From simulation studies it is known that the allocation of experimental resources has a crucial effect on power of QTL detection as well as on accuracy and precision of QTL estimates. In this study, we used a very large experimental data set composed of 976 F(5) maize testcross progenies evaluated in 19 environments and cross-validation to assess the effect of sample size (N), number of test en...

population growth as well as development of industry and agriculture has increased the demand and competition over water resources in large watersheds especially in zayandeh rud basin and severely affected on agriculture and environment sectors. hence, providing a best scenario for the allocation of water in this basin is essential. in this study, due to alternating periods of wet, drought and ...

Related to the current discussion of value-at-risk-based capital allocation and performance management (RAPM) for managing bank capital, a risk theoretical RAPM-approach for propertylliability-insurance companies is presented. The paper discusses several central issues of a RAPM-approach: Virtual risk adjusted capital (VRAC) on the company level, return on risk adjusted capital (RORAC), risk ba...

A method is developed to estimate jointly risk preferences and technology under general conditions. The approach is illustrated in an application to the analysis of U.S. corn-soybean acreage decisions over time. The results provide useful information on the nature of farmers' risk preferences and on the influence of price risk and production risk on acreage allocation and fanners' welfare.

This paper shows that the type of production technology, specifically whether it exhibits decreasing returns to scale in capital, is an important factor in evaluating the welfare gain from liberalizing financial markets, and hence the optimal financial structure for a country. As financial markets become completely liberalized, countries gain from a better capital allocation as a result of impr...

The literature on the application of life cycle assessment (LCA) to process industry products and particularly to chemical processes has been reviewed. The main purpose of an LCA is to provide a quantitative assessment of the environmental impact of products over their entire life cycle, with a view to making improvements. Application to processes, which are key parts of the life cycle, is impo...