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A Three-Stage Manpower Planning And Scheduling Model -- A Service Sector Example
This paper presents a staff planning and scheduling model that has specific application in the nurse staffing process in acute hospitals and more general application in many other service organizations in which de- mand and production…
Two Period Stochastic Programs with Simple Recourse
Stochastic programs are said to have simple recourse if the state vector in each period is uniquely determined once all previous decision and random vectors are known. This paper considers two period problems of this nature. Conditions are…
Unobtrusive Marketing Research Techniques
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User Attitudes and the Management of Information Services
The results of a study of the relationship between users and the information services department in seven companies are presented. Predicted associations between favorable user attitudes and other variables were tested with data collected from…
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…
An Attitudinal Framework For Advertising Strategy
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An Econometric Model of the World Copper Industry
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Another Method for the Symmetric Positive Semidefinite Linear Complementarity Problem
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Behavioral Measurement For Marketing Models: Estimating The Effects Of Advertising Repetition For Media Planning
As management science models are developed in marketing, they make demands for more sophisticated inputs from the behavioral sciences. This is particularly true in the area of advertising media models. A continuing behavioral research program to…
Cost And Performance Of Computer-Assisted Instruction For Education Of Disadvantaged Children
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Decision Processes for Major Durables: An Empirical View
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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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Engineering Roles in Development Projects
This paper describes a methodology for analyzing the organization of engineering development projects. Specifically, the methodology focuses on the different roles which engineers play in such projects. A small study based on this methodology…
Equivalent Formulations of the Stochastic Cash Balance Problem
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Estimating Dynamic Effects of Market Communications Expenditures
This paper is concerned with the problem of measuring market response to a “communications mix” — the various means which a firm employs to transmit sales messages to potential buyers. Distributed lag models are applied to time series data for an…
Exploratory Cluster Analysis and Nonmetric Scaling of Multitrait-Multimethod Matrices
A review of existing methods for exploratory analysis of the multitrait-multimethod matrix finds them lacking because of inferential biases, overly stringent data input requirements, and linear assumptions. The advantages of a cluster analysis…