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FIG. 8-82 Installed flow characteristic as a function of percent of total system head allocated to the control valve (assuming constant head pump, no elevation head loss, and an R equal 30 equal-percentage inherent characteristic). 

COt concentrations have been rising steadily over the last 40 years and are expected to continue to rise, though the magnitude of the increase is uncertain (222). This could be expected to have important consequences for photosynthesis and hence exudation. However, Whipps (13) reported that the loss of a,ssimilated carbon from Zea mays roots was unaffected by atmospheric CO concentrations up to 1000 )il r. In contrast, Norby et al., (223) found that carbon allocation to roots and root exudation increased in Liriodendron tuUpifera grown in the presence of elevated CO levels. In Pimts echinata seedlings, there was increased exudation under elevated CO after 34 weeks but not after 41 weeks (224). 

Figure 8.2 illustrates the format of a typical absorption costing exercise. This exercise can easily be used to calculate the overall profit or loss of each enterprise and its profit margin. See for example Fig. 8.3. One of the difficulties of this exercise is allocating the fixed costs between the various enterprises. Take housing for example if the shed is shared between beef cattle and sheep, then the allocation of the cost could be made on a space and time basis. On a large-scale farm with several workers there will probably be a shepherd, a stockman, and a tractor driver for the arable crops. However, on a smaller farm where the farmer and his family do all the work then division of time between...

A formal comparison between a system of grants or rewards and that of patents was presented recently by Shavell and Ypersele.22 In their article they present a review of the two systems and the theoretical positions of each of them. They state that under the system of grants, insofar as there would be no welfare loss as a result of monopoly prices, the only deviation from optimal allocation would be in relation to the incentive to invest in research. This incentive can be ambivalent. If the social or aggregate surplus is greater than the reward or grant there will be insufficient incentives, and vice versa. Either of these two possibilities may occur, as the optimal reward is equal to the expected surplus under different demand curves. 

Mainstream economics presupposes that the market is, in conditions of perfect competition, an automatic mechanism for resource allocation that leads to allocative efficiency, that is, allows the maximization of consumers welfare with available resources. On this basis, liberal economists tend to defend that public powers should abstain from intervening in or regulating the market, assuming that the result of any intervention will distort resource assignation and cause efficiency and welfare losses for society. Nevertheless, even those economists who are most staunchly in favour of the free market acknowledge that there are situations in which laissez-faire, the inhibition of the public powers, is not the best course of action. 

The Dempser s rule of combination is often open to criticism since it entails two drawbacks. On the one hand, it has the effect of masking the aspect of conflict of the sources in question. Hence, there is a loss of information. On the other hand, when the conflict is great, renormalization may lead to counterintuitive results [20]. To solve this problem, several other combination rules have been defined and they often differ by the way the mass of evidence of an empty intersection is allocated. The choice of the combination rule reflects the interpretation of the mass allocated to the empty set. 

Coomans et al. have applied ALLOC to the differentiation of pure milk from different species and mixtures. A nonsymmetrical loss matrix was used in two-category classifications ... 

The ALLOC method with Kernel probability functions has a feature selection procedure based on prediction rates. This selection method has been used for miik >s5) and wine > data, and it has been compared with feature selection by SELECT and SLDA. Coomans et al. suggested the use of the loss matrix for a better evaluation of the relative importance of prediction errors. 

Costs. It has been established that chemical firms are allocating R D resources to solve environmental protection problems. Even though this research may be highly desirable from a societal posture, it does represent a diversion of R D resources from traditional goals of product development and process improvement. This diversion represents "opportunity costs" or the loss that the firms sustain by foregoing the benefits that are provided by traditional research projects. 

If funds are not allocated to purchase heavy fuel oil the country may continue to suffer from total losses of thermal power generation. This may be rather detrimental to the society in events of disrupted imports of natural gas supplies. 

Sinsabaugh, R. L., M. M. Carreiro, and D. A. Repert. 2002. Allocation of extracellular enzymatic activity in relation to litter composition, N deposition, and mass loss. Biogeochemistry, in press. 

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