Organisational Comparisons

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Coureaud, G., Rodel, H.G., Kurz, C., von Holst, D. and Schaal, B. (2006b) Age-related changes in the processing of the rabbit mammary pheromone comparison in domestic and wild pups. 17th Congress of the European Chemoreception Research Organisation, Granada, Spain, and Chem. Senses 31, 274 (abstract online). 

A risk-benefit assessment of a drug can be made looking at the risks of the disease being treated, the chance of improvement by the drug, and the risk from the treatment. A risk-benefit assessment can also be comparative between two or more treatments for the same indication and also examine costs to individuals and the community. It is clear that these assessments should have complete contemporary data for all aspects, and that the data should be organised in such a way as to make qualitative and quantitative comparison easy. 

The chapter is organised as follows In the following section 2 we focus on the traditional sales concept and the consequences of information exchange. In section 3 we introduce possible objectives of Chemical Leasing business models and in comparison to the sales concept discuss differences in information management. In section 4 we turn our attention to the applicability of Chemical Leasing business models in practice. Section 5 closes with a summary and discussion of results. 

A wide range of indicators are being used in the description of the environmental impacts of agriculture. Particularly, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) pushes the development of a common set of indicators at an international level. The assessment presented here is based on the Driver-State-Response (DSR) framework that has been developed by the OECD in (OECD 1997). This frameworkis internationally accepted and allows cross-country comparisons. Whenever appropriate, simplifications and modifications have been made. 

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