Can smallholder farmers meet the financial costs of irrigation services? A case study on economic efficiency and social equity in South Africa [PDF]
, 2008 Considering water as an economic good consists of, among other requisites, properly assessing the cost incurred by supplying and managing the resource, and the required infrastructure thereof. This paper investigates and assesses the full financial costs
Geyser, M., Perret, Sylvain
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Evolution: Complexity, uncertainty and innovation [PDF]
, 2014 Complexity science provides a general mathematical basis for evolutionary thinking. It makes us face the inherent, irreducible nature of uncertainty and the limits to knowledge and prediction.
C Rose-Anderssen +25 more
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Possible physical universes [PDF]
, 2005 The purpose of this paper is to discuss the various types of physical universe which could exist according to modern mathematical physics. The paper begins with an introduction that approaches the question from the viewpoint of ontic structural realism ...
McCabe, Gordon
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What's the 'big deal', and why is it bad deal for universities? [PDF]
, 2004 At first sight the “big (or all-you-can-eat) deal” seems excellent value for libraries and their users, and represents the shining possibilities of the electronic age.
Ball, David
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A method for predicting the rate and effect of approach to the stall of a microlight aeroplane [PDF]
, 2006 The stall and immediately post-stall behaviour of a microlight aeroplane are shown to be a function of the deceleration rate prior to the stall; therefore, it is necessary to use a representative deceleration rate when determining the acceptability of ...
Gratton, GB
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A Note on the (Mis)Use of National Accounts for Estimation of Household Final Consumption Expenditures for Poverty Measures [PDF]
, 2009 This chapter addresses the question whether the national accounts concept of final household consumption (expenditures) can be used to supplement household survey data for the purpose of poverty measures.
Havinga, Ivo, Kamanou, Gisele, Vu, Viet
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Higher education and the public, private and non-profit sectors: Equal partners in promoting regional economic development [PDF]
, 2003 Institutions of higher education throughout the world are increasingly aware of the importance of working more systematically and productively with community and business leaders in order to create better local economies and, ultimately, better societies.
Hughey, Aaron W
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Employing dynamic fuzzy membership functions to assess environmental performance in the supplier selection process [PDF]
, 2006 The proposed system illustrates that logic fuzzy can be used to aid management in assessing a supplier's environmental performance in the supplier selection process.
Glackin, C. +4 more
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