We use a global firm data set, see Materials and Methods, as a starting point to reconstruct an international firm-firm supply network. We use it to compute a number of different exposures, based on the concept of DebtRank, see SI Text1. While DebtRankRiin its basic form quantifies the ...
Mountain poverty is associated with social markers and inequality at the intersection of class, caste, ethnicity, gender, education, occupation, and employment status (well-established). In addition, human wellbeing in mountain areas is inextricably linked to the aforementioned mountain specificities. T...
(c.1300), the concept of the modern scientific encyclopaedia was reached at last. It was the first encyclopaedia to adopt an inquiring and impartial attitude to the things described, and the old wives’ tales that had filled so many pages of encyclopaedias from the time of Pliny onward were...
Even in cases where the cost-effectiveness of the C2C returns program is not pronounced, the proportion of customer-to-warehouse returns to total demand becomes lower. Therefore, the system can be defined as more environmentally friendly. The C2C concept can help retailers financially address the ...
If you're reading this book, you've _probably heard the term "paging" for a while, have seen it occurring with Perfmon, and can even convince your boss that you know what it means—but you probably would hate to be cornered into defining it or explaining the concept to a new hire. ...
The concept of diffusions of innovarions, from rhe home country ro rhe rest of the world rends co be replaced by che concept of worldwide markets. Worldwide markets are likdy ro develop because they can rely on world demographics. For example, if a marketer targets its products or services...
He was loud and attention-getting as a mere over-publicized and, measured by the tacit codes of socially accepted behavior (this was years before the concept of Real Housewives was ever imagined as a germ of an idea), over the limit in lubricious demeanor and affect, as phony as the very...
一般情况下,demand curve向下,斜率slope=△P/△Q Own priceis used by economists to underscore that the reference is to the price of a good itself and not the price of some other good. 需求弹性 Price Elasticity of Demand Elasticity measures how sensitive one variable is to any other variable,...
This paper is a perspective paper, which investigates whether the water footprint (WF) concept addresses the water–food–energy–ecosystem nexus. First, the nexus links between (1) the planetary boundary freshwater resources (green and blue water resources) and (2) food security, energy security...
To our knowledge, we are the first to use an explicit, direct measure of awareness at the individual level about a specific public program to study the implications for its effectiveness. We argue that the concept of awareness is distinct from other behavioral anomalies, like salience.4 Finally...