The US Green Building Council offers LEED certification for existing and new neighborhood developments that meet sustainable urban development standards. Features of sustainable urban development have been found to positively affect residential sales prices. We investigate whether the intangible...

In the literature on Sen's capability approach, studies focussing on the empirical measurement of conversion factors are comparatively rare. We add to this field by adopting a measure of quot;conversion efficiencyquot; that captures the efficiency with which individuals convert their resources...

Robust Design is an important topic in many areas of the manufacturing industry, there is little on the market that provides adequate coverage. This book deals with the statistical theory of how to design products to be robust against random variation in 'noise'. It adopts a practice-oriented...