigation of the Effects of a Passing Shock on Compressor Stator Flow
… trailing edge flow field throughout the cycle duration. Analysis of the DPIV data showed that the vortex acts as a flow blockage, with the extent of this blockage ranging from 2.9% of the passage for the weakest shock, to 14.3% of the passage for the strongest shock. The vortex was also shown …
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Did State Renewable Portfolio Standards Induce Technical Change In Methane Mitigation in the U.S. Landfill Sector?
… technology diffuses among potential users. Using duration analysis, data on energy prices, State and Federal policies related to landfill gas, renewable energy, and air pollution, as well as control data on landfill characteristics, I estimate the influence and direction of influence of renewable …
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An Economic Analysis of Children's Behavior and Academic Experiences in Canadian Schools
… programs. Both simple logistic estimation and duration analysis
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Essays on Fertility and the Economy in Venezuela
… or changes in the amount of transfers. Also, the duration analysis presents differences in childbearing patterns where the boom cohort seems to be at a higher risk of an additional child for lower parities, but at a lower risk for higher parities when compared to the bust cohort. These differences …
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Essays on the spatial dynamic interaction of individual behavior, institutions, and the environment
… The first chapter is a discrete-time hazard analysis of irrigation technology adoption that assesses the importance of physical heterogeneity on investment timing. Given nonlinearities and thresholds in the relationship between physical variables and crop yields, the adoption of irrigation …
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UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE IN LABOR SEARCH MODEL AND MONEY DEMAND
… of the impact of unemployment benefits on the duration of unemployment using a job search model, we specify a distribution of duration of unemployment that we estimate using maximum likelihood estimation and find that there is in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY 97) there are 3 …
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The accuracy of energy-based crash reconstruction techniques using event data recorder measurements
… of the EDR. To determine the necessary recording duration for EDRs, a crash pulse duration analysis of real-world collisions was conducted. The dataset included Event Data Recorder data from 143 real-world collisions. It was found that an EDR crash pulse recording duration of 250 milliseconds …
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An analysis of the determinants and scarring effects of economic inactivity and unemployment in the UK
… using the Markov models and the discrete-time duration analysis, which control for unobserved heterogeneity, provide evidence of true state dependence. Specifically, we find that individuals who were unemployed in the last year’s interview, are about 17 percentage points more likely to be …
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Three essays on the relationship between land conservation and economic development
… household welfare in these rural villages. This analysis of the immediate effects of land conservation policies in Nepal cannot shed light on all the effects of conservation policies, as land and soil quality change takes time. Historical events provide a more complete picture. Thus, my second …
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Efficient spectrum-handoff schemes for cognitive radio networks
… determines the inter-satellite link transmission duration. Analysis shows that interference-free inter-satellite links transmission is achievable during terrestrial radio astronomy observation switching for up to 50.7 seconds. The second mechanism enables the mobile ground station, with a trained …
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Essays On Oil Price Volatility And Irreversible Investment
… intraday returns of oil futures prices. Using a duration model, I show that oil price volatility generally has a negative relationship with the hazard rate of drilling an oil well both when aggregating all the fields, and in individual fields.</p>
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Economic and Financial Factors Affecting Currency Stability of Floating Exchange Rate Regimes: A Survival Analysis
… currency crises. The research utilizes survival analysis. Durations of tranquility are used to determine probabilities of crises. In turn, economic and financial variables are used to test possible linkages to these crises. In the study, durations of tranquil periods are defined by the absence of …
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