PLOS ONE, 2015 Environmental public goods--including national parks, clean air/water, and ecosystem services--provide substantial benefits on a global scale. These goods have unique characteristics in that they are typically "nonmarket" goods, with values from both use and passive use that accrue to a large number of individuals both in current and future generations.
Mel W Khaw +4 more
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Reducing the delivery lead time in a food distribution SME through the implementation of six sigma methodology [PDF]
, 2009 Purpose – Six sigma is a systematic data driven approach to reduce the defect and improve the quality in any type of business. The purpose of this paper is to present the findings from the application of six sigma in a food service “small to medium sized
Nabhani, Farhad, Shokri, Alireza
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Price as a Measure of Market Value on the Real Estate Market
Real Estate Management and Valuation, 2018 Issues related to the relationship between prices and values of goods have occupied the minds of economists since the beginnings of economic thought. These considerations concern both general issues and the direct, practical dimension of values.
Gaca Radosław
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Improving safety in Greek road tunnels [PDF]
, 2010 Tunnels are regarded as one of the most important infrastructures in Europe, as they may improve the connection of regions and aid economic development through facilitating the transportation of people and goods.
Kazaras, K. +3 more
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Pendekatan Servqual-lean Six Sigma Menggunakan Diagram Kontrol T2 Hotelling Untuk Meningkatkan Kualitas Pelayanan Pendidikan (Studi Kasus Di Jurusan Statistika Universitas Diponegoro) [PDF]
, 2015 Measurement the service of quality has an important role in improving and evaluating the performance of a service process. Measuring the service of quality is not as easy as measuring the goods quality, because the assessment service is subjective ...
Darwati, L. (Lulus) +2 more
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THE IMPACT OF TAXATION ON FIRM’S PERFORMANCE: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON THE CASE OF CEE COUNTRIES [PDF]
Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2016 The performance of the firms is affected by many factors, according to the studies realized in this area. But, of all this factors of influence in this paper we want to focus on a major problem mentioned by all the firms: taxation, and to test its impact
Valentina Diana Rusu, Carmen Toderascu
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Alliances motive and the stock market response: A comparative analysis across industries
Cogent Business & Management, 2019 We analyze the announcement-period returns of 4315 two-party, non-equity alliances undertaken by US-based firms between 1986 and 2015 in 11 industries and find positive returns for all of the 11 samples, with the Drug industry reporting the highest (2.69%
Manish Tewari +3 more
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Non-parametric analysis of the rest-frame UV sizes and morphological
disturbance amongst L* galaxies at 4
, 2016 We present the results of a study investigating the sizes and morphologies of redshift 4 < z < 8 galaxies in the CANDELS GOODS-S, HUDF and HUDF parallel fields.
Curtis-Lake, E. +14 more
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Sickle Cell Disease Is an Inherent Risk for Asthma in a Sibling Comparison Study
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Sickle cell disease (SCD) and asthma share a complex relationship. Although estimates vary, asthma prevalence in children with SCD is believed to be comparable to or higher than the general population. Determining whether SCD confers an increased risk for asthma remains challenging due to overlapping symptoms and the ...
Suhei C. Zuleta De Bernardis +9 more
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THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF THE ORGANIZATION BRAND MANAGEMENT
Сучасний стан наукових досліджень та технологій в промисловості, 2021 The subject matter of research in the article is the development of the concept of "brand", as well as modern approaches to the process of brand formation of the organization. Recent decades the concept of "brand" has become widespread.
Oksana Kononenko
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