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Social capital influences farmer participation in collective irrigation management in Shaanxi Province, China
Miao, Shanshan; Heijman, Wim; Zhu, Xueqin; Lu, Qian - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 7 (2015) 3, pp. 448-466
’ participative behaviour in collective actions for constructing and operating small-scale groundwater irrigation systems on the … for the future development of collective action. The results of this study also have implications for national irrigation … plans for small-scale irrigation facilities in other developing countries. Originality/value – A consideration of the …
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Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture and Food Security
Londhe, Sunil - In: International Journal of Disease Control and … 1 (2016) 1, pp. 32-46
Many studies have demonstrated the sensitivities of crop yield to a changing climate, a major challenge for the agricultural research community is to relate these findings to the wider societal concern with food security. Apart from few exceptions, the likely impacts of climate change on...
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Irrigation Measurement System for Dry Areas Based on WSN
Granda, Juan; Almanza, Mauricio; Fontalvo, Jose; Calle, … - In: International Journal of Interdisciplinary … 9 (2017) 3, pp. 10-20
exceeded. Water pressure provides the kinematic energy used on irrigation systems to spray the water on the field. The amount … of water that the irrigation system can provide per hour should be carefully monitored to save water in dry areas. The …. Results show sensor nodes exhibit a 4% average error, and 9% packet loss maximum. Both values are adequate for crop irrigation …
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Trend und Zyklus im Bruttoinlandsprodukt der Bundesrepublik Deutschland / Trends and Cycles in the Gross Domestic Product of the Federal Republic of Germany
Assenmacher, Walter - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 217 (1998) 5, pp. 628-649
Verteilungen der Einheitswurzelteststatistik bei kleinen Stichproben durch Simulation ermittelt. Die benötigten simulierten … theory while the cyclical component is a prominent issue of business cycles theory. The firm statistical foundation of the …
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Zufall und Quasi-Monte Carlo Ansätze / Randomness and Quasi-Monte Carlo Approaches
Winker, Peter; Fang, Kai-Tai - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 218 (1999) 1-2, pp. 215-228
numerical integration, stochastic simulation or estimation based on the quasi-Monte Carlo sampling. The paper presents some …
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Ein Prognose- und Simulationswerkzeug zur Unterstützung der kurzfristigen Personalbedarfsplanung in einem Call Center / A Forecasting and Simulation Tool for Personnel Requirement...
Schuhr, Roland - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 224 (2004) 1-2, pp. 166-184
Zusammenfassung Aufgrund der arbeitsintensiven Dienstleistungen eines Call Centers ist die auf die Optimierung der Personalkosten zielende Personalbedarfs- und Personaleinsatzplanung eine wichtige Aufgabe des Call Center-Managements. In diesem Beitrag wird die Grundkonzeption eines Prognose- und...
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Die Finanzierungslücke der Gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung in Deutschland – Eine Simulationsstudie zu Lösungsmöglichkeiten
Bollacke, Steffen - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 63 (2014) 2, pp. 128-159
Abstract Population aging challenges pay-as-you-go pension systems. Solving the associated funding problem constantly motivates reform processes. In addition to an aging population, specific regulations of the German public pension system lead to an increasing financial burden of national...
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Valid Space Description in BIM for 3D Indoor Navigation
Abou Diakité, Abdoulaye; Zlatanova, Sisi - In: International Journal of 3-D Information Modeling (IJ3DIM) 5 (2016) 3, pp. 1-17
The BIM paradigm, supplied by appropriate standards like IFC, became unavoidable in recent construction projects. Several applications (e.g. indoor navigation, energy analysis ...) find in it a source of information on which they can rely. However, practices reveal that BIM models are not always...
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Soft-Computing Control of Ball and Beam System
Patil, Pravin P.; Kharola, Ashwani - In: International Journal of Applied Evolutionary … 9 (2018) 4, pp. 1-21
time and steady state error. Simulation results proved the superiority of ANFIS over other control techniques. …
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Airline Hangars Balanced Manpower Utilization: A Simulation Approach
Massoud, Bazargan; Chen, Xiaoxu - In: International Journal of Aviation Systems, Operations … 3 (2016) 1, pp. 49-58
Airlines on average spend 10%-15% of their total operating cost on aircraft maintenance. Most of the airlines conduct their light maintenance checks in-house. These light checks have a major impact on flight schedules, delay rates and cost. A chronic challenge with airlines is assigning light...
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