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suite of grazing BMPs were developed for the Burdekin Dry Tropics region in aconsultative fashion but without explicit …
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In the Mackay Whitsunday region, the dominant grazing based operations are small intensivesystems that heavily utilise … the costs and benefits associated withadoption of intensive grazing best management practices to determine the effect on … the profitabilityand economic sustainability of grazing enterprises, and the economic viability of capital investmentto …
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We discuss the search for optimal stocking regimes in semi-arid grazing lands. We argue that 'one size does not fit all … polarization of the current debate towards a more integrative and flexible approach to grazing management. We propose five … different conditions as major influences on grazing regimes: environmental variability and predictability; degradation and …
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In this essay, I will identify one theoretical source of the common antipathy towards form contracts and why it is … misguided. I contend that the hostility towards form contracts stems in important part from an implicit adoption of a promise … contracts can be seen as entirely legitimate-though some form terms may properly be subject to judicial scrutiny that would be …
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Some extension economists and others often recommend profit margin hedging in choosing thetiming of crop sales. This paper determines producer’s utility function and price processeswhere profit margin hedging is optimal. Profit margin hedging is shown to be an optimalstrategy under a highly...
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In this paper, we propose a framework for robust optimization that relaxes the standard notion of robustness by allowing the decision maker to vary the protection level in a smooth way across the uncertainty set. We apply our approach to the problem of maximizing the expected value of a payoff...
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This half-semester course discusses decision theory and topics in game theory. We present models of individual decision-making under certainty and uncertainty. Topics include preference orderings, expected utility, risk, stochastic dominance, supermodularity, monotone comparative statics,...
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The typical model of retail pricing for produce products assumes retailers set price equal to the farm price plus a certain markup. However, observations from scanner data indicate a large degree of price dispersion in the grocery retailing market. In addition to markup pricing behavior, we...
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Ten basic contracting strategies were developed after a review of past strategies that had been used at the Hanford Site, other US Department of Energy (DOE) sites, other US government agencies, and in the private sector. As applicable to the Low-Level Waste Vitrification Plant (LLWVP) Project,...
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trucks due to equipment and operational issues; late placement of melter contracts; and the Multi-Function Waste Tank …
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