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Alternative Strategies for Primary Education in Indonesia: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
This report is divided into six major sections. Section 1 provides introductory and background material, as well as reviewing the available literature on the economic benefits of education. Section 2 discusses the cost and performance of the…
Another Method for the Symmetric Positive Semidefinite Linear Complementarity Problem
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Cost And Performance Of Computer-Assisted Instruction For Education Of Disadvantaged Children
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A Descriptive Classification Of General Purpose Programming Languages For The Non-Professional Programmer
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Distance And Health Services: Issues Of Utilization And Facility Choice For Demographic Strata
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Equivalent Formulations of the Stochastic Cash Balance Problem
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More on Quadratic Programming
The positive definite, equalities case of quadratic programming with n variables is converted into an n dimensional symmetric positive semidefinite linear complementarity problem, which can be solved by any of several methods, including a…
A New Approach To Job Shop Scheduling With Due Dates
The classical formulation of the static job shop scheduling problem with job due dates implies that: the question of interest to the manager is: What is the best that can be done to meet due dates with fixed resources? In this paper, two…
Regional Planning of Primary Health Care Services
A central problem in planning primary health care services for a specific target population is to understand how that population reacts to the mix of services provided and the way in which the delivery system is organized. An ability to determine…
A Spatial Allocation Model for Regional Health Services Planning
In planning for health services, the need arises to determine the location, capacity and number of health centers for a geographically defined region. The present paper formulates this problem in a form convenient for solution and presents…
Synthetic Program Specifications for Performance Evaluation
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The Process of Areawide Health Services Planning: A Normative Definition
A recent study of areawide health planning organization suggests that the widely publicized disillusionment with the planning concept is due in large part to the absence of a well-defined and proven planning process. With the assistance of health…
A Variable Nurse Staffing Model
When the staffing load on several separate work centers is variable but unpredictable i n advance, a variable staffing policy may be used as a means of increasing manpower efficiency. A variable staffing policy is one which provides for staffing…
Carrots or Sticks? Improving Social and Environmental Compliance at Suppliers Through Penalties and Incentives
Forthcoming in Production and Operations Management.
This paper explores the relationship between supplier penalties and incentives and performance.
Does Management Matter? Evidence from India
A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting on…