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Components of logging costs
… approach to document the components of logging costs for mechanized operations, assess the sensitivity of these components to external stimuli, and to identify and describe the business management techniques adopted by contractors to insure survival and profitability. The contractors' cost …
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Variances between standard costs and actual costs in selected elementary school foodservice programs
… of this research was to compare actual food costs with standard food costs in twenty-seven elementary schools in Virginia using information derived from the Cost-Based Accounting system. Comparison of actual and standard food costs were made using techniques adapted from industrial settings. …
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Transportation Costs And Economic Development
… focus on the importance of transportation costs. Specifically, I study the importance of idiosyncratic transportation costs and economic development via three different angles. In Chapter 1, I study how idiosyncratic transportation frictions as labor mobility barriers affect the sectoral …
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Standard Costs and Price Fluctuations
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Estimation of ship construction costs
Since the end of the Cold War naval procurement for the US Navy has seen a dramatic decrease. This decrease in defense spending has placed existing programs under more scrutiny than previous years. As a result there is less tolerance on the part of taxpayers and Congress for procurement cost …
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Reducing residential construction costs : a comparison of residential construction costs in the Boston metropolitan area
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1989.
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An investigation into the costs of active power transmission transactions and methods for evaluation of costs
… A transmission utility offers services at costs that can be evaluated by various methods. In this context, the thesis has three objectives. The first objective of the thesis is to consider different types of transmission services and costs associated with these services. The second …
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CEO succession processes and agency costs
In the 'passing the baton' succession process, the incumbent CEO/Chairman relinquishes the CEO title, but retains the Chairman title to facilitate monitoring the new CEO during a probationary period. The new CEO eventually wins the Chairman title if he is successful during the probationary period. …
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Combinatorial optimization problems with concave costs
In the first part, we study the problem of minimizing a separable concave function over a polyhedron. We assume the concave functions are nonnegative nondecreasing on R+, and the polyhedron is in RI' (these assumptions can be relaxed further under suitable technical conditions). We show how to …
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A computer model for tunneling costs,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering. Thesis. 1971. M.S.
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The community costs resulting from growth
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, 1955.
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Persistent Costs of Disclosure Exemption Regulation
This paper investigates the long-term costs of size-based disclosure exemption regulation. Prior literature documents that companies react to exemption thresholds by sacrificing resources to actively lower their size and avoid compliance of reporting requirements. Exploiting the Smaller Reporting …
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Implicit costs of data and analytics
… process updates, and employee training. These costs are straightforward, but firms also incur implicit costs, the costs of mitigating potential risks and maximizing firm value from data and analytics. These costs are less well understood. This paper focuses on two of these costs, the mitigation …
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A breakdown of housing development costs
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1989.
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Mating costs and gametic barriers to reproduction
… and yet mating is costly. However, the fitness costs–which may immediately affect the individuals involved, or may affect their future reproductive output, are not often quantified. I assess costs that are acquired at different periods of the mating process–in search of a mate and gametic …
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Laser Cutting Machine: Justification of initial costs
The Industrial Laser is firmly established in metalcutting as the tool of choice for many applications. The elevator division of Montgomery KONE Inc., in an effort to move towards quality, ontime, complete deliveries and 100% customer satisfaction, decided to invest in new equipment to improve …
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Reducing Costs in Human Assisted Speech Transcription
… platform. Early efforts to reduce transcription costs involved the development of improved transcription tool UI and systems for speaker diarization and text correction.</p> <p>This thesis evaluates the effectiveness of these improvements on the human assisted transcription process employed by …
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Implied Transaction Costs in Agricultural Futures Markets
… behavior. We show that implied transactions costs do exist, at times are large, and are not easy to estimate, but careful examination of the data and selection of procedures can shed light on their magnitude and patterns of behavior. Accurately measured and understood transaction costs can …
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