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Human capital, innovation and the productive ageing: growth and senior aged health in the regional community through engaged higher education

Garlick, Steve; Soar, Jeffrey - 2007

[Abstract]: This paper examines how low relative economic growth and high service and infrastructure costs in non-metropolitan regions that are increasingly attractive to lifestyle-seeking seniors, can be offset by focussing more positively on the human capital dimension of this cohort through...

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Empowerment Zone Designation and Community Economic Development in Minneapolis, MN.

Popuch, Elias - 2009

The Empowerment Zone is a federal program designed to incentivize investment in economically blighted communities. The Empowerment Zone provides a combination of federal grant money for community development initiatives along with tax incentives for private sector firms that locate in zone...

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Use of GIS to improve the user interface design of an airline reservation Web site.

Wilson, Jennifer L. - Florida Atlantic University

As use of the Internet becomes pervasive, user interface design of web sites becomes increasingly important. Consumers must be able to easily and quickly perform the functions they desire. Travel industry applications have a large market potential on the Internet. Because of the geographical...

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Knowledge, Perceptions, and Practices: Mosquito-borne Disease Transmission in Southwest Virginia

Butterworth, Melinda - 2009

Virginiaâs temperate climate is suitable for several mosquito species capable of transmitting pathogens to humans. In southwest Virginia, La Crosse encephalitis and West Nile fever are most prominent. The objective of this research, which uses the Health Belief Model (HBM) as a theoretical...

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1996-2004 Trends in the Single-Family Housing Market: Spatial Analysis of the Residential Sector

Anderson, Dave M.; Elliott, Douglas B. - 2008

share of housing activity. • The proportion of home buyers having three times the median family income for their geography … rate environment and concurrent deregulation of the finance industry resulted unprecedented merger and acquisition activity …

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National Security Technology Incubation Strategic Plan

2008

This strategic plan contains information on the vision, mission, business and technology environment, goals, objectives … developing incubator plans (strategic, business, action, and operations), creating an incubator environment, creating a support … does. For a company to succeed, it must have sustainable competitive advantages in seven key areas: geography, products and …

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Production linkages, agglomeration, and spatial organization of production: A monopolistic competition approach

Hamaguchi, Nobuaki - 1995

Input users and producers seek to increase their profitability by locating near each other. This self-reinforcing relationship between input producers and users can be views as a basic agglomeration force to enable the modeling of agglomeration economies based on a standard monopolistic...

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Regional heterogeneity and the pattern of international trade

Nishikimi, Koji - 1999

Traditional theory of international trade has been developed on the assumption of homogeneous country in which identical consumers and production factors are all uniformly distributed. In the real world, however, most countries are composed of heterogeneous regions, and in accordance the above...

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Towards developing a hybrid method for input-output table compilation and identifying a fundamental economic structure

van der Westhuizen, Jacobus Marthinus - 1992

This dissertation focuses on two topics that are important to regional economists. The first is the development of a hybrid method for input-output table compilation which distinguishes between economic relationships that need to be surveyed and those that can be obtained by other means. The...

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Multi-location Firms as a Medium for the Geographic Diffusion of Knowledge

Blit, Joel Nicolas - 2010

This thesis groups three papers examining the role of multi-location firms in the geographic diffusion of knowledge. The first chapter examines whether a firm's headquarters can tap into the knowledge pool in a remote location through FDI. Using U.S. patent data, I show that an R&D headquarters...

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