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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"Cost-control"”.
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Bank accounting and cost control
This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Energy conservation and cost control in prefabricated housing.
Thesis. 1976. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Mathematical tools and budgetary mechanisms for hospital cost control
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Harvard--Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology Program in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics, 1985.
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Information on cost control for the Japanese construction industry
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1980
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Evaluating the optimal innovative cost control techniques used in the South African construction industry
… by economic difficulties, such as the high costs of construction materials, that have a negative impact on project costs. Cost overruns have been determined as a phenomenon continually plaguing the construction industry in both private and public sectors, and very few projects are completed …
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The Development of an Instrument to Measure Nurses' Attitudes Toward Cost Control in Health Care
… which would measure nurses' attitudes toward cost control in health care, and measure their knowledge of hospital-related costs. A list of 75 statements pertaining to the control of hospital costs was compiled from a literature review and from personal experience of this investigator. A panel …
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Strategic realignment of the post-contract cost control process in the Nigerian construction industry using kaizen
… from lean thinking have helped to reduce cost during manufacturing. Continuous cost reduction or kaizen costing during the construction phase stems from kaizen, which is a sub-set of lean production. Kaizen is the Japanese word for continuous improvement, which has the proven benefits to …
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A survey of the cost control methods used by motor fleet operators in the Boston area
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Business and Engineering Administration, 1935.
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The use of goal programming to address cost control problems in purchase of development rights programs
… in its effectiveness resulting from the high costs of acquiring the development rights to eligible properties. Often, PDR program administrators find their budget exhausted before the development rights have been acquired to a sufficient number of properties to satisfactorily achieve the …
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Risk management in the cost planning and control of building projects : the case of the quantity surveying profession in Kenya
… thesis examines financial risk management in the cost planning and cost control of building projects in Kenya. The quantity surveying professional in Kenya is faced with poor access to the recorded cost data needed for preparing final building cost estimates and for budget prediction. This …
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A construction Superintendent's project monitoring system
… the construction industry with regard to project cost control and scheduling. As computer technology advances and the economic pressures on contractors increase, it will become apparent that a unified management information system will be needed to adequately control a large to medium size …
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Achieving High Performance on Extremely Large Parallel Machines: Performance Prediction and Load Balancing
… scheme, which incorporates an explicit memory cost control function to make it easy to adapt to extremely large machines with small memory footprint. This hierarchical load balancing scheme builds load data from instrumenting an application automatically at run-time on both computation and …
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Beverage management: A curriculum needs assessment for undergraduate hospitality education
… as important (training, communication, cost control, and leadership skills), along with other responses, will form the basis of beverage management curriculum at University of Nevada, Las Vegas and possibly at other four year universities.
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Overhead management guide for aerospace procurements
… on the management emphasis concerning overhead cost control. Senior personnel within the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) review a multitude of cost information. Due to the nature and complexity of these costs, it is extremely difficult to analyze and interpret cost data and, more …
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Rationalisation of design cost estimation in the construction industry
… of rational approaches, using historic cost data, to the determination of realistic fee estimates for design work in the construction industry. The development of the following research methodology for the programme of work, which was initiated at the request of industrial collaborators, …
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The Competitive Effects of Health Maintenance Organizations
The rising cost of health care is a serious problem in the United States today. This thesis examines the competitive effect of Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) on traditional providers of health care as a mechanism for cost control. First, a theoretical foundation for addressing the issue is …
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Maintenance in a contractor organization:a practical approach
… of three modules. The first module is work control. It is used to prepare, schedule, and insure the execution of maintenance instructions. The second module is the equipment condition control module which monitors maintenance effectiveness and accordingly updates the maintenance …
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Integration of lean manufacturing and value engineering techniques to improve the internal distribution system in a manufacturing company
… to understand the benefits of having low cost manufacturing for their survival in this competitive world.
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