A scientist may publish tens or hundreds of papers over a career, but these contributions are not evenly spaced in time. Sixty years of studies on career productivity patterns in a variety of fields suggest an intuitive and universal pattern: Productivity tends to rise rapidly to an early peak and then gradually declines. Here, we test the universality of this conventional narrative by analyzin...

introduction: human resources development is one of the most important components of any organization and detecting important factors influencing human resources management plays an essential role in the success of the firms. in this study, we investigated different factors influencing human resources productivity of shiraz university of medical sciences staff. method: the present research was ...

BACKGROUND The ability to measure productivity, work performed, or contributions toward the clinical mission has become an important issue facing anesthesiology departments in private practice and academic settings. Unfortunately, the practice and billing of anesthesia services makes it difficult to quantify individual productivity. This study examines the following methods of measuring individ...

In this paper we extend the work of Färe and Zelenyuk (2003) to find a theoretically justified method of aggregating Malmquist Productivity Indexes over individual decision making units (firms, countries, etc.) into a group Malmquist Productivity Index. We also consider the aggregation of decomposed parts of the Malmquist Productivity Index to obtain a decomposition of the Malmquist Productivit...

Software measurement is a crucial part of a good software engineering. Software developers quantify the software to see if the use cases are complete, if the analysis model is consistent with requirements and if the code is ready to be tested. Software project managers assess the software process and the software product to determine if it is going to be finished on time and within budget. Cust...

The use of active learning techniques in the university classroom is a proven and widely accepted strategy to improve learning outcomes and increase student engagement. Although relatively new to higher education pedagogy, active learning has been adopted by several faculty members at SHSU, from such seemingly distinct fields as mathematics, english, and philosophy. This proposed initiative see...