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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Hidden costs"”.
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The hidden costs of rapid economic growth
… successful economics to look for clues of these hidden costs through their experiences. We find that these challenges can be mainly classified into three types -- demographics, environmental and social. The paper also presents several possible responses to mitigate these challenges.
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The Hidden Costs of Success: A Mixed Methods Approach to Examining Achievement Pressures in Affluent Youth
<p>Within the last ten years, researchers have begun to recognize that youth from affluent backgrounds report elevated adjustment problems (Csikszentmihalyi & Schneider 2001; Luthar & Lantendresse 2005a), yet contributing factors have rarely been investigated. The present study explored various …
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The ‘hidden’ costs of sexual violence: A multi-dimensional approach to the impact and experience of trauma”
… the findings demonstrate the often ‘hidden’ impact of SV and, in particular, the pervasive and long-term effects on both self-esteem and sexual and intimate relationships. Future understanding of the effects of SV would be enhanced by allowing for the possibility for growth and …
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Investigating the hidden costs of livestock guarding dogs and the diet of a sympatric predator in Namaqualand, South Africa
… this conflict, yet little is known about the hidden costs of their presence. This study used scat analysis to reconstruct the diet of livestock guarding dogs and local caracals (Caracal caracal) to better understand their impacts on biodiversity and livestock in Namaqualand, South Africa. For …
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Quels sont les dysfonctionnements en matière de coût qu’une restructuration peut engendrer ?
… a downsizing to reveal a series of potential hidden costs. So, we were able to discover dysfunction mechanisms located in the chinks of the zones of uncertainty engendered by the rationalization accentuation of the process and the HRM. It can potentially provoke risks of degradation of the …
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The cost of the car to the city of Vancouver
… was undertaken to identify and determine the costs borne by the municipal level of government to provide and maintain the infrastructure required by the private automobile. Such government expenses are known as subsidies. In 1992, Transport 2021 commissioned a broad study to determine the …
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The evolution of airline distribution channels and their effects on revenue management performance
… late 1990s, but these profits may have masked hidden costs of using the new technology. Examples of hidden costs include the added computational burden of increased search engine requests to the computer reservations system as well as the increased opportunity for automated systems to bypass …
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Life cycle cost modeling of automotive paint systems
… requires clear understanding of the life cycle costs associated with each paint technology, modeled over the decades-long time horizons within which a paint shop operates. Life cycle cost models go beyond acquisition cost to consider all relevant cost drivers for a given system. This includes …
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Applying an analytical framework to production process improvement
… existing ways of valuing inventory holding costs, material handling costs, and lead time. By uncovering hidden costs and benefits for each, projects that otherwise seemed unattractive become important to achieving overall factory objectives. Conversely, other projects that had been …
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Total cost model for making sourcing decisions
… framework to help capture all of the relevant hidden costs. This model does not consider absolute cost, but instead analyzes the change in cash flows over time. The net present value of the future marginal cash flows is calculated to determine if changing suppliers will create value or destroy …
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The outsourcing and offshoring competitive landscape and its uncertainties
… as the risk of intellectual property loss and hidden costs due to loss of flexibility, both of which can be hard to quantify. Benchmarks are being used extensively in the industry, and associated with penalties. While the use of benchmarks can be a powerful tool, clients need to remain …
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Marketing Challenges for Cybersecurity Services
… This research seeks to raise awareness of the hidden costs and damaging effects that cyber threats have on businesses nationwide and educate customers on the risks when you entrust a company with your private information.
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Multi-stop trucking : a study on cost and carrier acceptance
… Therefore, companies need to be aware of the hidden costs associated with multi-stop truckloads as they plan their transportation network.
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Inventory modeling for active pharmaceutical ingredient supply chains
… between the attractive purchase price and the hidden costs of outsourcing for two active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) supply chains at AstraZeneca (AZ). We assess the inventory levels recommended by a base stock policy with deterministic purchase order lead times at each contracted stage of …
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A Cost Analysis Decision-Making Model for School Administrators to Compare Costs of Handicapped Programs
With the passage of P.L. 94-142 the increase in costs for exceptional education programs attracted the attention of educational finance researchers and school officials. Cost studies evaluated achievement gains in students as a function of cost and the type of service delivery model (resource …
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The Right to Support: Severely Disabled Children & Their Mothers
… in nature. Within complex care, visible and hidden costs have been off loaded onto caregiving mothers by government. Using conceptual frameworks from feminist standpoint theory and drawing on Paolo Freires theory of critical consciousness, the author analyzes legal cases, legislation and …
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Understanding the Impact of Dark Pattern Detection on Online Users
… and understand three different dark patterns: Hidden Costs, Disguised Ads, and Sneak into Basket. This extension was made to detect each of these patterns on any web page while not requiring any information from the user or their data. Study participants installed the extension and completed a …
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Cost optimization in requirements management for space systems
… which, if not well managed, can lead to hidden costs associated with missed requirements and product rework. With current space system projects being developed at a rapid pace using more cost constrained approaches such as fixed budgets, an investigation into more efficient processes, …
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The journey to Paths to Quality : a case study of two rural Indiana public preschools
… funding, schools that sought PTQ encountered hidden costs, and that PTQ is indeed an attainable process. Findings took into consideration costs, staff requirements, training, and incentives. The PTQ implementation process allows schools the opportunity to expand their offerings to four year …
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