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sample of Australian and American hospitals. The paper applies the stochastic frontier model to reflect on the technical … average technical efficiency is around 83 percent for Australia and 80 percent for the USA. The technical efficiency results … the sources of technical inefficiency of health care foodservice operations for Australia and USA. …
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The final design and economics of the Torbett-Hutchings-Smith (THS) Memorial Hospital geothermal heating system at Marlin, Texas are outlined. A brief description of the existing heating system, an overview of the geothermal retrofit, and the results of an economic analysis are included. It is...
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1. Introduction Power industry deregulation and electricity market restructuring, which began in Chile in the 1980s and then spread to Norway, New Zealand and the UK, were introduced in the United States with the passage of the Energy Policy Act (EPA) of 1992 (Jameson, 1997). The EPA and...
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Acknowledgments -- Introduction. p.1 -- 1. Early years in the West. p.7 -- 2. Oil and railroads in Southern California, 1892-1902. p.23 -- 3. The birth of the Mexican oil industry, 1900-1910. p.52 -- 4. Return to California, 1908-1912. p.87 -- 5. Creating an international oil company, 1912-1915....
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This study analyzes the long-term evolution of the North American pulp and paper industry, and offers a new synthesis of the dynamic forces that spearheaded the expansion and transformation of this large manufacturing industry. The evolution of the North American pulp and paper industry between...
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The great bulk of the J. Reuben Clark Jr. papers were inventoried in 1967. This register is only of the Clark papers that have come to the library since that time. ; Historical note; This addendum contains a variety of papers that cover the full life span of Mr. Clark. However, the great bulk of...
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This study explained the diversity of corporate financial practices in two nations. Existing studies have emphasized the reliance on equity finance in U.S. firms and bank loans in Japanese firms. In fact, patterns of corporate finance were much more complex. Financial institutions, which were...
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Banner week in stock value. - 4345,227 sales total in last five days on standard stock exchange. - Ten issues make gains. - Led by Pend Oreille, Grandview and Tamarack -- Cork, Jim, Montana and Sherman up. - The volume of trading on the Standard Stock exchange in the last five days of the week...
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