THE USE OF FISCAL INSTRUMENTS IN SUSTAINABLE BUILDING POLICIES M.M. Sunikka1 Abstract Although progressive government guidelines and knowledge about sustainable building exist‚ sustainability measures are not adopted in large scale. Several barriers have been identified‚ especially the perceived costs of implementing environmental management and the lack of market demand. The choice of fiscal instruments is an important issue in sustainable building policies. This paper presents an analysis
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Turbine blades used in jet engines can be made from such materials as nickel-based superalloys. We can‚ in principle‚ even use ceramic materials such as zirconia or other alloys based on steels. In some cases‚ the blades may have to be coated with a thermal barrier coating (TBC) to minimize exposure of the blade material to high temperatures. Locomotive vehicles on railway are connected together by a linked mechanism system of a coupling. The first time‚ we used a chain and a screw type coupler
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Synopsis BPO‚ Inc. is a professional service organization that offers clients a range of services from risk management and insurance to management consulting. The company has grown and profited from the developing trend in the 90’s and 2000’s of companies outsourcing business processes‚ such as human resources and claims processing. Presently‚ BPO has launched a six sigma initiative to identify areas for process improvement and financial savings in the Human Resource Outsourcing department. Concurrently
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An Introduction to Use-Case Modeling One of the primary challenges is the ability to elicit the correct and necessary system requirements from the stakeholders and specify them in a manner understandable to them so those requirements can be verified and validated. The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build. No other part of the conceptual work is a difficult as establishing the detailed technical requirements‚ including all the interfaces to people
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i Chapter 6 Measurement of Precipitation CONTENTS 6.1 Definitions and Units ............................................................................................................ 1 6.2 Observation Instruments ..................................................................................................... 1 6.2.1 Cylindrical Rain Gauges and Ordinary Rain Gauges ................................................ 1 6.2.2 Siphon Rain Gauges ............................................
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Lufthansa Introduction: Lufthansa was launched through the buying of 737 jets from Boeing. They were the first one’s to do so and because of this they are now the leading airline out of Germany (Wikipedia‚ 1). "Lufthansa operates more than 300 aircraft and employs nearly 100‚000 people world-wide. In 2005‚ 51.3 million passengers flew with Lufthansa (Wikipedia‚ 1)." When the jets were bought in 1985 for $500‚000‚000 it was considered a huge mistake. Since Lufthansa was just breaking into
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DRAPER INSTRUMENTS Individual Case Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Issues 5 Analysis 6 Performance Evaluation 6 Inventory Management 6 Considerations for Action 6 Performance Measurement 6 Inventory Management 7 Considerations in Transitioning to a (Total) JIT System 8 Recommendations 8 Short-term 8 Long-term 12 References 13 Appendix 17 Appendix A: A: Traditional Performance Measures (Financial Objectives) 17 Appendix B: Non-Traditional Performance Measures
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Case summary – Enron Corporation’s Weather Derivatives Steve Haik‚ Dan Sleker and Bas van Bellegem – March 2003 Background In October Mary Watts‚ CFO of Pacific Northwest Electric (PNW) reviewed the forward plan for PNW’s 200-2001 season. PNW’s has been experiencing nearly no EPS growth since 1995 due to deregulation and warmer-than-average winter climate. The stock price had suffered accordingly‚ but there maybe a way to hedge the weather risk via a new “weather derivative” being proposed by
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Week 4 Assignment 2: Use Cases CIS 210 2-3-2013 There are a number of modeling tools and techniques that can be used to understand the design of a system. During this process‚ these tools and techniques can help to describe the business processes‚ requirements‚ and the users interaction with the system. One type of modeling is the functional decomposition diagram (FDD). It is similar to an organizational chart in that it uses a top-down model to describe the process. The FDD is a good way
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The Impact of Derivatives on Cash Markets: What Have We Learned? Stewart Mayhew Department of Banking and Finance Terry College of Business University of Georgia Athens‚ GA 30602-6253 October 27‚ 1999 Revised: February 3‚ 2000 The Impact of Derivatives on Cash Markets: What Have We Learned? Abstract This paper summarizes the theoretical and empirical research on how the introduction of derivative securities affects the underlying market. A wide array of theoretical approaches has been applied
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