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Economic Analysis of Selected Environmental Issues in China
Zhou, Yuan - 2005
This thesis investigates several selected environmental issues in China from an economic perspective. It consists of four self-contained papers. Chapters 2-4 address the issues related to water shortage, while Chapter 5 focuses on the cost of air pollution. Chapter 2 analyses the potential...
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A Demonstration of the PMF-Extraction Approach: Modeling The Effects of Sound on Crowd Behavior
Cornwell, Jason B; Silverman, Barry G; O'Brien, Kevin; … - 2002
The vast majority of psychology, sociology, and other social-science literature describing human behavior and performance does not reach the eyes of those of us working in the modeling and simulation community. Our recent work has been concerned with the extraction and implementation of Human...
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Approximate Maximum-Likelihood Estimation Of Circle Parameters Using A Phase-Coded Kernel
Zelniker, Emanuel; Clarkson, Ian Vaughan L. - 2004
The accurate fitting of a circle to noisy measurements of points on its circumference is an important and much-studied problem in statistics. Atherton & Kerbyson (Image and Vision Computing 17, 1999, 795-803) have proposed a complex convolutional circle parameter estimator. One of the estimators...
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A Process for the Quantification of Aircraft Noise and Emissions Interdependencies
de Luis, Jorge - 2008
terms of flight characteristics, fuel burn, noise, and emissions. These coefficients are then utilized to model flight …
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Arbitrage and Valuation in the Market for Standard and Poor's Depositary Receipts
Ackert, Lucy; Tian, Yisong S. - 2000
This paper examines pricing in the market for depositary receipts, securities designed to track the performance of a stock index that trade like shares of stock. Arbitrage costs are low because these assets have low fundamental risk, low transactions costs, and high dividend yields. We find that...
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An Autoregressive Conditional Filtering Process to remove Intraday Seasonal Volatility and its Application to Testing the Noisy Rational Expectations Model
Cho, Jang Hyung - 2008
pattern to change over time without the filtering process injecting a spurious pattern of noise into the filtered series. We … embedded in the return series. The variance is decomposed into the information arrival component and the noise factor component …. This decomposition methodology differs from previous studies in that both the informational variance and the noise variance …
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TERA- A Tool for Aero-engine Modelling and Management
Ogaji, S. O. T.; Pilidis, Pericles; Hales, Richard - 2007
incorporates multi-disciplinary modules for modellinggas turbine and aircraft performance, estimation of engine weight, noise and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463009
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SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY INDICATORS FOR CITIES
Branza, Gratiela - 2023
Abstract The development of every nation is measured through its grade of industrialization and especially its transportation system development. But this development can only be achieved by respecting and fulfilling the goals of sustainable mobility. This paper presents the concept of...
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South Africa's freight transport involvement options in Sub-Saharan Africa : declining infrastructure and regulatory constraints
De Bod, Anneke - 2008
Although global changes like political security, depletion of natural resources,energy supply and global warming are affecting all continents; Africa strugglethe most to cope with these changes. This is due to the many historicalimpediments that Africa still has to overcome. Examples of these...
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The appraisal of transport infrastructure projects in the municipal sphere of government in South Africa, with reference to the city of Tshwane
Schutte, Ignatius Christiaan - 2010
The annual budget cycle in urban road/transport authorities by implication requires transport infrastructure projects to be ranked in terms of their relative value, to enable project selection by starting from the most deserving proposal. This follows from the fact that the total cost of...
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