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Compensation contracts including incentive instruments not only provide executives with positive incentives to increase shareholder wealth, but also create a negative value-dilution effect for existing shareholders. This study investigates this dilemma by conducting a benefit-cost analysis under...
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Interest in employing gaseous fuels to internal combustion (IC) engines whether for stationary or mobile automotive applications has gained importance because of the economical, sustainable and environmental technical features associated with their usage. However, the incidence of preignition...
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This paper investigates how family size affects children’s human capital, comparing Italy and France. We tested the dilution effect in these countries, starting with the assumption that the higher the number of siblings, the fewer parental resources are available for each child, and the...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of a shift in brand architecture strategy on corporate brand equity. The change is from a house of brands to a branded house approach in which the corporate brand is prominent. The study proposes two alternative approaches in order to...
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nutrients (total nitrogen and total phosphorous) in the Shenandoah River. The mean Chl a concentration for 555 nm, 560 nm and ….56. Chemometrics analysis show that total phosphorous, nitrogen and turbidity can be predicted between 450 to 555nm and 670 to 710 nm … used to develop predictive models to determine sensitive spectral variables for nitrogen, phosphorous, Chl-a, and CDOM. …
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winegrowrs' knowledge levels, problem awareness and management changes regarding nitrogen. The study's core was a standardized …
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for constructing PIOTs from process engineering models. The method was tested on a PIOT for nitrogen with a subset of … sectors in Illinois (USA) and compared with a nitrogen PIOT developed earlier for the same time period, finding equal or …
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including changes in (i) rates of nitrogen application, (ii) supplementary irrigation and (iii) new cultivar (with higher … traditional cultivars and average nitrogen application rates of <10 kg N ha-1. The model results showed that the combined changes …
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nitrogen fertilization rate, b) adjustment of sowing date, c) implementation of new cultivars, and d) supplementary irrigation … global datasets at 0.5ê x 0.5ê spatial resolution. The nitrogen and cultivar packages were tested for all six countries … improvements across the packages were obtained by increase in nitrogen application rate, assuming that other nutrients like …
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Nitrogen (for initial cooldown of the cryogenics plant). There is no inclusion of any contingency or management reserve. If the …
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