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Investment under Uncertainty: Testing the Options Model with Professional Traders [PDF]

open access: yes
An important class of investment decisions is characterized by unrecoverable sunk costs, resolution of uncertainty through time, and the ability to invest in the future as an alternative to investing today.
Michael S. Haigh, John A. List
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Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
wiley   +1 more source

A Real Options Model for CCUS Investment: CO2 Hydrogenation to Methanol in a Chinese Integrated Refining–Chemical Plant

open access: yesEnergies
The scaling up of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) deployment is constrained by multiple factors, including technological immaturity, high capital expenditures, and extended investment return periods.
Ruirui Fang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

2023 Foreign Investment Ombudsman Annual Report

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Abbreviations The Foreign Investment Ombudsman System and the Grievance Settlement Body Introduction of the Foreign Investment Ombudsman System Foreign Investment Ombudsman Annual Highlights 2023 Ⅰ.

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Developing a frame of reference for ex-ante IT/IS investment evaluation

open access: yes, 2001
Investment appraisal techniques are an integral part of many traditional capital budgeting processes. However, the adoption of Information Systems (IS) and the development of resulting infrastructures are being increasingly viewed on the basis of ...
Irani, Z, Love, PED
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Two Routes to Land: Genomic Underpinnings of Parallel Aerial Egg Deposition in Aquatic Old‐World Pila and New‐World Pomacea (Ampullariidae)

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Comparative genomics of Gondwana‐diverged Pila and Pomacea reveals parallel evolution of aerial oviposition. Convergent chromosomal rearrangements reshape regulatory landscapes within topologically associating domains. Lineage‐specific gene family expansions and viral‐derived perivitelline proteins (PV1) underpin desiccation resistance.
Yufei Zhou   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

ML Workflows for Screening Degradation‐Relevant Properties of Forever Chemicals

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
The environmental persistence of per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) necessitates efficient remediation strategies. This study presents physics‐informed machine learning workflows that accurately predict critical degradation properties, including bond dissociation energies and polarizability.
Pranoy Ray   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

To Invest Or Not Invest? : Factors affecting IT investment decisions

open access: yes, 2009
  Introduction Many studies indicate that there are numerous factors that promote or hamper the adoption of IT applications and are a prime concern for many researchers and practitioners (Abrahamson, 1991). Two main factors which need to be examined closely when making decisions about IT investments are the internal and external factors.
Tarabay, Raymond, Eigbire, Raphael
openaire   +1 more source

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