While MESH, AREA_MN, and LPI could be appropriate for assessing ecosystem services in our African landscapes, COHESION and AI could represent the most plausible utility metrics for application in spatial planning because they were less redundant.
Our findings suggest that scores based on the Japanese preference weights could be regarded as the baseline utility values for future cost-effectiveness evaluations, whilst the results based on the UK and US populations could provide a plausible range of utilities estimates for sensitivity analysis.
Diamond (1965) explains that no utility-discounting leads to a contradiction when some assumptions are imposed in addition to plausible standards of utility-stream comparison.
This looks like a plausible model for how utilities will react when they receive free permits, and the government asks them, sweetly, pretty please, to invest in carbon sequestration or other breakthrough technology.
CNS: central nervous system; DVT: deep vein thrombosis; ICU: intensive care unit; PE: pulmonary embolism Table of utilities and plausible ranges used for the decision analysis.
In such social situations, in the western world at least, it is plausible that many peoples' utility function is similar to that for our Same and Diverse game: individuals value some level of diversity but do not want to be in a clear minority.
Additionally, as is plausible, if the worker's utility is such that it assigns positive utility to mandate social benefits only after a minimum level of income is achieved (wl), then condition (10.4) guarantees a cutoff point regardless of the sign of HI − γ.
Logistic regression was used to impute the binary variable of resource use and truncated linear regression was used to ensure that the imputations of the continuous variables of the costs and health utilities were within plausible ranges (eg, health utility was bound between −0.6 and 1).
And because ACS competes directly with Iberdrola in engineering and in wind power, the utility has a plausible argument, beyond its recent delaying tactics, to keep it off the board indefinitely.Iberdrola is also facing questions about its response to ACS.
From this, the authors reflect on whether retail competition is a desired utility business model, and conclude that plausible alternatives hold far more promise.
