This thesis provides an analysis of cost of ownership issues and techniques, andprovides the supporting data to enable future system designers to make rationaldecisions on design options. It represents the experience gained whilst collectingcost and cost relationship data in the Rolls-Royce...

This paper develops an approach to empirically demonstrate how the within-season distribution of U.S. domestic commodity support for corn differs between current-style approaches of support and revenue-based support. From a purely economic standpoint, the results show the revenue-based payment...

In this dissertation, we explore the properties of correlation structure for spatio-temporalpoint processes and a quantitative spatial process. Spatio-temporal pointprocesses are often assumed to be separable; we propose a formal approach for testingwhether a particular data set is indeed...