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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"direct cost"”.
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Investigating the Cost of National School Lunch Program Lunches versus the Full, Time-Inclusive Cost of Home-Packed Lunches
… home-packed lunches. Objective: To explore the cost, including time, of NSLP versus different categories of home-packed lunches. Methods: Data from pre-kindergarten and kindergarten lunches from three schools in southwest Virginia were used for this study. Each lunch item was priced, and a …
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Economic costs of seeking malaria care to households in the Kassena-Nankana district of Northern Ghana
… other cause, however little was said about the costs to households. The aim of the study was to estimate the economic costs (direct and indirect) of seeking malaria care to households and in doing this, the study used data collected from a randomly sampled 423 households in K-N district. Malaria …
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Technology and policy options for reducing industrial air pollutants in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area
… air-pollution trajectory in the MCMA. I use two cost measures for evaluating cost-effectiveness of various strategies. First, the direct cost, which includes capital, operation & maintenance cost. Second, the policy cost includes direct cost and the cost of foregone production due to policy of …
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The potential for increased mechanization of shortwood harvesting in the man-made forests of the state of Sao Paulo
… mathematical model to predict total direct cost per stere, man hour per stere, and capital requirements per stere of annual production. In addition, labor and capital requirements to supply a 500 ton per day pulpmill were calculated. The analysis indicated that: (1) field debarking …
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Demand for higher education: a study of price elasticity among Virginia's four-year institutions
… institutions), and individual institutions. The direct cost of attendance, the size of the eligible population of prospective students, the educational attainment of the students' locale, and the rural nature of the students' environment generally were found to have significant effects on …
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The effects of payment card fraud on consumer behaviour
… Previous research has focused on the direct cost of fraud and its prevention, rather than the indirect cost. This study examines one such potential cost: the change in a victim’s purchasing behaviour following payment card fraud. It is a research area that is often neglected or …
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Out-of-pocket payment for assisted reproductive techniques in the public health sector in South Africa - how do households cope?
… but patients have to contribute to the cost of treatment. Eighty six consecutive IVF/ICS/ cycles were prospectively analysed through patient interviews. Data included socio-demographic, economic, and infertility information, emotional and financial stress among participants, as well as …
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Four-stage Activity-Based Costing (ABC) system modeling and computer-based application design
A Four-Stage Activity-Based Costing (4ABC) model and a computer-based system are created in this research to demonstrate the ABC cost allocation process. 4ABC uses four different levels of activity cost driver to allocate the cost from resource to product. These cost drivers are …
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The burden and cost of sickness absenteeism amongst healthcare workers at a teaching hospital in South Africa. A cross-sectional study.
… prevalence, associated medical conditions and cost of SRA amongst HCWs in a LMIC setting, we evaluated Human Resource (HR) absence records from a teaching hospital in South Africa over a 3 year period. Of the 3,543 HCW employed during the study period, 78% (n = 2,748) had at least 1 SRA …
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EFFECT OF ANGIOTENSIN PEPTIDES ON VASCULAR REMODELING
… every three deaths in the United States with a direct cost estimated at $286 billion each year. Angiotensin II (Ang II), one of the biologically active peptides of the renin-angiotensin system, elicits many maladaptive effects on the cardiovascular system. Over the past two decades, numerous …
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RANDOMIZED COST COMPARISON OF CARDIAC MRI USE IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT PATIENTS WITH CHEST PAIN
Objective To compare the medical cost among patients with intermediate-risk chest pain managed with two diagnostic strategies: an observation unit (OU) cardiac MRI (CMR) strategy and inpatient care. Methods A single center clinical trial randomized 110 patients with intermediate-risk chest pain …
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Techno-economic Analysis of Deuterium-Tritium Magnetic Confinement Fusion Power Plants
… study critically assesses the overnight capital costs of a FPP that hosts ARAI, a 350 MWe tokamak reactor based on the MIT ARC fusion concept. This research evaluates the economic viability of constructing an Nth-of-a-kind ARAI-FPP. The overnight capital costs for ARAI-FPP are estimated to range …
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Semi-Automatic Nesting and Lean Problem Solving in a High-Mix, Low-Volume Production Environment
… as a time-saving strategy rather than a direct cost cutting strategy in order to improve quality of life for operators while improving customer service. Initial iterations of the solution focused on complete automation of the nesting process with one click by the operator, but variability …
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Optimizing roof control using probabilistic techniques in roof failure prediction
… the option that provides the lowest overall cost can be selected. The program ROCSIM (Roof control Optimization Cost Simulation) was developed to provide a theoretical solution to this problem. The occurrence and frequency of roof falls are related to the type of roof support, support …
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Neural network-based cost estimating
This thesis presents a neural network-based cost estimating method, developed for the generation of conceptual cost estimates for low-rise prefabricated structural steel buildings. Detailed cost estimating is current practice for this type of buildings, since cost estimators are often challenged by …
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Oidaematophorus monodactylus (L.) and Bedellia somnulentella (Zeller): two potential biological control agents of hedge bindweed in southwestern Virginia
… bindweed plants. An estimate of the initial direct cost of rearing 10,000 third instars for a June release totaled a little less than $8,000; of which 30% are non-recurring costs. A second insect feeding on hedge bindweed is the leaf miner, Bedellia somnulentella (Zeller), which can be found …
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Optimization model for product mix and capacity management with activity-based information
… management concepts based upon Activity-Based Costing (ABC) and Concurrent Engineering principles. ABC has lead to the availability of new cost information which had otherwise been 'hidden' in the form of common overhead cost calculated as a fIxed percentage of the direct cost (e.g. labor cost …
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The effectiveness of back belts as a control measure for occupational low back pain in a retail hardware chain
… of back belts on the incidence, days lost and cost of occupational low back injuries resulting from manual handling in 11 retail hardware chain. The study was of a non-experimental before-and-after design with all retail employees in Western Australia being included in a retrospective cohort. …
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Economic Impact of the Williamson Act in San Luis Obispo County
… The results were reflected in changes to direct sales, total sales, total income, total value added and number of jobs lost.</p> <p>The study concluded that removing the Act’s funding would have very little impact on land use in the county because of the strict agricultural zoning, but may …
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Utilization of a Palliative Care Team to Improve Rural Chronic Care: A Feasibility Study
… more. The Summary of Estimated Financial Impact: Direct Cost Savings data indicated a potential savings of more than $600,000 to the facility annually. The SWOT analysis indicated that SLVH already has many resources to facilitate the implementation of a palliative care program.
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