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Agronomy, 2021 Olive leaves are still considered waste in the oil industry; however, the leaves have a content of oleuropein and other bioactive compounds that gives them great potential to be transformed into by-products. The most appropriate moment along an agronomic
María Esther Martínez-Navarro +3 more
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Overconfidence Can Improve an Agent's Relative and Absolute Performance in Contests [PDF]
, 2010 This paper suggests a potential rationale for the recent empirical finding that overconfident agents tend to self-select into more competitive environments (e.g. Dohmen and Falk, forthcoming).
Ludwig, Sandra +2 more
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Where Is American Agriculture in Its "Life Cycle"?
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2003 The increasing globalization of agricultural markets in recent decades appears to be changing the economics of the American production agriculture sector, reducing its economic importance and raising questions about its life cycle. This study contributes
Steven C. Blank
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Design of TID controller based on firefly algorithm for controlling the speed of a D.C. Motor [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 Implementation of tilt integral derivative (TID) controller for controlling the speed of a D.C. Motor using meta heuristic nature inspired algorithm named by firefly algorithm (FA) is proposed in this paper.
Rajput Govind Kumar +6 more
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Gender and Comparative Advantage: Feminist–Heterodox Theorizing about Globalization
Economies, 2019 Heterodox feminist scholars have argued that global trade patterns reflect patterns of competitive advantage—rather than comparative advantage—and that that competitive advantage is gendered.
Shaianne T. Osterreich
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Adam Smith's theory of absolute advantage and the use of doxography in the history of economics
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2012 This article reconstructs Adam Smith's theory of international trade and compares it with the way it is presented in modern textbooks as the theory of absolute advantage. This textbook presentation falls short of Smith's original ideas. I argue that the
Reinhard Schumacher
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The Generalization of the Comparative Advantage Theory
Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, 2017 Economic textbooks relate the principle of comparative advantage using examples of two products and two countries, the 2x2 case. We shall suggest an approach describing any finite number of products m and countries n, the mxn case, where m>2, n>2 ...
Leszek Jasiński
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Innovation in the Era of IoT and Industry 5.0: Absolute Innovation Management (AIM) Framework
Information, 2020 In the modern business environment, characterized by rapid technological advancements and globalization, abetted by IoT and Industry 5.0 phenomenon, innovation is indispensable for competitive advantage and economic growth.
Farhan Aslam +3 more
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A Rehabilitation of Absolute Advantage
Journal of Political Economy, 1985 This paper considers the question of how optimal assignments depend on the endowed traits of economic agents. Its most useful point is that the absolute levels of these traits, in conjunction with technology, always determine the structure of efficient allocations.
MacDonald, Glenn M, Markusen, James R
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Romanian Business Environment in the Context of Economic Competitiveness Based on Knowledge [PDF]
Risk in Contemporary Economy, 2012 The changes of production factors priorities affect more and more the evolution of global economy, requiring reorientation of development policies both at company level and at national economies level to adapt to the phenomenon called: “the new economy ...
Ion STEGAROIU, Gabriel CROITORU
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