Returns, Diminishing
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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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
... Incremental validity refers to the “extent to which a measure adds to the prediction of a criterion beyond what can be predicted with other data” (Hunsley, 2003, p. 443). Incremental validity is rooted in the scientific ...
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Consumer Satisfaction And Stock Price Behavior: A Case Of Diminishing Returns
... his study examines the association between customer satisfaction and stock appreciation. Based on current theoretical concepts and past research, we hypothesize that if customer satisfaction improves, it will have a ...
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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 safeguards, increasing returns: Non refoulement gaps in the EU return and readmission system EPC Discussion Paper, 4 October 2019
... Second, it is pertinent to challenge the narrow definition of effective returns. Evaluating return policy purely through numbers of individuals exiting Europe does not only miss a crucial fundamental rights ...
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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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Market Middlemen and Determinants of the Price Spread under Competition
... behavior. Diminishing marginal returns to use of va- riable factor inputs produces three important predictions: a) the price spread between the output price and raw material price is positively correlated ...
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The Impact of Macroscopic Epistasis on Long-Term Evolutionary Dynamics
... In this article, we propose a general framework for quantifying patterns of macroscopic epistasis from observed differences in adaptability. We then use this framework to investigate the role of epistasis in a ...
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Solow Swan growth model and the fortunes of the commons
... private returns from private capital investment maybe diminishing, if the investment has a spillover effect, then the social returns to capital may be higher and possible ...
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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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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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Allocating Planning Effort When Actions Expire
... We introduce a formal MDP model of our deliberation scheduling problem, and analyze its complexity. As solv- ing the MDP is computationally hard, we examine the pos- sibility to provide simple (”linear”) schedules as a ...
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Diversification returns, rebalancing returns and volatility pumping
... the expected GM will be only slightly below the expected GM of the rebalanced portfolio. Annex 2 confirms this by showing that an unrebalanced portfolio which is initially 50% cash generates expected growth of ...
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A Suggestion on Mortgage Financing of Islamic Banks: Diminishing Musharakah
... Since Diminishing Musharakah is considered among the assets of interest-free financing institutions, is also comes to the forefront as an instrument of Islamic bonds that may be the subject matter of being ...
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Evidence of Diminishing Marginal Product of Wetlands for Damage Mitigation
... The rate at which wetland systems mitigate damages varies spatially. It has been shown that larger wetlands re- duce wave energy more effectively, but that wave attenuation rates decrease as wetland area increases. So, ...
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On mappings with diminishing orbital diameters
... Abstract. We introduce the concepts of ∗ -diminishing orbital diameters and diminishing orbital diameters for a pair (f , g) of self mappings in metric spaces and prove common fixed point theorems for these ...
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Diminishing demandingness of parents; children with recurrent infections
... more complex. Our results show diminishing deman- dingness in complex pedagogic situations. When a child has recurrent respiratory infections, this can be construed as an extra difficulty being added, creating ...
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Application of total variation diminishing for 1D nozzle problem
... Abstract. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is very widespread use every day as a tool in fluid flow analyses. In order to solve the Partial Differential Equation (PDE), there are few approach been introduced. The total ...
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