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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"benefits and costs"”.
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Multi-Channel Retailing: Function of Consumers' Perceived Benefits and Costs and Retail Synergy
… intention towards multi-channel shopping and the function of synergy in a multi-channel retailing format (i.e., brick-and-mortar stores, catalogs, and the Internet). Two questionnaires were developed, one for the multi-channel consumers and the other for the multi-channel retailers. The …
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The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX Kernel in a high-level language
… of C for such kernels, by examining performance costs, implementation challenges, and programmability and safety benefits. This dissertation contributes Biscuit, a kernel written in Go that implements enough of POSIX (virtual memory, mmap, TCP/IP sockets, a logging file system, poll, etc.) to …
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Commercial real estate conduit loan : its benefits and costs from the borrowers' and the lenders' perspectives
… finance in the 1990s. This paper examines the benefits and the costs of commercial real estate conduit loan, focusing on the relationship between borrowers and lenders. A conduit is a loan origination with the intent of securitization through its unbundled production by secialists, whereas …
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Supply and demand side benefits and costs of low cost urban electrification in Malawi : a case of Mbayani Township
This study investigates the supply and demand side benefits and costs of low cost urban electrification in Mbayani Township in Blantyre City in Malawi. The low cost urban electrification program, which used compact ready boards to provide electricity to poor households in Mbayani, is the first such …
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An assessment of the value of retail ready packaging
Use of retail-ready packaging reduces the costs of replenishing store shelves by eliminating the labor of removing packaging materials and stocking individual items on shelves. While reducing costs for retailers, retail-ready packaging formats increase costs for consumer products manufacturers. …
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Aspects of South African state welfare policy : a study in public finance and income redistribution
… those which investigate the full range of all benefits and costs of the fiscal system to others restricting their coverage to the distributive impact of a single expenditure or tax. In South Africa relatively little research has been directed to the distributive consequences of state spending …
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A Field Information System for Site-Specific Crop Management
… analyses on SSCM were done; these were the benefits and costs analysis, cell size selection, and the blocking of spatial soil data.
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An economic analysis and evaluation of the impact of the construction and operation of a hydroelectric facility in a rural area of Virginia
… proposed hydroelectric facility were examined and analyzed from several prospectives. From a national accounting perspective, the Recreation Ponds Area was found to have a benefit-cost ratio greater than one if the high valuation of $2025 per user-day was used to estimate benefits o At lower …
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Collective realism: exploring the development and outcomes of urban housing collectives
The undersupply of housing in England has created a pervasive sense of crisis about the delivery of sufficient new dwellings. Alternative forms of housing provision therefore merit further exploration, particularly those that can deliver low cost, stable accommodation in good condition. Potential …
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An economic analysis of the causes of unionization of college faculty
… unionization, in that there are both private and public institutions of higher education; and there is a definite pattern of unionization in the public institutions, while few private institutions are unionized. Such differences allow for comparisons which help to identify the causes of …
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A cost-benefit analysis of investment in graduate education by Virginia public school teachers
… that the teacher had to pay for that education and could have otherwise been earning an income during that time. Some teachers make an additional investment in education by earning a master's degree or a doctorate. This study looked at the practice of teachers in Virginia who decide to make the …
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Job search strategies and social networks : evidence from the Khayelitsha
… by the low probability of finding a job and the cost of job search. Especially in the context of mass unemployment, job seekers have to evaluate the benefits and costs of job search. It has been suggested that as a response to adverse conditions of the labour market, the use of social …
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Optimizing Railroad Tank Car Safety Design to Reduce Hazardous Materials Transportation Risk
… phase addresses the tradeoff between safety and transportation efficiency by using Pareto optimization to identify the most efficient design combinations to improve safety while minimizing incremental weight. The second phase involves estimation of chemical-specific hazard levels and …
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Impacts of sustainable streets on housing prices: a hedonic analysis in Chicago
To understand the local benefits and costs of sustainable streets, this study uses housing transaction data in Chicago to examine the impact of those projects on the sale prices of nearby residential properties. Specifically, I would like to explore the following questions: First, is the sale price …
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The impact of legalized casino gambling on regional economic development: The case of Atlantic City
… gambling; This thesis illustrates both the benefits and costs that come from casino gambling. By using a hypothetical city as our model, we can explain the impact that casino gambling has on a city. After developing assumptions from our hypothetical model, we can compare these to the actual …
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From Private to Public: Why Do Alternative Asset Managers Go Public?
… public since the IPO of Blackstone in 2007, and the trend has come back recently. Since 2022, firms like PAG, Tiantu Capital, and CVC Capital Partners have announced or completed their plans to go public. This study summarizes the post-2000 waves of alternative asset managers going public, …
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Namibia and the common monetary area : costs, benefits and choices
… intensity of mutual trade, financial and goods market integration, wage flexibility and symmetry and asymmetry of shocks as important criteria for optimum currency area. The new theory of optimum criteria points generalised purchasing power parity hypothesis, time inconsistency and the …
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Business case assessment of unmanned systems level of autonomy
… the past decade. Efforts to drive down UAV costs have primarily focused on the physical characteristics of the UAV, such as weight, size, and shape. Due to the saturation of the UAV business in the federal sector, the civilian sector is not as penetrated. Hence, companies see this phenomenon …
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