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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Small Market"”.
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Social Media Adoption Among Small-Market Mississippi Newspapers
<p>This study attempts to examine the attitudes, application and results of Mississippi newspapers’ and others’ use of social media. The goals are to determine the worth of social media to Mississippi newspapers, and to try to identify if there is any anecdotal or other information linking the use …
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The effects of deregulation on small market broadcasters.
… the canary in the coal mine would be the small market broadcaster. They will be the first to show the effects. This study seeks to find the answers by examining the attitudes, needs and thoughts of small market radio broadcasters, and devine the future of small market broadcasters by …
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Developing a private equity business in China
… business, a good complement to the public equity market and the debt market, has been playing an increasing role in China. However, there is no universal formula for doing this business. As an art rather than a science, it varies from country to country. After two decades of reform and open-door …
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The Adoption of Genetically Modified Organisms in Uruguay's Agriculture: An Ex-Ante Assessment of Potential Benefits
… simulated for two crops, rice and potatoes, in small open and closed economies respectively. The model accounts for the presence of market imperfections created by the monopolistic behavior of the genes' patent owner. The change in economic surplus generated after the adoption of the new …
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Walking Assistant – A Mobile Aid for the Visually-Impaired
… a white cane, they tend to be expensive due to a small market segment, which in turn can reduce their accessibility. In an effort to produce a technologically-advanced yet accessible navigation aid, an Android application is proposed that detects and notifies users about obstacles within their …
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Impact of Microfinance Grants on Rural Development: A case study of Kavango East Regional Council
… grants are very minimal due to relatively small market sizes which reduce chances to accumulate asset from the business operations. The grants have however enabled food security as beneficiaries‟ businesses are more for subsistence than commercial purposes.
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Comparison of two different rating programs for sustainable homes
… with respect to Icelandic homes. Iceland is a small market that currently does not have its own program to rate sustainable homes, and there is an ongoing discussion on whether a foreign program could be adopted in Iceland. The Code for Sustainable Homes and LEED for Homes are two of the most …
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High speed railway productivity : how does organizational restructuring contribute to HSR productivity growth?
… the Swedish railway data, we judged even the small market competition has more relationship with increased productivity than the style of vertical separation. We believed that the future NEC HSR should introduce private sector's funds, and be operated by private sectors with competition within …
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Positional competition: from low-number license plates to McMansions
… plate numbers, the state has an active secondary market in low-number tags. These are perfect positional goods: they have no functional value beyond that of an ordinary license plate, and they have explicit rank order. I used sale-price and asking-price data to estimate an empirical pricing model …
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Property, ownership and improvement in Ludlow, a fashionable country town, 1660 to 1848
… themes to urban history is shown. Ludlow is a small market town in south Shropshire. From the 1660s population was just over 2,000, but this rose to 5,253 in 183 1. Between 1660 and 1689 the town was a centre for regional administration, the Council of the Marches in Wales having its …
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The politics of DTT policy-making in Bulgaria: the significance of path dependencies and institutional characteristics
… the prominence of pay-for platforms and small market size contributed to this result, yet the thesis argues that the extent of their impact has been determined by structural characteristics within which the desion-making process has taken place. The thesis shows that far from genuine …
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How Journalists Perceive Internal and External Influence: A Qualitative Assessment of Local Television Reporters' Ethical Decision-Making
… conducted with individual journalists at small market television stations, offered insight into the sources that influence the stories that the journalists decide to cover and the manner in which they cover them. This study examines the meaning and significance the journalists ascribe to …
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Introducing a pro-vitamin a rich staple crop: analysis of decision making along the orange fleshed sweetpotato value chain in Uganda
… value chain in Uganda and examines the role of a marketing component in a food biofortification intervention. It is conceptualised within the value chain and adoption decision theory. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods of social investigation, this thesis: i) evaluates the factors …
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Flexibility in ballpark design
… These include two completed ballparks -- for a small market (Minnesota Twins) and a large one (New York Yankees). For these ballparks, the analysis compared the actual ballpark with a flexible design. Additionally the value of amenities such as multi-use spaces, museums, and other features are …
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Paper Towns: Sense of Place in Industrial, Small-Town New England, 1869-1927
… period but much less after the Civil War, is small town New England. In the late 1860s, the introduction of wood pulp paper technology transformed formerly small market and manufacturing communities into centers of heavy industry. This dissertation is a study of this transformation. It focuses …
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'Its inhabitants are a reading people': from Cork city bookshops and voluntary libraries to the Cork Public Library, c.1792–1920
… due to funding difficulties in what was a very small market of readers who could afford the borrowing fees. It was also because access to such libraries was stratified along class and sectarian lines. For the first time, a full picture is provided of the scale and range of voluntary libraries …
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The role of small tourism businesses in urban tourism development: A case study of Indianapolis
… model by investigating the dimensions of small tourism businesses and to explore if these characteristics predict support of tourism development in Indianapolis, Indiana. Based on the review of literature, a number of variables were identified for use in the study. A proposed model was …
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Essays on firms in developing countries
… phenomenon in a setting that features typical market conditions in a developing country: the retail watermelon market in a major Chinese city. I begin by demonstrating empirically that there is substantial asymmetric information between sellers and buyers on sweetness, the key indicator of …
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Investigating the feasibility of recovering urea from human urine
… final objective was the conceptual design of a small-scale urea recovery unit treating 1 m3 of urine per day. This was done to estimate the power requirements of such a system and the potential urea yield recovered per day. Finally, the profitability of the procedure was investigated by …