Informal land markets, particularly land rental markets, are emerging rapidly in many parts of subSaharan Africa (SSA). Land rental markets have the potential to contribute to structural transformation if, for example, such markets facilitate the transfer of land from less productive to more productive farming households. Although there is a growing literature on the determinants of smallholder...

The problem of filtering low-frequency trend from a given time series is considered. In order to solve this problem, a nonparametric technique called empirical mode decomposition trend filtering is developed. A key assumption is that the trend is representable as the sum of intrinsic mode functions produced by the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) of the time series. Based on an empirical anal...

Background Using Section 8 project-based rental assistance contracts, HUD contracts with for-profit owners of private multifamily housing, who in turn make specific rental properties available to qualified low-income households. Typically, the subsidy will pay the difference between 30 percent of the household’s income and the contract rent; this subsidy is paid by HUD to the landlord. Approxim...

The final quarter of the twentieth century has seen the arrival of the claim for educational malpractice, or educational negligence, by students who have failed to learn. Generally speaking, the claim has been that the professional behaviour of teachers, or educational psychologists and/or other providers of educational services has breached the duty of care to educate, with the consequence tha...

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INTRODUCTION It is well-established that low socioeconomic status (SES) influences one's health status, morbidity and mortality. Housing type has been used as an indicator of SES and social determinant of health in some studies. In Singapore, home ownership is among the highest in the world. Citizens who have no other housing options are offered heavily subsidised rental housings. Residents sta...

We study inventory control for rental operations in a closed-loop supply chain. In such a system (e.g., Netflix), customers create online queues in a service provider’s website to indicate the items that they would like to rent. Leveraging this advance demand information, we propose effective forecast models and formulate a multi-item inventory control problem. We prove that the (L,U) policy is...

This paper presents a bicriteria in n-jobs, three machines flow shop scheduling to minimize the total elapsed time and rental cost of the machines taken on rent under a specified rental policy in which the processing time, independent setup time each associated with probabilities including transportation time and job block criteria. Further the concept of the break down interval for which the m...