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The Effect of a Constant or a Declining Discount Rate on Optimal Investment Timing [PDF]

This paper shows that exponential discounting may have anadvancing effect on the timing of investment, not captured bysensitivity analysis carried out for the complete range of instantaneous discount rates implicit in declining discounting.Declining ...
Gonzalo Edwards
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An Increasing Misalignment Between Crop Distribution and Environmental Resources Under Climate Change in China

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Climate change reshapes the spatial alignment between crop production and environmental resources. Using multi‐source data and a crop model, integrated climatic, water, and soil endowments for maize and wheat are quantified and compared with harvest distributions.
Zheng'e Su, Zhentao Zhang, Jin Zhao, Xia Liang, Chuang Zhao, Zhijuan Liu, Minghao Zhuang, Jing Sun, Bo Lu, Ke Liu, Johannes W. M. Pullens, Matthew T. Harrison, Deli Chen, Xiaoguang Yang   +13 more
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Research on the Value-Added Pathways of Government-Invested EPC Projects Based on DEMATEL–TAISM–MICMAC

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Government-invested Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) projects often encounter challenges, such as ambiguous value-added pathways and undefined key driving mechanisms, which impede efficiency improvements during implementation.
Shikang Liu, Lei Wang, Shenghong Wu
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The Value of Waiting to Invest [PDF]

This paper studies the optimal timing of investment in an irreversible project where the benefits from the project and the investment cost follow continuous-time stochastic processes.
Daniel Siegel, Robert L. McDonald
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Combination Immunotherapy as a Promising Strategy to Overcome Immunotherapy Resistance: From Emergence to Next‐Generation Approaches

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This review examines emerging combination immunotherapy strategies tailored to distinct tumor microenvironments and highlights next‐generation biomarkers that guide response prediction and treatment personalization. It integrates lessons from unsuccessful trials, addresses toxicity challenges, and outlines approaches for early biomarker discovery and ...
Asmita Pandey, Sudhir Kumar Rai, Li Ma, Lauren Higa, Vedbar Khadka, Hua Yang, Youping Deng   +6 more
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An Introduction to International Factoring & Project Finance [PDF]

This work consists of two essays on law and finance in international trade. It addresses the means of raising funds for investment through receivables financing and project finance.
Glinavos, Ioannis
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Practices of forest exploitation in priority investment projects: Benefits and implications [PDF]

, 2019
The paper discusses the topical issues of investment activities enhancement in the forest sector of the Russian economy by implementing the mechanism of priority investment projects in the field of forest exploitation - economic model of public-private ...
Pryadilina, N. K., Semin A. N., Skvortsov E., Zinovyeva, I. S.   +3 more
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Bioenergy Cropping Reduces the Spatiotemporal Scaling of Soil Bacterial Biodiversity

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Consistent with patterns observed in plant and animal communities, soil bacterial communities exhibit significant species–time–area and phylogenetic–time–area relationships independent of nested structure. Bioenergy cropping significantly reduces the spatiotemporal scaling rates, particularly in sandy loam soils.
Zhencheng Ye, Jialiang Kuang, Colin T. Bates, Arthur Escalas, Daliang Ning, Liyou Wu, Suo Liu, Sihang Deng, Jiesi Lei, Xiangwen Chen, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Malay Saha, Lauren Hale, Gangsheng Wang, Renmao Tian, Ying Fu, Yu Tang, Mary Firestone, Jizhong Zhou, Yunfeng Yang   +19 more
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Protecting the Booroolong Frog in the Namoi Catchment: A Cost-Benefit Analysis [PDF]

The Booroolong frog project in the Namoi Catchment represents an environmental investment to protect the species and around 10.7 kilometres of its habitat in the catchment.
Bennett, Jeffrey W., Greyling, Tertius
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Limited liability in business groups [PDF]

, 2005
We consider a model in which a holding company has to decide whether to finance an investment project in a subsidiary. The project can be financed either through internal capital or through debt.
Ropero Moriones, Eva
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