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[What is a cost-benefit analysis?].
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This article is published in Medizinische Monatsschrift für Pharmazeuten.The article was published on 2004-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 844 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Total absorption costing & Relevant cost.read more
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Megaprojects and Regional Development: Pathologies in Project Planning
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared pre-project forecasts to post-project outcomes for one of the largest and most comprehensively planned megaprojects ever undertaken in Canada: the Northeast Coal Project (NECP).
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Analyzing a self-managed CHP system for greenhouse cultivation as a profitable way to reduce CO2 emissions.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the economic and environmental opportunities using two detailed cases applying a self-managed cogeneration system and the Net Present Value is calculated to investigate the economic feasibility.
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Seven Recommendations to Make Your Invasive Alien Species Data More Useful
Quentin Groom,Tim Adriaens,Peter Desmet,Annie Simpson,Aaike De Wever,Ioannis Bazos,Ana Cristina Cardoso,Lucinda Charles,Anastasia Christopoulou,Anna Gazda,Harry Helmisaari,Donald Hobern,Melanie Josefsson,Frances E. Lucy,Dragana Marisavljevic,Tomasz Oszako,Jan Pergl,Olivera Petrović-Obradović,Céline Prévot,Hans Peter Ravn,Gareth Richards,Alain Roques,Helen E. Roy,Marie-Anne A. Rozenberg,Riccardo Scalera,Elena Tricarico,Teodora Trichkova,Diemer Vercayie,Argyro Zenetos,Sonia Vanderhoeven +29 more
TL;DR: This work describes seven ways that data on alien species can be made more accessible and useful and calls for considerable effort to maintain, update, standardise, archive, and aggregate datasets to ensure proper valorisation of alien species data and information before they become obsolete or lost.
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Cost–benefit analysis – evaluation model of cloud computing deployment for use in companies
TL;DR: The evaluation model of cloud computing that would be applicable in business practice for evaluating the effectiveness of such investments is described and found that it fits the practical requirements and supports decision-making in cloud computing.
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Use and misuse of the net present value in environmental studies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used discounted utility (DU) to evaluate land-use projects and calculate opportunity costs for avoided deforestation, and simulated decision-making on tropical deforestation, whereby they used multiple decision criteria to consider the distribution of net benefits between two groups: farmers and conservationists.
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