Wind turbine systems can be classified as small or large, and have different siting requirements. Turbines of all sizes must abide by Noise Abatement and Control laws, must have restricted public access using locked fences, non-climbable towers, or other restrictions, and must have appropriate ...
As a result, 333 were found to be valid for investigating the intention to purchase an EV and 259 for investigating the intention to pay extra for an EV. 3.3. Discrete choice models Discrete choice models are commonly used in the field of marketing and transport when the dependent variable ...
by combining results from a previous willingness-to-pay (WTP) study45,46 with the calculated toxicity potentials of nine metals and ten PAHs (from characterization factors collected from the life cycle impact assessment tool ReCiPe47) that are commonly found in open- and closed-loop scrubber ...
The company has said about 4,218 jobs will be classified as front-line workers. An additional 345 will be filled by electricians, plumbers, labourers and others in the skilled trades, while 387 are expected to be supervisory positions. New employees would start work late this year o...
Two-way systems require the customers to drop-off the vehicle at the same station as where they picked it up. One-way systems allow the customer to drop their vehicle off at any other station of their choice. Due to the increased level of flexibility of these systems, they are commonly ...
As should be expected, a significant part of the recent literature on the COVID-19 pandemic has also adopted this control point of view, and such lockdown measures as well as their medical, societal, and economical impacts are discussed by, among others, Anderson et al. (2020), Bayraktar ...
And by using this definition, it has been determined that 30% of our population is obese. Those with BMI between 25 and 30 are classified as overweight and said to make up 50% of the population. Only 20% of ou...
This performance improvement identified by the literature can be classified into 7 categories (labeled here as ‘P’ categories), which are reported in Table 1. 2.3.1. P1 production flexibility Industry 4.0 has been identified as a major determinant for improving production flexibility (Ahuett-...
(2015) classified rewards as high vs low using a single threshold value that is independent of duration) or completely ignored differences in others, such as frequency of reward payments. As a result, their results may suffer from both a lack of statistical power and systematic bias (e.g.,...
As sales growth commonly plays a pre-eminent role in executive pay, some managers have incentives to invest in leased assets to drive sales growth and increase their pay. To examine the relation between sales and CEO compensation, we adapt the Core et al. (1999) model. Specifically, we ...