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The role of amenities and other factors in influencing the location of nonmanufacturing industry in the United States
Allison, T.; Calzonetti, F.J. - 2008
Consumer and producer services, the latter in particular, are expected to become an important means of diversification and employment growth to the economy of Nevada. It has been suggested that the siting of the nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, will lead to a significant...
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Modernization and the fertility transition, Egypt, 1975
Issa, Mahmoud S. Abdou - 1980
This study investigates regional marital fertility differentials in Egypt and their relationship to the level of modernization of the region: defined as economic development and social and cultural change. The intermediate variables (Davis and Blake, 1965) underlying these regional levels and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439057
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Australia's mining productivity paradox: implications for MFP measurement
Zheng, S.; Bloch, Harry - 2010
This paper investigates the mining industry's poor productivity performance as measured by the conventional multifactor … productivity (MFP) index during the recent mining boom in Australia. We derive a relationship between the measured and 'true' MFP … average MFP growth in Australian mining based on the dual measure of technical change is nearly 2% over the sample period 1974 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434879
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Office of the Chief Financial Officer Annual Report 2010
Fernandez, Jeffrey - 2011
to easily extract data; the field has little confidence in data; people spend more time mining data than analyzing data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436286
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Economic Predictions for Heat Mining: A Review and Analysis of Hot Dry Rock (HDR) Geothermal Energy Technology
Tester, Jefferson W.; Herzog, Howard J. - 2007
The main objectives of this study were first, to review and analyze several economic assessments of Hot Dry Rock (HDR) geothermal energy systems, and second, to reformulate an economic model for HDR with revised cost components. The economic models reviewed include the following studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436429
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Concept for the Intermountain Center for Mining Research and Development
2009
The Intermountain Center for Mining Research and Development (ICMRD) was established with the Idaho National Laboratory … (INL) as the cornerstone, and with regional universities, mining schools, and the Western mining industry as full members …. In aggregate, the members provide the strong mining research and development capabilities and knowledge that are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436552
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Index of harm: a measure for comparing occupational risk across industries
Solomon, K.A.; Abraham, S.C. - 2008
fatality rates by showing the riskiest industries to be mining; agriculture, forestry, and fisheries; construction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436578
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The importance of trade in services and environmental amenities to the location of producer service activities in the western United States
Allison, T. - 2008
The use of business services has had an increasingly important effect on economic performance in many industries, with the ability of firms in a given location to respond to changes in external markets, production techniques and material supplies often determined by the local provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435432
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A geostatistical methodology to assess the accuracy of unsaturated flow models
Smoot, J.L.; Williams, R.E. - 2009
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory spatiotemporal movement of water injected into (PNNL) has developed a Hydrologic unsaturated sediments at the Hanford Site in Evaluation Methodology (HEM) to assist the Washington State was used to develop a new U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435931
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The importance of trade in services and environmental amenities to the location of producer service activities in the western United States
Allison, T. - 2008
The use of business services has had an increasingly important effect on economic performance in many industries, with the ability of firms in a given location to respond to changes in external markets, production techniques and material supplies often determined by the local provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436237