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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Location Decision"”.
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Japanese manufacturing greenfields : the provincial location decision
… a particular Canadian province. We find that the location preference is based primarily on the present distribution of Japanese and Canadian firms. A secondary factor is market access, which includes the transportation costs of exporting the Canadian manufactured product to Japan. Other important …
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A location decision: the Boston Common Parking Garage.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1965. M.C.P.
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Co-Location Decision Tree for Enhancing Decision-Making of Pavement Maintenance and Rehabilitation
… development of theory and algorithm for a new decision tree induction method, called co-location-based decision tree (CL-DT.) This method will enhance the decision-making abilities of pavement maintenance personnel and their rehabilitation strategies. This idea stems from shortcomings in …
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Housing location decision under environmental risk: The effects of the Yucca Mountain waste repository
Yucca Mountain is the site of a potential high-level nuclear waste repository in Nevada. The risks to health and safety of transporting and storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain may induce the residents of Nevada to move. When offered compensation, residents will weigh potential negative effects …
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Multi-stage and multi-objective allocation procedures of urban parks using location decision support system (UPLDSS)
Recreation has an important role in human life. Specifically, the open space around residential areas such as playgrounds or neighborhood parks influences people's daily lives implicitly or explicitly. In spite of such contributions, however, the literature directly related to the provision of …
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Foreign direct investment in the United States: The effects of multinational firm characteristics and local factors on the location decision
… concerns have been placed on the intra-country locational aspects of such FDI. Though extensive research has been done on location decisions of domestic firms, much less is known about location decisions of foreign firms. Previous work that has looked into the location considerations of FDI in …
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Location decision: a study of inter-city location variables and trade-offs for a group of Iranian managers and professionals.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1971. M.C.P.
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An Investigation into the Decision-Making Processes of Transport Companies when Selecting a Warehouse Location
This study examines and analyses the decision-making processes used by companies in the transport industry when making a warehouse location decision. Previous research has looked at location decision-making in many industries and at location decisions specifically in the retail and manufacturing …
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The spatial and temporal diffusion of museums in New York City, 1910-2010
… is to understand and analyze the museum location decision, defined as where museum founders choose to establish or relocate their institution. The empirical case is the museum population of New York City from 1910-2010. In three substantive chapters, I explore this complex decision …
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Essays on Environmental Economics with a Focus on Non-market Valuation
… 2), and urban tree cover's impact on residential location decision making in Milwaukee, WI (in Chapter 3). Chapter 2 evaluates the economic effects of labeling plants grown with water-recycling technology (WRT) practices in selected nursery operations in the Mid-Atlantic region of Virginia, …
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Portfolio choices with taxes
… have only a wealth effect on overall portfolio decisions through the effective tax subsidy provided, and the optimal location decision of where to place an asset is separable from the allocation decision of overall portfolio composition among different assets. Investors optimally hold only the …
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Essays in Country Banking: Case Studies of the First National Bank of Bloomington (Illinois)
In the fourth paper, I examine the decision to select locations for Federal Reserve Banks by the Reserve Board Organization Committee in April 1914. I estimate probability choice models for the 37 cities that requested consideration by the committee by relying upon statements of involved persons as …
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Socio-econimic Analysis of Factors Influencing the Longevity of a Rural Business: A Case Study of Bourgault Industries Limited, St. Brieux, Saskatchewan, Canada
… to investigate the factors influencing the location decision as well as the factors influencing the success of a rural manufacturing firm called Bourgault Industries Limited. Bourgault Industries Limited is a rural family-owned manufacturing firm established in 1974 and it is located in St. …
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Probabilistic formulations of some facility location problems
The area of facilities location covers a wide variety of problems involving both public and private sector applications. To date, the study of location problems has been restricted primarily to deterministic formulations of the problem. The present research effort investigates the effect of random …
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A reformulation-linearization based implicit enumeration algorithm for the rectilinear distance location-allocation problem
… with the analysis of a Rectilinear Distance Location Allocation Problem, where the costs are directly proportional to rectilinear distances and the amount shipped. The problem is formulated as a Mixed Integer Bilinear Programming Problem and as a Discrete Location Allocation Problem. Using …
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The spatial clustering of occupations
… jobs available in a particular area in their location decision. Based on this theory I make three predictions. Workers will tend to cluster in areas where their skills are in high demand. They will be paid less in these areas, ceteris paribus. And demand shocks will affect workers' wages less, …
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A discrete equal-capacity p-Median problem
… algorithm that enumerates over the location decision variable space is used to obtain an integer optimal solution. Computational experience is provided to demonstrate the efficacy of the algorithm.
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Essays on the economic and political effects of immigration
… Acts of the 1920s, and instrument immigrants' location decision relying on pre-existing settlement patterns. Immigration increased natives' employment and occupational standing, and fostered industrial production and capital utilization. However, despite these economic benefits, it triggered …
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