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The relationship which developed between the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee and the Stanford Graduate School of Business on a joint project to computerize portions of the Union’s information processing activities is…
A longitudinal study was undertaken to discover the relationships between the job success of MBA’s and their scores on psychological tests, peer evaluations, and questionnaires administered five and ten years after graduation. Of…
The training of students in the techniques of system simulation is more than merely teaching them how to program in a simulation language. Yet, all too often projects or class exercises become bogged down in the tricks necessary…
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The results of a study of the relationship between users and the information services department in seven companies are presented. Predicted associations between favorable user attitudes and other variables were tested with data…
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The classical formulation of the static job shop scheduling problem with job due dates implies that: the question of interest to the manager is: What is the best that can be done to meet due dates with fixed resources? In this…
In planning for health services, the need arises to determine the location, capacity and number of health centers for a geographically defined region. The present paper formulates this problem in a form convenient for solution and…
When the staffing load on several separate work centers is variable but unpredictable i n advance, a variable staffing policy may be used as a means of increasing manpower efficiency. A variable staffing policy is one which…
This report is divided into six major sections. Section 1 provides introductory and background material, as well as reviewing the available literature on the economic benefits of education. Section 2 discusses the cost and…
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The positive definite, equalities case of quadratic programming with n variables is converted into an n dimensional symmetric positive semidefinite linear complementarity problem, which can be solved by any of several methods…
A central problem in planning primary health care services for a specific target population is to understand how that population reacts to the mix of services provided and the way in which the delivery system is organized. An…
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A recent study of areawide health planning organization suggests that the widely publicized disillusionment with the planning concept is due in large part to the absence of a well-defined and proven planning process. With the…