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treatment of water, and treatment and disposal of sewage and sewerable trade waste . the development of a new, vertically …
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Existing appraisal and evaluation methodologies provide for aseparate assessment of technical, financial, economic, institutional,social and environmental aspects of projects without a unifying theoryto combine these aspects into a single measure of project performance.Data Envelopment Analysis...
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penalties for the owners of combined sewer overflow systems who failed to implement a plan to eliminate sewage overflow by …
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Spatial dependence in individual-tree diameter, and growth model residuals was characterised for an even-aged Eucalyptus pilularis (Smith) experiment in New South Wales,. Australia. The magnitude of spatial dependence changed as the dominance of competitive mechanisms and micro-site influences...
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Height has been used in a growing literature as a measure of net nutrition throughout the first 20 years of life. This … adult height over aperiod of 150 years by distributing the measured adult height over the age distribution of the male … population. This calculation creates a measure of the age-distributed height of the laborforce, which then permits an analysis …
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Three distinct strands can be identified in the literature on seasonality. Economists have long been interested in removing high-frequency "noise" from individual economic time series, or "deseasonalizing the data" in common parlance. The second strand, on which an extensive technical literature...
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The paper seeks to find out whether the recent power outages in Ghana had a negative effect on listed firms. Out of 35 listed firms in Ghana, 25 were purposively chosen as the sample size for the study. The research design was explanatory and employed quantitative methods that enabled comparison...
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The study of consumer behaviour has attracted much attention from researchers.Models have been postulated and re-postulated in many attempts to explain thedecision process of consumers as it changes over time and space, as well as indifferent environments such as culture, race and religion. The...
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homestead wealth on use of nets purchased from the retail sector is well documented, however, the competing influence of mother … were collected at homestead, mother and child (aged < 5 years) levels. An assets-based wealth index was developed using … guardians of 3,755 children < 5 years of age were interviewed. Approximately 15% (562) of children slept under a net the night …
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This paper investigates the effects of wealth on consumer spending in the United States. A traditional life-cycle model … is estimated first. Although it does find a statistically significant wealth effect, its findings are unusable due to the … offered. First, wealth is divided into stock market and non-stock market components, second into liquid and illiquid …
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