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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"direct costs"”.
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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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Schooling in Mexico: An Evaluation of Private Costs as a Determinant of Household Demand for Education, and the Benefits of a Free Textbook Program
… public funding of education and the associated costs is extensive, studies that examine household, or private, costs for education are scarce. I use data from the 2005 Mexican Family Life Survey first to examine the nature of these private costs for Mexican families and second to determine to …
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An analysis of depot level maintenance for the H-60 helicopter under an integrated maintenance concept
… (SDLM) turnaround time, depot maintenance direct labor and material costs, and projected backlog using depot requirements and funding are examined. Data analysis indicates a need for significant process improvements or radical changes to depot processes. The Integrated Maintenance Concept …
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The economic burden of 'malaria' morbidity on households in Mtoko district of North-Eastern Zimbabwe
… was to 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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Non-linear optimized cash flow model
… performance. Contractors are required to pay the direct costs (cash outflow) during construction. The net difference between the cash inflow and outflow are the required overdraft, which the contractor financed from a bank. In order to increase profit margin, contractors look into alternate ways, …
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Manufacturing responsiveness as a competitive advantage and implementation in a make-to-order environment
… of scale and the persistent pursuit of lower direct costs. However, this thesis contends that a cost focused manufacturing organization encourages decisions that in the long run make the organization rigid, inflexible and unable to implement innovations the market desires. Not unexpectedly, …
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Exploring the causes of and mitigation options for human-predator conflict on game ranches in Botswana: How is coexistence possible?
… game ranches. Questionnaires to determine the direct costs, drivers and potential mitigation methods of human-predator conflict, were conducted with a representative from 86.2% of registered game ranches in Botswana, plus an additional 27 livestock farmers. The effectiveness of translocating …
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Safety Return on Investment (ROI): The Broader Adoption of Rotorcraft CFIT-Avoidance Technology
… more broadly. Previous research explored the costs and benefits of different safety initiatives but did not evaluate from an operators’ perspective. For the operators, a private ROI that excludes societal costs and benefits was therefore considered the suitable metric. For the rotorcraft …
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The household economic impact of Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) in South Africa
… out 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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Moving beyond salesperson turnover: a dynamic model of salesperson job-hopping
… for employment. This is partially because the direct costs associated with replacing salespeople can be more than 200% of annual compensation. Surprisingly, marketing research has mostly neglected the phenomenon of salesperson job-hopping, opting instead to focus primarily on salesperson …
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Water : pricing the priceless
… availability and vice versa. Business continuity costs due to poor water quality or water shortages may far outweigh the direct costs that Unilever incurs in purchasing water. Hence, by performing a literature review, numerous interviews with experts and stakeholders and an extensive review of …
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Components of logging costs
… approach to document the components of logging costs for mechanized operations, assess the sensitivity of these components to external stimuli, and to identify and describe the business management techniques adopted by contractors to insure survival and profitability. The contractors' cost …
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Quantifying the Impact of Defensive Cybersecurity Effort Against Advanced Persistent Threats For Industrial Control Systems
… decision-making about resource allocation and direct costs. The cybersecurity effort impact game model's defensive strategies, rely on the idea of possessing a defensible architecture. Furthermore, the strategies defined by the cybersecurity effort impact game model are relevant to the …
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Interfacing RFID and Web 2.0 Technologies to Improve Inventory Management in South African Enterprises
… carrying inventory, which includes not only the direct costs of storage, insurance and taxes, but also the cost of having money tied up in inventory. Running inventory using paper-based systems, Excel files and traditional enterprise software is a costly and resource-intensive approach that may …
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The drug development process : evaluation of PDUFA I/II and investigation into reducing drug development times
… times. More importantly, I determined that the direct costs of PDUFA are small in irmlparison to its benefits. In addition, my analysis of the early clinical phases (pre-clinical to Phase II) of drug benefits. In addition, my analysis of the early clinical phases (pre-clinical to Phase II) of …
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Outsourcing in high volume electronics manufacturing
… primarily on reducing capital expenditures and direct costs such as labor. These decisions rarely take into account the much broader strategic implications of outsourcing a portion of the firm's production. This paper examines outsourcing decisions and their financial, organizational and, most …
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The Long-Term Costs of Caring: How Caring for an Aging Parent Impacts Wealth Trajectories of Caregivers
… home care. This may help reduce overall LTC care costs to states and the federal government, but it also shifts more responsibility to families and informal care networks. Not only can caregiving have negative impacts on the physical and mental health of caregivers, but it also can be expensive, …
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Influencers of surplus food donation at institutions of higher education
… position in the economy, as they receive both direct and indirect benefits from public services or “doing good”. Like any food service provider (e.g. a restaurant), donating may reduce direct costs through reducing waste disposal, or generate direct funding through tax breaks or grants. But, …
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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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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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