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Showing 1 to 20 of 238 for “"economic model"”.
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An economic model of highway fatalities
… the highway fatality rate? A highway fatality model was developed to determine which factor has the greatest positive or negative impact on the highway fatality rate. A cross-section of data from states for 1984 and 1985 was collected for the following variables: average speed, speed variance, …
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Energy-economic model for transition to renewables
Presented in this thesis is a macro-economic model based on a three-factor production function, utilizing energy, capital, and labour as the three production factors. With a primary focus on energy production we include two sources of energy, the rst derived from a xed amount of natural resources …
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On the Methodology of Economic Model Building
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An economic model of the iron ore trade
… 90% of world trade in the last 35 years. The model performs well in most cases and reveals: firstly, different results from previous research in the case of Japan; and secondly - and most importantly - substantial differences in the way Far East and West European importers behave.
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Economic model for height determination of high-rise buildings
… of this dissertation is to see if a practical model, decision making process and list of external factors for examination can be generated for use by developers that will expose, organize, analyze and manage the factors determining optimal building height for high-rise buildings. Optimal …
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Fuzzy Logic-based Economic Model for Water Main Renewal
… leveraged empirical pipeline data and advanced modeling technique to address the issue, beginning with the creation of a standard cost data framework developed using nearly 200 industry case studies from over 30 North American utilities. The data standard enabled an economic modeling study of …
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Development of the simple economic model (SEM) for stormwater management
Sustainable urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) are increasingly being implemented around the world. A common barrier to the wider use of SuDS in South Africa is the uncertainty regarding their total cost. The need for reasonable predictions of life cycle cost is vital, both in terms of ensuring the …
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Simplified Floor-Area-Based Energy-Moisture-Economic Model for Residential Buildings
… in buildings is enhanced by building energy modeling tools, which are well advanced and established but lack generality (each building has to be modeled individually) and require high cost, which limits many residential buildings from taking advantage of such powerful tools. This dissertation …
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An Economic Model for Appraisal of Beef Production in the Midwest
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T22:03:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7511530.pdf: 8866179 bytes, checksum: 03c54f057134f1fe4df17ae64a5b52cb (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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Analysis of forest management strategies in Cote d'Ivoire: An economic model
The Ivoirien forest industry has been characterized by a total lack of regulation, planning, and difficulty of reconciling timber removal and replenishment. One of the objectives of this study is to assess the long run timber supply from the natural forests in Cote d'Ivoire and the possibility of …
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The application of Strumpel's behavioral economic model to explain financial behavior
… of this study was to apply Strumpel's behavioral economic model to explain personal financial behavior. Three categories of variables as identified by the model determined the independent variables in the study. These variable groups were defined as the objective environment consisting of …
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Accounting for Additional Heterogeneity: A Theoretic Extension of an Extant Economic Model
<p>The assumption in economics of a representative agent is often made. However, it is a very rigid assumption. Hall and Jones (2004b) presented an economic model that essentially provided for a representative agent for each age group in determining the group's health level function. Our work seeks …
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Transportation technology choice and fuel consumption in Egypt : an engineering-economic model
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1985.
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A New Economic Model of Structural Change in United States Agriculture and Supporting Industries
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Application of a technological-economic model of assembly techniques to programmable assembly machine configuration.
Thesis. 1976. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.
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An Economic Model of Subscriber Offloading Between Mobile Network Operators and a WLAN Operator
… cellular data traffic to WLANs in a way that is economically beneficial to all involved. This thesis presents a model of such a relationship, in which the SSO sets a strategic offloading price per subscriber and several MNOs can choose how many subscribers they want to offload in order to …
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The Psycho-Economic Model of Ecstasy Consumption and Related Consequences: A multi-site study with community samples
A Psycho-Economic Model of Ecstasy Consumption and Related Consequences: A Multi-Site Study with Community Samples By Arbi Ben Abdallah The consumption of mind-altering drugs is well recognized as a complex behavior entailing many different etiological precursors. To understand its complexity, drug …
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A Bio-Economic Model of Long-Run Striga Control with an Application to Subsistence Farming in Mali
… appreciable degree. This paper develops a bio-economic model capable of identifying: (1) affordable, effective Striga control practices consistent with the resource constraints of subsistence farmers; and (2) barriers to the adoption of those practices. The model is comprised of two components: …
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Teachers’ discourses around accountability measures and low-attaining pupils: how an economic model of education has commoditised children.
In a bid to raise standards in education, policy has defined an accountability system for schools including Ofsted inspections, league tables and teacher performance management, that is underpinned by high-stakes testing. Pupils that fall below expected levels are regarded as ‘low-attaining’ and …
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