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Showing 1 to 20 of 308 for “"Offsets"”.
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Offsets and the aerospace industry
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1998.
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Defense Industry Offsets: The President's Hands on Policy
Defense industry offsets are negotiated benefits that exporters add to arms deals to satisfy importer desires for something beyond a basic exchange. They are estimated at 30%-40% of the total value of the worldwide arms trade, and while not commonly understood, offsets are so prevalent that most …
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Biodiversity offsets: towards an effective legal framework in South Africa
… will explore the concept of biodiversity offsets in the regulatory permitting context and the controversies implicit in their theory and implementation. A framework for their inclusion in South Africa's environmental permitting context will be suggested.
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Experience dependent coding of intonations by offsets in mouse auditory cortex
Acoustic communication is an important aspect of many social interactions across mammalian species. The encoding of intra-species vocalizations and plasticity mechanisms engaged during the process of learning vocalizations are poorly understood. This is particularly true with regards to how sensory …
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Commonality in complex product families : implications of divergence and lifecycle offsets
… focused on examining divergence and lifecycle offsets, two critical topics that influence the benefits and penalties of commonality, yet appear to be inadequately addressed by the literature. Divergence refers to the tendency for commonality to reduce with time, for both beneficial and …
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Modern radiocarbon offsets within the land snails Cyclophorus: a tropical karst case study from Northern Vietnam
This thesis forms part of the SUNDASIA project on the archaeology of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Tràng An (Ninh Bình, Northern Vietnam), a tower karst area of high endemism and habitat insularity. Archaeological sites in the region contain abundant shell middens, composed mainly of terrestrial …
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Marketing Institutions of Afforestation Generated Carbon Offsets in Canada: Political Sustainability, Ideology and the New Institutional Economics
Anthropogenically forced climate change has emerged as one of the most important, and polarizing, issues of our time. Afforestation generated carbon offset projects hold a position in Canada as potentially influential, yet frustratingly under-utilized, options to mitigate climate change. This …
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Carbon offsets as a cost containment instrument : a case study of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation
… emission commitments at lower costs. Carbon offsets take advantage of lower abatement cost opportunities from unregulated sectors and regions, which can be used to offset the emissions from regulated nations and sectors. Carbon offsets can also meet multiple objectives; for example, the Clean …
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Four-constellation GNSS Reliability and the Estimation of Inter-system Time-offsets for Improved Performance in Challenging Signal Environments
The new GNSS constellations such as Galileo and BeiDou being planned and launched will result in a greatly increased number of available ranging sources, hence, improvement in constellation geometry and coverage. When using signals from multiple constellations, however, the challenges are not only …
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Banking on offsets: a political ecological and eco-geomorphic analysis of Section 404 compensatory stream mitigation banking in Illinois and Missouri
"No net loss goals play a major role in U.S. environmental policies. No net loss policies are championed as ways to simultaneously allow economic development and protect the environment. One such example is Section 404 of the U.S. Clean Water Act. Section 404 is administered by the U.S. Army Corps …
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Feasibility study of carbon offsets as a source of revenue for a land trust using the Climate Action Reserve's avoided conversion protocol
… offsetting. Finally, the study found that carbon offsets could be a significant source of revenue for landowners, particularly land trusts, but would depend on the demand for and value of carbon offset credits in emerging markets influenced by the possibility of regulation.
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Analyzing Risks in Voluntary Forest Carbon Offsets Using Open Data: A Hybrid Framework Integrating Retrieval-Augmented Generation in LLMs and Geospatial Analytics
The credibility of voluntary carbon markets hinges on the quality of carbon offset projects, particularly in forestry and land-use sectors where claims of additionality and emissions reductions are often disputed. This paper introduces a novel, open-source approach to evaluating carbon offset …
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Slip Estimation from Real-Time GPS in Cascadia
… earthquakes. GPS does not saturate, and the offsets being detected occur very quickly after an earthquake. This thesis develops the algorithms necessary for detecting and characterizing large earthquakes from GPS measurements. Point positioned GPS solutions are acquired from the CWU Geodesy …
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The Effect of Growth Method on GaN Films and Their Interfaces with CdTe and CdS
… the band alignments, conduction and valence band offsets, and Fermi level positions. These interface studies will help determine basic properties to see if these GaN films can be incorporated in a CdTe solar cell to improve its efficiency. It was determined that all the interfaces between the …
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The determination of hob offset design values for nonstandard spur gears
… A derivation for determining the sum of the hob offsets for the pinion and gear has been shown by several authors, but there is no mathematical expression to separate the total hob offset into the individual hob offsets needed on the pinion and the gear. Several authors describe the advantages of …
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Multi-resolution surface approximation for animation
… shape behaviour, but the number of non-zero offsets is large. Storage cost is reduced either by eliminating offsets whose magnitude is below a certain tolerance or by reducing all offsets in a given level by a user specified amount. The resulting spline surface is modifiable, both locally and …
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Sampling and quantization for optimal reconstruction
… step size in each channel and varied timing offsets between channels. Considering sampling together with quantization in the digital representation of the continuous-time signal is shown to be advantageous. With uniform quantization and equal quantizer step size in each channel, the effective …
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