... NPV calculations, payback period calculations begin at year one not year zero and shorter DPBP are usually favorable 2.3 The adjusted internal rate of return The adjusted internal rate of return ... than in Africa, with Japan, USA and China entering the market recently The PV market has not grown to expected levels in South Africa other than a few rural or far off-grid solar home system applications ... integrated photovoltaics, a technoeconomic assessment was carried out The capital cost of the BIPV system was found to be ZAR 52 63158/kWp and the cost per square meter of roof area was ZAR10...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10
... The latter has the additional attributes of being available anywhere, at anytime and on any device If it was only a simple as a mouse-trap The complication is that for most customers they already ... satisfaction A proven change agent, capable of orchestrating transformative business strategy Champions innovation with a focus on developing flexible, scalable solutions for customer and organisational ... experience across government, communications and media, and finance industries World class financial, relationship and commercial management of IT sourcing relationships Respected leader in highly-matrixed...
Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 02:20
Measuring the Economic Value of a City Park System docx
... by an average of $250 a year McKinley Park, Sacramento PARK VALUE IN ACTION Promoting Human Health in Sacramento Sacramento has 5,141 acres of parks that provide a multitude of ways to stay healthy ... green space in parks First, land cover data are obtained through analysis of aerial photographs This reveals forested as well as open grassy areas and also water surface; it also reveals impervious ... Philadelphia Philadelphia parks have support galore In fact, there are more than 100 “friends of parks” organizations Two of them, the Philadelphia Parks Alliance and Philadelphia Green, operate...
Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 08:20
Economic Evaluation Of A Warehouse Investment In Central Europe Case Study At Nokian Heavy Tyres Ltd.
... room of expansion Tax system and regulations Local investment incentives and tax allowances Quality and variety of transportation carriers, highway access Public warehouse Availability and proximity ... Insurance is paid for stock and equipment based on annual agreement with an insurance company Facility is rented on annual basis and security arrangements, maintenance and repair of the facility ... motor carrier terminals Availability of local cartage Facility characteristics Warehouse services Other companies using the facility Availability of computer services and communications Type and...
Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2016, 20:34
The Economic Consequences of a War with Iraq
... 148 0.000% Civil War Union Confederate Combined Spanish-American War Table American Casualties from Major American Wars Source: Al Nofi, Statistical Summary: America’s Major Wars at http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/other/stats/warcost.htm ... International Peace no 20, October 2002 34 World Bank, “Afghanistan: World Bank Approach Paper,” November 2001, available at lnweb18.worldbank.org/SAR/sa.nsf/Attachments/ az/$File/afgApproach.pdf 23 A ... population at risk, the level of need after the war, and the duration of the assistance One benchmark for estimating the cost of humanitarian assistance was the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina (including...
Ngày tải lên: 09/01/2017, 20:45
4 3 5 the price of a pipeline (social studies)
... untouched beauty of the Alaskan tundra? Top layer of soil, permafrost Dangerous gases are frozen Winters on the Alaskan tundra are long, and summers are short But animals that live there have adapted ... roads, parts of the landscape had to be plowed and graded Part of this landscape includes miles and miles of Alaskan tundra When thawed, this tundra works like a giant system of tiny water channels ... MPACT Has any aspect of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline damaged Alaska’s environment? Have there been any accidents? Has the pipeline been running normally? Let’s take a closer look at one important...
Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2017, 15:38
Economic feasibility analysis of a wind farm in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
... in economical and financial assessing of a wind farm as a manner of validating the indicators of attractiveness and risk of energy projects and analysis of production costs sensitivity analysis ... 5,766,604 Table 15 Comparison in percentage values of calculated parameters in the scenarios Item ICC AARaverage Operating costaverage O&Maverage Debtaverage Taxaverage LRC Dv Source: own elaboration ... financial summary Step - Sensitivity & risk analysis (optional): In this final step, we analyze uncertainty of financial estimates several parameters that can affect the financial viability of...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:59
Inspectors and Teachers perceptions of a good English lesson
Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 10:11
Tài liệu UN Global Compact-Accenture CEO Study A New Era of Sustainability in Consumer Goods pdf
... being embedded across all corporate and functional strategies and business plans People and performance Performance gaps are also apparent with regard to the capabilities and assessment of employees ... complexities of international markets As Jeffrey Swartz, CEO of Timberland, put it, “One huge barrier is the lack of clear standards, targets and policy.” At the same time, executives are also wary of ... concepts of value and performance at the organizational and individual levels • Devise mechanisms to measure both positive and negative impacts on society and articulate value beyond traditional accounting...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 21:20
Tài liệu A NOTE ON MEASURING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION ppt
... that the skill-base approach is particularly useful in the case of the University of Massachusetts at Boston (UMB), since 89% of undergraduates and 82% of graduates remain in Massachusetts after ... only a fraction of their increased income as an economic impact (since only a small percentage of those who stay near the university will so primarily as a result of economic rigidities) Bania and ... traditional economic- base approach He argued that the scope of an economic impact analysis should be expanded to include additions to the skill base of the state; through higher education, a...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20
Tài liệu The high price of pain: the economic impact of persistent pain in Australia pdf
... pain – particularly for Australia • There is a lack of data on chronic post-surgical pain in Australia • There is a lack of data on assessment and management of pain in older people, especially ... recent year for which comparable prevalence data on all diseases are available, chronic pain prevalence was comparable or higher than a number of National Health Priority Areas (NHPAs) NHPA conditions ... Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), which in turn are based on other data sources, such as the Australian Hospital Statistics and Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health data...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20
A POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DICTIONARY OF LATIN AMERICA ppt
... Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, St Christopher ... de Honduras (BANTRAL) Central Bank of Honduras Bank of issue; f 1950 Leadership: Mar a Elena Mondragón (Pres.) Address: Avda Juan Ramón Molina, 7a Avda y la Calle, Apdo 3165, Tegucigalpa Telephone: ... Central del Paraguay Central Bank of Paraguay Sole bank of issue; f 1952 Leadership: Juan Antonio Ortiz Vely (Pres.) Address: Avda Federación Rusa y Avda Sargento Marecos, Casilla 861, Barrio Santo...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 03:20
Changes in the Economic Value of Variable Generation at High Penetration Levels: A Pilot Case Study of California pot
... the day-ahead market and day-ahead predictions of wind power rather than day-ahead prices and actual wind generation Podewils (2011) reports that mid-day day-ahead prices in Germany are decreasing ... nuclear plants, 50 years for coal, natural gas steam plants and geothermal, and 30 years for CT and CCGT plants The technical life of coal and natural gas steam plants is based on an analysis of historical ... curtailed) Figure ES.1: Marginal economic value of variable generation and an annual flat-block of power with increasing penetration of variable generation in 2030 The marginal economic value...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20
Forest Economic and Environmental Accounting: A pilot study of a first implementation by Statistics Sweden docx
... because of a low sample fraction and that some years the effect of the weather are higher Defoliation data should be shown in complementary tables not in balances Defoliation data are only available ... area is artificially regenerated To this should originally naturally regenerated but later beeted area of about 10-15 percent of total area be added The beeting is a result of not approved natural ... year period, since sample errors for annual data can be higher than annual changes ( special for area changes and growth) Defoliation data are not presented in the balances but in complementary...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20
Research " The Market for Higher Education: Economic Analyses of College Choice , Returns , and State Aid Policy A thesis Present " pot
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 03:20
A POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DICTIONARY OF THE MIDDLE EAST potx
... political scene A political and economic dictionary of the middle east 22 Al-Ahbash The Association of Islamic Charitable Projects (Jami’at al-Mashari’ al-Khayriya alIslamiyya), known as al-Ahbash ... Kabol, Kandahar, Kapisa, Khowst, Konar, Kondoz, Laghman, Lowgar, Nangarhar, Nimruz, Nurestan, Oruzgan, Paktia, Paktika, Parvan, Samangan, Sar-e Pol, Takhar, Vardak, and Zabol The population is ... federation Amal An abbreviation of Afwaj al-Muqawma al-Lubnaniya (Lebanese Resistance Detachments or Lebanese Militia); also known as the Amal (‘Hope’) Organization of Lebanon—the acronym means...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 04:20
The economic benefits of publicly funded basic research: a critical review doc
... work of Mansfield and Lee Ž1996 who found that firms close to major centres of academic research have a major advantage over those located at a distance:13 11 Acs et al used a database of innovations ... between academic research and industrial innovation Table is based on a statistical analysis of the Pace survey of European industrial managers ŽArundel et al., 1995., US R & D data, employment patterns ... necessary to ensure that there is a ‘critical mass’ of research activities The literature available has shown that there are considerable differences across areas of research and across countries and...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 06:20
Toward Incentives for Military Transformation - A Review of Economic Models of Compensation doc
... way This factor is practically important to the military, because it wants to ensure that enough highquality workers are available at all grades of the hierarchy because they provide a pool of ... organization must ensure that enough positions are vacated in each grade of the organization each particular year In private-sector organizations, vacancies are created by promotions and through ... structure of payoffs between grades To maintain incentives for performance across the hierarchy, a lower probability of promotion should be accompanied by an increase in the rewards that a particular...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20
THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF ILLEGAL GOODS: THE CASE OF DRUGS doc
... cocaine, marijuana, and heroin are generally much less than one (see Grossman and Chaloupka, 1998, Liccardo Pacula, Grossman, Chaloupka, O' Malley, Johnston, and Farrelly, 2000, and Saffer and Chaloupka, ... than the private value Section compares outputs and prices when a good is legal and taxed with outputs and prices when the good is illegal It shows that a monetary tax on a legal good could cause ... Grossman, Michael and Chaloupka, Frank J., “The Demand for Cocaine by Young Adults: A Rational Addiction Approach,” Journal of Health Economics, 17, No 4, August 1998, 427-474) Harrison, Paige M and...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20
THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF AGEING POPULATIONS (A COMPARISON OF THE EU,US AND JAPAN) ppt
... PERIOD 2000-2050 EU15 Annual Change Average Relative % To Change Baseline US Annual Change Average Relative % To Change Baseline Japan Annual Change Average Relative % To Change Baseline Employment ... PRIVATE SAVINGS BEHAVIOUR Demographic change and private savings behaviour: Crucial to any analysis of the likely economic impact of an ageing population is its impact in terms of saving rates Ageing ... relative to the baseline, by close to ½ a percentage point in the case of the EU and Japan and around a ¼ of a percentage point in the US In absolute terms the EU’s and Japan’s annual average...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:20