Farm Enterprise Analysis: Has It Lost Its Usefulness? [PDF]
Farm enterprise analysis is a term that has traditionally been used to describe the process of determining costs associated with farm business enterprises and enterprise profitability. A key challenge to those who would know their costs has been the lack
Barnard, Freddie L. +5 more
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The Changing Prospects for Building Home Equity An Updated Analysis of Rents and the Price of Housing in 100 Metropolitan Areas [PDF]
, 2008 This report updates CEPR's May 2008 report titled "Ownership, Rental Costs and the Prospects of Building Home Equity: An Analysis of 100 Metropolitan Areas," which compared the ownership and rental costs in 100 major U.S. metropolitan areas and projected
Danilo Pelletiere +2 more
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A Meta-Analysis of the Robustness of Market Size and Labour Cost Determinants of FDI [PDF]
This paper applies a meta-regression analysis to systematically summarise, integrate and synthesise the results of empirical studies that include market size and labour costs as determinants of FDI.
Eric J Pentecost, Simona Rasciute
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Editorial: maintaining open access to high quality publications at no cost to authors
British Journal of Pharmacy, 2017 The inability to access scientific literature freely can be a major obstacle in the advancement of science. Many reputable journals offering optional open access incur a substantial upfront payment to cover their publication costs, and hence many authors
Barbara R Conway, Hamid A Merchant
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The Champions League and the Coase Theorem [PDF]
The Coase Theorem is both one of the simplest and most profound ideas in economics. Coase’s insight was first expressed in print as a theorem by George Stigler, following the publication of the famous article “The Problem of Social Cost” by Nobel ...
Stefan Szymanski
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Publishing Primary Data on the World Wide Web: Opencontext.org and an Open Future for the Past [PDF]
, 2007 More scholars are exploring forms of digital dissemination, including open access (OA) systems where content is made available free of charge. These include peer -reviewed e -journals as well as traditional journals that have an online presence.
Eric C. Kansa
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Publication bias is bad for science if not necessarily scientists
Royal Society Open ScienceIt might seem obvious that the scientific process should not be biased. We strive for reliable inference, and systematically skewing the results of inquiry apparently conflicts with this.
Remco Heesen, Liam Kofi Bright
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Procedures to prevent the occurrence of potentially dangerous situations during the operation of the Mackereth 1-metre mini or short sediment corer [PDF]
, 1998 During the 1950s and 1960s, F.J.H. Mackereth developed and published plans for a series of pneumatic samplers for lake sediments. Unfortunately, as the equipment was continually evolving during ensuing research, no user manuals, beyond the original ...
Allen, Peter, Hilton, John
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The impact on employer operating costs of low cost health insurance including an HIV/treatment benefit: results of a study of five employers in Namibia [PDF]
, 2010 This repository item contains a single issue of the Health and Development Discussion Papers, an informal working paper series that began publishing in 2002 by the Boston University Center for Global Health and Development.
Beukes, Crystal +2 more
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Aspects of the motivation for voluntary disclosures: evidence from the publication of value added statements in an emerging economy [PDF]
, 2001 This paper investigates the motivation for the voluntary disclosure of financial information by companies in their annual financial statements, by examining aspects of the usefulness of the value added statement.
van Staden, C. J.
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