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Estimating risk‐adjusted interest rates for dairy farms
Tauer, Loren - In: Agricultural Finance Review 62 (2002) 1, pp. 59-68
The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is used to estimate the cost of equity for each of 62 New York dairy farms that participated in a business analysis program from 1988 through 1997. The estimated betas were statistically less than one for all farms. Risk‐adjusted interest rates ranged...
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Dairy farm financial performance: firm, year, and size effects
A. Wolf, Christopher; Stephenson, Mark W.; Knoblauch, … - In: Agricultural Finance Review 76 (2016) 4, pp. 532-543
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate dairy farm financial performance over time utilizing farm financial ratios from three university business analysis programs. The evaluation includes measures of profitability, solvency, and liquidity by herd size. Design/methodology/approach...
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Water Quality Estimation Using Combined Water Chemistry and Field Spectroscopy in the Shenandoah River, Virginia
Mbuh, Mbongowo J.; Houser, Paul R.; Heidari, Ako - In: International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR) 7 (2016) 2, pp. 14-37
nutrients (total nitrogen and total phosphorous) in the Shenandoah River. The mean Chl a concentration for 555 nm, 560 nm and ….56. Chemometrics analysis show that total phosphorous, nitrogen and turbidity can be predicted between 450 to 555nm and 670 to 710 nm … used to develop predictive models to determine sensitive spectral variables for nitrogen, phosphorous, Chl-a, and CDOM. …
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Soil, Water, and Climate Change Integrated Impact Assessment on Yields: Approach from Central Mexico
Monterroso-Rivas, Alejandro I.; Gómez-Díaz, Jesús D.; … - In: International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental … 9 (2018) 2, pp. 20-31
This article describes the potential yields of maize, wheat and barley which were modeled with climate change, soil degradation and water balance scenarios in central Mexico. Two adaptation measures were also evaluated. To estimate yields the AquaCrop-FAO model was applied. Three study cases...
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Grey Wolf Optimization Trained Feed Foreword Neural Network for Breast Cancer Classification
Pal, Shankho Subhra - In: International Journal of Applied Industrial Engineering … 5 (2018) 2, pp. 21-29
Breast cancer is the most common invasive cancer in females worldwide and is major cause of deaths. The diagnoses of breast cancer include mammograms, breast ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ductogram and biopsy. Biopsy is best and only way to know if the breast tumor is cancerous....
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Automotive Water Cooling System Analysis Subject to Time Dependence and Failure Issues
Goyal, Nupur; Kaushik, Ajay; Ram, Mangey - In: International Journal of Manufacturing, Materials, and … 6 (2016) 2, pp. 1-22
In an automobile engine, the heat transfer cannot be possible without cooling system support. The cooling system has a great importance in the engines. It coolants overheat of the engine, and prevents it from breakdown, that's why a highly reliable cooling system is the necessity of every engine...
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Predicting Shoppers' Continuous Buying Intention Using Mobile Apps
Prashar, Sanjeev; Gupta, Priyanka; Parsad, Chandan; … - In: International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences (IJSDS) 9 (2018) 3, pp. 69-83
The rapid penetration of smartphones and consumers' increased usage/dependence on mobile applications (apps) has ushered favorable opportunities for retailers as well as shoppers. The traditional brick-and-mortar as well as online retailers must attract shoppers to use mobile shopping apps. For...
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Analysis for transmission of dengue disease with different class of human population
Dwivedi, Ananya; Keval, Ram - In: Epidemiologic Methods 10 (2021) 1
method to study the local and global stability of disease free and endemic equilibrium points along with sensitivity analysis …
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Teacher Effect Estimates and Decision Rules for Establishing Student-Teacher Linkages: What are the Implications for High-Stakes Personnel Policies in an Urban School District?
Han, Bing; McCaffrey, Daniel; Springer, Matthew G.; … - In: Statistics, Politics, and Policy 3 (2012) 2
effort to quantify teacher effectiveness. The existing VAM literature has not yet tested the sensitivity of value … validity of VAM. In this paper we conducted a case study to examine the sensitivity of VAM to the alternative link definitions …. We found no overall sensitivity of estimated teacher effects to the linking rules. Even though more teachers had value …
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Developing expatriates’ cross‐cultural sensitivity: cultures where “your culture’s OK” is really not OK
Rodrigues, Carl A. - In: Journal of Management Development 16 (1997) 9, pp. 690-702
‐cultural managers need to develop sensitivity to the cultural ways of the society where they will be managing; they need to develop a …
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