scholarly journals Optimal dairy feed input selection under alternative feeds availability and relative prices

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 438-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Othman Alqaisi ◽  
Luis Eduardo Moraes ◽  
Oghaiki Asaah Ndambi ◽  
Ryan Blake Williams
Keyword(s):  
Input Selection ◽  
Relative Prices ◽  
Alternative Feeds

Competitive and Complementary Relations in International Travel: The Case of British Travel to Cyprus

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 395-420
Author(s):  
Petros Anastasopoulos ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Strong Association ◽  
International Travel ◽  
Relative Price ◽  
Annual Data ◽  
Export Demand ◽  
Relative Prices ◽  
Vector Error Correction ◽  
Vector Error ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Demand Equations

This is an econometric analysis of demand for travel to Cyprus by Britons. We examined the competitive and complementary relations between travel to Cyprus and other well-established travel destinations in the Mediterranean basin. Because many package tours include several countries in their destinations within a given journey, and because individual travelers find it more advantageous to visit more than one country in a single trip, it may be meaningful to examine international travel within the contest of groups of countries rather than a single country competing for international travelers. Specifically, we provide an analysis of the competitive and complementary relations existing between the tourism sectors of Cyprus and that of Greece, Spain and Portugal for British travelers. We provide estimates of income and relative price elasticities based of export demand equations upon annual data from 1980-2016. We tested for the stationarity of the variables and derived estimates of the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM). These tests confirm a strong association between the incomes of Britons and their decision to travel to Cyprus. Furthermore, we show the relative prices between Cyprus and other competing destinations in the Mediterranean to play an important role in determining British travel to Cyprus.

“Analytical Techniques for Development Planning” (A Review Of Tims' Multisector Model For Pakistan'S Third Plan (1965-70))

1968 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-263
Author(s):  
Azizur Rahman Khan
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Techniques ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
General Idea ◽  
Relative Prices ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Sectoral Output ◽  
Consistency Model ◽  
Present Decade ◽  
Optimizing Model ◽  
Multisector Model

In the present decade there has been a great proliferation of multisectoral models for planning. Part of the incentive has certainly been the potentiality of their application in formulating the actual plans. By now there have been so many different types of multisectoral models that it is useful to attempt some kind of classification according as whether or not they embody certain well-known features. The advantage of such a classification is that one gets a general idea about the structure of the model simply by knowing where it belongs in the list of classification. One broad principle of classification is based on whether the model simply provides a consistent plan or whether it also satisfies some criteria of optimality. A multisectoral consistency model provides an allocation of the scarce resources (e.g., investment and foreign exchange) in such a way that the sectoral output levels are consistent with some given consumption or income target, consistency in this context meaning that the supply of each sector's output is matched by demand generated by intersectoral and final use at base-year relative prices. To the extent that the targets are flexible, there may be many such feasible plans. An optimizing model finds the "best" possible allocation of resources among sectors, the "best" being understood in the sense of maximiz¬ing > a given preference function subject to the constraints that ensure that the plan is also feasible.

Cheap Donuts and Expensive Broccoli: The Effect of Relative Prices on Obesity

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonah B. Gelbach ◽  
Jonathan Klick ◽  
Thomas Stratmann
Keyword(s):  
Relative Prices

scholarly journals FPGA Implementation of Reconfigurable Finite State Machine with Input Multiplexing Architecture Using Hungarian Method

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nitish Das ◽  
P. Aruna Priya
Keyword(s):  
Finite State Machine ◽  
Graph Matching ◽  
Digital Signal ◽  
State Machine ◽  
Fpga Implementation ◽  
Greedy Heuristic ◽  
Matching Problem ◽  
Input Selection ◽  
Weighted Bipartite Graph ◽  
Finite State

The mathematical model for designing a complex digital system is a finite state machine (FSM). Applications such as digital signal processing (DSP) and built-in self-test (BIST) require specific operations to be performed only in the particular instances. Hence, the optimal synthesis of such systems requires a reconfigurable FSM. The objective of this paper is to create a framework for a reconfigurable FSM with input multiplexing and state-based input selection (Reconfigurable FSMIM-S) architecture. The Reconfigurable FSMIM-S architecture is constructed by combining the conventional FSMIM-S architecture and an optimized multiplexer bank (which defines the mode of operation). For this, the descriptions of a set of FSMs are taken for a particular application. The problem of obtaining the required optimized multiplexer bank is transformed into a weighted bipartite graph matching problem where the objective is to iteratively match the description of FSMs in the set with minimal cost. As a solution, an iterative greedy heuristic based Hungarian algorithm is proposed. The experimental results from MCNC FSM benchmarks demonstrate a significant speed improvement by 30.43% as compared with variation-based reconfigurable multiplexer bank (VRMUX) and by 9.14% in comparison with combination-based reconfigurable multiplexer bank (CRMUX) during field programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation.

scholarly journals EXPLORING CROSS-COUNTRY VARIATION IN GOVERNMENT SHARES: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM RELATIVE PRODUCTIVITIES?

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 356-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maksym Obrizan
Keyword(s):  
Relative Price ◽  
Total Output ◽  
Government Consumption ◽  
Strong Negative Correlation ◽  
Empirical Observation ◽  
Relative Prices ◽  
Neoclassical Growth Model ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Neoclassical Growth

Government shares in total output are characterized by significant variation across countries. I noticed a strong negative correlation between government consumption shares and the price of government services in terms of private consumption. Motivated by this empirical observation, I developed a neoclassical growth model with added government that is capable of matching the variation in government shares very closely using only relative prices. In addition, I provide empirical evidence showing that the relative price of government consumption increases with income, which is consistent with distortions prevailing in poor countries. These two observations combined imply that government shares tend to be higher in poorer countries.

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