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The Rate of Return on Investment in Durable Goods
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The Stationary Distribution of Returns and Portfolio Separation in Capital Markets: A Fundamental Contradiction
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The University Library: Analysis and Proposals
The operation of the university library as a means to supply information is examined. It is shown that despite the increase in size of libraries, their standard of service is declining. Reasons for this decline are advanced. The strategic goals…
The Use of an Information System and Performance: Implications for Systems Design
A descriptive model of the use of an information system and user performance is presented. Data from a study of the use of a sophisticated sales information system and sales representative performance are analyzed according to the guidelines of…
A Two Asset Deterministic Cash Balance Problem
This paper considers a two-asset cash management problem in which transfers between the cash account and a portfolio of earning assets are used to control a cash account subject to a sequence of deterministic inflows and outflows. Transaction,…
Advertising As A Source Of Monopoly Power
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An Alternative Simplex Criterion Under Degeneracy
When degeneracies occur, the simplex multipliers can no longer be interpreted as derivatives of the optimal value of the current basic feasible solution with respect to a non-basic variable. This paper develops an alternative criterion for…
An Empirical Study of the User-Computer Interface
A general model of conflict is applied to a description of the user-computer interface. The importance of minimizing conflict between users and the computer department is stressed. A questionnaire survey in six companies was used to help define…
An Equilibrium Model of the International Capital Market
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An Extension of the Frank and Wolfe Method of Feasible Directions
The Frank and Wolfe method of feasible directions is shown to be a case of the more general computational approach of inner linearization followed by restriction. An extension is proposed based on this observation. The extended procedure…
An Integrated Health Services Data System
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An International Market Model of Security Price Behavior
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A Behavioral-Laboratory-Model-Field Study Of Alternative Message Strategies In Competitive Advertising Situations
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A Choice-Theoretic Analysis of Criminal Deterrents
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Commercial Banks and Inner City Economic Development: Theory, Comments, and Development of a Model
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Comparison of Nurse Allocation Policies -- A Monte Carlo Model
Many hospitals have historically used a fixed staffing policy for allocating nursing personnel, in which the daily demand in each ward is met by nurses who are permanently assigned to the specific wards. In recent years, the concept of variable…
Consequence Evaluation in Decision Analytic Models of Medical Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment
This paper examines the problem of assigning values, or utilities, to separate consequences in decision analytic models of medical screening, diagnosis, and treatment. Several important issues related to this problem are studied, and a number of…