diminishing returns
Challenging the 'Law of diminishing returns'
... Now that the Law has again been brought to the attention of the research community there are, in fact, good reasons to question its validity. One set of reasons derives from the fact that proponents of this law have ...
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Biased Estimates of Diminishing-Returns Epistasis? Empirical Evidence Revisited
... on diminishing-returns epistasis for fitness in ...for diminishing-returns epistasis by regressing observed on predicted fitness, using reduced major axis regression and testing for a slope ...
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The diminishing returns of atovaquone proguanil for elimination of Plasmodium falciparum malaria: modelling mass drug administration and treatment
... greatly, resulting in diminishing returns for a strategy of this type. This did not occur with artemisinin resis- tance, which spread very little during a round of MDA. This is partly because of the ...
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Does the law of diminishing returns in leaf scaling apply to vines? Evidence from 12 species of climbing plants
... “ diminishing returns ” in leaf scaling, depicting the phenomenon that the increase in leaf area does not keep pace with that of leaf dry mass, implying that for a > 1 the increase in leaf ...
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Spearman’s Law of Diminishing Returns (SLODR): Examining Effects at the Level of Prediction
... The current study presents the results of an incremental validity investigation using a hierarchical multiple regression design, examining standard score data from the standardization sample (N = 4,722) of the ...
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Consumer Satisfaction And Stock Price Behavior: A Case Of Diminishing Returns
... This study is designed to examine if stock prices of bottom-performing ACSI companies appreciate more than stock prices of top-performing ACSI companies. The results suggest that customer satisfaction is more significant ...
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General Pediatrics, Neonatology, and the Law of Diminishing Returns
... clinician supply to net population benefits. In popu- lations with relatively low supply, the net benefits to the population should rise steeply as the supply increases. The pediatric populations on this ascend- ing part ...
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Diminishing Returns of Population Size in the Rate of RNA Virus Adaptation
... With the usually high mutation rate of RNA viruses and in a large enough population, several beneficial mutations could arise at the same time but in different genetic backgrounds, and i[r] ...
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Agricultural Modernization, Structural Change and Pro-poor Growth: Policy Options for the Democratic Republic of Congo
... This indicates that age has diminishing returns, meaning that it is beneficial for pro-poor growth until 39 in rural areas and 46 in urban areas, after which increases in age will decrea[r] ...
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“A fascinating show for John Citizen and his wife”:advertising exhibitions in early twentieth century London
... Despite calls for the exhibition to become a yearly event, the industry, perhaps mindful of the diminishing returns which had set in before the war, held back.41 The establishment of the[r] ...
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Allocating Planning Effort When Actions Expire
... After making these modifications, we can use the algo- rithm for diminishing returns to create a schedule that is optimal for the modified profiles and the proxy deadlines. However, the resulting schedule ...
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Understanding the impact of data sparsity and duration for location prediction applications
... of diminishing returns in predictive accuracy when collecting user location data at increased rates over a fixed period, and (ii) the duration over which a fixed size sample of location data is collected ...
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The Impact of Macroscopic Epistasis on Long-Term Evolutionary Dynamics
... ABSTRACT Genetic interactions can strongly influence the fitness effects of individual mutations, yet the impact of these epistatic interactions on evolutionary dynamics remains poorly understood. Here we investigate the ...
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Introduction
... increasing returns should not be overstated. In wartime, many returns continue to diminish, and this accounts for important ...recognized diminishing returns to air power: sooner or later, ...
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The Nonstationary Dynamics of Fitness Distributions: Asexual Model with Epistasis and Standing Variation
... fitness or the MGF of the fitness distribution, is only slightly affected by drift over this timescale. It is only once new mu- tants establish (or not) that the future of the fitness dynamics is inaccurately predicted by a ...
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How Islamic is the diminishing musharakah model used for home financing?
... On a sober note, larger initial payments tapering off with the passage of time are likely to be helpful to the young with no or small family to start with. Diminishing installments would certainly be welcome at a ...
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Diminishing balance model for Islamic home finance: Final version
... To set the stage for final comparison, let us explain briefly the working of our Diminishing Balance Model the DBM. We continue with our illustration. The bank proposes to the customer as follows. We will pay RM ...
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Determinants of Foreign Institutional Investors’ Investment in India
... Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) were permitted to invest in all the listed securities traded in Indian capital market for the first time in September, 1992. As per the RBI, Report on Currency & Finance ...
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How Islamic is the diminishing musharkah model used for home financing?
... 3. and for the investors to securitize their ownership investment in homes. The basic concept behind these contracts and documents is that the property is purchased in joint ownership between an affiliate of Guidance ...
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Diminishing adenovirus gene expression and viral replication by promoter replacement.
... Expression of viral genes in packaging cells but not in vivo in humans could be achieved by replacing the viral gene promoter with an inducible or synthetic promoter that is active in the packaging cell lines only when a ...
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