A close relation exist between Forest products industries and water cycle. Water as a natural resource is assumed to be a necessary and vital element in pulp and paper manufacturing and power generation in the related power plants. The objective of the current study is to determine the main factors affecting the water consumption in recycled paper manufacturing companies using analytical hierar...

This paper details a team-based feedback approach for reducing resource consumption. The approach uses paper printing within office environments as a case study. It communicates the print usage of each participant’s team rather than the participant’s individual print usage. Feedback is provided weekly via emails and contains normative information, along with eco-metrics and team-based comparati...

Polistine and vespine wasps were captured in Malaise traps in two fire-modified shrubland habitats of varying canopy height and composition at Lake Ohia, Northland, New Zealand. Prey consumption rates were calculated for the Asian paper wasp (Polistes chinensis antennalis) occupying these two areas of shrubland and a home garden in Whangarei, Northland. The sites were systematically searched fo...

Osamu Aruga and Lina Walker provided excellent research assistance with the CEX and HRS data sets, respectively. We are grateful to John Bound, Miles Kimball, Jeff Liebman, Richard Rogerson, Matthew Shapiro and participants in seminars at Arizona State University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Michigan, Osaka University and Tokyo University for their helpful comments. This work...

skills of more useful and effective use of time is the key to management and organizations success.organization managers for obtimal use of time and prevention to time consumption, for development of time management, should know how to operate and use the time and exigency of using diamond model. checking and explication of the way of using manager’s time and recognizing of consumption factors,...

Using box-office data for all movies released between 1982 and 2000, I test the implications of a simple model of social learning in which the consumption decisions of individuals depend on information they receive from their peers. The model predicts different box office sales dynamics depending on whether opening weekend demand is higher or lower than expected. I use a unique feature of the m...

This paper analyses a growth model wherein saving results from bequestas-consumption. It first looks at the market equilibrium and at the optimal solution. Then it turns to the issue of decentralizing the optimal solution with various taxes and transfers. Depending on the available instruments, either a first-best or a second-best optimum can be achieved. Throughout the paper the results are co...

Two experiments were performed to investigate the influence of VDT (video display terminals) and paper presentation of text on consumption of information (Study 1) measured in the form of convergent production and production of information (Study 2) measured in form of divergent production. The READ test of reading comprehension was used as the convergent task whereas the ‘‘Headlines’’ test was...

this paper presents dynamic portfolio model based on the merton's optimal investment-consumption model, which combines dynamic synthetic put option using risk-free and risky assets. this paper is extended version of methodological paper published by yuan yao (2012) cite{26}. because of the long history of the development of foreign financial market, with a variety of financial derivatives, the ...