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Introduction Among the many requirements of establishing community health, a healthy urban environment stands out as significant one. A healthy urban environment constantly changes and improves community well-being and expands community resources. The promotion efforts for such an environment,...
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information communication technology (ICT) tools including geographic information systems (GIS) that provide the mechanisms to … that has been adopted to develop an online GIS-based DSS for health planners. The literature states that the overall aim of … minimizing judgmental biases. For this reason, the paper examines the effectiveness and impact of an innovative online GIS …
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relative performance in terms of these different indices and identify the nature of transport disadvantage. GIS was used to …
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One of the factors affecting the success or otherwise of the procurement process is the quality of its financial management. In many cases, particularly in the early stages of a project, this is dependent on the accuracy of forecasts of future costs. For risk management purposes, what is most...
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Forecasting category or industry sales is a vital component of a company’s planning and control activities. Sales for … varying model significantly outperformed previous models both in terms of fitting and forecasting the sales data. …
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Numerous econometric models have been proposed for forecasting property market performance, but limited success has …
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In many product categories of durable goods such as TV, PC, and DVD player, the largest component of sales is generated by consumers replacing existing units. Aggregate sales models proposed by diffusion of innovation researchers for the replacement component of sales have incorporated several...
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in stock forecasting. Neural networks are viewed as one of the more suitable techniques. In this study, an experiment on … the forecasting of the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) was conducted by using feedforward backpropagation neural networks … neural network models in the forecasting of SET. Several global and local factors influencing the Thai stock market were used …
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Risk aversion is a key element of utility maximizing hedge strategies; however, it has typically been assigned an arbitrary value in the literature. This paper instead applies a GARCH-in-Mean (GARCH-M) model to estimate a time-varying measure of risk aversion that is based on the observed risk...
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forecasting methods employ cumulative production volume instead of time as the crucial explanatory variable, following Wright … work goes beyond identifying the most relevant factors in cost innovation. Our goal is to provide practical forecasting … information technology, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 73 (2006) 1061-1083. H. Koh, C.L. Magee, A functional approach …
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