Physica Verlag Hd: 128 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
The 10th International Workshop on Intelligent Statistical Quality Control took place in Seattle, USA, Aug 18-20, 2010. It was hosted by Professor C. M. Mastrangelo, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle. The workshop was jointly organized by Professors...
Flexible Mechanisms for an Efficient Climate Policy
Cost Saving Policies and Business Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, industrialized countries agreed on binding absolute targets for greenhouse gas emissions and on the admission of flexible market-economy instruments - such as emissions trading, joint implementation and the clean development mechanism...
Advances in Tourism Economics
New Developments
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
'Advances in Tourism Economics' follows his predecessor 'Advances in Modern Tourism Research' (2007) in providing a thorough assessment of state-of-the-art economic research in this rapidly developing field. The authors start by analyzing the recent upsurge of model-based economic research in the...
Co-Evolution of Standards in Innovation Systems
The Dynamics of Voluntary and Legal Building Codes
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
Mitigating climate change is one of the most profound challenges facing humankind. In industrialized countries, the residential housing sector produces roughly one-fourth of the greenhouse gas emissions. One solution to reduce these emissions is the availability of building codes that require high...
Performance of Pharmaceutical Companies in India
A Critical Analysis of Industrial Structure, Firm Specific Resources, and Emerging Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
This book explains how government support and institutional set up facilitated the evolution of the Indian pharmaceutical industry and provides an economic analysis of firm strategies due to recent policy changes. The book is useful for researchers interested in understanding the transition of a lifeline...
AIDS and Aid
A Public Good Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
The unfolding tragedy of the AIDS epidemic is an instance where a disease with local origins has created consequences worldwide. Todd Sandler (2001a) Health concerns are ?rmly embedded in the developing world. Conditions of poverty like inadequate health infrastructures and sanitation, limited access...
Banking on Innovation
Modernisation of Payment Systems
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Innovation in banking should be directed at improving the infrastructure that fosters efficient financial services and international trade. In this work, innovation theory is used to show how modern payment systems have transformed the technology of banking and facilitated changes in the strategy...
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Language: German
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: German
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Mit diesem Buch liegen kompakte Beschreibungen von Prognoseverfahren vor, die vor allem in Systemen der betrieblichen Informationsverarbeitung eingesetzt werden. Praktiker mit langjähriger Prognoseerfahrung zeigen außerdem, wie die einzelnen Methoden in der Unternehmung Verwendung finden und wo...
Lead Markets
Country-Specific Success Factors of the Global Diffusion of Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
1 Summary This thesis intends to answer three questions: First, what is a lead market; second, what constitutes a lead market, and third, how companies can harness lead markets to generate global innovations. Considering the international, cross-border diffu sion of innovations one can observe that...
Facility Location
Concepts, Models, Algorithms and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
This book deals with location problems. Location problems establish a set of facilities (resources) to minimize the cost of satisfying a set of demands (customers) with respect to a set of constraints. There are four components that describe location problems: customers, who are assumed to be already...
Vector Calculus in Regional Development Analysis
Comparative Regional Analysis Using the Example of Poland
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Methods used for regional development analysis are employed mainly to make forecasts and comparisons. Forecasting models of various types (e.g. econometric models) are usually used for forecasting. Recently, vector-autoregressive models (VAR) have become popular. These models were proposed by Sims...
Economic Growth in the Regions of Europe
Theory and Empirical Evidence from a Spatial Growth Model
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Although interest in spatial growth regressions has been growing in recent years, formal theoretical approaches that acknowledge the role of space in economic growth have been sparse. In particular in a regional context, the assumption of independent, non-interacting closed economies can lead to misinterpretations....
Vertical Software Industry Evolution
Analysis of Telecom Operator Software
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Seldom has any business been in such turmoil as the Communication Service Providers (CSP) business is today. Telecom operators providing communication services constructed the infrastructure of the global information society with their trillion investments on various telecommunication technologies...
Locational Preferences of Entrepreneurs
Stated Preferences in The Netherlands and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this book, locational preferences of firms in The Netherlands and Germany are studied from a behavioural point of view. Stated preferences of entrepreneurs in each country are examined, using various types of statistical analysis. The influence of both firm and place characteristics is analysed....