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Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
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Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...
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The theoretical relation between exchange rate and prices has been a difficult proposition to find supporting evidence despite many studies of developed economies using standard research methods. The exchange rate to price relation appears to hold in the long run only, a result consistent with...
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time-to-collision (TTC), distance, and rate of image expansion ( ROE), all of which have received empirical support. We …
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random effects. In this paper, the long-term survivor mixture model is extended for the analysis of multivariate failure time …
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This paper studies a periodic-review, serial inventory system in which echelon (r, nQ,T) policies are implemented. Under such a policy, each stage reviews its inventory in every T period and orders according to an echelon (r,nQ) policy. Two types of fixed costs are considered: one is associated...
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technical, frequently noisy data of sensors into meaningful interpretations of occupant activities. Time is a natural human way … distinct times throughout the day and last for predicable lengths of time. However, the inclusion of temporal information is … recognition, and is suited to the incorporation of time related domain knowledge into the reasoning process. In this paper, an …
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The title of Masters thesis research is „The valuation of Management activity in time management aspect“. In the … theoretical part of thesis is analyzed time control problems in F. Taylor academic works. Described defective time control problem … dimension and possible consequences. Means of time management and potential internal and external environments influence of time …
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This article presents a multi-sectoral composite indicator for the Swiss GDP growth rate, targeting a lead of two quarters. The in-sample period ranges from 1991 to 2002 and 14 data points are reserved as out of sample to assess the forecasting performance. The results appear promising, in terms...
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