Benchmarking is a must to achieve higher goals and productivity. This process not only helps in achieving better results, it also sets higher achievable standards. Benchmarking has been used quite effectively in all the industries. In Manufacturing industries it is easy to have quantifiable goals that can be used to benchmark the process. The nature of manufacturing industry being such that the...

This paper examines how the quality of exports depends on relative country size and its remoteness. Specific transportation cost is the key variable in our analysis as it gives rise to the Alchian-Allen effect. In the model, we allow for endogenous quality choice by a producer serving many international locations. Higher quality comes at higher marginal cost of production, but can be delivered ...

Education systems are changing worldwide and so are the changes in methods of teaching. Since nursing is a profession which requires development of skills in patient care, and in that teaching-learning process, patients cannot be put to risk. Therefore high tech simulation techniques are the best choice, whereby the students are exposed to different high-fidelity simulators and different patien...

This research studies design and optimization problems in communication networks. The goal is to design network structures and routing algorithms with good quality and low cost. A communication network is composed of a set of users connected by communication lines. Users communicate by sending information on the lines. Routing algorithms determine the routes in the network that the information ...

592 Older Women With Localized Breast Cancer: Costs And Survival Rates Increased Across Two Time Periods Aaron J. Feinstein, Jessica Long, Pamela R. Soulos, Xiaomei Ma, Jeph Herrin, Kevin D. Frick, Anees B. Chagpar, Harlan M. Krumholz, James B. Yu, Joseph S. Ross, and Cary P. Gross 601 Wide Variation In Payments For Medicare Beneficiary Oncology Services Suggests Room For Practice-Level Improve...

The area of my research is Digital Archeology [1]: a study of software developers’ culture and behavior through the recovery, documentation, and analysis of digital remains. These digital traces reflect various projections of collective and individual activity. The fundamental method of Digital Archeology is the reconstruction and quantification of the behavior of an individual, a team, or an o...

Algorithms for crowdsourced tasks such as entity resolution, sorting, etc. have been subject to a variety of research work. So far, all of this work has focused on one specific problem respectively. In this paper, we want to focus on the bigger picture. More specifically, we want to show how it is possible to estimate the budget or the quality of an algorithm in a crowdsourcing environment wher...