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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Net Benefits"”.
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The influence of critical success factors on business intelligence net benefits
… to invest into and adopt. This is due to the benefits that can be realized from BI. Critical success factors (CSFs) need to be managed appropriately for organizations to realize maximum benefit from their BI investments. Objective: The objective of this study is to measure the influence of BI …
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Investigating the factors affecting the net benefits and change in user behaviour in technology push scenarios in Smart cities
… is to investigate the factors affecting the net benefits and change in user behaviour in a technology push scenario in Smart Cities. Design/methodology/approach –The research was conducted using a quantitative approach. Hence, quantitative data was obtained by devising and distributing a …
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Sovereign wealth funds as coping mechanisms in the global economy: three Emirati case studies
… Principles'. The central hypothesis is that the net benefits of small EME based SWFs for their home countries are maximised when they conform to the Santiago principles because the voluntary nature of these principles allows SWFs to fulfil their coping function effectively. The preliminary …
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The economics of landslide mitigation strategies: public versus private decisions
… to a private decision rule in maximizing net benefits from landslide mitigation. A 1985 U.S. Geological Survey (U.S.G.S.) report on landslide mitigation in Cincinnati, Ohio formed the basis for the cost-benefit analysis. Expected gross benefits from mitigation were determined by …
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Evaluating the costs and benefits of increased funding for public transportation in Chicago
… at 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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Case study for identification and evaluation of construction innovations: the Hotel Georgia project
… goals in assessing the overall feasibility and net benefits of an innovation. As a useful tool, it facilitates the engineering/technical judgment of proposed innovations and provides evidence of a sufficient trade-off between incremental 'cost and benefits' to justify a detailed evaluation and …
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Hydrologic-economic modeling of irrigated agriculture in the Lower Murrumbidgee Catchment : investigations into sustainability
… optimization framework. The sum of discounted net revenues from irrigation over the planning horizon is maximized by choosing annual areas planted to each crop in each of the economic subregions. The groundwater system is represented using a linear state-space model derived from a …
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Winning, losing, and breaking even : new casinos' effects on economic development impacts of existing casinos
… economic development actually occurring or are benefits just being transferred from one to the other? This analysis addresses that question and provides some preliminary evidence. Casinos have positively impacted economic conditions at the county level, though the benefits are strongest in the …
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The Economic Returns of Decarbonizing the Global Power Sector
… across 156 countries, I quantify both costs and benefits through 2035 and 2050, globally and for countries. Themethodology extends the Coasian approach to all fossil fuels in electricity generation. The findings challenge the widespread belief that just climate action is too expensive. With a …
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Economic impacts of the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine on the Commonwealth of Virginia
… expenditures were measured. Second, long run benefits of the College's research and extension program were estimated using the economic surplus approach. A sample of the college's research and extension projects was selected, and aggregate benefits for the college were evaluated. The study …
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The effects of caffeine and caffeine withdrawal on measures of mood, cognition, and functional magnetic resonance imaging
… fashion. Caffeine has been considered to have net benefits on mood, reaction time, and cognitive performance. However, chronic caffeine use can result in tolerance to some of its stimulant effects and symptoms of withdrawal, such as headache and fatigue, which can appear after 12 hours of …
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ΕΡΕΥΝΑ ΑΞΙΟΛΟΓΗΣΕΩΣ ΤΩΝ ΜΕΓΑΛΩΝ ΑΡΔΕΥΤΙΚΩΝ ΣΧΕΔΙΩΝ ΕΠΕΝΔΥΣΕΩΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ (ΜΙΑ " ΕΚ ΤΩΝ ΥΣΤΕΡΩΝ " ΑΝΑΛΥΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΑΡΔΕΥΤΙΚΟΥ ΕΡΓΟΥ ΤΑΥΡΩΠΟΥ ΚΑΡΔΙΤΣΑΣ
… AND MEANS FOR IMPROVING IT C) EVALUATING THE NET BENEFITS (IN FINANCIAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL TERMS) DURING THE WHOLE ECONOMIC LIFE SPAN OF THE PROJECT. IT WAS FOUND OUT THAT THE NET FINANCIAL BENEFITS IN THE WHOLE LIFE SPAN WERE NEGATIVE, WHEREAS THE NET ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL BENEFITS WERE …
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How low-skilled immigration is changing US prices and labor markets : three essays
… patterns of native skill groups to determine the net benefits and distributional impacts of immigration on the native economy. The results suggest that a 10 percent increase in the share of low-skilled immigrants in the labor force decreases the price of immigrant-intensive services by 1.3 …
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The bureaucratic theory of synthetic advertising
… are available to other groups, This makes the net benefits of publicity through media higher for bureaus than for other groups. Therefore, we expect to find bureaus disproportionately represented in newspaper articles and publication views. The hypothesis was tested using data obtained from the …
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Safety Return on Investment (ROI): The Broader Adoption of Rotorcraft CFIT-Avoidance Technology
… Previous research explored the costs and benefits of different safety initiatives but did not evaluate from an operators’ perspective. For the operators, a private ROI that excludes societal costs and benefits was therefore considered the suitable metric. For the rotorcraft industry, the …
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Targeting of Ecosystem Goods and Services:Directing Agri-Environmental Policy Innovation
… greatest potential for producing environmental benefits and those areas where the benefits are greater relative to cost. The limited budgets allocated to agri-environmental programs, and the often large and heterogeneous nature of agricultural landscapes, makes policy efficiency an important …
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Effects of Subsidies on Optimized Bus Transportation
… surplus and provides a good measure of overall net benefits. The optimization models are developed for conventional and flexible route bus systems, connecting a Central Business District (CBD) and a suburban area. Reflecting the current major financial policy concerns of bus transit systems, …
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CO₂ and public health impacts of US residential heating electrification
… centers to electric generators. However, these benefits have not been assessed. This thesis quantifies the health impacts of replacing residential combustion heating with electric heating in the US due to changes in air quality. In addition, we calculate how such a change would affect fossil CO₂ …
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Economic Impacts of Integrated Pest Management in Developing Countries: Evidence from the IPM CRSP
… and the tomato IPM program in Uganda resulted in net present values of approximately $8 million, $7 million and $1 million, respectively. Sensitivity analyses for each case were also conducted, and net benefits ranged from $5 to 23 million in Albania, from $4 to 7 million in Ecuador, and from …
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The economics of shoplifting
… action being defined as one for which expected benefits from the action exceed expected costs, but for which the actual costs exceed the actual benefits. Within this context, the number of criminal offenses was said to be a function of four variables: (1) the probability of apprehension; (2) the …
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