This article develops a new methodology for a more comprehensive and useful analysis of the costs and benefits of fundraising, as well as the total costs and net benefits associated with development efforts in general. This approach does a better job of linking the timing of return of fundraising efforts and measuring the actual return on investments in fundraising (as opposed to the reported r...

In this paper we study closed-loop supply chain models for a high-tech product which is featured with a short life-cycle and volatile demand. We focus on the manufacturer's choice of three alternative reverse channel structures for collecting the used product from consumers for remanufacturing: (1) the manufacturer collects the used product directly; (2) the retailer collects the used product f...

Sehrish Gul Faiza Irshad Khalid Zaman The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between bank-specific and macro-economic characteristics over bank profitability by using data of top fifteen Pakistani commercial banks over the period 2005-2009. This paper uses the pooled Ordinary Least Square (POLS) method to investigate the impact of assets, loans, equity, deposits, economic g...

OBJECTIVES Shoulder disorders have an important impact on a patient's capacity to work. We investigated whether there is a relationship between subjective or objective outcome measures and the ability and time for returning to work (RTW) after a proximal humerus fracture (PHF). DESIGN Retrospective single-centre study from March 2003 to June 2008. SETTING City hospital, trauma level one cen...

Dextrocardia with situs inversus totalis is a rare disorder but is frequently associated with anomalous venous return. Pacemaker/Internal Cardioverter Defibrillator implantation in this population can be difficult given the difficult venous anatomy. This case illustrates how beforehand knowledge of the venous anatomy by cardiac MRI can facilitate device implantation.

This paper examines the economic effects of investment in developing and introducing Almond Late Flowering Cultivars (ALFC) in a period of 52 years from 1968 to 2020, developed in Sahand Horticultural Research Station (SHRS), using the economic surplus model and field survey data. ALFC make almond supply curve move less to the left when there is a chilling case, thus affect the economic surplus...

VOL. 75-B. No. JANUARY 1993 from a tarsometatarsal (Lisfranc)dislocation is important (Faciszewski, Burks and Manaster 1990). Our patient presented at three weeks and conservative treatment enabled her to return to athletics without symptoms seven months after the injury. O’Donoghue (1976) recommended complete reduction and internal fixation followed by non-weight-bearing for four weeks and an ...

In past years, companies made significant strides in improving the performance of their internal supply chains. Today, the challenge is to make contract manufacturers and suppliers as efficient and accountable as enterprise stakeholders. This white paper, "Beyond the Enterprise," details with maximizing return-on-assets in the global, extended enterprise.

This study estimates the internal rate of return (IROR) to the post-BS, two year PharmD degree over the Bachelor of Science pharmacy (BS) degree. Rates of return were estimated using a cost-benefit methodology based upon the economic theories of human capital. Data used in this analysis come from the 1990 Purdue national pharmacy compensation survey, a rich and unique source of data on pharmaci...