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Analysis of the effects of integrating wind turbines into a conventional utility: a case study. Final report

Goldenblatt, M.K.; Wegley, H.L.; Miller, A.H. - 2011

The impact on a utility incorporating wind turbine generation due to wind speed sampling frequency, wind turbine performance model, and wind speed forecasting accuracy is examined. The utility analyzed in the study was the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the wind turbine assumed...

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European Broadband Tariffs Analysis: Broadband Tariff Analysis - EU 27, Q4 2010

Safikhani, Qmars - 2011

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An empirical study of BI-based corporate performance management in North America and East Asia

Richards, Gregory; Yeoh, William; Wang, Shan - 2011

organizations across North America and East Asia, this paper presents empirical evidence on the key benefits of and barriers to BI … North America. Cultural, economic and environmental differences between the two regions explain these issues. The research …

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The Colonial Origins of Divergence in the Americas:Â A Labour Market Approach

Allen, Robert; Allen, Robert C.; Murphy, Tommy E.; … - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

, Philadelphia, and the Chesapeake Bay region in North America and Bogota, Mexico, and Postosi in Latin America exploring alternative … cities. We find that real wages were higher in North America than in Latin America from the very early colonial period: four … times the World Bank Poverty Line (WBPL) in North America while only two times the WBPL in Latin America. These wages place …

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European Broadband Tariffs Analysis: Broadband Tariff Analysis - EU 27, Q4 2010

Safikhani, Qmars - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2011

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A Fuzzy Approach to the Measurement of Leakages for North American Health System

Makdissi, Paul; Yazbeck, Myra; Coldeboeuf, Hugo - 2011

This paper uses a fuzzy-fuzzy stochastic dominance approach to compare patients’ leakages in the Canadian and the U.S. health care systems. Leakages are defined in terms of individuals who are in bad health and could not have access to health care when needed. To carry his comparison we rely...

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Prospects and Alternatives for a Decent Employment and Community Development Agenda in North America : An Institutional Analysis of the North American Commission for Labor Cooperat...

Brooks, Tequila J. - 2011

This paper conducts an institutional analysis of the North American Commission for Labor Cooperation, which was established under the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation. The paper analyzes the organization's governance deficits and prospects, proposing alternatives for improvements of...

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Measurement of Real Income in the System of National Accounts : An Application to North American Economies

MacDonald, Ryan - 2011

This paper makes use of both output and income statistics derived from the System of National Accounts to examine performance in the three North American countries. In doing so, the paper follows recommendations contained in the System of National Accounts 1993 (SNA 1993) for calculating...

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The Socio-Economic Significance of Four Phonetic Characteristics in North American English

Coloma, Germán - 2011

This paper uses a least-square regression method that relates per-capita income to four phonetic characteristics (r-dropping, and the so-called "father-bother," "cot-caught" and "pin-pen" mergers), to study the socio-economic significance of those characteristics in North American English. As a...

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Trade Credit Contracts

Klapper, Leora - 2011

We employ a novel dataset on almost 30,000 trade credit contracts to describe the broad characteristics of the parties that contract together and the key contractual terms of these contracts. Whereas prior work has typically used information on only one side of the buyer-seller transaction, this...

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