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Youth entrepreneurship in Vilnius pedagogical university
Virkštytė, Sandra - 2008
develop youth entrepreneurship, because it can be solvation of such social – econimie problems as: unemployment, depopulation …The entrepreneurship conception is traversed by theoretical aspect and documents of the European Union and Lithuania …, which are regulated the education of the entrepreneurship. When Lithuania become the country of market economy, it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009478412
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Model of Youth Entrepreneurship Promotion in Lithuania
Subačiūtė, Virginija - 2011
Object of the research – factors and promotion measures of youth entrepreneurship. Aim of the research – to reveal the … most important factors and promotion measures of youth entrepreneurship and to make a model of youth entrepreneurship in … Lithuania. Objectives of the research: 1) to analyze the concept of entrepreneurship; 2) to reveal the factors of youth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009478755
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IRP methods for Environmental Impact Statements of utility expansion plans
Cavallo, J.D.; Hemphill, R.C.; Veselka, T.D. - 2008
Most large electric utilities and a growing number of gas utilities in the United States are using a planning method -- Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) - which incorporates demand-side management (DSM) programs whenever the marginal cost of the DSM programs are lower than the marginal cost of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435376
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The importance of trade in services and environmental amenities to the location of producer service activities in the western United States
Allison, T. - 2008
The use of business services has had an increasingly important effect on economic performance in many industries, with the ability of firms in a given location to respond to changes in external markets, production techniques and material supplies often determined by the local provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435432
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Using the National Information Infrastructure for social science, education, and informed decision making
Tonn, B.E. - 2008
The United States has aggressively embarked on the challenging task of building a National Information Infrastructure (NII). This infrastructure will have many levels, extending from the building block capital stock that composes the telecommunications system to the multitude of higher tier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435490
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Evaluation of resource impact factors versus social cost estimates in determining building energy performance standard levels
Nieves, L.A.; Nesse, R.J.; Adams, R.C.; McDonald, C.L. - 2011
In order to increase the welfare of society through the implementation of a building energy-performance standard, a method is required by which the least-cost means of obtaining the desired space conditioning of a building can be estimated. In other words, a life-cycle cost model must be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435495
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Estimation of the social costs of natural gas
Nieves, L.A.; Lemon, J.R. - 2011
This study determines the extent to which it is possible to develop monetary estimates of the marginal social cost of fuels, using natural gas to test a methodology that could be applied to other fuels. This requires review of previous estimates of both market and nonmarket costs to the extent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435496
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Health risk and impact evaluation for recycling of radioactive scrap metal
Nieves, L.A.; Chen, S.Y.; Murphie, W.E.; Lilly, M.J. III - 2008
The DoE, Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, is participating with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in providing analytical support for developing international standards for recycling of radioactive scrap metals. For this purpose, Argonne National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435499
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Imbedding dynamic responses with imperfect information into static portraits of the regional impact of climate change
Yohe, G.W. - 2008
It is becoming increasingly clear, at least on a theoretical level, that modelers of the potential impacts of climate change must impose that change upon the world as it will be configured sometime in the future rather than confine their attention to considerations of what would happen to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435515