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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how 14 sustainable consumption and production (SCP) factors interact across four service categories—Mass Service, Professional Service, Service Factory, and Service Shop—using interpretive structural modeling (ISM). ISM enables the identification and hierarchical classification of interdependencies among SCP factors in ...
Amanda Duarte Feitosa +4 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainable livestock manure management sits at the nexus of climate, nutrient circularity and water quality. This review explores how artificial intelligence (AI) and digital platforms are used across four management stages, that is, treatment, storage, valorisation and distribution, and figures out where integration fails to deliver ...
Zhan Shi +3 more
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Determination of payback periods for photovoltaic systems in domestic properties [PDF]
, 2012 The paper reports on the two year performance of photovoltaic (PV) systems which were installed on 23 new build properties in South Yorkshire, UK, and the impact of the feed-in-tariff on payback periods. The majority of the properties (17 No.) were fitted with a 3.02 kiloWatt peak (kWp) photovoltaic system, designed to supply, on average, up to 2400 ...
O'Flaherty, Fin +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study empirically examines the structural determinants of energy independence (EIND) in Türkiye over the period 1990–2023, with a particular focus on Total Factor Productivity (TFP), Energy Efficiency R&D Effectiveness (EERDE), and Renewable Energy R&D Effectiveness (RENRDE). Grounded in Endogenous Growth Theory and the Porter Hypothesis,
Mustafa Naimoglu, Oktay Özkan
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COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS FOR THE MINNESOTA RAIL SERVICE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM METHODOLOGY AND A CASE STUDY [PDF]
The objective of this study is to develop a methodology for evaluating the economic feasibility of participating in the Minnesota Rail Service Improvement Program by eligible individuals or groups.Public Economics,
Easter, K. William +3 more
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
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A rationale for the payback criterion [PDF]
Textbooks on financial management have emphasized the shortcomings of the payback criterion for decades. However, empirical evidence suggests that in actual capital budgeting procedures the payback method is used quite regularly.
Jahnke, Hermann, Simons, Dirk
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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ANALISIS KELAYAKAN EKONOMI RENCANA PENAMBANGAN BATUBARA PIT B3 PT XYZ [PDF]
, 2016 Analisis kelayakan investasi usaha pertambangan bertujuan untuk mengetahui kelayakan usaha dan kemampuan investasi dalam memberikan keuntungan terhadap modal yang ditanam dalam perusahaan pertambangan batubara.
Nonong Rizki Arifah
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Payback periods for photovoltaics integrated in nonbuilding structures
, 2019 In order to provide Sweden and other countries across the globe with energy in a long-term and sustainable manner that accounts for our global environmental goals, we need to adopt more sources of renewable energy. Solar panels and other forms of solar power is one of these renewable energy sources that has a lot of potential and the technology has ...
Olsson, Styrbjörn, Candler, Simon
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