Essays about: "budget and cost control"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words budget and cost control.

  1. 1. Babies on a Budget: How the Cost of Child-Rearing Affects Fertility in Japan

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Malkolm Banker; Malin Lundblad; [2023]
    Keywords : fertility; family planning; panel data; child-rearing costs; child penalty;

    Abstract : This paper examines the relationship between child-rearing costs and fertility in Japan. Using panel data from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers, we investigate the issue through two distinct approaches. Firstly, we construct a proxy for expected child-rearing costs and attempt to find a link to the propensity of having children. READ MORE

  3. 2. Low-Temperature Thermal Control System for an Environmental Chamber

    University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Rymdteknik

    Author : Aleksis Pauls Lindemanis; [2022]
    Keywords : Space simulator; environmental chamber; thermal control design; thermal conductivity in bolted joints; thermal simulations; Mars climate; Carbon dioxide sublimation and deposition;

    Abstract : In spite of significant reduction of cost associated with launching a spacecraft, launching deep space exploratory missions are yet to be accessible to most universities and researchers. A solution to testing scientific hypotheses and verifying technologies for space is the use of environmental chambers, also know as space simulators, - vacuum chambers, which replicate the space environment. READ MORE

  4. 3. Narratives, attribution, & identity construction : A discursive psychological analysis of Swedish assistant nurses’ use of opinion texts to argue against organisational change

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Psykologi

    Author : Cassandra Nilsson; [2022]
    Keywords : organisational change; shiftwork; assistant nurses; discursive psychology; narrative structure; attribution; identity construction;

    Abstract : Background: Most likely given the increase in sick leave absence with mental health issues as the dominant cause, the Swedish Work Environment Agency has released a new regulation regarding the organisational and psychosocial work environment. Shiftwork has been given special attention. READ MORE

  5. 4. Next generation low-cost automated guided vehicle

    University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för ingenjörsvetenskap

    Author : Yevheniy Dzezhyts; [2020]
    Keywords : ROS; low-cost; AGV; AMR; autonomous navigation;

    Abstract : Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are the key equipment of flexible production systems and an important means for realizing a modern logistics system that meets the demands of Industry 4.0. AGVs are used from the mid 50th to delegate monotonous work of delivering products from the human to the automated device. READ MORE

  6. 5. Political budget cycles under single party- and coalition governments How the composition of local governments affects opportunistic fiscal policy

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : William Wedenberg Lisa Andersson; [2019-10-21]
    Keywords : Political budget cycles; ; veto player theory; local governments; power dispersion;

    Abstract : This paper examines the empirical relationship between political budget cycles (PBCs) and two types of governments; single party- and coalition governments. Most PBC models implicitly assume that governments have unitary preferences and unconstrained control over fiscal policy, as is the case under single-party governments. READ MORE