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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Relative Productivity"”.
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Evaluating relative productivity and efficiency of hospitality properties using data envelopment analysis
The concept of productivity and efficiency is essential to any hospitality company as such companies usually face severe competition and operate in an ever-changing business environment. Purely financial measures of evaluating hospitality efficiency and productivity are not sufficient in the …
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An analysis of the relative productivity of officers from different accesion [sic] sources
This thesis compares the relative productivity of Naval Officers from the U.S. Naval Academy, Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC), and Officer Candidate School (OCS). This is accomplished by creating a performance index for each individual based on officer fitness reports. The effects of …
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Measuring efficiency in the Clark County hotel casino industry
The analysis and comparison of productivity in the service sector have proven to be difficult. Nevertheless, the Tomqvist index of relative productivity used in this study allows me to compare the relative productivity of different hotel-casino properties, while avoiding the usual problems that …
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Labor Market Dynamics: The Role Of Occupations And Technological Changes
… with high exposure to the new tool experienced relative productivity declines, suggesting the technology democratized technical skills and eroded their prior competitive advantage.
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Factors affecting Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite formation in Anopheles mosquitoes
The relative contribution of different factors, including environmental and genetic variables, on the observed variation in genome numbers per oocyst was investigated. The variation in sporozoite numbers from two genetically different Plasmodium falciparum clones (3D7 and HB3) in Anopheles gambiae …
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Quantifying biotic interactions with inshore subtidal structures: comparisons between artificial and natural reefs
… establish whether there were differences in the productivity and biotic interactions between artificial and nearby natural rocky reefs in Loch Linnhe, west coast of Scotland.<br/>A comparative study was carried out to evaluate methods used in the assessment of subtidal epibiotic assemblage …
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Dimensions of Well-Being: Earnings, Happiness and Domestic Violence
… It does so by being silent a priori about the relative productivity of those who stay out of work and instead lets the data speak. Data suggest that nonworkers are not always worse than workers, and it also suggests cohort effects are also important when lifecycle profiles do not follow the …
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Three Papers in Labor Mobility and Human Capital Accumulation
… Argentina. Capital accumulation can modify the relative productivity between skilled and unskilled workers, leading to changes in the wage structure. In particular, if capital goods are relatively more complementary to skilled workers, a positive correlation between investment in physical …
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Demand for Skills Associated with Higher Technical Education in England
… that surround it. To shed light on the relative decline of HTE, this research study explores the labour market performance of HTE-qualified workers over the last twenty years in the context of a rapidly rising supply of degree holders and the spread of new technologies in workplaces, …
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Roads, Rights, and Rewards: Three Program Evaluations in Environmental and Resource Economics
… may hold. Roads may (1) increase the relative productivity of labor in non-agricultural sectors, reducing agricultural activity and allowing reforestation; (2) raise profits from forest management or plantations by linking markets, encouraging forest planting; and (3) provide access to …
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The effects of seismic blasting on shallow water wells and aquifers in western North Dakota
… revealed complaints alleging declining productivity and decreased water quality in regions where coal aquifers are extensively used. Unplugged shotholes were frequently cited as a source of problems.</p> <p>Experimental results indicate that changes due to blasting occur within long term …
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Organização do Conhecimento na Ciência da Informação: uma análise métrica nos periódicos brasileiros (1972-2012)
… to analyze the occurrence numerical absolute and relative articles of Brazilian journals of information science on the topic covered in the Knowledge Organization based BRAPCI 1972-2012 through conceptual-themed cutouts. Presents concepts for understanding the Organization of Knowledge, from the …
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The allocation of resources in Philippine corn farming
… and time of planting are reflective of the relative productivity of provinces (seasons, time) within a region (all seasons, all times of planting). On the basis of their corresponding coefficients, a number of provinces appeared inherently more suitable to the production of the crop. The …
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The allocation of resources in Philippine corn farming
… and time of planting are reflective of the relative productivity of provinces (seasons, time) within a region (all seasons, all times of planting). On the basis of their corresponding coefficients, a number of provinces appeared inherently more suitable to the production of the crop. The …