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Modelling and analysis of semiconductor manufacturing in a shrinking world: challenges and successes
Chien, Chen-Fu; Dauzere-Peres, Stephane; Ehm, Hans; … - In: European Journal of Industrial Engineering 5 (2011) 3, pp. 254-271
This paper presents a brief overview of semiconductor manufacturing followed by the results of a panel session held at the Fourth International Conference on Modeling and Analysis of Semiconductor Manufacturing (MASM) in Miami, December 10, 2008 on the role of modelling and analysis in...
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Klimaresilienz durch Agrobiodiversität? Literaturstudie zum Zusammenhang zwischen Elementen der Agrobiodiversität und der Empfindlichkeit von landwirtschaftlichen Produktionssystem...
Petersen, Ute; Weigel, Hans-Joachim - Bundesforschungsinstitut für Lädliche Räume, Wald … - 2015
Im globalen und regionalen Kontext wird wiederholt auf eine Diversifizierung der Agrarproduktion von der genetischen über die Betriebs- bis hin zur Landschaftsebene als eine entscheidende Maßnahme zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel hingewiesen. Allgemein bekannt ist, dass für die züchterische...
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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2011
. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affected individuals. The method …-experimental approach to measure differences in the risk attitudes of farmers located in high flooding risk areas versus farmers located in … low flooding risk areas is followed. Changes in flooding risk related behaviour over time is analysed and marginal effects …
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Which type of crop insurance for Kazakhstan? Empirical results
Heidelbach, Olaf; Bokusheva, Raushan; Kussaiynov, Talgat - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2004
Risk plays an important role in agricultural decision-making, particularly in those regions that are remarkably exposed … conditions, risk attitudes and risk management techniques with respect to the requirements of a functioning crop insurance system …Risiko spielt eine wichtige Rolle im Entscheidungsprozess landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmer, insbesondere in Regionen …
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Crop insurance in transition: a qualitative and quantitative assessment of insurance products
Bokusheva, Raushan - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2004
This discussion paper considers insurance as a possible instrument of farm income stabilization and compares several crop insurance products with respect to their applicability in a transition economy using the case of Kazakhstan. The analysis is based on a qualitative evaluation as well a...
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OECD’s work on agricultural policy: A bridge between research and government
Cahill, Carmel - In: Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development 59
The role of the OECD in linking the research and policy communities is described as well as the processes whereby OECD member countries scrutinize the work undertaken. A major project on decoupling of agricultural policy measures is used to illustrate the approaches and processes used. Attention...
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Risikoberücksichtigung in der nicht parametrischen Effizienzanalyse: Auswirkungen auf die Effizienzbewertung von deutschen Schweinemastbetrieben
Tiedemann, Torben; Breustedt, Gunnar; Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe - In: Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development 60 (2011) 4
In diesem Beitrag werden zwei Modellansätze zur Integration von Risiko in die Data Envelopment Analyse (DEA … angewendet. Beide Ansätze bilden das Risiko des Gesamtbetriebs in Form der Schwankungen des betrieblichen Gesamtdeckungsbeitrags … der Ergebnisse mit denen eines Standard-DEA-Modells wird gezeigt, dass die Berücksichtigung von Risiko zu veränderten …
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Decision-making structures in US and Japanese manufacturing affiliates in the UK : some similarities and contrasts
JH, Dunning - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1986
ILO pub. Working paper, comparison of decision making process in foreign enterprise subsidiarys of American and Japanese multinational enterprise located in the UK - contrasts the role of USA management attitudes in the 1950s with role of Japanese industrial management in the 1980s; covers...
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Production Control of a Polymerization Plant Based on Production Performance Indicators
Dejan, Gradišar; Vladimir, Jovan; Sebastjan, Zorzut - In: Organizacija 41 (2008) 6, pp. 207-217
The specifics of process manufacturing have a great influence on production management. The focus of process-production control is to maintain stable and cost-effective production within given constraints. The synthesis of production-control structures is thus recognized as one of the most...
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Inventory policy characterisation methodologies for a single-product recoverable manufacturing system
Ahiska, Semra Sebnem; King, Russell E. - In: European Journal of Industrial Engineering 9 (2015) 2, pp. 222-243
We consider the production/inventory control for a recoverable system with stochastic demand and returns where stock is replenished by manufacturing new items or remanufacturing returned items. The optimal control policy found by solving a Markov decision process (MDP) for a given problem...
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