The financial and economic crisis has had an adverse impact on the Lithuania’s economy and construction industry. The GDP of Lithuania grew slightly in 2010, in contrast to a decrease of 14.7% in 2009. Lithuania’s GDP increased from 1.3% in 2010 to 4.6% in 2011. Annual GDP growth decreased from its highest point of 6.7%, reached in the third quarter, to 4.4% in the last quarter of 2011 [1,2]. S...

A decomposition of nominal value added growth over multiple sectors of an economy into explanatory factors is presented. The explanatory factors over a single sector are changes in the efficiency of the sector, growth of primary inputs, changes in sectoral output and input prices, technical progress and returns to scale. In order to implement the decomposition for a sector, an estimate of the s...

Do extreme values of daily-life gait characteristics provide more information about fall risk than median values? Abstract Background. Gait characteristics estimated from daily-life trunk accelerations reflect gait quality and are associated with fall incidence in older adults. While associations are based on median values of these gait characteristics, their extreme values may reflect either h...

OVERVIEW In a market setting, a business undertakes many operations to provide product (good or service) to its customers. Each of these operations receives an input (raw material, labour, throughput) and transforms it into an output. An operation is effective if it creates an output having more value than its input. The value added by each operation justifies its raison être in the business. T...