an approximate calculation of an uncertain value. An estimate may be a reasonable guess based on knowledge and experience or it may be calculated using...
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This paper constructs a structural model of title-specific saturation in demand that controls for a shrinking consumer base. The estimates of the partial reduced form of this model show that saturation is a significant phenomenon in theatrical exhibition of the domestic motion picture industry, while the estimates of the structural...
The typical project often overruns its cost estimate. Overruns are common on government and commercial projects, even when changes in the design are taken into account. One reason this happens is because cost estimating traditionally fails to take into account the risk that the work will actually cost more (or...
This paper presents findings on a new measurement of asthma, whether an individual with a diagnosis of asthma had an attack or episode in the past 12 months. Previous estimates did not assess whether an individual with asthma had been diagnosed by a doctor or whether he or she had...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-BJ's Restaurants Names New Chairman and Lead Independent DirectorC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com BJ s Restaurants announced that it held its annual meeting of shareholders on Wednesday, June 4. Shareholders re-elected Paul A. Motenko, Jeremiah J. Hennessy, Gerald...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WE'VE I HEARD so much about green information technology' IT, initiatives recently you'd be forgiven for thinking that everybody had this under control. You might be surprised to learn that storage vendor ONStor found that 58 per cent of the companies they surveyed were either still...
Evaluating the reliability of a transportation network often involves an intensive simulation exercise to randomly generate and evaluate different possible network states. This paper proposes an algorithm to approximate the network reliability which minimizes the use of such simulation procedure. The algorithm will dissect and classify the...
As the problem of full transit vehicles is encountered daily by passengers in most of the big cities, previous research evaluated the consequence of overcrowding in terms of on-board crowding and passengers not being able to board with full vehicles. The impact of overcrowding in the real...
This paper proposes a new travel time reliability-based traffic assignment model to investigate the rain effects on risk-taking behaviours of different road users in networks with day-to-day demand fluctuations and variations in travel time. A generalized link travel time function is used to capture the rain effects...
Optimal toll design from a network reliability point of view is addressed in this paper. Improving network reliability is proposed as a policy objective of road pricing. A reliability-based optimal toll design model, where on the upper level network performance including travel time reliability is optimized, while...
Remington Arms Co. has announced a manufacturing consolidation move that will result in the closure of its Gardner, Mass., plant. Throughout the remainder of this year the integration of H&R 1871's operations will result in centralized sales and marketing, streamlined operations, standardized information technology infrastructure and common financial functionality, while...
This paper investigated the perceptions of undergraduate business students toward male and female managers who were alcoholics. Since most of the respondents were soon to graduate and seek employment opportunities in business organizations, their perceptions and predispositions seemed relevant. While it was found that the perceptions of alcoholic managers were...
BFI Canada Income Fund (the "Fund") (TSX: BFC.UN) has declared a cash distribution of C$0.1515 per trust unit for the month of August 2008, payable on September 15, 2008, to the unitholders of record as of August 29, 2008. Forward-Looking Statements This document may contain forward-looking statements relating to the...
wholesale gas prices rose by more than 14 per cent yesterday after a leak on a North Sea pipeline prompted fears about supplies this winter. The Norwegian oil and gas producer Statoil Hydro said it discovered the leak on a gas pipeline linking its Kvitebjoern field to...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Russian retail chain, LENTA,have signed a three-year information technology IT services contractestimated at approximately US$1 million. The contract signed in May 2008,will provide IBM support and recovery services for LENTA's entire ITinfrastructure. The LENTA chain is actively expanding its operations with 31 hypermarketsthroughout Russia, all...
MagIndustries Corp. ("MagIndustries" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: MAA) is pleased to report that it has received an updated National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report entitled "Updated Reserve and Resource Estimate for MagMinerals Mengo Permit Area, Kouilou Region, Republic of Congo" (the "Technical Report") in respect of the property owned by...
Mr Bill Wagener, the COO of Northland Resources (TSX: NAU)(FRANKFURT: NBS)(OSLO: NAUR), is pleased to announce that the Company has reached an important milestone in the development of its Tapuli project in Sweden, with the purchase of a used FL Schmidt Fuller Traylor 54x74 gyratory crusher. Under Northland's current plans,...
Researched by Industrial Info Resources(Sugar Land, Texas) -- Within days of withdrawing a proposed investmentplan of $3 billion in Bangladesh because of the country's prevalentpolitical instability and the non-committal stance of the government, TataSteel (BOM:500470) (Mumbai, India) firmed up its plans of developing asteel complex with a capacity of 4.5...
Researched by Industrial Info Resources(Sugar Land, Texas) -- Husky Energy Incorporated (TSX:HSE) (Calgary,Alberta) is evaluating options of possibly investing $1 billion at itsLima, Ohio refinery, which the company acquired in May 2007 from ValeroEnergy Corporation (NYSE:VLO) (San Antonio, Texas). Husky Energy purchasedthe Ohio refinery for an estimated $1.9 billion to...
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