News tagged with economic models
In-store video ads a boon to retailers, a peril for traditional media
Feb 24, 2009 |
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Video advertising in stores is a moneymaker for retailers, but a growing threat to already cash-strapped print and broadcast media, according to a new study co-written by a University of Illinois business professor.
Blue ribbon task force: Economic plans needed to preserve digital data
Dec 16, 2008 |
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A blue ribbon task force, commissioned late last year to identify sustainable economic models to provide access to the ever-growing amount of digital information in the public interest, has issued its interim report. The ...
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No crystal ball necessary: New tool IDs predictable economic variables
Jul 21, 2009 |
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You don't need a crystal ball to tell you what is going to happen next in the economy. You need a statistical model. A new method from North Carolina State University can help researchers determine which economic variables ...
Reducing carbon emissions could help -- not harm -- US economy
Mar 19, 2008 |
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A national policy to cut carbon emissions by as much as 40 percent over the next 20 years could still result in increased economic growth, according to an interactive website that reviews 25 of the leading economic models ...
Targeted investments in climate science could present enormous economic savings across the globe
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Targeted investments in climate science could lead to major benefits in reducing the costs of adapting to a changing climate, according to new research published by scientists from the UK's National Centre for Atmospheric ...
Agent-based computer models could anticipate future economic crisis
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 25, 2008 |
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As the stock market continues its dive, economists and business columnists have spilled a lot of ink assigning responsibility for the ongoing financial calamity. While hindsight might be clear as day, researchers at the U.S. ...
Agent-based computer models could anticipate future economic crisis
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Nov 17, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As the stock market continues its dive, economists and business columnists have spilled a lot of ink assigning responsibility for the ongoing financial calamity. While hindsight might be clear ...
Climate change: When it rains it (really) pours
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 07, 2008 |
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Climate models have long predicted that global warming will increase the intensity of extreme precipitation events. A new study conducted at the University of Miami and the University of Reading (U.K.) provides ...
Mediterranean Sea level could rise by 61 cm
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 04, 2009 |
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A Spanish-British research project has come up with three future scenarios for the effects of climate change on the Mediterranean over the next 90 years, using global models from the Intergovernmental Panel ...
You don't have to be psychic to predict the future
Jun 27, 2008 |
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A team of researchers from UQ's Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) has proved you don't have to be psychic to predict the future.
University research worth $187 billion over 12 years, group says
Oct 31, 2009 |
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In what it calls a first-of-its-kind study, the nation's leading biotechnology trade group this week put a dollar figure on the value of university-driven research, asserting that economic output grew $187 billion from 1996-2007 ...
Policies for renewable energy boost economy and jobs
Jun 04, 2009 |
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The study which was coordinated by Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Inno-vation Research ISI shows that, by improving current policies the target of 20% RES in final energy consumption in 2020 can be achieved, which will ...
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