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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…
Short Run Fluctuations in Aggregate Savings Rates
Fluctuations in aggregate consumer savings rates pose problems for economic forecasters and policy-makers alike. While a number of well known consumption models have been developed which address themselves either to explaining annual changes in…
Short Run Variations in Aggregate Spending Behavior
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Simplification Activities in a Network Scheduling Context
Network scheduling activities are usually addressed in a two stage process of static schedule determination and subsequent control monitoring. A more complete view combines these two subsets of decisions with information acquisition decisions…
Some Implications of Imperfections in International Financial Markets
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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…
Stochastic Models of Consumer Choice Behavior
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Synthetic Program Specifications for Performance Evaluation
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The Costs of Planning: The FCC and Cable Television
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The Effect Of Clarification On Intransitive Preferences
Suppose an individual is asked to express preferences among several items. Suppose these items are presented in a sequence of pair-wise comparisons. Unless a uniform, set of item attributes is clearly designated in advance as the relevant…
The Personality of MBA's Who Reach General Management Early
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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…
The Use Of The Multitrait-multimethod Matrix For Trait Development: Cluster Analysis And Nonmetric Scaling Alternatives
Past recommendations for analysis of the multitrait-multimethod matrix have emphasized validation rather than traits and measures development. This paper emphasizes the latter, and a review of existing approaches suggests that each has…
Theories Of Attitude Structure And Change
The study of attitudes is well entrenched in marketing theory and practice. The acceptance by theorists is evident in the pivotal role that the concept of attitude plays in the major descriptive models of consumer behavior (Engel, Kollat and…
Token Economies and Experimental Economics: Two Controlled Experiments in the Theory of Individual Consumer Demand
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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…