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Showing 1 to 20 of 310 for “"high costs"”.
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Exploring potential reforms to address the high costs of medical malpractice litigation in South Africa
… medical malpractice claims and their associated costs threaten the effective governance of the private and public health care sectors, which results in a vicious cycle of resource depletion, poor service delivery and constantly increasing rates of medical malpractice incidents. This research aims …
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Regional Coordination in Electricity Supply and Investment Financing
… rate structures; (2) the large number and high costs of various power generation activities; and (3) the corresponding large number, high costs and complexities of different technical alternatives for controlling the environmental consequences associated with power generation activities. …
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The Decision of Israeli Businesses to Incorporate and to Go Public in the United States: Does Law Matter? A Comparative Corporate Law Analysis and Empirical Evidence
… differences cannot justify incurring the high costs of incorporating or going public in the U.S. The conclusion we reach from this comparison is that law does not matter. This conclusion is supported by two sets of data.
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Impact of transaction costs on intra Southern African migrants remittances
… explored the factors that account for the high costs of officially transferring remittances from South Africa to the SADC region. The average costs were regressed across all types of regulated financial institutions and money transfer operators with the following financial and macroeconomic …
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Sand-storage dams : an alternate method of rural water supply in Namibia
The costs of establishing and installing a borehole are high, ranging from R 57 000 to R 180 000 depending on the depth of hole drilled and type of pump installed (DR WS, 1996). Because of these high costs, the Namibian Government has historically taken responsibility for the provision, operation …
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IS-implementation: a tri-motors theory of organizational change. Case study of how an IT-enabled process of organizational change because of the presence of a teleological, life-cycle, and dialectical motor unfolds within a Dutch government organization.
… such as information system implementations have high costs and disappointing results. Studies to identify causes of the mentioned failures are mainly based on a variance approach. This study applies another approach which is not yet performed in this field of research and affects several themes. …
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The determinants of adhering to rehabilitation in diabetics who have undergone lower limb amputation
… population has remained relatively low and the high costs of long term management of CDLs poses a potential time bomb to the public health system. This study sought to explore the psychosocial determinants of adhering to rehabilitation for diabetic amputees.
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"That mountain is like a drug store": Knowledge and Medicine in Southern Appalachia, 1900-1933
… ideas of health and constant concerns over the high costs of medicine and limited accessibility to doctors throughout the twentieth century.
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The Adaptation of a Situational Judgement Test to Measure Leadership Knowledge in the Workplace
… This emergence is partly due to the high costs associated with developing and conducting high fidelity simulations such as assessment centers, coupled with the recent economic downturn affecting many organizations. The current study sought to validate an SJT as a low cost, alternate …
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Investigating the application of real-time business intelligence and facilitating its justification through a proposed conceptual model
… to the business environment, as well as the high costs required to put them in place. In addition, the justification of IT investments still remains a common problem as they provide many intangible benefits which are incompatible with traditional (financial) IT benefits measurement models. …
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Development of an architectural design tool for 3-D VLSI sensors
… potential for enabling the development of new high-performance architectures for applications such as focal plane sensors. Due to the high costs involved in 3-D VLSI fabrication and the fabrication complexity of 3-D integration, analysis of the design and process tradeoffs for a particular …
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Degradation analyses of empirical inferential predictors for the development of improved dynamic mechanistic/empirical equations
… optimal operation of downstream units. Given the high costs associated with real-time analysers, the study explores the development of various modelling techniques, including principal component analyses, decision trees, random forests, gradient boosting, neural networks and partial least squares, …
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Cognitive optical network architecture in dynamic environments
… by new technological applications can cause both high costs and extreme congestion in networks. The prohibitive cost of massive over-provisioning will manifest as huge congestions during peak demand periods. The network management and control system must be able to sense the traffic changes and …
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Social Investigation of Management Approaches to Effectively Control Scotch Broom (Cytisus scoparius) Invasion in the Sooke Region of Vancouver Island, BC
… challenges in disposal management, including high costs, limited funding, and regulatory gaps. Participants from both groups emphasized the need for enhanced community engagement and comprehensive invasive species policies. The primary obstacle to effective management was found not to be …
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Subscription & Per-Day Pricing vs Same-Day Service: A Simulation of Temporally Consolidated Delivery Systems
… adoption as a wide spread service is limited by high costs. Orders vary between time and location, restricting economies of scale and often resulting in inefficient routes where multiple vehicles serve the same neighborhood within short intervals. To address these issues, this thesis introduces …
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Pattern recognition techniques applied to rust classification in steel structures
… It requires a long project duration, high costs and hazardous practices for both worker and environment to complete surface restoration. The developments of surface preparation technologies make it essential to develop technologies that allows patch restore of corrode steel structure …
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The Design and Manufacture of a Light Emitting Diode Package for General Lighting
… have evolved over the years to become higher quality, more efficient sources of light. LEDs are poised to become the market standard for general lighting because they are the most power efficient form of lighting and do not contain hazardous materials. Unfortunately, LEDs pose unique …
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Resource recovery development: factors affecting decisions
… problems due to lack of sanitary landfill sites, high costs of landfill management and increasingly stringent environmental standards. Consequently, they are turning toward innovative disposal practices to alleviate these problems. However, very little comprehensive information is available to …
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The Care of Hospitalized Intravenous Drug Users in 2019
… in North Philadelphia. This population is at high risk for medical complications that require hospitalization. While hospitalized, this population poses unique challenges to the healthcare system, including high costs and readmission rates, as well as stress and burnout among providers and …
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