For instance Zou et al. (2016) [18] used disaggregate data obtained from surveying freight vehicles' drivers that parked on-street in New York to derive a Cox proportional-hazard model of parking durations, using as explanatory variables the arrival time, commodity handled, type of vehicle and parking location.
Commodities handled included cotton, grain, wool, textile machinery and steam locomotives.
NYMEX is predominantly an open-outcry commodities exchange handling the trades of futures contracts and options on futures contracts.
Glass races along one conveyor belt, paper along another, metal along another still and, the most complex commodity to handle, plastics hurtle down another.
At present, commodity traders handle the majority of the imports.
More and more are we likely to get the less desirable classes of cargo — the commodities invariably handled by slow ships at low freight rates.
I assume that the initial endowment consists of (currently) nonproduced factors, capital K and labor L. This dichotomy between produced and nonproduced commodities is handled by reserving the last two dimensions for capital and labor, with prices r and w.
Barclays Capital has named Russell Norton in a new post of director and head of commodities for Asia, handling its planned growth in sales and trading.
(2) The introduction of a new method of production, that is one not yet tested by experience in the branch of manufacture concerned, which need by no means be founded upon a discovery scientifically new, and can also exist in a new way of handling a commodity commercially.
"You don't want to use products from companies that perceive themselves as commodity suppliers to handle your data," says Robert Shimp, vice president of technology marketing at Oracle in Redwood Shores, Calif.
