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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Productivity Analysis"”.
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Benchmarking and productivity analysis in South Africa's automotive industry
… The study uses benchmarking data to analyse productivity improvements in the industry. It finds that South African component firms have implemented lean and world class production techniques, improving their operational competitiveness with significant improvements in quality, inventory …
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Productivity analysis of private and socialized agriculture in Ethiopia
… Translog functional form was selected for the analysis on the basis of statistical tests. Results of the analysis suggest that the producer cooperatives collectively appear to have a potential to generate increased gross income per hectare at a declining rate with respect to an …
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Essays in efficiency and productivity analysis under technology heterogeneity regimes
… ample interest of every strand in Efficiency and Productivity Analysis during the last decades has been placed on unravelling the mechanisms and identifying the sources of heterogeneity among the units under consideration so as to guarantee to the most possible extent that the benchmarking process …
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Productivity Analysis on a Sample of Illinois Grain Farms 1972-1976
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Convergence in the US airline industry : a unit cost and productivity analysis
… on reducing their unit costs and improving their productivity levels in order to survive. The goal of the thesis is to examine to what extent these changes have led to a convergence in terms of unit costs and productivity levels between the Legacy carriers and their low-cost counterparts. …
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Cost and Productivity Analysis of Southeastern U.S. Logging Contractors from 1996 to 1997
A group of 22 independent southeastern U.S. logging contractors provided 44 contractor-years of detailed cost and production information. Information was collected on demographics, operational characteristics, and business strategies for the participants. Precipitation was statistically proven to …
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Harvesting Cost and Productivity Analysis of Independent Contractors in the Appalachian Region: 1995-1997
The study examined contractor demographics, business and technological characteristics, costs, and production information for 15 independent logging firms in the Appalachians. Contractors represented nine states and were studied from 1995 to 1997. Each contractor's cost and production information …
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Transit productivity analysis in heterogeneous conditions using data envelopment analysis with an application to rail transit
This dissertation extends transit productivity analysis by developing a new method of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), the linear programming approach to productivity analysis. The new model analyzes productivity of transit working under heterogeneous operating conditions. It is named Two-Farrell …
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A productivity analysis of the clinical dietitian as a health care team member in the service sector
… major purpose of this study was to analyze the productivity of the clinical dietitian in order to develop appropriate models for measurement of productivity of the clinical dietitian. Due to the lack of research on productivity in the service sector, a modified Delphi Technique was used to …
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Construction crew productivity monitoring supported by location awareness technologies
Construction productivity, which is measured by output per unit of resource input, plays a key role in the success of a construction project. High productivity leads to lower unit cost to carry out a task or operation. Analyzing construction productivity, however, is a challenging task because of …
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Tiesioginių užsienio investicijų analizė ir poveikio darbo produktyvumui vertinimas Baltijos šalyse /
… aims to carry out foreign direct investment analysis and study their impact on labor productivity. Investment plays an important role in economic development and improve the efficiency. The Law of the Republic of Lithuania indicates that the investment - cash, tangible, intangible and …
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Una medición de productividad y cambio tecnológico en agroquímicos: el caso del arroz Colombiano después de la revolución verde
Productivity analysis is one of the most important topics in agricultural economics. There are several papers on the topic at the international level, but for Colombian agriculture there is a lack of documents, mainly because there are no data sources for long run series. Private entities such as …
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Electrical noise model for detection circuitry of an NMR-based formation evaluation Tool
… ratio (SNR) to a level sufficient for productivity analysis, SNR improvement is a continuing goal to improve signal quality and provide better results to help optimize the drilling process. The objective of this thesis is to model the electrical noise in the detection path of the NMR …
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High speed railway productivity : how does organizational restructuring contribute to HSR productivity growth?
… and vertical separation, this thesis applied "productivity analysis". First, we set Tokaido Shinkansen and the Paris-Lyon line as our research object because that these lines introduced the latest technology when it had been constructed. This means the technological development which increases …
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Risk, efficiency and industry dynamics in the Australian banking sector
… applies innovative methods to the efficiency and productivity analysis of the Australian banking system. Key areas of investigation include the impact of regulatory reforms on bank performance, the impact of firm entry and exit on industry productivity and the changing nature of banking and the …
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Productivity and competition in the U.S. trucking industry since deregulation
… dataset, the thesis sets its focus as physical productivity at the firm level, and analyzes the truckload (TL) and less-than-truckload (LTL) sectors separatIy. The Form M dataset covers the years 1977-1992; the baseline for cumulative analysis is set as 1979, the eve of the Motor Carrier Act. …
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Video representation learning for vision-driven activity analysis in construction
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Intercity passenger rail productivity in the Northeast Corridor : implications for the future of high-speed Rail
… HSR in the NEC for the next 30 years, we use productivity analysis. We employ a non-parametric single factor productivity (SFP) Törnqvist trans-log index approach with several metrics. We set ridership, revenue, revenue passenger-miles (RPM), and available seat-miles (ASM) as outputs, and …
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Production, efficiency and managerial selection of workers into peer networks
… in the worker network may affect worker productivity.</p> <p>The second chapter, entitled "Network Competition and Team Chemistry in the NBA," models simultaneous interactions between multiple networks where agents cooperate with peers within their own networks but compete with non-peers …
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