The high number of equal and relatively simple orders of commodity services allows automation of many steps in the provisioning workflow.
Contingent valuation exercises with valuation of several different commodities may experience order-effect bias whereby the order of presentation of commodities to be valued has an influence on the valuation of individual goods.
RDCs can also be leveraged to substantially reduce lead time the time interval between the order and receipt of commodities.
Even as it was being done, analysts were getting new marching orders, a new list of commodities the secretary wanted approved for import.
Similarly, in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa, there are currently few well-developed, high-quality distributors that can be engaged as prime vendors to facilitate the direct purchase and distribution of commodities ordered from framework contracts.
The order of the top 8 commodities associated with the highest number of illnesses changed only slightly (ranks 5 and 6 switched); therefore, we included all outbreaks to maximize the data available for the lower-ranking commodities.
In order to elucidate the common characteristics of commodities consumed by households in terms of footprint generation, we compared footprints at the 409 commodity level.
In order to play the recovery, the purchase of a basket of commodities or commodity-related companies in such countries as Russia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Brazil that are sensitive to rising commodity prices, is a safer bet than buying U.S. equities.
Yet what is clear from Jack Turner's learned history is that the spices went on accumulating virtues - in kitchen, bedroom and temple - till they had passed beyond the realm of earthbound commodities into some order of their own.
To assess possible bias when including outbreaks with a suspected vehicle or etiology in our estimates, we compared the rank order of each of the 17 food commodities in our model based on the total number of associated illnesses with the rank order when including only those illnesses with a confirmed etiology and vehicle.
