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International economists typically assume that temporary real exchange rate shocks can have only temporary real effects — and no effect at all on the underlying structure of the economy. This paper shows that even in a simple "off—the—shelf ' industrial orgaxrization model

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This article describes the life cycle concept that can be used to evaluate the true cost of the product. It can help managers to understand acquisition costs versus operating and support costs. Life Cycle Costing (LCC) method can be used to evaluate alternatives being con-sidered for either to buy

Cost concepts, cost determinants, cost output relationship in the short and long run, Break-Even analysis. UNIT V- Features and types of different competitive situations

the investment decision. Keywords Break-even analysis, fixed costs, variable costs, break-even point.

. In many situations, the costs of dynamic optimizations outweigh their benefit, so that no break-even point is ever reached. In favorable circumstances, on the other hand, speed-ups of over 120% have been observed. It appears as if the main beneficiaries of continuous optimization are shared libraries

for cases in which, due to the nature of the problem, it is not possible to find the break-even point. We propose two situations to deal with approximate break-even when the information regarding marginal contributions and /or total fixed costs is uncertain. A fuzzy linear programming method is applied

is reasonable for practical live streaming system, simple pull-based P2P streaming protocol is nearly optimal in terms of peer upload capacity utilization and system throughput even without intelligent scheduling and bandwidth measurement. We also indicate that whether this near optimality can be achieved