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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Production economics"”.
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Empirical Studies in Production Economics and International Agricultural Development Issues
… dissertation is composed of two manuscripts in Production Economics and two manuscripts in International Agricultural Development. The first two manuscripts focus on production economics, and both are an exploration of nitrogen use and its impact on continuous corn production and profitability …
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Impacts of the alternative minimum tax on crude oil production economics
Includes bibliographical references.
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Materials production economics : an examination of the variables and relationships that drive materials production and recycling in the world economy
Introduction: New materials are being developing each year that could revolutionize the world. However, while development of novel materials in the lab brings us one step closer to next latest-and-greatest innovation, the following and perhaps similarly difficult step requires bringing these …
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An inventory control model for fertilizer retailers
… year-round in order to take advantage of production economics. As a result, the fertilizer industry is constantly facing a storage problem. The products must be stored during the off-season at the manufacturing plant, at the distribution warehouse, or at the retail outlet. This study deals …
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Total factor productivity of tropical soybean-maize systems: the case of the safrinha crop system in Mato Grosso, Brazil
… research is to better understand and examine the production economics of the tropical soybean-maize succession cropping, which have not received much attention by researchers, and thus are not well understood. This paper measures changes in agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) from the …
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Productivity variation and group optimization
… but never formalized its treatment in a production economics setting. In group production, individuals enter the production process and exit the production process at the same time. In this dissertation, I show that the effect of Jensen's inequality must be formally accounted for in a …
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United States Meat Goat Production Economic Performance Measures: A Stochastic Production Frontier Analysis
… relatively a newcomer to the U.S. agricultural production and one of the fastest growing livestock industries in the U.S. Despite the growth of the meat goat industry, little is known about meat goat production economics. Information is needed concerning the drivers of production efficiency, …
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Breeding and technological innovations in dairy and beef cattle markets
… this dissertation, very few articles in Applied Economics have used such evaluation data; one notable exception is Whitt et Al. (2019). In this dissertation, I investigate three distinct aspects of the Economics of livestock genetics. In my first chapter, I analyze the consequences of a new …
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The effect of drought and rising temperatures on total factor productivity in pasture-based dairy farming in the Eastern Cape
… total factor productivity of pasture-based dairy production systems in the Eastern Cape. An unbalanced panel dataset of 206 observations collected from 62 farms over nine years was used to fit a stochastic frontier production function with technical inefficiency effects. Rainfall is part of the …
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Herbicide phytotoxicity response and eradication studies in Miscanthus x giganteus
… end uses and environmental benefits, agronomy, production economics, need for weed control, invasiveness potential and methods of control. Weed control was found to be critical during the first one to two years of establishment. The assumption has been made that herbicides used in cereal crops …
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Analysis of Agricultural Production in Albania: Prospects for Policy Improvement
… impacts of government policies on agricultural production in Albania. The specific goal of this study is to provide some empirical estimates of the farmers' short-run supply response to government policies that effect output and input prices. Different theoretical approaches to integrating the …
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Three Essays on Applied Economics
… examines the impact of climate change on wheat production. Given wheat's role as a major staple for much of the global population, its susceptibility to rising temperatures presents significant challenges to food security. Despite its importance, comprehensive production data for wheat …
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Exhaustible resources and technological change in the United States agriculture, 1940-1969
… put pressure on foreign exchange of the country. Production of goods and services requires two major kinds of inputs: 1. replenishable inputs, and 2. non-replenishable inputs. Inputs that go into agricultural production are mostly gifted from nature. They are fixed in quantities, irreplaceable, …
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Strategic Planning for the Reverse Supply Chain: Optimal End-of-Life Option, Product Design, and Pricing
… impact the various costs incurred during its production, residual part values, and customer demand. In this work, the product design is viewed as the choice of quality for each of its parts. A part's quality-level determines, among other things, its cost, salvage value, and the likelihood of …
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Η ΠΡΟΣΦΟΡΑ ΜΑΚΡΟΙΝΟΥ ΕΙΔΟΥΣ ΒΑΜΒΑΚΟΣ ΓΚΕΖΙΡΑ-ΣΟΥΔΑΝ
… EFFECT OF EACH FACTOR. THE FACT THAT THE PRODUCTION OF COTTON IN SUDAN IS REALIZED UNDER CONDITIONS OF INTENSE GOVERNMENT CONTROL (INTERVENTION). A SPECIAL INTEREST IS GIVEN FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF THE ECONOMIC FACTORS, SUCH AS COTTON PRICES, COST OF PRODUCTION AND THE PRICES OF THE …
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Essays on Identity-Based Bias and Discrimination
<p>This dissertation empirically examines identity-based disparities and discrimination in the context of criminal justice and science. It focuses on gender and racial bias within the U.S. criminal justice system and ethnicity-based disparities in international scientific collaboration due to the …