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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe +2 more
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Earned value analysis - a proven and evolving methodology
Annals of "Dunărea de Jos" University of Galaţi: Fascicle XI Shipbuilding, 2017 The main purpose of this article is to point out of this project management approach by presenting the main lines of this project management technique: basic concepts, modern formulations and details of some more advanced concepts that arouse interest ...
Aurel – Dan Maimon
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Forecasting Project Performance : Testing Earned Value Management and Earned Schedule metrics using real life project data [PDF]
, 2021 Projects in the construction industry struggle to meet set goals. This is especially true in long term projects where distress is often noticed too late in project completion.
Sarjos, Lauri
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Testing the Marketing Performance of German Wheat Farmers
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyses the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Germany. Wheat sales data from 465 individual farms over a 12‐year period are used to test against different market benchmarks. Market benchmarks are constructed by simulating passive trading agents using regional wheat prices.
Franziska Potts, Jens‐Peter Loy
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The application of earned value management in event project management industry [PDF]
, 2014 This thesis is aimed to study on the application of earned value management in event project management industry. Earned value management is commonly exercised to monitor and coordinate the status of a project and forecast the future performance through ...
Xin Hao, Yeoh
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Evaluation of Earned Value Management-Based Cost Estimation via Machine Learning
BuildingsAccurate estimation of construction costs is of foremost importance in construction management processes. Considering the changes and unexpected situations, cost estimations should be revised during the construction process.
Gamze Yalçın +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the broad focus on necessity‐ and opportunity‐driven entrepreneurship in research and policy, the entrepreneurial dichotomy within the agribusiness context has not been adequately addressed. This study contributes to closing this knowledge gap by examining youth's perceptions of agribusiness through the lens of the push‐pull motivation
Cool Dady Mangole +6 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores Swedish consumers' protein preferences by estimating the willingness‐to‐pay (WTP) for minced meat and plant‐based proteins in pasta sauce from an in‐store experiment (n = 206) and an online discrete choice experiment (n = 517). On average, the WTP was highest for minced meat.
Emilia Mattsson +3 more
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Forecasting project schedule performance using probabilistic and deterministic models
HBRC Journal, 2014 Earned value management (EVM) was originally developed for cost management and has not widely been used for forecasting project duration. In addition, EVM based formulas for cost or schedule forecasting are still deterministic and do not provide any ...
S.A. Abdel Azeem +2 more
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