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Myopia of Health-Care Reform Using Business Models
Kenneth, MacInnes; McAlister, Vivian C. - 2001
Background: Health-care institutions have looked to business for models to respond to the requirement for reform. This has changed the perspective of institutions that were founded on charitable principles, and managed with liberal employment policies and deficit budgeting. Using lesions from...
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EPRI Cogeneration Models -- DEUS and COPE
1983
In the Fall of 1978, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) initiated a program for the design and evaluation of alternate cogeneration systems. The primary objective of the study is to analyze the overall system value of cogeneration. A portion of the study involved the development of a...
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A Unified Economic View of Space Solar Power (SSP)
Charania, Ashraf; Olds, John R. - 2000
Space Solar Power (SSP) is a concept to beam energy from space to terrestrial power grids that could be feasible in about twenty to forty years. Due to the current climate of limited government funding for such large-scale space projects, NASA would prefer more industry involvement (technically...
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Study on Universal Postal Service and the Postal Monopoly
Fritschler, A. Lee; Pommerening, Christine; Campbell, … - 2008
The following appendices have been prepared by a team of subject-matter experts at theSchool of Public Policy at George Mason University (GMU) under a contract with thePostal Regulatory Commission (PRC).Section 702 of the Postal Enhancement and Accountability Act (PAEA) required thePostal...
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The Impact of Technology, Demography, and Market Structure on Broadband Service Delivery
Eldridge, Robert - 2011
broadband under-provision. We attempt to fill in this void by answering the question “What roles do technology, demography, and …
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Maintaining Patient Confidentiality When Sharing Medical Data Requires a Symbiotic Relationship Between Technology and Policy
Sweeney, Latanya - 1997
Often organizations release and receive medical data with all explicit identifiers, such as name, address, phone number, and Social Security number, removed in the incorrect belief that patient confidentiality is maintained because the resulting data look anonymous; however, we show that in most...
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Computer Technology, Human Labor, and Long-Run Economic Growth
Elliott, Stuart W. - 1998
Over the coming century, computer technology is likely to become capable of reproducing many of the skills now …
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The long-run determinants of Australian income inequality
Gaston, Noel; Rajaguru, Gulasekaran - 2009
Recent interest has been stimulated by the growth of income inequality in most developed countries during the 1980s and 1990s. However, considerable uncertainty still exists as to which factors have been the most important causes of this development. This article uses a measure of income...
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Factors influencing paradoxes of technology adoption and consumption
Ting, Sherman; Dubelaar, Chris; Dawson, Linda - 2005
technology change post adoption. This paper brings together research interests from a range of disciplines from marketing and … consumer behaviour to IS to sociology. Using MBusiness as a technology medium, it investigates a unique aspect of electronic … characteristics can influence how they adopt, consume and experience technology’s vast array of psychological and behavioural …
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Organizational contexts and management accounting systems: an evaluation of contingency frameworks
Moores, Ken; Chenhall, Robert H. - 1991
, technology, organizational structure, size, strategy, and organizational culture. Evidence on the effect of these variables …
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