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Child’s relation with advertising: advertising as entertainment, as first consumption experience, as stimulus to influence parents’ opinion
Mackevičiūtė, Agnė - 2010
reveal why child, influenced through advertising, can influence the shopping habits of his family. Also it is intended to … management after accomplishment of determination of the outcomes of the dialog between child and advertising. On purpose to … it is aimed to ascertain how child understands advertising, does it influences in any way the relation between child and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009479317
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Efficient accommodation of local minima in watershed model calibration
Skahill, B. E.; Doherty, J. E. - 2006
The Gauss-Marquardt-Levenberg (GML) method of computer-based parameter estimation, in common with other gradient-based approaches, suffers from the drawback that it may become trapped in local objective function minima, and thus report optimized parameter values that are not, in fact, optimized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447949
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A semantic system for stakeholder-sensitive planning and design of sustainable civil infrastructure systems
Mostafa, Mostafa A. - 2011
There has been an increasing demand for involving stakeholders in the development of sustainable civil infrastructure … sustainable civil infrastructure systems. First, a decision-making analysis method for stakeholder-sensitive, sustainability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477936
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The investigation of methods to assist decision-makers regarding bridge maintenance, rehabilitation, and restoration activities
Ariaratnam, Samuel T. - 1994
A deterministic approach to formulating a failure prediction model incorporates a Family of Curves. This approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477958
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Sensibility of a VMT-Based Incremental Analysis for Bridge Cost Allocation
Broadwater, Jarod Everett - 2006
Many methods for highway cost allocation procedures have been adopted previously by all levels of government; local, state, and federal. However, they rarely address the issue of long span bridge allocation properly, simply treating these unique structures as the typical short span bridge. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450561
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Assessment of Productive Efficiency of Airports
Pathomsiri, Somchai - 2006
The move towards commercialization and privatization has pressured airports to become more productive and competitive. The need to devise an overall (total) productivity measure is increasingly important in airport business. The dissertation made three major research contributions. First, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450618
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Effects of Subsidies on Optimized Bus Transportation
kim, hyunah - 2004
This thesis analyzes and compares the effects of different objectives and financial constraints on conventional and flexible route bus systems, with special emphasis on the relation between subsidy and social welfare. Social welfare is the sum of producer surplus (profit) and consumer surplus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450631
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Risk-Based Bridge Maintenance Strategies
Al-Wazeer, Adel Abdel-Rahman - 2007
The aging of bridges and traffic volume increase result in deterioration of bridge conditions and consequently increased risks to bridges and users. Highway agencies in the United States face challenges because of lack of sufficient resources to maintain bridges in good conditions. Current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450638
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DYNAMIC STRATEGY CHOICE BEHAVIOR UNDER COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT: APPLICATION TO ELECTRONIC FREIGHT AUCTION MARKETPLACES
Min, Yeonjoo - 2007
In the electronic market place, the auction is known to be economically efficient, allowing players to maximize their own benefits. Through this mechanism, new spot markets are created, which connect buyers and sellers. In this new spot markets, many problem contexts give rise to competitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450639
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A Methodology for Project Risk Analysis using Bayesian Belief Networks within a Monte Carlo Simulation Environment
Ordonez Arizaga, Javier F. - 2007
Projects are commonly over budget and behind schedule, to some extent because uncertainties are not accounted for in cost and schedule estimates. Research and practice is now addressing this problem, often by using Monte Carlo methods to simulate the effect of variances in work package costs and...
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