The opportunity cost of social relations: On the effectiveness of small worlds

On the cost–effectiveness of PRAMs

✍ Ferri Abolhassan; Jörg Keller; Wolfgang J. Paul 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 Springer-Verlag 🌐 English ⚖ 146 KB

Increasing the cost-effectiveness of sma

Increasing the cost-effectiveness of small solar photovoltaic pumping systems

✍ G.R. Whitfield; J.D. Burton 📂 Article 📅 1994 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 173 KB

Small photovoltaic pumping systems are needed in many parts of the world but are at present too expensive for most users. The cost can be reduced by using optical concentrators to reduce the cost of solar electricity, and by developing more efficient pump-motor-controller systems. The cost reduction

Increasing the cost-effectiveness of sma

Increasing the cost-effectiveness of small solar photovoltaic pumping systems

✍ G.R. Whitfield; R.W. Bentley; J.D. Burton 📂 Article 📅 1995 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 235 KB

Small photovoltaic pumping systems are needed in many parts of the world but are at present too expensive for most users. The cost can be reduced by using optical concentrators to reduce the cost of solar electricity, and by developing more efficient pump/motor/controller systems. The cost reduction

Social costs of robbery and the cost-eff

Social costs of robbery and the cost-effectiveness of substance abuse treatment

✍ Anirban Basu; A. David Paltiel; Harold A. Pollack 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 220 KB 👁 1 views

## Abstract Reduced crime provides a key benefit associated with substance abuse treatment (SAT). Armed robbery is an especially costly and frequent crime committed by some drug‐involved offenders. Many studies employ valuation methods that understate the true costs of robbery, and thus the true so

Effects of small world connection on the

Effects of small world connection on the dynamics of

✍ X. Xu; Z. H. Wang 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English ⚖ 823 KB

The accuracy of small world chains in so

The accuracy of small world chains in social networks

✍ Peter D. Killworth; Christopher McCarty; H. Russell Bernard; Mark House 📂 Article 📅 2006 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 465 KB

We analyse 10,920 shortest path connections between 105 members of an interviewing bureau, together with the equivalent conceptual, or 'small world' routes, which use individuals' selections of intermediaries. This permits the first study of the impact of accuracy within small world chains. The mean