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A friend in need: Emergency responders' social media use and the effects on response practices

Maldonado, Edgar; van Gorp, Annemijn; Pogrebnyakov, Nicolai - 2014

The popularity and ubiquity of social media (SM) have permeated private and public institutions. These last ones, and in particular those governmental agencies that deal with emergencies, have begun using social media in their operations. The impact of SM as a tool within emergency relief...

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The dynamics of the production in Romanian soya culture in 2010-2016

Brǎtulescu, Alexandra-Marina - 2018

Soy is one of the most important crops for human, animal and plant feed. The content of soybeans is rich in protein and fat, which gives this crop a very high nutritional value. In this paper we will analyze the surfaces, outputs, prices and value of Romanian imports and exports, soybean...

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The dynamics of technical economic indicators of crop and animal production in South-East region

Iurchevici, Lidia; Chetroiu, Rodica - 2012

over 90%, the rest being represented by other straw cereals. Among animal products, a positive dynamic in the analyzed …

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Optimized synergy in networked infrastructure deployment and maintenance: Optimizing the planning of infrastructure works and the synergies in the trench

Spruytte, Jonathan; Tahon, Mathieu; Casier, Koen; … - 2014

Underground infrastructure installation is prevalent in Belgium and both maintenance and new installations will lead to large costs. Important reductions in these costs are possible by performing road works in synergy. Formerly the overhead of the cooperation and the limited IT tools and data...

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A Functional Mathematical Optimization Algorithm for the Integration of the Tactical Berth, Quay Crane and Vehicle Scheduling

Linkosaari, Teemu - 2014

crane scheduling and vehicle dispatching as sub-problems. Berths, cranes and yard vehicles are the most important resources …, greedy algorithms, dynamic programming written in functional language and general algebraic modeling system. In addition, we … reformulate the crane scheduling problem so that the mobile cranes can be heterogeneous, and there can be both quay and mobile …

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Investigation of Scheduling Techniques for Uncertain Conditions

Zahid, Taiba; Kühn, Mathias; Völker, Michael; … - 2015

and applications areas in scheduling. …

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The Value of Voice in an Experimental Labor Market

Mertins, Vanessa - 2010

investigated in a simple gift-exchange experiment, thereby testing the fair wage-fair process-effort hypothesis. Before principals …

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Contract design and insurance fraud: an experimental investigation

Lammers, Frauke; Schiller, Jörg - 2010

deductible or variable premiums (bonus-malus contract). In our experiment filing fraudulent claims is a dominant strategy for …

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Political Ideology and Tax Competition: Experimental Evidence

Janeba, Eckhard - 2010

This paper analyzes tax competition theory in an experimental setting. Economically trained students act as government and must select a labor and a capital tax rate to fund a public good, both in closed and open economy settings. Several results emerge: i) There is only weak evidence that...

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To Choose or Not to Choose: Contracts, Reference Points, Reciprocity, and Signaling

Erlei, Mathias; Reinhold, Christian - 2010

experiment and introduce another treatment with exogenously determined contract types. Like FHZ we find reference point effects …

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