The Engineering economistPub Date : 2017-01-01Epub Date: 2017-03-22DOI: 10.1080/0013791X.2017.1294718
David A Munoz, Mehmet Serdar Kilinc, Harriet B Nembhard, Conrad Tucker, Xuemei Huang
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