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Modeling the Impact and Intervention of a Sexually Transmitted Disease: Human Papilloma Virus
Corley, Courtney D. - 2006
% vaccination coverage will be probable; hence, the need for vaccination strategies that will have the greatest reduction on the …-biased vaccination strategies: one model incorporates temporal demographics (i.e., age) in population compartments; the other non …
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Cost-effectiveness of Selected Immunisation Programs in Australia
Vittal Mogasale - 2010
practice and vaccination costs in Australia. This thesis describes cost-effectiveness of two selected immunisation … interventions in Australia: influenza and hepatitis B. The cost-effectiveness of reducing the influenza vaccination age threshold to … 50 from the current 65 was analysed first. Next, the cost-effectiveness of universal hepatitis B infant vaccination …
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Rates of SARS-COV-2 transmission and vaccination impact the fate of vaccine-resistant strains
Rella, Simón A.; Kulikova, Yuliya; Dermitzakis, …
-like pattern of the pandemic and consider the impact of the rate of vaccination and the strength of non-pharmaceutical intervention … measures on the probability of emergence of a resistant strain. As expected, we found that a fast rate of vaccination decreases … end of the vaccination campaign can substantially reduce the probability of resistant strain establishment. These results …
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The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence: Rewarding World-Class Practices
Chakravorty, Satya S.; Atwater, J. Bryan; Herbert, James I. - 2008
Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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Determinants of the Relations between Transitory Earnings and CEO Cash Compensation in the USA
Asthana, Sharad; Ye, Zhongxia Shelly - 2007
effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
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A study of outsourcing of premedia services to India by US companies
Nayak, Rahul P. - 2009
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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Operations Research Methods Applied to Workflow in a Medical Records Department
Edna Chan, S.-Y.; Ohlmann, Jeff; Dunbar, Steven; … - 2002
Transcribing medical documents accurately into pre-defined formats and within certain time frames is vital for administrative and medical purposes in any hospital. This paper describes quantitative models incorporating available data to represent transcription activities of a medical records...
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Determining the Number of Slots to Submit to a Market Mechanism at a Single Airport
Churchill, Andrew Michael - 2007
In this thesis, several stochastic optimization models are presented to determine the number of airport arrival slots that should be made available for distribution via a market mechanism. Considerable attention is paid to the structure and mathematical properties of each of these models, with...
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CMPL: Coliop Mathematical Programming Language
Technische Fachhochschule Wildau / Fachbereich …
CMPL (Coliop Mathematical Programming Language) is a mathematical programming language for modelling linear programming (LP) problems or mixed integer programming (MIP) problems. The CMPL syntax is similar in formulation to the the original mathematical model but also includes syntactic elements...
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A Decision Model for E-commerce-enabled Partial Market Exit
Syam, Siddhartha; Bhatnagar, Amit - 2010
Struggling retail chains often try to recover profitability by closing some of their stores. The challenge in this strategy lies in determining how many stores to close, as store exit has implications for both the customers and the supply chain. After a store closes, its customers are lost...
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