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Showing 1 to 20 of 124 for “"Industrial sectors"”.
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Energy utilisation in selected industrial sectors in South Africa
… in South Africa. Energy use in all economic sectors, from 1964 to 1974, was surveyed in the report "Energy Utilisation in South Africa", published by the Department of Planning and the Environment in 1978. As this report showed the major primary industries to be the largest single users of …
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UK market efficiency and the Myners review: a univariate analysis of strategic asset allocation by industrial sectors.
… Myners Review) suggested in 2001 that various sectors of the UK equity market may be suitable for active investment management, tacitly assuming that some sectors are efficient whilst others are not. The validity of this assumption is tested against 29 industrial sector indices within the FTSE …
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Evaluation of the Supply Chain of Key Industrial Sectors and its Impact on the Electricity Demand for a Regional Distribution Company
Considering the international scenario, in a recent past, the electrical industry was based on the concepts of monopolistic concessions and vertical utilities structures. In Brazil, until recently, the electricity companies were all governmental properties that served restricted monopolized areas. …
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"Security, Technology and Ideology: ""strategic Enclaves"" In Brazil and India, 1945-1989"
… spatially distinct, technologically insulated industrial sectors producing strategic goods. This dissertation compared the development of the defense production enclaves in Brazil and India from 1945 to 1989. The dependent variable was autonomous strategic technology development.
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Synthesis and characterization of nanofluids for cooling applications
… transfer fluids that are required in numerous industrial sectors. Recently submicron and high aspect ratio particles (nanoparticles and nanotubes) were introduced into the heat transfer fluids to enhance the thermal conductivity of the resulting nanofluids. The aim of this project was to …
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A cross sectional study of the capital structures of firms listed on the JSE
… on the capital structure across the industrial sectors. The findings indicate that firms in the health care services, utilities and industrial sectors employ a higher percentage of leverage in the mix of capital, compared to the others. From the panel regression analysis, asset …
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Graded titanium based coatings by combining thermal spray and PVD technologies
… improved surface performance in many priority industrial sectors. There have also been rapid developments in methods of surface engineering and in tribological understanding. There is accordingly an exciting opportunity for cost effective industrial exploitation of materials with desirable …
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Industry stucture, performance and foreign direct investment: The case of Korea. An empirical study of the impact of foreign direct investment on manufacturing performance in the Republic of Korea.
… of the relationship at the level of individual industrial sectors. It also involves investigating the role played by the Korean government in the development of the economy and the control of foreign direct investment inflow. The analysis uses a two stage approach, first by taking an exploratory …
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Relationship between electricity prices, consumption and economic growth in South Africa
… consumption, in the mining and residential sectors, the relationship between electricity consumption and GDP is insignificant and thus adheres to the neutrality hypothesis. In contrast, in the services, transportation and industrial sectors, there is a positive relationship between GDP and …
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A sectorally disaggregated econometric model for forecasting copper demand in the U.S.
… copper demand was disaggregated into its end-use industrial sectors and linear demand equations estimated for each sector. The correlation among the error terms of the various sectoral equations was explicitly taken into account in the estimation. Elasticities were computed at the means for the …
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Measuring the gender-wage differential and discrimination in the Eritrean labour market
… hours worked per a week, marital status, industrial sectors, and type of employer were important determinant of female wages. Place of work and occupations were the least important, and ethnicity was insignificant in the wage determination process of the female employees. Likewise, the …
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A General Equilibrium Model for the Incidence of the Payroll Tax
… economy with a number of consumer groups and industrial sectors is built to analyze the incidence of the payroll tax. A proof of the existence of a competitive equilibrium in an economy with a social security agency which acts independently of the government is provided. Besides the payroll …
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Effects of doping and microstructural variables on hydrogen generated via aluminum-water reactions enabled by a liquid metal
… potential to replace fossil fuels in numerous industrial sectors, considering its high energy density, ability to be used within our existing power or heating infrastructure, and lack of CO₂ emissions upon conversion of hydrogen's chemical energy into electricity. However, 96% of hydrogen is …
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Boston's back streets : planning a city program to preserve and enhance Boston's industrial health
… to support its remaining small- and medium-sized industrial and manufacturing-related businesses. In reviewing this initiative - called Back Streets - the study looks at Boston's past, current, and projected major industrial sectors in order to provide an understanding of how the Back Streets …
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Improvement of Geometric Quality Inspection and Process Efficiency in Additive Manufacturing
… increasing attention and interest of different industrial sectors. However, there are still some technical challenges hindering the wide application of AM. One major barrier is the limited dimensional accuracy of AM produced parts, especially for industrial sectors such as aerospace and …
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The outcomes of international trade conflicts: the U.S. and Japan, 1968-1983
… occurred between 1968 and 1983, covering five industrial sectors. The outcomes varied in the degree to which each government achieved its initial objectives. This study proposes five hypotheses for explaining variations in bilateral conflict outcomes, and a technique for comparing outcomes is …
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3B Soluciones Industriales S.A.C.
… strategic planning of the company 3B Soluciones Industriales S.A.C., which designs, develops, manufactures, markets and distributes chemical products for the automotive, hardware and industrial sectors, under the 3BSI trademark. This research consists of 5 chapters: In the first, the general …
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Sustainable Management of Water Resources and Hydropower Projects in the Context of the Food-Energy-Water Nexus in the Mekong River Basin
… between irrigation, domestic, and hydropower sectors with minimal effect on the downstream ecosystem by estimating the cascading effects of dams in the MRB. The hydrological characteristic of the MRB was simulated using the high resolution (1 km) Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) …
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The Influence of Financing Structure on Performance of MSMEs in South African: "The Valley of Death"
… structure on performance across various industrial sectors in the years 2013, 2014 and 2015. The findings in this study indicate an increase in the use of leverage to drive the influence of total debt on performance in all industrial sectors of MSMEs in South Africa. From the …
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Information technology industries and national competitiveness
… that provide a rationale for a link between industrial structure and competitiveness. One implication of such theories is that there may be leading industrial sectors, particularly important in factors driving growth, such as innovation and the generation and diffusion of knowledge. Expansion …
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