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A flexible and computationally effi cient analysis technique for designing and evaluating grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) systems is introduced, which establishes a direct relationship between the inputs to the system, temperatureand irradiance, and system performance criteria. For a given...
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The geopressured zone, assuming the presence of natural gas and high water productivity, may be used to produce … 63?/M Btu and a unit power cost of 46 mills/kwh. The conversion efficiency of the plant, including hydraulic turbine … energy from the well head overpressure, was 10.3%. This low efficiency accounts for the high unit power cost. A one-well, 1 …
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efficiency to free existing staff time to develop additional types of data from our partners. Another long-term theme related to … expanding data coverage to estimates of productivity and/or data needed to calculate productivity. Initial investigations within …
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The labour productivity differentials between manufacturing firms in Ghana and South Korea exceed those implied by … and South Korea. There is no significant difference in total factor productivity across the countries once we allow for … the shape of the relationship between productivity and human capital across countries is crucial for understanding the …
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The object of the present paper is to analyze the productivity of marketing cooperatives incorporating environmental … marketing cooperatives in the fruit and vegetables sector to consider improvement in productivity and sound environmental … so-called Operative Programs (OP). The present study analyses the total factor productivity (TFP) related to …
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The architecture of the firm involves determination of a boundary that encompasses the functions managed by thefirm. The past decade has seen substantial reorganization of firms where vertical or horizontal integration has beenunbundled into weaker forms of collaborations including value chains...
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This study investigated the efficiency and productivity change of a sample of food distribution units (MERCAs) in Spain … productivity change. The mean pure sales efficiency index was high, around 0.8, the mean scale index being 0,9. As appears from the … over the 1.997-1.999 period, applying non-parametric frontier methodology in a sales efficiency framework. We specified a …
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productivity is decomposed into technological change, efficiency and quality-environmental change. Additionally, the correlation of …The object of the present paper is to analyse productivity incorporating quality-environmental changes in marketing co … vegetables sector. Secondly, the productivity trend is studied empirically using nonparametric methods (Malmquist indices) and …
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economic efficiency of smallholder Irish potato producers in Kenya by drawing on data from random sample of 130 smallholder … efficiency components and a two-limit Tobit model is used to derive efficiency indices as a function of a vector of socio … efficiency is 0.39 with a range of 0.12 - 0.66. Education, access to extension, access to credit and membership in a farmers …
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farm efficiency and productivity. …
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