... find that the simple tools of economics—like the idea of opportunity costs—help them anticipate what products will be profitable for them to produce in the future. The growth ofthe two-worker ... production of consumer goods. The opportunity cost ofthe additional capital is the forgone production of consumer goods. The fact that scarcity exists is illustrated by the negative slope ofthe ... on an old idea, but at the root of it all is entrepreneurship, which some see as the core ofthe free enterprise system. At the heart ofthe debate about the potential of free enterprise in...
... children. Yet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength ... Respondent B uses the full range. As long as they employ the same personal interpretation ofthe scale to report the intensity of their positive and negative emotions, the determination of which emotion ... that the U- index for a group is the equally weighted U- index for the individuals in the group. The group U- index can be interpreted as the average proportion of time that members ofthe group...
... the vc values ofthe proposed method are generally lower than those ofthe Taylor methodthe pδ values ofthe proposed method are generally higher than those ofthe Taylor method. The ... evaluating the coefficient of consolidation and end of primary settlement based on a direct solution ofthe Terzaghi theory. This new method determines the coefficient of consolidation utilizing the ... and (f) the existing methods may involve additional assumptions to those ofthe Terzaghi theory. In this paper, a new method is proposed in order to improve the estimation ofthe end of primary...
... because of increase financial risk, exactly offset each other. This leavesone net advantages: the tax relief on debt interest. Behind the use of WACC (the average of the costs of these sources of ... (nettle@Africa)Evaluation the PP. it is not a true measure ofthe profitability of an investment. Rather, itsimply tells the manager how many years will be required to recover the original7 I-Analysis ofthe reasons ... (accoutingformanagement.com)There are three effects arising directly from an increase in corporate gearing. Two of these, the advantage of debt being ‘cheaper’ than equity and the disadvantage ofthe cost of equity...
... in the Ganga via reduction ofthe amount of untreated raw sewage deposited therein through the improvement ofthe capacity and technology ofthe sewage treatment plants (STPs), and (ii) whether ... goods, hypothetical, stated preference methods were preferred to capture the value of these. Among the stated preference methods the choice experiment method was deemed preferable to the contingent ... considered, and the vectors of coefficients 1 to n are attached to the vector of attributes (Z). The assumptions about the distribution of error terms implicit in the use ofthe CLM impose...
... choose to absorption costing method, variable method and ABC costing methods and how could these methods can help them improve their performance in the eyes of Board of directors as well as investors. ... absorption costing method to increase the number ofthe ending inventories as well as the profit ofthe organizations as mentioned above. This not only can be considered as a strategy ofthe new comers ... especially ofthe small company, absorption costing might be the best costing method while it can deal with the conflicts of interests between them and their companies. Other managers think that if they...
... of SiC, the emissionpeak forb-SiC nanowires is obviously shifted to the blue. The emergence ofthe peak with a blueshift is due to the existence of oxygen defects in the amorphous layer, the ... by the Creative ResearchGroup of National Science Foundation of China (Grant no.50721003), the Foundation ofthe Ministry of Education of Chinafor Returned Scholars (Grant no. 2005383) and the ... carbon directly because of using AAOtemplate, and the template made the concentration ofthe SiOvapor increase. Thus, overgrowth ofthe nanowires becamepossible by using AAO template. The X-ray...
... mgis the mass ofthe gas in the bulb; cpg, the specific heat ofthe gas; mw,themass of the wall ofthe bulb; cpw, the specific heat ofthe wall; hf, the heat transfer coefficientbetween the ... hpis the heat transfer coefficient from the metallic part to the gas; Ap, the surfacearea ofthe metallic part in contact with the gas; hg, the heat transfer coefficient of the gas to the wall; ... Ag, the surface area ofthe gas in contact with the wall; hw, the heattransfer coefficient from the wall to the atmosphere; Aw, the wall area in contact with the atmosphere; pand w, the...
... twogroups of people, the communicator, or rhetor, and the audience. Celie, the main character ofthe movie, shows the impact of rhetoric inalmost every aspect of her life. The effects of rhetoric ... relate to each other. The movie The Color Purpleis about relationships. Therefore rhetoric plays a veryimportant role in thismovie. Throughout The Color Purple the impact of rhetoric can beseen ... TheDirect and Indirect Impact of RhetoricIn the world that we live in, rhetoric alwaysaffects and is apart of everything that happens. Rhetoric, in...
... the catalytic domainmay be liberated into the cytoplasm, where the sub-strates, Ga proteins, reside. Thus, the N-terminalregion of PMT may hamper the action ofthe cata-lytic C-PMT. (b) The ... activity The GaqQ209E antibodies also detected the deamida-tion ofthe endogenous Ga caused by PMT inSwiss3T3 cells (Fig. 4C), although the subtype of Gacould not be identified. On the basis ofthe ... Isolation of GaqQ209E-specific antibodies. (A) Alignment of amino acid sequences ofthe switch 2 region in the a subunits of mouseheterotrimeric GTPases byCLUSTALW. Sequences of synthetic oligopeptides...
... the locations ofthe sensors. The numerical simulation is applied to a base excited cantilever beam to illustrate the algorithm. The effects ofthe time delay and the location of sensor are ... Acknowledgements. The paper is based on the talk given at the Conference on Mathematics, Mechanics, and Informatics, Hanoi, 7/10/2006, on the occasion of 50th Anniversary of Department of Mathematics, ... shapes ofthe beam. To see more clearly, we plot the history ofthe error term. Since the measurement matrix C has 2 rows, the error term E(t) in (12) is a 2-dimensional vector. The histories of...
... term. The magnitude ofthe error term depends on the number and the locations ofthe sensors. The numerical simulation is applied to a base excited cantilever beam to illustrate the algorithm. The ... algorithm is the requirement ofthe knowledge of entire state vector x(t). 4. Combination ofthe identification algorithm and the modal superposition method The incomplete measurement leads to the incomplete ... Journal of Science, Mathematics - Physics 23 (2007) 131-138 136 Fig. 3. The 1st, 3rd and 5th mode shapes ofthe beam. To see more clearly, we plot the history ofthe error term. Since the measurement...
... invalidating the design. 80 CHAPTER 7. RAY TRACING AND ROTATIONSã(, )z eects a rotation ofthe coordinate system such that the new direction cosinesare given by the angles ofthe scatter. The result of ... Monte Carlo is often seen as a “competitor” toother methods of macroscopic calculation, which we will call deterministic and/or analyticmethods. Although the proponents of either method sometimes ... consider three kinds of sampling techniques, thedirect approach, the rejection tech-nique and the mixed method that combines the two. Then, we we go through a smallcatalogue of examples.35 12...
... good job of accommodating all ofthe pullbacks from the start of the move through the dip to 31 at a cumulative volume of about 3.3. (The subsequent penetrations of the TOPFINDER curve as the burnout ... demonstrations of its power. The next steps in the program would then beto outline the psychological principles underlying the mathematical structure ofthe algorithm, followed by the display ofthe algorithm ... miss the next article!12 The truly new insights provided by the Midas method are twofold. The first is the heretofore unrecognizedhierarchal structure of support/ resistance levels and their...