Dissolved salts (salnuty) in irrigation water are a sigmficant envhonmental problem in aud regions. Some of the most seriously impacted irrtgated areas are found m Pakistan's Indus Basm. Economic damage measures are essential for evaluating sahmty control programmes. Most damage estuuates are...

In this Special Comment, we discuss Moody's treatment of Other Comprehensive Income (OCI) components when calculating effective leverage for finance companies. Our purpose is to give issuers and investors insight into Moody's views concerning these sometimes misunderstood or ignored items

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), a part of the US Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, requires the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to penalize hospitals with excess readmissions. We take an economic and operational (patient flow) perspective to analyze...

Research questions: (1) How could strategic decision-makers in the public sector determine whether System 1 or System 2 thinking would be most effective? (2) How could a leader's readiness to adopt evidence- based management be assessed? (3) What organizational intervention could a public sector...