Though Dutch is usually described as lacking a voicing contrast at the velar place of articulation, due to intense language contact and heavy lexical borrowing, between /k/ /g/ has recently been emerging. We explored status this in speakers both production perception. asked participants produce loanwords containing source (e.g., goal) found range productions, including great many unadapted [g] ...

the main objective of this study was to investigate the economic efficiency of investment in sugar beet breeding research in iran. the required information including the value and cost of sugar beet production in 2010 and the budget allocated to the sugar beet breeding research were obtained from the office of statistics and information technology of ministry of jihad-e-agriculture and agricult...

Labour market imperfections are one of the leading causes of economic backwardness that result in under utilization of labour, the most important input in production process. Labour markets are shallow in subsistence agricultural economies which causes problem in determining the wage rate. The household production function provides an alternative to estimating the shadow wage rate such that it ...

this study investigates issues on efficiency and elasticity of broiler production in peninsular malaysia. data from 296 broiler farms were subjected to sfa, dea and bootstrap methods for technical efficiency; translog and tobit regression analyses to estimate elasticity of production and determinants of efficiency respectively in broiler production. we found that farmers produce mean efficiency...

this paper represents a theoretical model from which the supply function for a durable goods is derived. it turns out that consumer at the equilibrium condition equates its user cost with the marginal value of services received by using an additional unit of durable goods. the stock price is obtained from this condition. in addition, at the equilbrium condition for producer, the stock price is ...

production is hard to achieve by increasing cropping area due to limited water resources. so, increased yield per unit area may be the solution to increase production. investigating productivity of production factors is very important in this context. the objective of this study is to measure the productivity of production factors in sugar beet production in fars province. the data needed for t...

There is a strong societal need to evaluate and understand the sustainability of biofuels, especially because of the significant increases in production mandated by many countries, including the United States. Sustainability will be a strong factor in the regulatory environment and investments in biofuels. Biomass feedstock production is an important contributor to environmental, social, and ec...