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Open-access research on money, enterprise, wellbeing and science — 47 papers, free to read at the publisher.
Improving Income from Coconut Cultivation through Farm Level Value Addition – An Analysis
P. Anithakumari · 2012-10 · CORD
Coconut cultivation in India is mostly in small and marginal land holdings. Farm level coconut processing for value addition is one of the options for risk reduction and improving the income from such holdings. This study was conducted during 2009-10 with the objectives of analyzing the profile of farm level processors as well as the constraints faced by those who have adopted minimal processing at the farm-household…
INVESTMENTS FOR A SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FUTURE
Corina PIRLOGEA · 2011-3 · Business Excellence and Management
Taking into account that today the consumption of energy has grown six times since half a century ago, investments are needed for diversifying the sources of energy consumption and raising the efficiency of energy use. In this article authors concentrate on declaring trends in the energy field in the last decade, with emphasis on production, consumption and installed capacity. We also focus on shaping a view for Roma…
Peculiarities of individuals’Financial Behaviour
Daiva Jurevičienė · Eglė Gausienė · 2010-September · Business: Theory and Practice
The article deals with different interpretations of peculiarities of individuals’ financial behaviour. The adaptability of Efficient Market Hypothesis (rational and irrational investors’ behaviour and their influence on market efficiency) and Behavioural Finance (by separating into two building blocks: Cognitive Biases and Limits of Arbitrage) to individuals’ financial behaviour interpretation is summarized and compa…
Rhinoplasty: why do I not use morphing?
M. Jorissen · 2010-March · B-ENT
Recent years have seen the emergence of software for pre-operative morphing in rhinoplasty. However, a number of issues persist, such as price, time investment, limited number of modifiable variables, reduction of complexity, false expectations, informed consent, medico-legal implications and classical ENT practice. The use of preoperative morphing cannot be recommended yet.
Un'applicazione delle programmazione lineare discreta alla definizione dei programmi di investimento
Pierluigi Morano · Antonio Nesticò · 2009-June · Aestimum
In the definition of the investment programs, the available procedures for the selection of the projects introduce inefficiencies due to the incomplete use of the financings and to the impossibility to implement some pointers of performance when the projects are correlated. In the present research is developed and tested a model of discrete programming aimed to reduce these limits. With the use of the model is possib…
Economical analysis of FV power plants according installed performance
Peter Tauš · Marcela Taušová · 2009-9 · Acta Montanistica Slovaca
According prognosis of future development of power capacities in Slovakia till 2030 there is assumed increasing of the electricalenergy volume, produced from renewable energy sources from present 260 MW approximately to 2100 MW (Petrovič, 2008), thatpresents almost 800 % increasing! In Slovakia position of photovoltaic in this sector was due to the high investment cost and on the lastplace due to the low system effic…
CHANGES AND PERSPECTIVES OF SLOVENIAN PIG PRODUCTION BEFORE AND AFTER ACCESSION TO THE EU: THE CASE STUDY
M. Kastelić · 2007-6 · Poljoprivreda
The changes in pig production during the last six to ten years were studied in case of Farme Ihan d. d., the Slovenian pig producer. At the beginning of the period, the company produced 70 to 75 thousand slaughtering pigs per year. At the end of the period the production increased to 150 thousand. As expected, the prices of pigs were reduced during that period. According to the new legislation, the large part of faci…