A new approach to optimal selection of services in health care organizations
This paper presents a new method of making hospital service selection decisions : it is based on an optmization model that avoids arbitrary cost allocations as a basis for computing the costs of offering a given service. The method provides
The paper focuses upon large plant closures by multi-locational firms. It argues that it is useful to disaggregate such closures into cessation closures and selective closures. Closures in Sheffield from 1979 to 1989 are studied, and a distinction
is drawn between inter-urban selective closures and intra-urban selective closures. Local policies may be able to influence plants at risk of selective closure.
Accessibility of selected boundary regions in Slovakia
This paper presents accessibility of selected boundary regions in Slovakia-Orava, and Humenné located near the boundary with Poland, and region Humenné bordering also Ukraine. The paper discusses effects of transport infrastructure and regional
accessibility on the regional development and the role of different barriers in the development of transport infrastructure. Accessibility of selected regions has been studied from two different aspects: public transport accessibility and individual automobile
transport accessibility and at three different spatial levels i.e. the accessibility of selected boundary regions from other countries, of regional centres, and of individual municipalities in regions from regional centres. – (BJ)
Common and uncommon selectivity in the process of fluid transportation: field observations and laboratory experiments on bare surfaces in Aridic soils and geomorphic processes.
Plotting critical shear velocities, developed by wind, turbulent and even laminar flow, and the dimensionless splash energy versus grain diameter, produces graphs that have a clear minimum at D = 3.0. The preferential removal of these grains by one
of the processes cited can be called normal selectivity. However, from the particular velocity distribution within laminar flow sometimes results another type of selectivity which prefers 0.5 grains.
The AA. uses a new experimental design method that can easily deal with large numbers of attributes and/or levels. The idea is to select experimental points or profiles that are uniformly scattered in the problem domain. The key of uniform design
is therefore to select designs that have maximum uniformity. The new method is illustrated and tested by a case of intercity transport mode choice.
Carboniferous to Cretaceous on the Pacific margin of Gondwana: the Rangitata Phase of New-Zealand in Gondwana Five. Selected papers and abstracts of papers.
Considerations in the selection of stimulus pairs for data collection in multidimensional scaling in Proximity and preference. Problems in the multidimensional analysis of large data sets.