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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"cost approach"”.
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A Total Social Cost Approach to Public Transport Planning in South Africa
… benefits. The emphasis is placed on net economic costs, despite the presence of external costs generated by the transport system and that are ultimately borne by society. External costs include costs due to accidents, pollution, noise, visual intrusions and amenity losses. Appraising transport …
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Estimating the Economic Value of Rock Climbing in Smith Rock: An individual travel cost approach
… to Smith Rock and estimate an individual travel cost model (ITCM) to obtain the recreational value of rock climbing in Smith Rock. I find consumer surplus of about $182.15 per rock climber or $21.6 million annually for all rock climbing visits.</p>
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The Structure and Nature of Vertical Co-ordination and Regulation Systems in the Kenyan Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Export Value Chain: Transaction Cost Approach
… these questions, Oliver Williamson transaction costs economics and John Braithwaite and Valerie Braithwaite motivational postures theory were applied to respectively analyse the structure and nature of vertical coordination and the regulatory and compliance systems in the value chain. A mixed …
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Transfer Pricing--Can It Effectively Be Applied To Computer Services?
… agreed to by the parties involved; (3) marginal cost, a price based on costs that vary with output and; (4) full cost, price based on variable and fixed costs of the supplying division. Three units of transfer were determined, batch processing, online processing and developmental. Given four …
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Essays on the evaluation of novel ideas
… Hong Luo and Jeffrey Macher, study a novel, low-cost approach to aggregating judgment from a large number of industry experts on ideas that they encounter in their normal course of business in the film industry, where customer appeal is difficult to predict and investment costs are high. The …
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A Numerical Vortex Approach To Aerodynamic Modeling of SUAV/VTOL Aircraft
… wing and propeller model is presented as a low-cost approach to preliminary modeling of slipstream effects on a finite wing. The wing aerodynamic model employs a numerical lifting-line method utilizing the 3D vortex lifting law along with known 2D airfoil data to predict the lift distribution …
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The economic justification and operational requirements of high-speed runway exits
… high-speed runway exits is based on a life cycle cost approach. Historical data of airline operating costs are also used in the cost estimations. The results show that high-speed runway exits are operationally feasible and economically profitable. The results are also presented graphically to show …
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Detecting Breaking Waves and Measuring Bore Speeds in Optical Surf Zone Imagery using Machine Learning
… This method shows promise as a robust, low-cost approach for measuring wave-breaking patterns and dynamics across large surf zones. The results highlight important considerations for the data resolution, quality, and processing needed to achieve robust measurements of breaking waves using …
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A benefit-cost analysis of an interstate seawater desalination plant shared between California and Nevada
… seawater desalination. This study uses a benefit-cost approach as outlined in Dively and Zerbe (1994). Costs of both entities in Nevada and California were calculated and technical feasibility detailed. Results indicate that seawater desalination is more expensive than existing water sources. …
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Valuation of electric utility generating assets in a competitive environment
… companies to substantially lower their cost of doing business. One such cost is property tax, which in a majority of states is based upon the fair market value of property. Traditionally, assets of a regulated utility were valued at fair market value based upon the regulated price of …
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Mechanically driven pendula for instructional laboratories
<p>I present a new, low-cost approach to observing driven resonance with simple and physical pendula. I mount a pendulum on a dynamics cart that is made to oscillate along a horizontal line by a stepper motor and micro-controller. The pendulum pivot therefore has a position that varies sinusoidally …
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Power system planning: an integrated techno-economic and portfolio approach
… tools used in power planning apply a minimum cost approach to it in order to find an appropriate electricity matrix. These tend to ignore risk what could lead to miscalculations on the expected cost of electricity production. In this work we implemented two methods, economic dispatch and CVaR …
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A Frequency-Modulated Continuous Wave-Based Boundary Detection System in a Small PCB Profile
… more. This thesis presents the design of a low cost approach to small PCB footprint distance detection circuitry for the boundary detection system.</p>
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Images and depth for high resolution, low-latency sensing and security applications
… to acquire such depth stream via pure hardware approach. Then, we propose our sensor fusion approach, which combines depth camera and color camera. Chapter 2 puts forward a low cost approach to use a high spatial resolution color stream to help aggressively increase the spatial resolution of the …
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El Serafy User costs and their implications for macroeconomic policy in Africa's mineral rich economies
… can be safely spent each year. Using El Serafy’s approach to the ‘proper’ definition of National Income, it recomputes Net Domestic Product in 11 mineral-based African economies and tests for their macroeconomic sustainability. The study finds a disturbingly poor level of sustainability in several …
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A low cost, DC-coupled active vibration isolation system
… of this research is to find a relatively low-cost approach for the AIMS concept.A 1-DOF active vibration isolation system based on closed loop control utilizing the DC-coupled inertial measurement as feedback was retrofitted onto an optical table. The coil of a commercial geophone was used as …
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Mindful Classroom: Developing and Testing Strategies for Resilience among Urban 7th Grade Students
… classroom interventions are an effective, low cost approach to reducing the effects of toxic stress among youth. The purpose of this project was to identify key sources of stress among urban 7th grade students at De Marillac Academy and develop and test mindfulness techniques to actively engage …
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Studio e sviluppo di sistemi RFID in banda UHF
… and reader design. Moreover a new low cost approach to extend the read range of the RFID UHF passive systems will be discussed. Within the scope to check the reliability of the analysis approaches and of innovative proposals, some reference transponder antennas have been designed and …
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Time-Offset Fractional-N PLLs for Heterodyne FMCW SAR
… owing to advantages in size, weight and cost. Designed to address this dilemma, the miloSAR is believed to be the only heterodyne FMCW SAR to employ a pair of time-offset fractional-N PLLs for waveform synthesis to enable low-cost heterodyning and simplify filter-based feed-through …
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