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Three essays on U.S. electricity restructuring

Sergici, Sanem I. - 2008

electricity industry has spawned a new wave of mergers, both raising questions and providing opportunities to examine these … mergers. Third chapter of my dissertation investigates the drivers of electric utility mergers consummated between 1992 and … 2004. My results provide support for disturbance theory of mergers, size hypothesis, and inefficient management hypothesis …

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Simultaneous Usage of Methods for the Development of Experimental Competences

Alves, Gustavo; Viegas, Clara; Lima, Natércia; … - In: International Journal of Human Capital and Information … 7 (2016) 1, pp. 48-65

This work reports a didactical implementation addressing the development of students' competences on DC circuits. Teacher' approach focus on the use of simultaneous teaching/learning/assessment resources and methods in order to improve students' abilities of adapting and dealing with available...

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Learning Programming Technique through Visual Programming Application as Learning Media with Fuzzy Rating

Buditjahjanto, I.G.P. Asto; Nurlaela, Luthfiyah; Ekohariadi - In: International Journal of Information and Communication … 13 (2017) 4, pp. 53-73

Programming technique is one of the subjects at Vocational High School in Indonesia. This subject contains theory and application of programming utilizing Visual Programming. Students experience some difficulties to learn textual learning. Therefore, it is necessary to develop media as a tool to...

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Analyzing Marketing Strategies in the Emerging Mobile Communications Market: An Agent-Based Approach

Wang, Weiyang; Ichikawa, Manabu; Deguchi, Hiroshi - In: International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science … 7 (2016) 4, pp. 40-59

As one of the typical emerging markets, China's 3rd generation (3G) mobile communications service is proliferating rapidly recently, and great potentialities are expected in the market. Thus the strategy to improve the share in the emerging 3G service market appears to be an important topic for...

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Attenuation-Based Cable Design for High-Quality Manufacturing

Burstein, Leonid; Bohbot, Asher - In: International Journal of Manufacturing, Materials, and … 7 (2017) 2, pp. 63-81

The original design model for defining the attenuation of manufactured cables was derived and fitted to experimental data. The model relationship connects attenuation with some parameters of cable design and testing: copper wire, aluminum, and insulation thicknesses, cable impedance, test...

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Simulation-based decision support for evaluating operational plans

Schubert, Johan; Moradi, Farshad; Asadi, Hirad; … - In: Operations Research Perspectives 2 (2015), pp. 36-56

In this article, we describe simulation-based decision support techniques for evaluation of operational plans within effects-based planning. Using a decision support tool, developers of operational plans are able to evaluate thousands of alternative plans against possible courses of events and...

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The optimal parameter design for a welding unit of manufacturing industry by Taguchi method and computer simulation

Toghtamish, Arshin - In: Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (JIEM) 9 (2016) 2, pp. 487-504

Purpose: Manufacturing systems include a complicated combination of resources, such as materials, labors, and machines. Hence, when the manufacturing systems are faced with a problem related to the availability of resources it is difficult to identify the root of the problem accurately and...

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An Algorithm for Estimating Multivariate Catastrophe Models: GEMCAT II

Lange, Rense; Oliva, Terence A.; McDade, Sean R. - In: Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics 4 (2000) 3

Following the framework in Oliva et al. 1987, GEMCAT II implements a flexible method to test catastrophe models containing multivariate (i.e., latent) variables while allowing for a priori variable specifications. The system uses an efficient hybrid minimization algorithm combining the Downhill...

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Copula Based Prediction Models: An Application to an Aortic Regurgitation Study

Kumar, Pranesh; Shoukri, Mohamed M. - 2007

Background: An important issue in prediction modeling of multivariate data is the measure of dependence structure. The use of Pearson's correlation as a dependence measure has several pitfalls and hence application of regression prediction models based on this correlation may not be an...

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"A Framework for agent-based computational economics in economic geography"

Schenk, Tom - 2006

Faculty Advisor: David Skidmore, Professor Department of Politics and International Relations, College of Arts and Sciences Drake University. Student editorial board for the Spring 2006 issue include: Teresa Abbey, Brittany Buchholz, Brett Myrick and Jeff Scheiber.

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