scholarly journals An Application of the Bishop-Simpson Method: A Shift-Share Variant

1978 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-49
Author(s):  
Bruce E. Lindsay ◽  
Susan E. Martin

The Bishop-Simpson model, a variant of the traditional shift-share approach, is utilized for investigation of the development of the southern New Hampshire regional economy over time. Emphasis is placed on the strengths of the new technique in counteracting some of the limitations of traditional shift-share analyses. The B and S technique gives a clearer picture than the traditional shift-share approach of the relative advantages and disadvantages for region in terms of its specialization in slow or fast growing industries.

Author(s):  
Carlos Carreira ◽  
João Eira ◽  
Filipe Silva

Measuring firms' financial constraints can prove to be a difficult task for researchers because it is not possible to directly observe whether a firm is financially constrained. This chapter surveys the existing methodologies to measure such constraints at firm level, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of each one. In doing so, firstly, the authors review the direct and indirect measures of firms' financial constraints. Then they test the validity of the most commonly used indices using a large panel of (unlisted) Portuguese firms (2010-2017). The FCP index seems to outperform the other indices in capturing financial constraints of unlisted SMEs. This is not a surprising result, as most of the existing empirical literature on the field deals with listed (US) firms. It is not reasonable to expect that the coefficients of indices remain unchanged across countries and over time. Therefore, the authors propose their (re)estimation to apply them to different economies.


2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Hudecek ◽  
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Josef Juránek ◽  
Jaroslav Pejcoch ◽  
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As our world becomes increasingly complex over time, we are using increasingly sophisticated tools to be fed and entertained. This increasing complexity has both advantages and disadvantages. Our dependence on electric power is almost absolute and a long-term blackout could become potentially fatal to any region or country hit by it. It has been a rule of life that the intensive preparation to some crisis begins not sooner than after it strikes and causes a big damage. Prague city management did not want to wait to find out, however, and organized an exercise to understand just what such a situation might look like and just how well prepared the capital of the Czech Republic was to manage it. The exercise was designed, run and documented by up-to-date information technology, enabling further study and analysis of results to improve the city’s resilience and to prepare adequate means for mitigating potential damage.


2011 ◽  
Vol 374-377 ◽  
pp. 1979-1984
Author(s):  
Jing Zhuo ◽  
Fu Wei Huang ◽  
Fu Min Wang

The actively prestressed strengthening technique of CFRP plate is a kind of strengthening technology with great application in the future. After a comparison and conclusion of the advantages and disadvantages of various prestressed tensile techniques for CFRP plate from home and abroad, based on the WSGG anchor, this paper puts forward the hinged anchor and a new technique where the hinged anchor tensions in vertical direction, the biggest characteristic of this technique is to ensure force uniformity of CFRP plate, consequently, high strength feature of CFRP plate can be fully developed. In addition, a series of improvement have been achieved, such as on-site baiting, fast clamping and rapid tensioning, etc. of CFRP plate. Hinged anchor and its prestressed tensile technique are firstly applied for the reinforced projects of Chongqing Xiaojia River Bridge and Chongqing Lianhua River Bridge, which promote rapid strengthening for the old bridges successfully.


Author(s):  
Rusfa ◽  
Deny Nusyirwan ◽  
Eko Prayetno ◽  
Bagas ◽  
Prasetya Perwira Putra Perdana

The sale of fish is one of the main roles that is very important, in addition to getting the optimal price, the sale of fish is also very supportive of the economy of the region, especially the coast. In the sale of fish today still need a technological development in the field of calculation. The amount of fish and consumer demand makes fish sellers or fishermen unable to properly control the results of their sales, starting from service and pricing, calculation errors that cause prices to be not optimal, causing losses. Therefore, a solution is needed that can overcome these problems. TOTOKAN (Fish Pond Shop) is an innovation to prevent errors in the calculation of the selling price of fish using Arduino Uno-based RFID and LCD as its monitor. TOTAKAN is designed with an RFID system that has been programmed by ARDUINO UNO R3 which is a source of microproseor from all systems, while the 4x4 keypad serves as a calculation of the number of fish purchases as well as the overall price, and a 16x2 LCD serves to display the price and the number of copies. TOTAKAN is able to be the main solution for the regional economy, especially coastal areas. In addition to simple, this innovation can also create efficiency over time, so that the seller does not need to control the maximum sales results.


1993 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pratiwi ◽  
N. Lust

In  Indonesia the alang-alang grassland covers about 16-20 million hectares. It  is considered unproductive land, therefore reafforestation of this grassland  is very necessary. Some efforts including the policy of the Forestry  Department, on national level and even in the field have been done.     Some techniques to suppress the alang-alang growth have been tried out  including techniques of soil preparation, species selection and maintenance  of plantations.     The reafforestation programme of alang-alang grassland has promising  results for the increase of the forest area and will ultimately provide wood  production, as well as an income for the rural people and soil protection  benefits. The production of log and soft wood as raw material will increase.      The knowledge of silvicultural techniques for reafforestation activities in  alang-alang grassland is enough to start an action programme, but  nevertheless further research has to be done to find out still more  appropriate techniques and to achieve better results.     The reafforestation method on the alang-alang grassland will mainly depend  on the site situation and the objectives, especially the kind of wood that  must be produced. Reafforestation directly with fast growing species will be  carried out when soft wood will be produced. When more valuable wood should  be produced, the system will be :     1. Planting fast growing species.     2. After the alang-alang is suppressed the slow growing and more demanding  species is planted, while gradually the fast growing species is harvested.      A choice between exotic or indigenous species for forest plantation must be  done, considering very carefully the advantages and disadvantages of these  species. When the value, volume and production time of an exotic and an  indigenous species are comparable, the indigenous one is the preferred  choice. Use of exotic species is in principle only justified when a  sustainable forestry is assured. The reafforestation of alang-alang grassland  will create positive socio-economic impacts as well as environmental  impacts.


Author(s):  
Florina Popa

In a general sense, competitiveness is conveyed as the ability of a nation to lay the foundations and ensure an economic, social and political environment capable of sustaining the creation of added value, enabling the positioning of a country within global economy, from the perspective of comparing the performances obtained and the growth potential over time. The paper highlights the importance of increasing competitiveness of regional economy and the perspectives for their development. There are exhibited numerous aspects of the competitiveness concept expressed by definitions, formulated by experts that outline features of the phenomenon, as well as the interaction between knowledge and competitiveness. Finally, there are also shown some methods for measuring regional competitiveness.


Comunicar ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
María Lamuedra-Graván

This article aims to set a theoretical framework for a debate about the advantages and disadvantages of the actual way in which celebrities are portrayed in Spanish television. This work deals with how fame has been present in several societies over time. The phenomenon of celebrity is placed in a context that includes the USA and Britain. The piece introduces the idea, argued by a relevant number of Anglo-Saxon authors, that fame and democracy have walked and developed together in a number of countries.q Si hay un tipo de televisión que no queremos es la que se conoce como «televisión basura». Se trata de un concepto complejo, que el Consejo Audiovisual de Cataluña (CAC) ha definido con gran habilidad. No alude, según el CAC, a un género televisivo específico, ni se limita sólo al entretenimiento, sino que se produce cuando determinados programas degradan determinados géneros vulnerando los derechos fundamentales de terceras personas o por el atropello de valores democráticos o cívicos. A continuación el consejo considera que la telebasura se encuentra básicamente concentrada en la programación denominada «del corazón», aunque matiza que el género en sí no ha de caer irremisiblemente en los despropósitos propios de la telebasura y, de hecho, reconoce que no siempre lo hace. Este trabajo aborda de manera esquemática la evolución de la fama en nuestras sociedades, y se concentra en las circunstancias socio-económicas que han hecho posible su expansión. Tal material nos permitirá proceder a una breve reflexión acerca de la representación mediática de la fama hoy en día. Precisamente porque «el corazón» no es irremisiblemente telebasura, ni debemos permitir que los despropósitos en materia cívica propios de la telebasura secuestren las potencialidades positivas del género, que las tiene. Como el propio filósofo Emilio Lledó reconoce en una entrevista con Juan Cruz sobre la fama (Cruz, 1999). En la idea de la fama hay siempre ago positivo: la lucha por el reconocimiento que es una forma peculiar de compañía y solidaridad, y de «progreso» y «movimiento de tu ser». Aunque claro está, Lledó se refiere fundamentalmente a una fama que insta a aquel que la desea a ser mejor y superarse con el propósito de ser querido. En estos últimos años la importancia de los famosos en los medios de comunicación se ha intensificado. Esto, desde luego, es perceptible en España, pero está vigente en toda Europa, incluyendo los países nórdicos (Sparre, 2003), EE.UU, América Latina, y de manera progresiva, otras zonas del globo. En el texto completo de la comunicación se ofrecen razones contundentes que ilustran la proliferación del fenómeno de los famosos en el Reino Unido, EE.UU y otras áreas del mundo como se argumentará en el texto completo de la comunicación. El interés que despiertan los famosos y la destacada presencia de éstos, sobre todo en las sociedades occidentales permite establecer cierta vinculación entre los famosos y una serie de cambios sociales económicos y culturales propios de la era moderna, democrática y capitalista. Varios investigadores ligan el progreso de ‘la cultura de la celebridad’ en el siglo XX a la democracia. Entre ellos están Leo Braudy, Victoria Price, Richard Dyer, David Marshall y Chris Rojek. La fama en sí siempre ha existido, y el deseo de celebridad también, que Leo Broudy ya achaca a Alejandro Magno varios siglos antes del nacimiento de Jesucristo. Pero para que la fama y los famosos alcancen el grado de influencia y expansión actual han de producirse una serie de cambios sociales que se han sucedido desde el desarrollo de la fotografía y las agencias de noticias. La expansión de la fama es un fenómeno de la modernidad ilustrada, así como algunas perversiones de la fama pueden analizarse como síntomas de un desequilibrio entre valores democráticos y valores mercantilistas. En resumen, la comunicación que se propone trata la fama en un contexto social y económico amplio que puede aplicarse a Europa y Estados Unidos y describe los cambios más importantes del último siglo en la forma de entender este fenómeno. Todo ello tiene el objetivo de ofrecer una perspectiva amplia desde la que reflexionar acerca de la forma actual en la que los famosos aparecen en televisión en España, y en concreto acerca de la mercantilización de la fama y de la aparición de famosos que lo son por su relación con otros y no por motivos meritocráticos.


2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-244
Author(s):  
Claudia Florida Costea ◽  
Camelia Margareta Bogdanici ◽  
Alexandru Carauleanu ◽  
Gabriela Dimitriu ◽  
Anca Sava ◽  
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Since Ancient Egypt up to present day, there have constantly been attempts at creating a perfect ocular prosthesis, which would complement the outstanding deficit in the orbit as a result of enucleation, evisceration and which should be biocompatible with the orbital tissue. Over time, there have been used numerous clinical materials, which were the basis of these eye prostheses. By revising literature through the search engines PubMed, MEDLINE and other sources, this article aims at emphasizing, in a chronological sequence, the way in which different types of ocular prostheses were created, but also their advantages and disadvantages. The evolution and design of biomaterials improved the eye rehabilitation process and reduced the complications caused by these prostheses in the anophthalmic socket.


2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-28
Author(s):  
A. S. Solov’ev

The study of the methods revealed their advantages and disadvantages for further synthesis and optimization. The main task was to improve the most suitable method, which will have the maximum number of affecting factors. The experimental method is highly accurate, but it requires high costs to work on analogues for each specific type of fasteners. The calculated method based on a single experiment allows to determine time standards for various fasteners. The given method does not require high costs for experiments, but like the experimental method, does not take into account performance degradation with continuous operation time. This leads to serious errors in obtaining time standards for a large number of fasteners. The article shows the optimized model of calculated method, based on a linear approximation of dependence of the number of fasteners replacements (removals/installations) on time at multiple intervals. The optimized model allows to obtain time standards of typical fasteners replacement with different geometric characteristic taking into account performance degradation over time. Several experiments on the aircraft were conducted for testing the improved calculated method. On the basis of the experimental data the researchers built graphs of the number of fasteners replacements (removal/installation) on time with different geometric characteristics taking into account performance degradation over time. The data obtained is advisable to use for calculation maintainability factors on aircraft design stages. Program realization of these methods and systematization of the received time standards allow to improve maintainability, due optimization number and position of airframe fasteners and systems units and aviation equipment for the aircraft being designed and modernized. Application of the automated systems of design and analysis will contribute to labor input decrease at the aircraft maintainability analysis.


2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-28
Author(s):  
Yudi Zhang

Tourism shopping is an important part of the tourism industry as well as the regional economy. Tourism souvenirs sales, in most of the developed tourism areas, account for more than 35% of the total tourism revenues, and even in some individual regions the proportion can achieve more than 50%. But in China this proportion is only 20%. In this article, the corresponding analysis method is used to calculate and analyze the status quo of souvenir network marketing of the tourism website in China and Korea. The article describes the advantages and disadvantages of the tourism souvenirs network marketing in China and Korea, finding the deficiencies in China and analyzing the causes and providing the corresponding reference for the healthy development of China's tourism industry.


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