production among countries since the value-added created by trade is forecasted based on a sound theory of production. This makes …

Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …

effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …

offshore outsourcing.The objectives of this research are:1. To analyze the differences between the theory and the practice …

of the relevance of the theory and analysis to developing economies. …

as to the acceptability of spatial aggregation in hedonic property value models. Both statistical tests and tests based … upon prediction errors are performed in order to identify the circumstances under which aggregation is statistically … importance of specification and functional form as determinants of both the acceptability of aggregation and predictive power …

Model induction from relational data requires aggregation of values ofattributes of related entities. This paper makes … needed to learn these concepts. (2) Expanding onelevel of the hierarchy, it introduces new aggregation operators thatmodel … byclass. (3) It demonstrates empirically on a noisy business domain thatmore-complex aggregation methods can increase …