This paper describes a simulation study that evaluated the performance of the scientific advisory process used by ICES to recommend total allowable catches (TACs) for roundfish stocks. A "management strategy evaluation" approach is used, involving development of an operating model to represent the underlying reality, and an observation model to gen...
Een alsmaar kritischer wordende consument, een steeds sterkere internationale concurrentie en verdiensten die al jaren onder druk staan. De pluimveevleessector kan herstellen van de klappen. Het project 'Veerkrachtige Pluimveevleesproductie' laat dat zien
The notion that all companies should have a strategy is widely accepted. It has to be noted that a company's competitiveness describe objectives, competencies, competitive advantage and strategies. The linkages among objectives, competencies and competitive advantage are influenced by competitive forces in the market. The purpose of this paper is t...
Published in Pensions: An International Journal
This paper aims to explore the incentives for pension funds to internationalise within the European Union. It reviews a theoretical framework from international business and banking literature and applies this to the internationalisation of pension funds. Finally, an assessment about the future path of pension fund internationalisation is made.
This paper explores the way in which dairy farmers perceive their environment (PE), i.e., the external context of their farm, and the uncertainty (PEU) this poses to them. The environment is defined using the STEP concept (society, technology, economy and politics) and Porter¿s five forces model. The relationship between the perception of the exter...
A new multiple-scatteringMonte Carlo 3-D radiative transfer model named McSCIA (Monte Carlo for SCIA-machy) is presented. The backward technique is used to efficiently simulate narrow field of view instruments. The McSCIA algorithm has been formulated as a function of the Earth's radius, and can thus perform simulations for both plane-parallel and ...
Published in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 14-Volume Set
This article begins by presenting basic definitions (language class, course, program, curriculum, and curriculum development) and an overview of books written on the topic of curriculum development. It then goes on to discuss the underpinnings of curriculum (five historical approaches and four basic philosophies); the contexts of curriculum (includ...
Current scientific management objectives for ICES roundfish stocks are to ensure conservation of the biological resource and do not explicitly consider economic or social objectives. For example, there are currently no objectives to maximize the sustainable yield or to reduce variability in total allowable catches (TACs). This is despite the fact t...
This final chapter is a personal reflection of the authors on this book. To find an answer to the question what the task is of landscape ecology, we split the question in two parts. The first past of the question is about science for society: what is the task of landscape ecology in a changing society and more specifically what is the role of lands...
