Allocative efficiency of rural Nevada water systems: a hedonic shadow cost function
Countryside ; Economic efficiency ; Hedonistic model ; Nevada ; Price fixing ; United States of America ; Utility fonction ; Water ; Water economics ; Water use
The efficiency of the water utility firms in rural Nevada and their input optimization are examined. The methodology incorporates a hedonic specification of the cost function in estimating the effect of the regulatory environment and the quality
of water services on the optimum utilization of inputs. Allocative distortions are introduced through shadow prices.
The functions of roads according to regional political criteria
and social participation and utilization chances conveyed through the transport system. The function profiles form a fundamental input for the establishment of suitable constructive principles of road sections.
Regional political criteria are considered in the directions to road network construction. These networks are regarded as planning instruments and their various spatial functions are studied in Austria, as well as the corresponding economic
in the fieldwork, utilization of the main GIS functions in the analysis of geographical data and geostatistical methods in the construction of the digital geomorphological model (DGM). The digital geomorphology opens new investigative research fields, which
The paper presents the concept of digital geomorphology, situated on the boundary between geomorphology and geomatics. The digital geomorphology is characterized by: utilization of digital terrain data, use of modern measurement technologies
Critical utilization of a natural measure of proximities, based on the hypervolume of a multidimensional set, for a functional partition of space in Actes.
Statistical inference: the use of the likelihood function
L'inférence directe au moyen de la fonction de vraisemblance peut jouer un rôle utile dans l'inférence statistique en géographie. Description de ses bases pour des modèles simples et à deux paramètres et comparaison avec les références qui se
Voluntarism, municipalism and welfare : the geography of hospital utilization in England in 1938
The paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the pattern of hospital utilization prior the establishment of the NHS, showing the extent to which the probability of obtaining hospital treatment was a function of residence. Access to hospital care
Soil fauna in arid ecosystems: their role and functions in organic matter cycling
This short paper is based in part on the information available on the actual functioning and composition of the soil community. The soil biota activity, which utilizes the organic matter for biosynthesis and maintenance at different levels
Several variables are tested as predictive elements of the retail trade function in rural central places and central places in a metropolitan dominance field. Within a group of western Illinois central places multiple regression models employing
The town has retained its important trade-organizing function from the Middle Ages to our days. The utility network satisfies less and less the increased requirements. It is only partly able to fulfil urban functions. So the subcentres should
This paper defines the climatic and environmental conditions that determine the limits and continuity of permafrost occurrence, in the Canadian context. The analysis utilizes a functional model that links air, surface and permafrost temperature
through seasonal surface transfer functions and subsurface thermal properties. The temperature of permafrost (TTOP) results from the interplay between the air temperature, the nival (snow) offset and the thermal offset. These offset values vary