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The objective of this article is to examine the evolution of the global financial markets during the post-World War …
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1 Correlations between phenotypic traits are important in a number of contexts in physiological ecology, evolutionary physiology, and behaviour. Correlations can reflect functional connections or trade-offs among performance traits (e.g. bite force, jumping distance) and can reveal causal...
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In this paper the authors report the results of the estimation of a rich dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model of the U.S. economy with both stochastic volatility and parameter drifting in the Taylor rule. They use the results of this estimation to examine the recent monetary...
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forms of thinking the administration. The high complexity degree brought with the evolution of the communication systems and … system vision of the administration, in constant processes of learning and of administration of the knowledge in the company … system vision, the processes of organizational learning and the administration of teams of high acting, as the most …
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This is a reprint from vol 8 no 2 which has not previously beeen available electronically.In the building sector, value for the customer, is often regarded as being value for money and this, in turn, is achieved by means of competitive tendering. However, there are companies that also focus on...
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This paper presents four case studies that explore the adoption and acceptance of mobile technologies and services within the context of the privacy-value-control (PVC) trichotomy. The technologies studied include: the mobile phone, electronic toll payment tags, e-passports, and loyalty card...
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In this piece, I take issue with one of the fundamental tenets of law and economics as it has been used to justify gender discrimination in the pricing of life insurance and annuities, namely, that individuals should bear their own identifiable costs so as to avoid misallocation of society's...
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The prospect of immigration policy reform has renewed growers’ concerns of serious labor shortages and cost increases given that a large portion of the workforce is unauthorized for U.S. employment. This concern of labor shortages and cost increases is more serious for specialty crop...
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Surveys continue to highlight that most senior business executives aredissatisfied with the value they believe their organizations are deriving frominvestments in information technology. What is often forgotten is that IT initself has no inherent value. This value must be unlocked, and only...
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The applicability of learning and experience curves for predicting future costs of solar technologies is assessed, and … systems manufacture are discussed, and procedures for using learning and experience curves to predict costs are outlined … learning and aggregated cost curves for these surrogates estimated. If the surrogate learning curves apply, they can be used to …
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