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Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"economic returns"”.
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Evaluating the Economic Returns to Entrepreneurial Behaviour
This research study also identifies 4 entrepreneurial firm capabilities that include: alertness, subjective judgment, dispersal ability and risk-taking. These capabilities were simulated using an agent-based model and experiments were run to examine their effect on firm performance over time and …
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The Economic Returns of Decarbonizing the Global Power Sector
This thesis examines the economic returns of decarbonizing the global power sector. Using data from 79,797 operational power plants across 156 countries, I quantify both costs and benefits through 2035 and 2050, globally and for countries. Themethodology extends the Coasian approach to all fossil …
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Investigating the economic returns from college graduation for re-entry women
This study investigated the economic returns from higher education for re-entry women. Re-entry women are continually concerned with whether or not returning to college and acquiring a degree will result in increased earnings. While sufficient evidence exists to show that earnings increase as years …
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Effect of Cropping Systems on Production and Economic Returns of Ten Vegetable Crops
… high fertility. Crop yield, production cost, and economic returns using both intercrop and double-crop systems were compared to those of either crop produced alone. These systems allowed an option of crop production with a potential increase in crop yield and economic returns per unit area using …
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Are there economic returns from democracy? : the experience of Sub-Saharan Africa from 1988-2007
… as to whether democracy promotes or hinders economic growth. This study examines the relationship between democracy and economic growth in 47 sub-Saharan African countries from 1988 to 2007. From the late 1980s until the mid-1990s, a period of democratization swept the continent. This period …
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Effect of irrigation on fertilizer nitrogen requirement, economic returns, and water availability in a corn-soybean rotation
… of irrigation strategy on yield potential and economic returns in a corn-soybean rotation on a claypan soil; 2) Evaluate an ET checkbook method for assessing water status of corn and soybeans under two irrigation methods; 3) Understand how delayed N applications affected the economically …
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MODELING DIAMETER DISTRIBUTION OF LOBLOLLY PINE PLANTATIONS IN RESPONSE TO MID-ROTATION THINNING TREATMENTS AND ASSING THE ECONOMIC RETURNS IN WESTERN GULF COASTAL PLAIN
… proportion of sawtimber and overall financial returns, particularly on higher-quality sites. An analysis of variance revealed statistically significant effects of both site quality and timber product class on revenue outcomes (p < 0.001). These findings highlight the importance of aligning …
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The development of vegetable production technology for small farm families
… staking generally did not affect yield or net economic returns, and it reduced yield on sandy soils during droughty conditions. Irrigation had a positive, but non-significant impact on yield when tested during a growing season with normal amounts of rainfall. Nitrogen applications of 84 kg/ha …
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The economic importance of the muskrat in Virginia, with particular emphasis on Montgomery, a mountainous county
… of southwestern Virginia; (2) to determine the economic value of the annual muskrat harvest in a county in southwestern Virginia; (3) to determine, in so far as possible, those factors which limit a greater harvest of muskrats in southwestern Virginia and; (4) to compare the economic returns …
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Three essays on the human capital augmentation strategies of building and acquiring
… The first question addresses how firms generate economic returns from building and acquiring strategies. The second question investigates the antecedents to firms’ choices to invest in building rather than acquiring strategies. Finally, the third question examines the effects of the business …
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The impact of future markets, management regimes, and mechanized harvesting systems on commercial thinning investments in plantations of loblolly pine
… and nonindustrial landowners to re-examine the economic returns from their plantation investments. This study was undertaken to develop investment guidelines for the management of loblolly pine plantations. Computer simulation was used to evaluate the effect on present value that four future …
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The effect of seed tuber size and spacing on the yield , dry matter content and daughter tuber size in three potato (Solanum Tuberosum L.) Varieties
… tuber size and spacing that would give highest economic returns. The varieties used were up to date, Baraka and pentland dell while the four seed sizes included 26-30 mm, 31-40mm and 41-45mm at two interrow spacings of 75cm and 90cm. Treatment were arranged in a split-split plot design with …
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The effect of seed tuber size and spacing on the yield , dry matter content and daughter tuber size in three potato (Solanum Tuberosum L.) Varieties
… tuber size and spacing that would give highest economic returns. The varieties used were up to date, Baraka and pentland dell while the four seed sizes included 26-30 mm, 31-40mm and 41-45mm at two interrow spacings of 75cm and 90cm. Treatment were arranged in a split-split plot design with …
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The effects of seed tuber size and spacing on the yield,dry matter content and daughter tuber size in three potato(solanum tuberosum L.)Varieties
… tuber size and spacing that would give highest economic returns. The varieties used were Up To Date, Baraka and Pentland Dell while the four seed sizes included 26-30 mm, 31-35 mm, 36-40 mm and 41-45 mm at two interrow spacings of 75 cm and 90 cm. Treatments were arranged in a split-split plot …
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Purification of Zein and Xanthophylls From Corn by Process Chromatography
"A preliminary process design and economic analysis of the process suggested good economic returns by combining SEC and AC. About 80% of the capital cost and 85% of the operating cost of the process, as it stands now, is due only to the stationary phase. Our studies on the characteristics of the …
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Effect of Different Schedules of Baby Corn (<i>Zea Mays</i> L.) Harvests on Baby Corn Yield, Grain Yield, and Economic Profit Value
… yield, grain maize (GM) yield, and estimated economic return. Experimental harvest treatments were 1) no BC harvest, only GM harvest, 2) first harvest as BC, final harvest as GM, 3) first and second harvests as BC, final harvest as GM, and 4) first, second, and third harvests as BC, final …
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Quantification of tobacco aphid, Myzus nicotianae Blackman, injury to flue-cured tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum (L.)
… 27% in 1988 and 1989, respectively, while gross economic returns were reduced 27 and 32% in the respective years. The responses of tobacco production variables were characterized by a decreasing negative slope; therefore, incremental losses were greatest at low levels of cumulative aphid-days. …
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Integrating cover crops into crop rotations in upstate Missouri
… and farmers could obtain higher yields and economic returns. Soil health is the capacity of a soil to function for plant, animal, and microbial sustainability evaluated by set parameters and evaluated over time. A "best management practice" refers to economically-viable practices that …
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Poverty and inequality measurement and determinants : the case of Zambia
… and 2004. This period was characterized by macroeconomic and structural adjustment reforms that led to declining public sector employment due to liquidations and retrenchments and changed education distribution due to, among many other reasons, the introduction of user fees. Trends in poverty and …
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The work values of female adolescents
… in 1968. In addition, Achievement, Security, and Economic Returns showed higher rankings than in the 1968 study. Some implications concluded from this study may be of interest to career development researchers, theorists, and career counselors. First, it is apparent that the female adolescents …
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