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The Joint Modelling of Trip Timing and Mode Choice

Day, Nicholas - 2008

This thesis jointly models the 24 hour work trip timing and mode choice decisions of commuters in the Greater Toronto Area. A discrete-continuous specification, with a multinomial logit model for mode choice and an accelerated time hazard model for trip timing, is used to allow for unrestricted...

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Time to burn: Modeling wildland arson as an autoregressive crime function.

Prestemon, J.P.; Butry, D.T. - 2005

Six Poisson autoregressive models of order p [PAR(p)] of daily wildland arson ignition counts are estimated for five locations in Florida (1994-2001). In addition, a fixed effects time-series Poisson model of annual arson counts is estimated for all Florida counties (1995-2001). PAR(p) model...

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On the Interaction of Individual and Collective Crime

Friehe, Tim; Baumann, Florian - 2010

This paper shows that increasing the sanction on collective crime may increase its prevalence. This situation arises when individuals can commit crimes both individually and as part of a collective. Our result is based on an interdependence between detection probabilities where detection of an...

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Female Entrepreneurs in Transitional Economies: a comparative study of Businesswomen in Nigeria and China

Kitching, Beverley; Woldie, Atsese - 2004

Nigeria and China. As the OECD Conferences on Women Entrepreneurs in Small and Medium Enterprises held in Paris in 1997 and … difficult(OECD, 1998, 2001). Should China and Nigeria follow a similar pattern to other societies during the development process …

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Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria

Sulaiman, Ismaila Lawal - 1987

Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...

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An Investigation into factors affecting housing finance supply in emerging economies: a case study of Nigeria

Akinwunmi, Adeboye - 2009

This study investigated factors affecting housing finance supply in Nigeria. Housingfinance is a major factor … model to reveal the underlying factors affecting housing finance in Nigeria.Time series data from sampled Universal Money … that housing finance supplyin Nigeria is significantly driven by clusters of factors related to share capital and …

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An Investigation into factors affecting housing finance supply in emerging economies: a case study of Nigeria

Akinwunmi, Adeboye - 2009

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POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF NATIONALIZATION OF OIL AND NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY IN LATIN AMERICA

Cabezas, Brian F. - 2007

focusing specifically on four countries – Bolivia,Venezuela, Mexico and Nigeria. There are various components influencing the …

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Adeoti, John Olatunji - 2009

Though economic growth has improved in recent years in Nigeria, there has been no evidence of significant manufacturing … study investigates investment in technology by firms in Southwest Nigeria and how technology investment related factors …

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Construction Professionals Job Performance and Characteristics: A Comparison of Indigenous and Expatriate Construction Companies in Nigeria

Henry Ndubuisi Onukwube; Reuben Iyagba - University of Lagos Nigeria; University of Lagos Nigeria - 2011

companies in Nigeria is positive but low and the correlation coefficient is higher in expatriate construction companies. Based … on the above finding, the study recommends that construction companies in Nigeria should endeavour and improve on their …

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