the study was conducted to determine optimum dietary inclusion level of glyricidia leaf protein concentrate (glpc), for growing rabbits. thirty five weaned rabbits of mixed sexes were weighed and randomly allocated to five dietary treatments which contained 0, 5, 10, 15 and 20% glpc for diets 1 to 5, respectively in a completely randomized design. diet 1 served as the control diet.each treatmen...

In this study, we use Stochastic Frontier analysis approach to estimate cost efficiency, economies of scale, and technological progress among Iranian banks from 1999 to 2012. The results show that there is a marked difference in cost efficiency before and after the recent financial sanctions against Iranian banking industry. Moreover, the results indicate that specialized government-owned banks...

conclusions accidents resulting in death, total disability, and partial disability impose a huge cost burden on society, whereas the employer will bear a relatively low cost. this is because of society’s health, treatment, and welfare systems available for treatment and rehabilitation of injured employees and their families. background occupational accidents represent one of the major problems ...

objective: type 2 diabetes is amongst the most common chronic illnesses in iran. its prevalence is increasing and it has significant economic importance. the aim of this study was to estimate direct therapeutic and non-therapeutic costs of type 2 diabetes patients referred to the diabetes research center of yazd in 2012. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out on 250 t...

this study presents a detailed analysis of cost management for intensive cultivation activity in terms of tomato production. the main objective was to provide qualitative and quantitative costs obtained in the intensive cultivation of tomato. this methodology was structured by activity costs (soil preparation and planting, crop monitoring, harvesting, selling, etc.) through a study in greenhous...

extensive research has been devoted to economic production quantity (epq) problem. however, little atten-tion has been paid to problems where depreciation cost and process quality cost must be considered, simulta-neously. in this paper, we consider the economic production quantity model of minimizing the annual total cost subject to depreciation cost and process quality cost, where depreciation...

Die benutzerzentrierte Qualitätssicherung, die mit dem weit verbreiteten TCO-Zertifikat zu einem de facto Standard für die Qualitätssicherung von Büroprodukten führte, wird in Schweden seit 1998 unter dem Namen „UsersAward“ auch für Software-Produkte angewendet. „UsersAward“ verfolgt dabei einen ganzheitlichen Prozessansatz, bei dem die Nutzerzufriedenheit mit Software in den sechs Bereichen Ge...

This paper examines changes in the industry-adjusted financial performance of 48 sample firms that laid off five percent or more employees between 1985 and 1990. Our findings indicate that the firms show significant improvements in operating cash flows and cost efficiency despite poor sales performance following layoffs. There is also evidence that the firms’ asset size increases after the layo...