Financial Constraints
Mostrando 25-36 de 39 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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25. Topic Maps : da Sintaxe à Semântica
According to Topic Map Data Model (Garshol and Moore, 2005), Topic Maps are abstract structures that can encode knowledge and connect this encoded knowledge to relevant information resources. Topic Maps allow a domain knowledge representation in semantic networks, composed of topics and associations. Nowadays, almost all topic maps are built by hand. This ki
Publicado em: 2005
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26. FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS, SELF-SELECTION AND BRAIN EFFECT: TWO ESSAYS ON MIGRATION / RESTRIÇÃO DE CRÉDITO, AUTO-SELEÇÃO E BRAIN EFFECT: DOIS ENSAIOS SOBRE MIGRAÇÃO
A literatura econômica que estuda migração sempre esteve preocupada com o impacto da migração sobre o bem-estar, seja na forma de imigração ou na forma de brain drain. Os dois artigos que compõem esta tese estão relacionados a este tema. Apesar do modelo de Roy concluir que os emigrantes são negativamente selecionados se a taxa de retorno à educa�
Publicado em: 2004
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27. Economia desregrada : Marx, Keynes e Polanyi e a riqueza no capitalismo contemporaneo
In an effort to pick the substratum of the contemporary capitalism, this thesis intends to identify the ways how the disappearance of the rules and of the borders leaves the capital given to their own movement laws. In that sense, it proposes that an approximate picture of the contemporary capitalism can be drawn through the concept of de-ruled economy (Intr
Publicado em: 2001
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28. Implantando a tecnologia ATM em redes locais
The technological advances and the offer of new services, like voice and interactive video and graphic data transmission, have generated a need of changes in traditional local area networks. The topology that involves shared media is quite efficient for data transmission applications, which require low error probabilities but are very tolerant to delays, sup
Publicado em: 1998
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29. Estrategias de financiamento das cooperativas agricolas do estado de São Paulo : caso da cooperativa dos agricultores de Orlandia
This thesis discusses agricultural cooperatives growth strategies and their financing mechanisms. The features of the cooperative agribusiness and agricultural changes are presented, showing evidence that the recem cooperatives development must be understood in the 1igbt of those transformations. It a1so indicates how govemment used the cooperative system as
Publicado em: 1996
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30. Combinatorial auction design
Combinatorial auctions allow for more expressive bidding in which participants can submit package bids with logical constraints that limit allowable outcomes. This type of auction can be useful when participants' values are complementary or when participants have production and financial constraints. However, combinatorial auctions are currently rare in prac
National Academy of Sciences.
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31. Reterogasserian anhydrous glycerol injection therapy in trigeminal neuralgia: observations in 552 patients.
Five hundred and fifty two patients with trigeminal neuralgia were treated with reterogasserian anhydrous glycerol injections. Two hundred and twenty four patients (59.1%) at the end of two years and eight patients (8.1%) at the end of six years were free from pain after a single injection. There was recurrence of pain in 136 patients (27.7%) after one year
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32. "Librarian for hire": contracting a librarian's services to external departments.
In a time of financial constraints, Harvard Medical School's Countway Library has found a way to acquire additional funding to expand its services while integrating librarians further into the medical school organization. This paper describes the contractual arrangement between the library and a medical school department and shows how a professional libraria
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33. The fundholding fandango.
General practitioner fundholding allows flexible use of resources at the coal-face, provides incentives to alter practice such as prescribing within cash limits and forces hospitals to be more responsive to general practitioner demands. However, the additional administrative costs both in time and money, the fragmentation of purchasing power compounded by a
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34. Primary care physician turnover in HMOs.
OBJECTIVE. We assess whether physician turnover stems from incorrect physician expectations about the practice environment or from actual constraints or rewards in that environment. DATA SOURCES. Our primary data source contains information about individual HMOs' primary care physicians incentive mechanisms and general HMO characteristics. Our secondary data
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35. The predictive power of zero intelligence in financial markets
Standard models in economics stress the role of intelligent agents who maximize utility. However, there may be situations where constraints imposed by market institutions dominate strategic agent behavior. We use data from the London Stock Exchange to test a simple model in which minimally intelligent agents place orders to trade at random. The model treats
National Academy of Sciences.
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36. Sensitivity pattern of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to penicillin and screening for β-lactamase production in Ibadan, Nigeria
The few reports from Africa on sensitivity determinations of Neisseria gonorrhoeae suggest that there is an increasing resistance in the strains, as has been found in other parts of the world. In the current study, the penicillin sensitivities and β-lactamase production of 80 consecutive strains of N. gonorrhoeae isolated from cases of acute urethritis in A