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A Unified Economic View of Space Solar Power (SSP)
Charania, Ashraf; Olds, John R. - 2000
Space Solar Power (SSP) is a concept to beam energy from space to terrestrial power grids that could be feasible in about twenty to forty years. Due to the current climate of limited government funding for such large-scale space projects, NASA would prefer more industry involvement (technically...
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Myopia of Health-Care Reform Using Business Models
Kenneth, MacInnes; McAlister, Vivian C. - 2001
Background: Health-care institutions have looked to business for models to respond to the requirement for reform. This has changed the perspective of institutions that were founded on charitable principles, and managed with liberal employment policies and deficit budgeting. Using lesions from...
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Study on Universal Postal Service and the Postal Monopoly
Fritschler, A. Lee; Pommerening, Christine; Campbell, … - 2008
The following appendices have been prepared by a team of subject-matter experts at theSchool of Public Policy at George Mason University (GMU) under a contract with thePostal Regulatory Commission (PRC).Section 702 of the Postal Enhancement and Accountability Act (PAEA) required thePostal...
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EPRI Cogeneration Models -- DEUS and COPE
1983
In the Fall of 1978, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) initiated a program for the design and evaluation of alternate cogeneration systems. The primary objective of the study is to analyze the overall system value of cogeneration. A portion of the study involved the development of a...
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Quality certification for locally produced complementary foods in Mali
Sanogo, Diakalia - 2001
avoid stunting or wasting, most children aged 6-24 months need to complement breastmilk with processed foods having higher … energy density than adult foods. Donors have subsidized the production and distribution of such complementary foods in Mali … supplement other elements of national child-nutrition and anti-poverty policies such as maternal education, and the provision of …
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Price and participation in Indiana school food services
Ham, Seonok - 1998
The purpose of this study was to identify factors affecting NSLP participation and price and assess their impacts. The dependent variables for this study were participation and price. Average Daily Participation (ADP) was used as a participation rate, and the following specific participation...
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Determining the impact of food price and income changes on body weight
Schroeter, Christiane - 2005
previous economic and nutrition studies, and energy accounting is used. Data on own-price elasticities and cross …
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Modelling physical quantities of food and nutrients consumed from aggregate data – with an application to Finland
Irz, Xavier T. - 2009
Anticipating the impact of changes in economic incentives on dietary quality and nutritional health requires knowledge of how physical quantities of food consumed respond to price and income variations. A problem arises, however, because physical quantities are: 1- not consistent aggregates in...
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U.S. Department of Energy Consequence Management Under the National Response Framework
H. Clark, R. Allen - 2009
allradiological monitoring and the production of data products that interpret those measurements in terms of protective action …
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International petroleum statistics report, April 1999
2009
The International Petroleum Statistics Report presents data on international oil production, demand, imports, and … stocks. The report has four sections. Section 1 contains time series data on world oil production, and on oil demand and … monthly data for the most recent twelve months. Section 4 presents annual time series data on world oil production and oil …
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