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Showing 1 to 20 of 121 for “"Average cost"”.
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Exploring the Business Case for Magnet Status: Comparison of Medicare Spending per Beneficiary and Average Cost per Discharge Among North Carolina Hospitals based on Geographic Location, Bed Size, Time of Trend Measures, and Healthcare System Association
Research Problem and Objectives Rising healthcare costs are a significant concern for individuals, healthcare providers, and our nation. The vitality of North Carolina (NC) hospitals is impacted by the organizations’ human and fiscal resources. Magnet designation is a human resource strategy …
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Mrs. Robinson revisited
… heterogeneous resource, and secondly on the four cost curves of an industry. This study re-examines these digressions and seeks to provide the student of economics with a clearer understanding and appreciation of the tools Robinson uses, but at the same time it expands the analysis into additional …
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Physical and Economic Models of Natural Resource Scarcity: Theory and Application to Petroleum Development and Production in the Lower 48 United States, 1955-1985
Physical and economic models of the costs of developing and producing petroleum in the lower 48 United States were calculated and compared for the 1955 to 1985 period. The physical scarcity model calculated the energy return on investment (EROI) for petroleum development and production. The EROI is …
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Approximate solution methods for partially observable Markov and semi-Markov decision processes
… the main contributions of this thesis is a lower cost approximation method for finite-space POMDPs with the average cost criterion, and its extensions to semi-Markov partially observable problems and constrained POMDP problems, as well as to problems with the undiscounted total cost criterion. Our …
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Acceleration of Iterative Methods for Markov Decision Processes
… for classes of the expected discounted MDPs and average cost MDPs. We establish a class of operators that can be integrated into value iteration and modified policy iteration algorithms for Markov Decision Processes, so as to speed up the convergence of the iterative search. Application of these …
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Effects of state deregulation on the quantity and adequacy of school facilities
… included the number of projects approved, the cost of each project, the size of each project, and school district enrollment, and the assessed valuation of each school district in each of the years studied. Major findings included: (a) The annual average number of approved projects prior to …
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Rational inattention in control of Markov chains
… decision-making by economic agents. In the average-cost optimal control framework, the general model introduced in this paper reduces to a variant of the linear-programming representation of the average-cost optimal control problem, subject to an additional mutual information constraint on …
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A cost analysis of the treatment of first-line uncomplicated malaria in the Tonga district of Mpumalanga
… the region, a model was developed to assess the cost-effectiveness of switching from chloroquine to sulfadoxine-pyrimetharnine as first line treatment in the Tonga district of Mpumalanga, South Africa, where malaria is seasonal and the population is non-immune. In vivo drug resistance was used to …
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Credit risk-rating system for agricultural leases
… Using the results from these models, a weighted average cost of misclassifying a lease is calculated. This is used to develop a profit maximizing criterion for determining whether a lease is high or low risk. The need for future work is discussed. In the area of weighted average cost of …
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Spatial Distribution of Human Elephant Conflict (HEC) and Characterization of Crop-Raiding Elephants in Kasigau Region, Kenya
… given the geographical differences, the total cost of damage to crops sustained in all the farms will be different across the seven villages. For hypothesis 1, the distances of random farms to the bush and to the bush edge were mapped and measured on Google EarthTM. Results of the study showed …
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Economies of Size in Multiple Cropping in Northern Thailand: A Random Coefficient Model Approach
… An alternative approach to estimate the long run average cost for each product for multi-product farms is considered and applied to investigate whether size economies exist in the Chiang Mai Valley.
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Adaptive Control of Markov Chains: An Optimization Oriented Approach (Queueing Networks, Stochastic Models, Computer)
… of the system is measured by a long run average cost criterion. A direct approach to the optimization of the performance is not feasible. A common procedure calls for an on-line estimation of the unknown parameter and the minimization of the cost functional using the estimate in lieu of …
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ΤΙΜΟΛΟΓΙΑΚΗ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ ΤΩΝ ΔΗΜΟΣΙΩΝ ΕΠΙΧΕΙΡΗΣΕΩΝ
… MODEL OF THE TIME OF DAY PRICING BASED ON THE AVERAGE COST. FOR THE ENTERPRISE OF URBAN TRANSPORTATIONS IS SUGGESTED THE METHOD OF BREAK EVENT POINT WITH SUBSIDY AND FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS THE METHOD OF TARGET PRICING.
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Street to Navy Enlisted Sailor Costing
Street to Navy Enlisted Sailor Costing is a project to identify and analyze current total costs associated with the process of recruitment, entrance processing, and recruit training for transforming a civilian prospect into an enlisted Navy Sailor. Navy Recruiting Command (NAVCRUITCOM), United …
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A study of the costs of the Kansas City high schools for the year 1915-1916
… of this thesis is the study in detail of the cost of the Kansas City high schools for the year 1915-1916. For convenience, the problem is divided into several studies, as follows: Study A. A comparative study Of different subjects of each school with the same subjects in the other schools and …
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Dynamic ship assignment problem with uncertain demands
… of dynamic ship assignment as a semi-Markov average cost problem, attaining stationary policies. When profit margins are low, a stationary policy frequently rejects cargoes. Despite rejections, it yields the highest profit per cargo, compared to other methods. Such optimal controls remain …
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An analysis of medical imaging costs in military treatment facilities
This joint applied project examines costs of medical imaging within Continental United States military treatment facilities to determine cost effectiveness when compared to civilian facilities and determine whether there are differences among regions of the United States and whether there are …
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Cost Sharing Models in Game Theory = Költségelosztási modellek a játékelméletben
… of economic agents (players) incurred costs or created a profit, and we have sought answers to the question of \fairly" distributing this common cost or profit. We have formulated properties and axioms describing our expecta- tions of a \fair" allocation. We have utilized cooperative …
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An analytical model of MAC protocol dependant power consumption in multi-hop ad hoc wireless sensor networks
… randomized policy for the SMDP, and the long-run average cost per unit time measures the energy efficiency of the protocol.
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