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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Indirect costs"”.
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A systematic review of the assessment of out-of-pocket payment removal policies in reducing the economic burden caused by direct and indirect costs of HIV service utilization in South Africa
… multiple health visits and other healthrelated costs. We examine how the UHC policy of user fee removal has contributed to reducing the economic burden of HIV/AIDS for PLWH and their households. Methods: Searches were conducted on Africa Wide, CINAHL, EconLit, Health Source, PsycInfo, PubMed and …
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A national estimate of the cost of illness in Parkinson's disease using retrospective data analysis
… expenditures, with the exception of nursing home costs, were estimated using data from the 1999-2003 Medical Expenditures Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS-HC). Nursing home costs were estimated using the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey Nursing Home Component (MEPS-NHC). Indirect costs for …
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Estimation of economic impact of freight distribution due to highway closure
… freight disruption due to highway closure. The costs in this study will be classified into three groups: private operating costs for carriers, logistics and scheduling costs, and indirect costs for the market. The resource saving method is used to measure private operating costs for carriers. …
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Railroad decision support tools for track maintenance
… plans. This requires quantifying both direct costs associated with the performance of maintenance and the indirect costs of train delay, disruption risk, and equipment routing. To thoroughly assess these costs, an integrated approach is needed that incorporates degradation modeling, project …
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A logarithmic cost-duration analysis
… in general, consists of two independent costs, indirect costs and direct costs. Indirect costs are proportional to project duration, with the penalty rate factor. Direct costs are related to the activity durations. An important problem of cost-duration analysis is how to design the …
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The economic burden of 'malaria' morbidity on households in Mtoko district of North-Eastern Zimbabwe
… ascertain the household level impacts of direct costs (medical costs, consultation costs, transport costs and other related costs) and indirect costs (lost productive time by malaria sufferers whilst sick, lost time by caretakers whilst caring for the sick) due to malaria sickness. A cross …
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Επίδραση της αξιοπιστίας των μηχανών στον προγραμματισμό δομικών έργων
… EXPECTED EXCEEDED TIME, EXPECTED EXCEEDED COSTS, EXPECTED DIRECT AND EXPECTED INDIRECT COSTS. THESE NOTIONS ARE INCORPORATED INTO ALGORITHM Δ1 WHICH CALCULATE THEM.
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Impactos econômicos dos acidentes fatais de trânsito no Estado da Paraíba no ano de 2012: efeitos sobre a produtividade
… evaluation of economic losses, represented by indirect costs and more specifically directed to lost productivity, observed from the cases of deaths found in the base data from the Mortality Information System (SIM) of the Ministry of Health of Brazil. From the information available was traced …
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The Regulation of Work: Seniority Rules and Constrained Choice
… workers according to their seniority, the indirect costs of a seniority-based allocation, and conditions on preferences that motivate workers to demand seniority rules.
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Cost efficiency and capital structure in farms and cooperatives
… decisions. Finally, do cooperatives face agency costs? To answer this question, a variable cost model is estimated to examine the indirect costs of leverage. The first essay used data from Kansas farms to determine the effects of the use of debt on cost efficiency. A nonparametric cost efficiency …
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Application of Optimisation Techniques to Planning and Estimating Decisions in the Building Process
… values between activities, output rates, unit costs of plant, labour costs and indirect costs. A linked bar chart is drawn automatically by using the data available from the simulation model.<br/><br/>The second part of the model, (optimisation) uses the data provided by the simulation part and …
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A Petri Net framework for the representation and analysis of aircraft turnaround operations
… performance. Airlines incur both direct and indirect costs from poor on-time departure performance, particularly when these delays propagate through an airline's schedule and additional resources have to be utilized for schedule recovery. As for airports, poor stand utilization due to …
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Resource Burden of Logistics to Navy Ships Under Threat Scenarios
… Several analyses fail to account for the indirect costs associated with supplying logistics assets. Therefore, we propose a method for estimating the fully burdened cost of supply in a self-sustaining logistics network in which local infrastructure cannot be counted on to supply logistics …
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The household economic impact of Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) in South Africa
… between September 2017 to December 2017. Direct costs, indirect costs, and the downstream economic behaviors (coping strategies) that lead to medical impoverishment and other consequences were estimated. Cost of illness (COI) was used to assess the effect of ill-health and health-related …
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Behavioral Assessment and Referral for Patients with Cardiovascular Disease
… to approximately $431.8 billion in direct and indirect costs (Rosamond et al., 2007 as cited in Hunter et al., 2009). Given the significant rates of mental health issues exhibited in cardiovascular patients coupled with the lack of standard screening practices of psychosocial risk factors …
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Social optimality in land use: a comparative study of conservation and agriculture in the Sundays River Valley, Eastern Cape, South Africa
This dissertation explores the direct and indirect costs of expanding the land area set aside for conservation in the Sunday’s River Valley of the Eastern Cape. While many parks have been located in zones of low commercial value, either deliberately, to cut opportunity cost conservation, or through …
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A Discrete Choice Mean Variance (EV) Cost Model to Measure Impact of Household Risk from Drinking Water Pipe Corrosion
… a homeowner is subject to the risk of additional costs if a pinhole leak occurs again despite their repair efforts. The EV cost model in this paper defines two discrete choices for the homeowner in the event of a leak; to apply a simple repair at lower cost and higher future cost uncertainty, or …
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Capital cost evaluation of advanced reactor designs under uncertainty and risk
… in global nuclear generation. High capital costs and the risk of overruns and delays may prevent the industry from realizing this new potential. Recent nuclear projects in the U.S. and Europe have averaged cost overruns more than 2x the original estimate. However, new reactor architectures …
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Use of activity-based costing in the public sector
… providers, in order to establish accurate costs of producing individual products and providing individual services. ABC argues that activities consume resources to generate products and services. It focuses on the allocation of the costs of overhead resources to products and services, which …
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