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Construction price formation : full-cost pricing or neoclassical microeconomic theory?

Skitmore, Martin; Runeson, Goran; Chang, Xinling - 2006

microeconomic theory provides a useful means of analysis, it offers little for the practice of pricing, which is much more closely …Neo-classical microeconomic theory has been suggested to offer (1) an appropriate analytical tool for construction … price determination while, at the same time, (2) full-cost pricing is most commonly accepted pricing policy of construction …

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Risk Analysis in Selected European and International Food Chains

Ameseder, Christoph; Haas, Rainer; Fritz, Melanie; … - 2009

The purpose of this study is to assess and evaluate the most important risks in selected Europeanand international food chains from the perspective of the buying company. The primary objectiveis to identify the “non-acceptable” risks in terms of damage potential and likelihood of...

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Is the Market Classification of Risk Always Efficient? - Evidence from German Third Party Motor Insurance

Schwarze, Reimund - 2005

This paper studies the empirical effects of risk classification in the mandatory third-party motor insurance of Germany following the European Unionâ€™s directive to de-regulate insurance tariffs of 1994. We find evidence that inefficient risk categories had been selected while potentially...

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A quantitative risk analysis model for private security managers

Le Roux, Gabriël Jacobus - 2004

An easy-to-use quantitative risk analysis model is developed for the private security industry in South Africa, which can be used as a suitable analysing tool in the hands of the private security manager.This model incorporate different concepts such as the probability, impact, cost of risk,...

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Selection of technical risk responses for efficient contingencies

Kujawski, Edouard - 2008

risks and RRAs are characterized using scenarios, decision trees, and cumulative probability distributions. The analysis …

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From Prediction to Prescription: Intelligent Decision Support for Variable Rate Fertilization

Fink, Raymond Keith; Hoskinson, Reed Louis; Hess, John … - 2009

We describe the use of machine learning methods in the analysis of spatial soil fertility, soil physical characteristics, and yield data, with a particular objective of determining local (field- to farm-scale) crop response patterns. For effective prescriptive use, the output of these tools is...

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I think that I shall never see {hor_ellipsis} a lovely forestry policy: Land use programs for conservation of forests

Rayner, S.F.; Richards, K.R. - 2008

Forestry programs are frequently invoked as having potential for mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. Most studies have attempted to quantify the potential impact of forest programs on carbon uptake and the potential costs of such programs. In this paper, we will attempt instead to focus on...

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Wheeler County Riparian Buffers; 2002-2003 Annual Report.

Potter, Judy; Homer, Will - 2008

Problems Encountered During Contract Year--Wheeler County residents are mostly non participants when it comes to Farm Services programs. Results of the counties non participation is the rental rates are the lowest in the state. There is a government fear factor as well as an obvious distance...

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Confident interpretation of Bayesian decision tree ensembles for clinical applications

Schetinin, Vitaly; Fieldsend, Jonathan E.; Partridge, Derek - 2007

give useful information for experts responsible for making reliable decisions. For this reason, decision trees (DTs) are …

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Bridging the gap between different statistical approaches: An integrated framework for modelling

Kuhnert, PM; Mengersen, K; Tesar, P - 2003

variables. The second encompasses a two step modelling process, where the use of non-parametric methods such as decision trees …

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