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Showing 1 to 20 of 243 for “"NPV"”.
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Further developing NPV analysis to evaluate real estate investment opportunities
The primary objective of this thesis is to link the theoretical concepts of the broad academic community to the practice of the real estate industry. The most fundamental focus of this work is to build upon widely used net present value methodology in an effort to analyze real estate acquisition …
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Strength and Weaknesses of NPV Analysis and its Application to Aircraft Value Modeling
… this study is to analyze the Net Present Value (NPV) technique as a mean to forecast aircraft values and the analysis of aircraft value forecasting accuracy. The main part of the examination is the evaluation of the actual quality of aircraft appraisals. The appraisal evaluation is based on …
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Inactivation of Helicoverpa armigera nucleopolyhedrovirus on chickpea, Cicer arietinum L.
… specific viruses like nucleopolyhedrosisvirus (NPV) can provide an alternative and effective insect pest control compared to conventional chemicals; however, on certain crops like chickpea efficacy of the virus is limited. Previous studies have demonstrated that inactivation on chickpea was leaf …
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Viruses of Heliothis armigera (Hübner) (Lepidoptera : Noctuidae)
… insect viruses: nuclear polyhedrosis virus (NPV), granulosis virus (GV), and cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus (CPV). Both NPV and GV have been previously studied because of their ready availability and their potential use in pest control. However, there have been no recorded studies of CPV in …
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Evaluation Of Selected Spectral Vegetation Indices In Senescent Rangeland Canopy Using Landsat Imagery
… on the amount of nonproductive vegetation (NPV). To estimate NPV land managers are currently using the Robel pole visual obstruction reading methods. Researchers with the USDA Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory in Mandan, ND, recently established …
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Economic analysis of biofuel production from Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) and Sweet Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) in the United States
… for ethanol production. Next, net present value (NPV) and minimum ethanol selling price (MESP) for Switchgrass and Sweet sorghum are calculated. Lastly, risk analysis is performed and its impacts on NPV are calculated for two farmer categories. The results show that ethanol production from …
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Numerical simulation and optimisation of polymer flooding in a heterogenous reservoir : constrained versus unconstrained optimisation
… parameters that impact the Net Present Value (NPV). These parameters were then deployed in an experimental design study using Latin Hypercube Sampling to generate training runs from which a proxy model was created using polynomial regression. A particle swarm optimization algorithm was employed …
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A concessionaire selection decision model development and application for the PPP project procurement
… in order to achieve the best net present value (NPV). Many researchers mentioned that the risk events of a PPP infrastructure projects are interdependent over project life cycle. Sterman (1992) stated that a large-scale construction project that is complex and has highly dynamic and …
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Value of more sophistication : capital investment decision-making with competitive dynamics in the mining industry
… based primarily on the firm-level cash flow NPV outcome in Monte Carlo simulations of the market. The analysis is conducted for various market scenarios of different demand growth patterns, volatility, demand elasticity, and supply structure. Simulation results show that in almost all …
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Development of Rapid Lateral-flow Immunochromatographic Test for the Diagnosis of Chikungunya Virus Infection
… 100% PPV (positive predictive value) and 93.8% NPV (negative predictive value). The E1 ELISA showed 77.5% sensitivity, 100% specificity, 100% PPV and 87.0% NPV and the capsid ELISA showed 87.5% sensitivity, 100% specificity, 100% PPV and 92.3% NPV. The E2 LF-ICT showed 92.5% sensitivity, 100% …
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An integrated risk evaluation model for mineral deposits.
… valuation indicators, such as net present value (NPV) or internal rate of return (IRR). The driver behind this research was whether conventional evaluation techniques for mineral projects can evaluate accurately both the spatial and temporal characteristics of project risks in financial terms, due …
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Techno-economic analysis of jet fuel production from waste vegetable oil in Mexico
… BPD plant located in Mexico can reach a positive NPV of approximately $80 million over a 20-year operating period at an internal rate of return of 15% percent. The minimum selling price for reaching this internal rate of return is $2.21 per gallon for diesel and $2.36 per gallon for jet fuel. If …
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A stochastic techno-economic comparison of alternative jet fuel production pathways
… to $1.39/liter), respectively. The highest mean NPV was the NPV calculated for HEFA yellow grease with a mean value (in $B) of -0.112 (95% range of -0.412 to 0.179), followed by HEFA tallow with -0.202 (-0.517 to 0.100) and FT with -0.210 (-0.424 to 0.033). This study also quantifies plant …
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Application of artificial intelligence techniques to well spacing optimization in fractured tight reservoirs
… process. Maximizing net present value (NPV) was considered as the objective function while well spacing, fracture half-length and fracture conductivity were set as the optimization variables. 3 well spacing optimization workflows are then developed comprising of ANN based proxy only, …
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An analysis of the use of discounted cash flow methods and real options to value flexibility in real estate development projects
… the growth in the use of DCF methods such as the NPV and IRR methods to evaluate projects as compared to the use of such naïve methods as Payback and the Accounting rate of return. The growing convergence of theory and practice is indicated by the growing use of the NPV method. The objective of …
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Returns on Chinese residential development projects : a practical investment evaluation procedure developed for the analysis of Chinese residential development projects based on modern financial economic norms
… of a fundamental principle in finance: the NPV investment decision rule. This rule requires that, in order to make sound investment decisions, investors should maximize the NPV across all mutually exclusive alternatives and never choose an alternative in which NPV<0. The new real estate …
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A financial analysis of producing pellets from the encroacher bush Senegalia Mellifera as a potential livestock feed: A cost benefit analysis approach
… pellets. CBA indicators like Net Present Value (NPV) and Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR) were used to determine viability. An online survey and a key informant questionnaire were used to collect data on the WTP of farmers for the bush-based feed. A total sample size of 33 respodents was used. Two …
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Technoeconomic Assessment of a Gossamer, Planar, Gigawatt-Scale Space-Based Solar Power System
… based on two metrics: the net present value (NPV) and the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE). Although SBSP is deemed practical from an engineering perspective, the study concludes that it has yet to make financial sense. Its technical practicality is evidenced by the fact that all the …
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Engineering Options Analysis of Dual Hydrogen - Natural Gas Fueling: A Texas Power Plant under Carbon Price
… options analysis, the Net Present Value method (NPV), and the Monte Carlo simulation together with the novel system scale SESAME tool. A 438MW natural gas power plant located in West Texas, USA, is taken as a case study to illustrate this approach. Different scenarios for electricity, fuel, and …
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Strategies for real time reservoir management
… EnOpt converges to a higher net present value (NPV) than BOBYQA—even though BOBYQA uses second order Hessian information whereas EnOpt uses first order gradients. BOBYQA performs comparably only if multiscale regularization is used. Multiscale regularization results in a higher optimized NPV …
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