... Pickup/SUV H OtherNRCAssessmentsof Benefits, Costs, andReadinessofFuelEconomyTechnologies I Results ofOther Major Studies J Probabilities in Estimations ofFuel Consumption BenefitsandCosts ... (EISA) of 2007 requires periodic assessments by the NRCof automobile vehicle fueleconomy technologies, including how such technologies might be used to meet new fueleconomy standards Follow-on NRC ... 485 986 Assessment ofFuelEconomyTechnologies for Light-Duty Vehicles SUMMARY Assessment ofFuelEconomyTechnologies for Light-Duty Vehicles ASSESSMENT OFFUELECONOMYTECHNOLOGIES FOR LIGHT-DUTY...
... aggregate the costsandbenefitsof green buildings Specifically, the bulk of this report reviews and analyzes a large quantity of existing data about the costsand financial benefitsof green buildings ... value of a future stream of financial benefits NPV reflects a stream of current and future benefitsand costs, and results in a value in today’s dollars that represents the present value of an ... compared with other building costs such as the cost of land and infrastructure Therefore, a meaningful assessment of the cost of building green requires a comparison of conventional and green designs...
... Minimum Screening and brief intervention for high risk alcohol use Referral of severe mental illness Targeted provision of condoms and needles and syringes Management of withdrawal andother acute ... Pakistan, and Thailand) Sites were selected by the commissioning agency (UNHCR) based on results of HIV Behavioural Surveillance Studies, reports from UNHCR staff and partners of problem alcohol andother ... use occurs Describe the community’s and service providers’ understanding of: patterns of use, populations and settings most affected by substance use; benefitsand harms associated with their use;...
... the guidance and the help of several individuals who in one way or another contributed and extended their valuable assistance in the preparation and completion of this study First and foremost, ... study, I will look into the costsofandbenefits from building business-government relations with incumbent politicians and bureaucrats, and then I will analyze whether and how businessgovernment ... Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia and Montenegro to the transition economies list (WorldBank, 2002a) Every now and then, IMF, the World Bank and some other economic monitoring organizations add and...
... representatives of the Bank of Japan had a public row with the Ministry of Finance over measures of bank capital and the extent of the non-performing loan problem The general features of banking sector ... episodes of banking sector distress and the characteristics of economies in the lead-up to and aftermath of episodes of banking sector distress This section also presents estimates of the probit ... the profitability of banks and the incentives of bank managers to take on risk in lending operations The special features of banks, combined with particular institutional characteristics of economies,...
... Network Costsand Improve Quality of Service Improving Grade of Service (GOS) While Reducing RF Channels Wireless service providers are adopting new deployment strategies to reduce network costsand ... k A rc h i t e c t u re Additional Benefitsof Simulcast Conclusions Simulcast networks also can substantially reduce required switch and handoff processing and further improve trunking efficiencies ... or more of the total number of RF channels required on a multiple link transport system for a specified amount of user grade of service The percentage reduction depended on the number of radiating...
... origin and evolution of the solar system and the nature and distribution of life, NASA loans astromaterial samples to researchers worldwide To inspire the next generation of explorers and inform ... for loans of astromaterials for classroom examination and study The Curation Office manages the loans and makes lunar and meteorite education disks available to teachers 10 NASA’s Office of Communications ... Agency has named “Ambassadors of Exploration” in recognition of the contributions of the astronauts andother individuals who were part of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs To date, NASA...
... 1999; Betz and others 2000; Edwards and others 2000; Martens 2000; Rogan and others 2000; Sidhu and others 2000; Aulrich and others 2001; Bohme and others 2001; CFSAN/FDA 2002; Cromwell and others ... Yehuda and others 1996; Broughton and others 1997; Landmark and others 1998; Carlson 1999; Christensen and others 1999; Smuts and others 2003) They also possess anticancer properties (Anti and others ... Rosati and others 2000 Fraser and others 2001 Muir and others 2001 Mehta and others 2002 Wheat Glutenins ↑ Caffeic and ferulic acids ↑ High molecular weight subunit genes Wheat gene Barro and others...
... Conditions related to overweight and obesity contribute to high indirect costsof absenteeism and disability pensions and the personal costsof discrimination and poorer physical functioning (4,5) ... introduction of policy-related economic instruments, particularly in the form of taxes and price policies, could reduce food consumption, including of high saturated fat andother energy-dense foods, and ... respectively, were: -0.54 and -0.25 for rice, -0.54 and -0.35 for wheat flour, -0.09 and -0.03 for coarse grains, -0.96 and -0.33 for pork, -0.03 and -0.40 for eggs, and -0.39 and -0.47 for edible...
... determinants of cost are: size of the laboratory, prices of input factors (labour and materials), rate of output (i.e., utilization of fixed laboratory personnel and equipment), quality of input ... median of a sample of observations is a crude measure of the amount of variability (dispersion) in the distribution of the sample It is commonly used to measure the skew of a distribution And it ... number of average prices missing Due to the comparatively small sample size and to reasons of comparability we limited the following presentation and discussion of the single tests to mean and median...
... product of the [5]-ladderane fatty acid Cleavage and internal proton shifts of bonds between C-10 and C-19 and C-13 and C-16 of the [5]-ladderane moiety (designated A) lead to a moiety comprised of ... chromatograms of the TLFs of (A) a 99.5% pure suspension of Candidatus ‘B anammoxidans’ strain Delft after base hydrolysis of the cell material, and (B) a mixed bacterial culture in which 81% of the ... resulted in the removal of some of these components (Fig 6) and the generation of substantial amounts of the ladderane sn-2 mono alkyl glycerol ether 11a and smaller amounts of the regular [iso-C16...
... quantity (of forest land) demanded (pre-1984); q1 = quantity (of forest land) demanded (in 2003); S = supply (of forest land) curve Economic Costsand Benefits of Allocating Forest Land for Industrial ... capture of foreign investment in the development of the related pulp industry, and increases in the production and exports of pulp and paper In fact, however, and when economic costsand benefits ... economic costsof deforestation On the other hand, the conversion of grasslands into tree plantations is not necessarily economically beneficial; grassland areas act as carbon sinks and are also...
... cost of long-term wholesale debt, though it is a smaller share of their total funding Short-term wholesale debt accounts for about one-fifth of banks’ funding, and is priced mainly off 1-month and ... years This has reflected both increases in the costsof some of the components of debt funding as well as the shift towards more expensive sources of debt Deposits Competition for deposits in Australia ... 4) Most of the increase in the major banks’ debt funding costs occurred during 2008 and early 2009, at the peak of the dislocation in markets Since then the major banks’ debt funding costs are...
... Behavior and Furnisher CostsandBenefits b Overall Costs, Benefits, and Satisfaction Of course, the above responses speak to the relative benefits accrued compared to costs, not the magnitudes of costs, ... most of the benefitsof scale are realized) and that other factors influence costs as well Of the five respondents that knew the IT cost impact of reporting, all reported costsof less than 15% of ... cost andbenefitsof payment reporting The respondents were asked, to compare the costsandbenefitsof reporting (in dollar terms) The following responses were returned Table C: Costsand Benefits...
... health costsand lower operations and maintenance costs This paper will focus on two of these benefits: lower energy costs, and health and productivity benefits See for example, “Impacts of Energy ... The financial benefits are in lower energy, waste and water costs, lower environmental and emissions costs, and lower operational and maintenance costsand increased productivity and health Massachusetts ... electricity and gas prices through expanded green construction and building retrofits and reduced energy demand ■ Help cut pollution from fossil fuels (Massachusetts fuel mix includes 28% coal as of 1999...
... components of children and adolescents QOL and well-being This structure allows it to be used for QOL assessments in divers groups of healthy children and adolescents, but also for quality of life assessments ... feasibility and acceptability, and it could provide reliable assessments for group comparisons The next validation steps are to analyze stability of the translation in repeated assessmentsand to ... in terms of using non-continuous data and there is evidence of robustness in the terms of the violation of multivariate normality assumption [17,18] However, Bollen-Stine bootstrap and associated...
... components of children and adolescents QOL and well-being This structure allows it to be used for QOL assessments in divers groups of healthy children and adolescents, but also for quality of life assessments ... feasibility and acceptability, and it could provide reliable assessments for group comparisons The next validation steps are to analyze stability of the translation in repeated assessmentsand to ... in terms of using non-continuous data and there is evidence of robustness in the terms of the violation of multivariate normality assumption [17,18] However, Bollen-Stine bootstrap and associated...
... on propaganda of the roles and functions of the forest, the right and responsibilities of the forest owner, the responsibilities of the authorities at all level on forest and forest land Establishing ... forest and forest land allocated to households: Mainly are forests generated after slash and burn covered by generated trees, with low volume and low economic value Production forest and forest land ... management plans developed for period of to 10 years, based on the potential of the forest plot, need and capacity of households Households participating and caring out the sustainable forest...