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Public goods, environmental externalities and fiscal competition: Selected papers on competition, efficiency and cooperation in public economics
Chander, Parkash (contributor); Drèze, Jacques (contributor) - 2006
The twenty-two papers collected in this volume illustrate the itinerary of Henry Tulkens, an applied theorist, on the occasion of his retirement from teaching. The collection is structured in four parts: I. Decentralized resource allocation processes for public and private goods - II....
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Sustainable Development on the Mekong Region
Picon Garrote, Pablo - 2011
This MP analyzes the relationship between fast economic development and the environment. My objective was to learn if the ecosystems were strongly disturbed by the economic and industrial development process. In cases where ecosystems were lost, if this process was bringing negative social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475412
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Life-cycle preferences over consumption and health: when is cost-effectiveness analysis equivalent to cost-benefit analysis?
Bleichrodt, H; Quiggin, J - 1999
This paper studies life-cycle preferences over consumption and health status. We show that cost-effectiveness analysis is consistent with cost-benefit analysis if the Lifetime utility function is additive over time, multiplicative in the utility of consumption and the utility of health status,...
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Tamper detection in RFID tags, using, fragile watermarking
Potdar, Vidyasagar; Chang, Elizabeth - 2006
Security and privacy are one of the two primary concerns with RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) adoption. While the mainstream RFID research is focused on solving the privacy issues, this paper focuses on security issues in general and data tampering in particular. We specifically consider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434995
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Human decision error (HUMDEE) trees
Ostrom, L.T. - 2008
Graphical presentations of human actions in incident and accident sequences have been used for many years. However, for … incorporating the human decision process into graphical presentations of incident/accident sequences. This presentation is in the … decision points in the incident/accident sequence. This is different from the Technique for Human Error Rate Prediction (THERP …
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National Security Technology Incubator Business Plan
2008
in national safety, security, and protection of the homeland. The NSTI is operated and managed by the Arrowhead Center …
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Risk Assessment Using The Homeland-Defense Operational Planning System (HOPS)
Price, D E; Durling, R L - 2008
, convention centers, sports stadiums, tourist venues, and public and freight transportation systems. A generalized summary of …
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DOE Fire Protection Handbook, Volume I
2009
for fire safety. The information provided within includes copies of those DOE directives that are directly applicable to …
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Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves. Annual report of operations, Fiscal year 1993
2008
During fiscal year 1993, the reserves generated $440 million in revenues, a $33 million decrease from the fiscal year 1992 revenues, primarily due to significant decreases in oil and natural gas prices. Total costs were $207 million, resulting in net cash flow of $233 million, compared with $273...
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OBEST: The Object-Based Event Scenario Tree Methodology
WYSS, GREGORY D.; DURAN, FELICIA A. - 2008
fire risk evaluation in nuclear power plants, and aviation safety studies. …
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