If we confuse the terms inform, alert and warn, we inadvertently shift the calculus of costs to the terrorists' advantage.
In the calculus of costs, risks, customers and logistics that goes into building global operations, an increasing number of firms are coming to the conclusion that China is not necessarily the best place to make things.With its seemingly limitless supply of cheap labour and the rapid acquisition of technological prowess, China appears to be unstoppable.
Bessen and Meurer's calculus of costs, and to a large degree, their calculus of patent value, is based on public companies -- i.e., companies that produce real products for real people in real competitive markets.
A detailed official calculus of the cost of the search efforts has not yet been made, but Australia alone has said that it would spend $84 million in 2013-14.
Third, will revised simulation models that include new information reflecting the recent findings of ACCORD, Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease: Preterax and Diamicron MR Controlled Evaluation (ADVANCE), and Veterans Affairs Diabetes Trial (VADT) change the calculus on cost-effectiveness of screening?
The E.P.A. and the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, which reviews all proposed federal regulations, have never used job figures as part of the calculus of the costs and benefits of rule-making, largely because there is no accepted methodology for assessing them.
New information technologies, says Cox, have revolutionized the calculus of production costs.
Mr. Pozycki, a man who lives and breathes campaign finance, says the "sick calculus" of sweetheart contracts costs taxpayers tens of millions of dollars each year.
But in our de-industrialized, indebted and deteriorating American economy, the cost-benefit calculus of war has shifted heavily to the cost side.
Since research in the lab and in the field both provide evidence that appropriators from common-pool resources do self-organize, the fourth section is devoted to the presentation of an initial theory of self-organization focusing on the benefit-cost calculus of individual appropriators.
