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Integrated project delivery: a normative model for value creation in complex military medical projects
Brennan, Michael D. - 2011
Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is a collaborative project delivery process that reduces waste and maximizes value creation by harnessing the expertise and experience of all relevant stakeholders throughout the design and construction process of a given project. The owner, designer, builder,...
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The management structure for research in the RSA, with a proposed management model for medical faculties
Brink A.J.; Slabbert B.R. - 1985
Branch of the Department of Constitutional Development and Planning, and the Scientific Priorities Committee. Medical … research has made significant progress since the establishment in 1969 of the Medical Research Council, which has devised a … philosophy are discussed. There is a great need to strengthen the management structures of research at medical faculties …
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Demographic and economic trends in medical schemes--a time series analysis [Demografiese en ekonomiese tendense vir mediese skemas--'n tydreeksanalise.]
Hartshorne J.E.; Carstens I.L. - 1991
A time series analysis was performed on medical scheme statistics with the aim of determining current and future … presently experienced by medical schemes. Data for the period 1978-1986 was analysed on a computer, using the Statgraphics … by deflating nominal values against the consumer price index with 1980 as base year. There are at present 253 medical …
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Why go to a Hospital Minor Care Clinic? Considerations Important to the Patient
Moore, Jeffrey; Hanson, William; Jiang, Xiaoyan; … - 2014
The purpose of this study is to explore factors that influence patients to seek help from a hospital minor care center— a unique self-selection method of triage for emergency service. This research was conducted as a qualitative single case study; our sample size was 19 patients. Interviews...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011315630
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Why go to a Hospital Minor Care Clinic? Considerations Important to the Patient
Moore, Jeffrey; Hanson, William; Jiang, Xiaoyan; … - 2014
The purpose of this study is to explore factors that influence patients to seek help from a hospital minor care center— a unique self-selection method of triage for emergency service. This research was conducted as a qualitative single case study; our sample size was 19 patients. Interviews...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374958
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Happiness, Philosophy and Economics
Andrew Hodge - 2011
Happiness research is a new, rapidly growing and provocative aspect of economic science. In fact, there are now over 1,800 published papers on the subject, and it might be said that the ‘dismal science’ has come to be obsessed with happiness. This research provides a number of interesting...
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On the Use of Subjective Well-Being Data for Environmental Valuation
Moro, Mirko; Ferreira, Susana - 2009
This paper explores the potential of using subjective well-being (SWB) data to valueenvironmental attributes. A theoretical framework compares this method, also known as the lifesatisfaction approach, with the standard hedonic pricing approach, identifying their similarities and differences. As...
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Essays on the Economics of Happiness.
Gregoire Rousseau, Jean-Benoit - 2009
The first chapter demonstrates that although it is possible to design utility functions that behave like empirical well-being, the functional forms relying on income adaptation and social comparisons put forward in the happiness literature fail to receive empirical validation. Under the income...
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INCOME, WEALTH, AND LIFE SATISFACTION
Hitaj, Ermal - 2010
This dissertation inquires into the relationship between income, aspirations, and life satisfaction in post-transition Russia. It first explores the channels through which adaptation and social comparison contribute to higher income aspirations. The results show that social comparison is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450924
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Changing petroleum engineering education to meet industry demand
Department of Petroleum Engineering
,it lectured the Masters in petroleum engineering course to local Australian and international students, graduatingmore than 200 … students. The rapid increase in the price of oil during 2006/7 saw a sudden and substantial growthin industry employment … students reduced to less than 10% of those taking the course. This loss in both student numbers and staff at the same time …
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