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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"time-varying factors"”.
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Performance-Based Coastal Engineering Framework
… exacerbated by an increase in population over time coupled with the aging of existing infrastructure, rise in property value, and the expected shifts in the frequency and intensity of natural hazards due to climate change. Thus, effective planning of engineering projects and resilience …
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Green gains: a case for South African-listed firms
… variables and controlling for unobserved time- varying factors to derive unbiased estimates. The insights gained from this study can inform policymakers, industry leaders, and academics about the strategic integration of ESG considerations into corporate and investment practices, …
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Advanced Statistical Inference for Stochastic Quasi-Reaction Systems
… particularly for observations measured at short time intervals. In order to model more complex scenarios, the method is further extended to account for external time-varying factors that may affect the reaction rates of the system. As a second inferential approach, we concentrate on the mean of …
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Evaluating Time-varying Effect in Single-type and Multi-type Semi-parametric Recurrent Event Models
… methodologies for estimating the effects of time-fixed and time-varying factors in recurrent events modeling context. The research is motivated by the traffic safety research question of evaluating the influence of crash on driving risk and driver behavior. The methodologies developed, …
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The power of words - CEOs' psychological influences: exit, change & hold: the stories of leadership succession: three empirical studies on companies in the FTSE All-Share Index
… identified the importance of CEOs' psychological factors not only for the predecessors but also for the new leaders. The first study looks at the old CEOs before the CEO turnover; the second and third studies follow the new CEOs longitudinally after the succession. The first essay investigates how …
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Adaptive modality selection for navigation systems
… system's modality based on a variety of factors. Each modality has varying levels of compatibility with the different types of concurrent tasks, which forms the basis for the adaptive modality selection (AMS) algorithm. Additionally, there are time-varying factors called switching cost, …
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Innovation and Industry Development: Lessons from the British Cotton Textile Industry During the U.S. Civil War
… is that it allows me to control for other time-varying factors by comparing the cotton textile industry to these other similar industries. I will also be able to uncover evidence of inter-industry connections, since other industries will be affected primarily through their relationship with …