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The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America develops light level recommendations for tasks where visual performance is important. The 1959 and 1972 recommendations for illumination levels were based on the principle of delivering a fixed level of performance as predicted by the visual...
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expanding data coverage to estimates of productivity and/or data needed to calculate productivity. Initial investigations within …
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This study examines the decision to invest in buildings and the types of investment decision rules that may be employed to inform the ''go--no go'' decision. There is a range of decision making tools available to help in investment choices, which range from simple rules of thumb such as payback...
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ability to transfer and diffuse new technologies is generally recognized as a key to increased productivity in the United …
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productivity of their employees. In a cross-sectional study of 86 employees and 17 managers in an Information Technology (IT …
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Over the coming century, computer technology is likely to become capable of reproducing many of the skills now performed by human labor. This paper describes three models of the aggregate economic changes that occur when capital becomes capable of performing human work skills. The basic model,...
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work culture that supports high productivity, they may be inclined to fall back on tried and tested approaches from their …
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Retail productivity measurement has commonly used ratios of outputs, such as sales, and input factors like capital and … labour to measure different facets of productivity. However, these store-specific ratios are also likely to be influenced by … research on productivity measurement by developing and testing a composite set of measures for retail productivity including …
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productivity data. This paper examines the long run, or the equilibrium, relationship between productivity and stock returns for … among productivity, stock prices (returns), investment, and corporate cash flows are pair-wise and jointly investigated. The … results indicate that productivity and stock prices share a common trend; so do the stock prices and corporate net cash flows …
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.=========================The ultimate goal of this paper has been to measure the impact of human capital on agricultural productivity in Burkina Faso. The … capital increases agricultural productivity of cultures such as millet, peanuts and cotton, but does not increase the … productivity of cultures such as rice, maize and white sorghum. That is partly due to the traditional way of agriculture in Burkina …
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