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. Currently, there is no method available to forecast antibiotic prescription costs, so we have adopted several methods that will …
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’, ‘contractor costs’, ‘client costs’ and ‘value for money’. The client and contractor responses for ‘value to client’ and ‘client … costs’ of processing were found to be homogeneous. Those for ‘contractor costs’ and ‘value for money’ differed significantly …
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Electric utilities in Australia have been developing policies to stimulate interest and permit the purchase of electricity generated by renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic systems (PV). Studies show that under current conditions, it is technically feasible to introduce small-scale,...
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stakeholders consider sustainability to be extra work that costs additional money. Though, stakeholders realised its importance in …
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costs in the analysis of software design express all costs in currency units for reasons of simplicity and tractability …. Indeed, in theoretical economics all costs can, in principle, be expressed in dollars. Software engineering problems, however …, often present situations in which converting all costs to a common currency is problematical. In this paper we pinpoint some …
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operational returns on investment. It was discovered that a 25% reduction in wing costs, relative to a baseline wing, results in … acquisition costs produced no significant changes in operational costs of the aircraft. Small changes were evident in the costs of …
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This paper reports on research that integrates cost modeling and business simulation into conceptual design environments for advanced launch vehicle programs. A new design-oriented computer tool has been developed and used that is capable of using price-elastic market estimates, price...
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source through the analysis of the costs of desalination, the water demand and supply situation, as well as water pricing … practices in China. The study shows that there is a significant decline in the costs of desalination for two main processes over … transport. The unit costs of desalinated water are evaluated, followed by multivariable regressions to analyse the main …
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This paper examines time-series patterns of external financing decisions and shows that publicly traded U.S, firms fund a much larger proportion of their financing deficit with external equity when the cost of equity capital is low. The historical values of the cost of equity capital have...
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Many factors can be used as measurement of success of a hospital management. One of them is financing which has to be controlled by the hospital management to balance cost and revenue. In this context, the determination of a rational tariff based on unit price becomes necessary. Unit cost...
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