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Economic efficiency assessment of investment [PDF]
Anali Ekonomskog fakulteta u Subotici, 2018 The aim of the paper is to determine economic reasonableness of investments based on several methods of capital budgeting. The research was conducted on the example of purchasing 10 hectares of land that will be used for agricultural production of corn ...
Vlaović-Begović Sanja +2 more
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Contrasting roles of school and public libraries in lower primary pupils' reading
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Libraries represent an important institutional component of children's reading socialisation, yet their role is often treated as uniform despite substantial differences between school and public libraries. This study examines how visits to school and public libraries relate to pupils' reading attitudes, practices and self‐assessed reading ...
Kateřina Balcarová, Jiří Balcar
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Newly established international branch campuses (IBCs) commence operations without a student body, and even after several years, many institutions fail to grow beyond 500 students. Despite having unique strategic needs, small IBCs are largely overlooked in the higher education literature.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
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Otherwise engaged? Learning from non‐participation in research with care‐experienced students
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores what can be learned when educational research “fails.” Drawing on a Welland Trust–funded project in the North East of England that aimed to support care‐experienced students transitioning from further to higher education, we reflect on why, despite sustained effort, there was a lack of engagement.
Lynette Harland Shotton +3 more
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Pectinase‐Based Bioprocesses for Circular Bioeconomy and Sustainable Industrial Development
Biotechnology and Bioengineering, EarlyView.This picture demonstrates a unified strategy for sustainable pectinase production, focusing on microbial bioproduction, innovative strategies in enzyme engineering (Protein engineering, rational enzyme design, directed evolution and heterologous expression) and various applications in industry, including food, textiles, pulp and paper, agriculture and ...
Nisha Sharma +6 more
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Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Semelparity, the reproductive strategy of reproducing once, is widespread but uncommon in animals. Classes of models to explain the evolution of semelparity are based either on age structure and mortality schedules – demographic models in which high post‐reproductive mortality risk favours high reproductive effort and semelparity results from ...
Diana O. Fisher +1 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino +2 more
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