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Cost Structure of the Portuguese Water Industry: a Cubic Cost Function Application [PDF]
The main scope of this paper is to confirm, or otherwise, the idea usually presented in national reports and strategic programmes for the water sector that the Portuguese water market is a natural monopoly.
Adelino Fortunato +2 more
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Bimetallic Nanoparticles as Cocatalysts for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Recent developments have introduced bimetallic nanoparticles as effective cocatalysts for photocatalytic systems. This review explores the rapidly expanding research on bimetallic cocatalysts for photocatalytic production of hydrogen, emphasizing the creation of carrier‐selective contacts, localized surface plasmon resonance effects, methodologies for ...
Yufen Chen +4 more
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Economies of scale and technological development in securities depository and settlement systems [PDF]
The paper investigates the existence and extent of economies of scale in depository and settlement systems. Evidence from 16 settlement institutions across different regions for the years 1993–2000 indicates the existence of significant economies of ...
Malkamäki, Markku +2 more
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Measuring the efficiency of Japanese securities firms
Journal of Economic StructuresSince Japan’s recent financial liberalization, online securities transactions have proliferated, and changes have been promoted in the securities industry’s structure.
Kozo Harimaya, Eiji Okuyama
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THE MARGINAL COST OF AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES [PDF]
agri-environmental services, bio-economic modelling, economies of scale and scope, Environmental Economics and Policy, Land Economics/Use, Research Methods/ Statistical Methods, Q18, Q57, Q58,
Sauer, Johannes, Wossink, Ada
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.The study presents biodegradable and recyclable mixed‐matrix membranes (MMMs), hydrogels, and cryogels using luminescent nanoscale metal‐organic frameworks (nMOFs) and biopolymers. These bio‐nMOF‐MMMs combine europium‐based nMOFs as probes for the status of the materials with the biopolymers agar and gelatine and present alternatives to conventional ...
Moritz Maxeiner +4 more
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Economies of scale and scope in Macau’s banking sector [PDF]
Banks and Bank Systems, 2012 Maggie X. Fu, Emily U. Sio
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Horizontal Differentiation and the survival of Train and Coach modes in medium range passenger transport, a welfare analysis comprising economies of scope and scale [PDF]
The Portuguese transport system as a whole suffers from the dominance of personal transportation, this being generally less efficient. Coaches and trains struggle to stay in the business.
Adelino Fortunato, Daniel Murta
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Laser‐Induced Graphene from Waste Almond Shells
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Almond shells, an abundant agricultural by‐product, are repurposed to create a fully bioderived almond shell/chitosan composite (ASC) degradable in soil. ASC is converted into laser‐induced graphene (LIG) by laser scribing and proposed as a substrate for transient electronics.
Yulia Steksova +9 more
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Economic Freedom and the Advantages of Backwardness [PDF]
, 2007 According to econometric studies, economic freedom and its improvement increase growth rates. But their effects are dominated by the effects of the level of economic development and human capital.
Erich Weede
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