Shariah Monitoring, Agency Cost and Fund Performance in Malaysian Mutual Funds by Sofi, Mohd Fikri, Yahya, Mohamed Hisham

“…Thus, the Shariah monitoring proxy is not a good mechanism for controlling agency costs inconsistent with performance maximizing (agency cost minimizing) outcomes. …”
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Continuous-time best-response and related dynamics in Tullock contests with convex costs by Elkind, E, Ghosh, A, Goldberg, PW

“…We show that continuous-time best-response dynamics in Tullock contests with convex costs converges to the unique equilibrium using Lyapunov-style arguments. …”

Heterogeneities in landed costs of traded grains and oilseeds contribute to unequal access to food by Verschuur, J, Vittis, Y, Obersteiner, M, Hall, JW

“…Despite the growing accessibility of international grain and oilseed markets, high production costs and trade frictions are still prevalent, contributing to regional heterogeneities in the landed cost of grain imports. …”

The external incentives model embedded: evidence from the European Union's eastern neighbourhood by Buscaneanu, Sergiu, Li, Andrew X.

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Total Cost of Ownership and Evaluation of Google Cloud Resources for the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC by Aad, G, Aakvaag, E, Abbott, B, Abdelhameed, S, Abeling, K, Abicht, NJ, Abidi, SH, Aboelela, M, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Ackermann, A, Bourdarios, CA, Adamczyk, L, Addepalli, SV, Addison, MJ, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Barr, AJ, Bortoletto, D, Bruckler, TL, Celli, F, Chen, M, Conroy, EI, Cooper-Sarkar, AM, Dingley, T, Draguet, MA, Eberwein, GH, Frost, JA, Gallas, EJ, Grabarczyk, RP, Grundy, JC, Gwenlan, C, Harris, YT, Haslbeck, F, Hays, CP, Hodkinson, BH, Huffman, TB, Iizawa, T, Karava, K, Koch, SF, Li, Z, Moser, B, Nagai, K, Nedic, L, Nickerson, RB, Pacey, HA, Rossi, E, Ruggiero, A, Schopf, E, Shipsey, IPJ, Smith, HA, Sultan, DMS, Viehhauser, GHA, Weidberg, AR, Yildirim, TP

“…For the first time a total cost of ownership analysis has been performed, to identify the dominant cost drivers and explore effective mechanisms for cost control. …”

Analysis the causes of delay to control cost escalation in construction projects in the state of Yemen / by Al-Ashmori, Yasser Yahya Abdullah, 1987-, author 526595, Aziruddin Ressang 210361, Fakulti Kejuruteraan Awam 8022

Condition assessment and life cycle cost analysis framework for reinforced concrete building / by Muhammad Zubair Tajol Anuar, 1991-, author 568249

The announcement waiting game : holding costs, trading, and returns around earnings announcements by De Silva, Tim(Timothy Harindra)

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Going Green for Less Green: Optimizing the Cost of Reducing Cloud Carbon Emissions by Hanafy, Walid A., Liang, Qianlin, Bashir, Noman, Souza, Abel, Irwin, David, Shenoy, Prashant

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Flexible batch electrodialysis for low-cost solar-powered brackish water desalination by He, Wei, Le Henaff, Anne-Claire, Amrose, Susan, Buonassisi, Tonio, Peters, Ian Marius, Winter, Amos G

“…Future advances could further reduce costs, providing an improved, sustainable solution to water scarcity in remote areas.…”
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Reading Between the Lines: Modeling User Behavior and Costs in AI-Assisted Programming by Mozannar, Hussein, Bansal, Gagan, Fourney, Adam, Horvitz, Eric

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Clinical Cost-Effectiveness as a Novel Metric for Steering Emerging Medical Technology by Richards, Daniel Herndon

“…Insights from CEA may also help to assess trade-offs in capabilities and cost, as well as observe trends in clinical performance.…”
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Dynamic scan chains : a novel architecture to lower the cost of VLSI test by Sitchinava, Nodari S. (Nodari Shalva), 1981-

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Risk assessment model for UAV cost-effective path planning in urban environments by Hu, Xinting, Pang, Bizhao, Dai, Fuqing, Low, Kin Huat

“…We adjusted the risk costs in various magnitudes to a same scale and conducted a sensitivity analysis to determine the optimal coefficients of the three risk cost models. …”
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Cost-effectiveness of MRI targeted biopsy strategies for diagnosing prostate cancer in Singapore by Cheng, Li-Jen, Soon, Swee Sung, Tan, Teck Wei, Tan, Cher Heng, Lim, Terence Sey Kiat, Tay, Kae Jack, Loke, Wei Tim, Ang, Bertrand, Chiong, Edmund, Ng, Kwong

“…To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of six diagnostic strategies involving magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) targeted biopsy for diagnosing prostate cancer in initial and repeat biopsy settings from the Singapore healthcare system perspective.…”
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Stratus cluster scheduler: enhancing cloud efficiency and reducing costs in VM deployment by Kho, Marcus Han Kiat

“…In a public cloud, when there is an increasing demand for cloud services, traditional assignments-a VM for every task-suffer from huge underutilization of resources, with high costs. Using CloudSim Plus with Google trace data (2011v2), the study evaluates the performance of Stratus against a baseline configuration that shows huge improvements in VM CPU utilization, task execution times, and total cost efficiency. …”
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Development of a power-efficient low-cost cryptosystem for secured embedded systems by Pua, Yi Cheng.

“…One of the most widely used and costly operation on finite fields is the multiplication operation. …”
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A low cost solar energy converter for isolated load and/or battery charging by Tan, Diana Soon Cheng

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Aerodynamic optimization and drag minimization for the ultra low cost UAV piquero aerodynamic by Liu, Hao

“…The Galapagos UAV project aims to develop a low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the Piquero, to patrol the Galapagos Islands to protect the wildlife there from illegal hunting activities. …”
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Building a low cost advanced driver assistance system : human detection by Tan, Yan Ling

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