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The focuses are on the study of risk management of natural disasters from the perspective of complex systems, using the example of Mexico. It develops the theory of an arrival process taking into account an early warning system and we use it to create appropriate actuarial models. Then, it...
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considerable recent turbulence in resource prices. The recent magnitude of change in resource prices, both positive and negative …
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Word-of-mouth advertising involves activities to encourage consumers to talk about a product or company to friends and neighbours, setting in motion a chain of communication that could spread through a whole market. Each activity, itself small and relatively unimportant, could escalate through...
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Bei Entscheidungen über abzulösende oder neue Anwendungssysteme kann mitHilfe funktionaler Anforderungen immer nur der gegenwärtige odervorhersehbare Bedarf ermittelt werden. In einem turbulenten Umfeld sind dieAnwendungssysteme jedoch häufig langere Zeit im Einsatz als die...
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In July of 2002, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed by Congress, including section 404 which requires the auditors to test and opine on the company's internal controls. Since that time there has been much debate about whether the intended benefits of increased investor confidence and financial...
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processes, this study developed theoretical constructs for scaling and amalgamation of the different performance measures, and … for analyzing the different kinds of trade-offs. The scaling of performance measures yields a consistent or dimensionless … alternative methods for scaling and amalgamation. Also, recognizing that project outcomes are not always known with certainty, the …
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fractal power laws and scaling will be explained. The main part focuses on the estimation of the tail index as a scaling …
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Guttman (1947) developed a scaling method in which the items measuring an attribute can be ordered according to the … strength of the attribute. The Guttman scaling model assumes that every member of the population belongs to a scale type and … contingency tables, pi-star can be applied to latent class models, including scaling models for dichotomous data. This study …
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Standardization reduces complexity and increases predictability in a global supply chain. This predictability can be exploited for capacity management and resource allocation to meet client demands and achieve cost expectations. On this foundation of predictability a supply chain can expand,...
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Standardization reduces complexity and increases predictability in a global supply chain. This predictability can be exploited for capacity management and resource allocation to meet client demands and achieve cost expectations. On this foundation of predictability a supply chain can expand,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015335865