Regular budget assessments form the base for calculating peacekeeping bills, a system that has now become even more complex, by introducing a sliding scale of discounts depending on ability to pay.
Janssen said it had gone to "significant lengths" to find a solution, although the scale of the discount has not been made public.
As they try to lure customers through their doors, desperate shopkeepers are offering huge discounts.This year it is not just the scale of the discounts that is notable, but also how early the price-cutting began.
Its attorneys billed on a sliding scale of hourly rates — discounted for public-sector clients, Hansen said — that ranged from $525 for partners to $200 for paralegals.
In logistics application of hub network, aggregation of servicing demands in hub facilities creates economies of scale and discount factor is considered between hub-to-hub connections to take economies of scale into account.
With such small production runs, we don't get an economies of scale discount yet, so we will have to compete price-wise with the bigger players who have their own factories.
The scale of milk production (even discounting the very high estimates for 2013) and the amount of milk that is currently collected by the milk bulking groups for the formal market (processors and microprocessors) suggests that actually the two studied strategies could coexist, even with the processing sector operating at full capacity.
Do you really want a scale from a discount store?
If the measurements pertaining to the two archwires at the extremes of the scale are discounted, this still leaves 22 out of the 24 falling between the range ‒3.22% and +2.74%.
Discount factor γ (0≤γ<1) controls the time scale of reward prediction; a smaller γ results in steeper discounting of future rewards, leading to short-term reward prediction.
But I think it would be wrong to discount how monumental the scale of a flu epidemic could be.
