This study aimed to assess the impact of a four-point bonus system on recertification in Leadership Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB) 2009 office space projects four metropolitan cities: Washington, DC, Chicago, New York, San Francisco. We analyzed 123 paired LEED-EB where each pair (i.e., certification–recertification) was used same building. The percentage avera...

The global need to monitor the status of marine resources is a priority task in management, but most ocean surveys still rely on costly and time-consuming capture-based techniques. Here we test novel, easy-to use device collect eDNA board bottom trawl fishing vessels, during normal operations, quickly easily: custom-made rolls gauze tied hollow perforated spherical probe (the ‘metaprobe’) that ...

Economic theory suggests that the use of flat-rate compensation for military recruiters is sub-optimal. We elicited the preferences of U.S. Navy recruiters for a piece-rate compensation scheme, and find many would prefer a modest decrease in fixed salary in exchange for the opportunity to receive a small monetary bonus per high-quality recruit. Under such a bonus scheme, the Navy could hire few...

Crossbreeding can improve the profit for most dairy producers if economically similar breeds are used. However, it is important to stress that crossbreeding cannot replace pure breeding. Pure breeding is a prerequisite for crossbreeding. The heterosis obtained from crossbreeding is an added bonus on top of the genetic gain created by pure breeding. The size of the bonus depends on the number an...

Under the assumptions of an open portfolio, i.e., considering that a policyholder can transfer his policy to another insurance company and continuous arrival new policyholders into portfolio which be placed any bonus classes not only in starting class, we developed model (Stochastic Vortices Model) estimate Long Run Distribution for Bonus Malus System. These hypothesis render quite representati...