This paper uses cointegration to evaluate long-run foreign exchange exposure. Since this technique requires exchange rates to be nonstationary, such that purchasing power parity does not hold in the long run, the analysis focuses on recent empirical findings suggesting that real exchange rates are nonstationary particularly because of oil price changes. Hence, the paper also estimates long-run ...

in order to study the influence of compost and biofertilizer on yield and essential oil of dill (anethum graveolens l.), an experiment was conducted as factorial experiment in the base of randomized complete blocks design with eight treatments and three replications at research field of agriculture company of ran in firouzkuh of iran in 2012. the factors were compost in four levels (0, 5, 10 an...

BACKGROUND To elucidate the relationship between safety culture maturity and safety performance of a particular company. METHODS To identify the factors that contribute to a safety culture, a survey questionnaire was created based mainly on the studies of Fernández-Muñiz et al. The survey was randomly distributed to 1000 employees of two oil companies and realized a rate of valid answer of 51...

This paper examines the importance of learning-by-doing that is specific not just to individual firms, but to pairs of firms working together in a contracting relationship. Using new, detailed data from the oil and gas industry, I find that the joint productivity of an oil production company and its drilling contractor is enhanced significantly as they accumulate experience working together. Th...

In this paper the extraction of oils from trout waste is investigated. Trout heads, viscera and spine, obtained from a fish-processing company, have been separately freeze-dried and then extracted. Two different solvent extraction techniques have been utilized and compared: the common soxhlet extraction, which utilizes n-hexane at atmospheric pressure as solvent, and the supercritical CO2 extra...

The study of the sensitivity to tea tree oil (Australian Company TTD International Pty. Ltd. Sydney) was carried out on 193 strains of anaerobic bacteria isolated from patients with various infections within the oral cavity and respiratory tracts. The susceptibility (MIC) of anaerobes was determined by means of plate dilution technique in Brucella agar supplemented with 5% defibrinated sheep bl...

This paper describes a research strategy and its results, which guided a 40+ year collaboration between Abraham Charnes and William W. Cooper, which was initiated in a research center established at the (then) new Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). Initiated in collaboration with Bob Mellon of Gulf Oil Company, this...

Food for Thought ... Read-Across Approaches – Misconceptions, Promises and Challenges Ahead Grace Patlewicz , Nicholas Ball , Richard A. Becker , Ewan D. Booth , Mark T. D. Cronin , Dinant Kroese , David Steup , Ben van Ravenzwaay 8 and Thomas Hartung 9 1 DuPont Haskell Global Centers for Health and Environmental Sciences, Newark, DE, USA; 2 Toxicology & Environmental Research and Consulting (T...

TOTAL is the fourth largest multinational oil company in the world after Royal Dutch Shell, BP and Exxon Mobil. It has been strictly under the scrutiny of the public in regards to its operation in Burma where the governments significantly violate human rights. Its investment is considered by many international human rights groups to be supporting the military regime and thus supporting the junt...

The Norwegian company Omya Hustadmarmor supplies calcium carbonate slurry to European paper manufacturers from a single processing plant, using chemical tank ships of various sizes to transport its products. Transportation costs are lower for large ships than for small ships, but their use increases planning complexity and creates problems in production. In 2001, the company faced overwhelming ...