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The scarcity of water resources in both arid and temperate countries alike is one of the most pervasive natural resource allocation problems facing water users and policy-makers. In arid countries this problem is faced each day in the myriad of conflicts that surround its use.Water scarcity is a...
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In a river claims problem, agents are ordered linearly, and they have both an initial water endowment as well as a claim to the total water resource. We provide characterizations of two solutions to this problem, using Composition properties which have particularly relevant interpretations for...
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for the future. This multi-scale challenge is usually addressed by using several models for hydropower planning, at least … one long-term model and one short-term model. We present a multistage stochasticmixed integer programming model that has a …
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In this paper, we propose multi-stage stochastic linear programming for asset-liability management under time …
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Multi-period guarantees are often embedded in life insurance contracts. In this paper we consider the problem of hedging these multi-period guarantees in the presence of transaction costs. We derive the hedging strategies for the cheapest hedge portfolio for a multi-period guarantee that with...
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The presentation structured in two parts aims to reveal a short diagnosis of the Romanian rural planning system. The … planning. The second part presents a short review of planning history (stages, factors, effects) relieve the European and … planning system. From the technical point of view, the core instrument of planning is the master plan /general urban plan – in …
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Recent attempts of wage rise , problems of security at work place as well as many findings about child labor in Bangladesh were primary cause of writing this paper. But problems have deep roots: from world separation of capital and labor, profit increasing scenarios with labor inputs, human...
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Indicators of economic development of South Korea reflect outstanding progress. In the past three decades different phases of development succeeded one after another. The essence of general Park Chong Chu’s strategy was export-directed industrialization and import substitution with high import...
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community involvement through participatory planning in order to make use of local experiences and knowledge. 2. The existing … support local communities in planning for adaptation. Although the initial costs of defining this methodology are high, they …
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Universities have a role in society different from other businesses or service industries. Universities as any human organizations are composed of people. And like any organization, they have a mission, objectives, goals, structures, roles and relationships of authority, decision-making...
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