Using social return on investment analysis to calculate the social impact of modified vehicles for people with disability. [PDF]
Aust Occup Ther J, 2020 Introduction Returning to driving is often a goal for people with acquired disabilities. Vehicle modifications make it possible for people with both acquired and lifelong disabilities to drive yet can be costly.
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Enhanced Representative Days and System States Modeling for Energy Storage Investment Analysis [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2018 This paper analyzes different models for evaluating investments in energy storage systems (ESS) in power systems with high penetration of renewable energy sources.
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Social return on investment analysis of an urban greenway
Cities & Health, 2020 Evidence supports the multi-functional nature of urban green space, and so economic evaluations should have a broad lens in order to capture their full impact. Given the evidence for a range of health, wellbeing, social and environmental benefits of such
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The analysis of investment into industries based on portfolio managers
Acta Montanistica Slovaca, 2021 The main goal of each investor when investing capital is to recover funds. The current market brings unlimited opportunities in creating an investment strategy.
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Investment Analysis of Waste Heat Recovery System Installations on Ships’ Engines
, 2020 This study considers incentive provisions for investment decisions related to waste heat recovery system (WHRS) installations on ships to reduce CO2 emissions and improve ships’ engine efficiency.
E. Olaniyi, G. Prause
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Invest or Exit? Optimal Decisions in the Face of a Declining Profit Stream [PDF]
Operations Research, 58(3), 638-649 (2010), 2019 Even in the face of deteriorating and highly volatile demand, firms often invest in, rather than discard, aging technologies. In order to study this phenomenon, we model the firm's profit stream as a Brownian motion with negative drift. At each point in time, the firm can continue operations, or it can stop and exit the project. In addition, there is a
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Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis
Journal of Political Economy, 1962 SOME activities primarily affect future well-being, while others have their main impact in the present. Dining is an example of the latter, while purchase of a car exemplifies the former. Both earnings and consumption can be affected: on-the-job training
G. Becker
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Animal Production Science, 2019 Context Advances in automated oestrus detection have made this an attractive technology to help reduce manual oestrus detection labour on dairy farms. Aims A decision-support tool was created to help farmers estimate the investment outcome of adopting ...
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Analisis de la incidencia de la inversion extranjera directa y la inversion nacional, en el crecimiento economico de Chile [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The research aims to assess the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and domestic investment on Chile's economic growth. By elucidating the relationship between FDI and domestic investment, the study contributes valuable insights for economic policy formulation and future investments. The findings hold significance in shaping Chile's international
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Minimal Investment Risk of Portfolio Optimization Problem with Budget and Investment Concentration Constraints [PDF]
, 2016 In the present paper, the minimal investment risk for a portfolio optimization problem with imposed budget and investment concentration constraints is considered using replica analysis. Since the minimal investment risk is influenced by the investment concentration constraint (as well as the budget constraint), it is intuitive that the minimal ...
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