Along with the reform of Chinese Government public finance, higher education belongs to the public product, gradually changes from “fund investment management” to the “expenditure performance management”. The evaluation of expenditure performance system becomes the key point of higher education investment mechanism reform. This article studies the level, mechanism, target, and method of higher ...

In this study, both the Minkowski distance function and the grey number distance function are integrated into the TOPSIS to develop a dynamic multi-attribute decision making model for effectively handling the uncertain information. An illustration example of subcontractors’ safety performance evaluation is adopted to demonstrate the practicability of the proposed model. Results show that the pr...

This chapter provides a review of the rapidly developing literature on investment performance evaluation. The goals are to summarize the significant forces and contributions that have brought this field of research to its current state of knowledge and to suggest directions for future research. This review is written for a reader who is familiar with financial economics but not the specific lit...

Background and Objectives: Patient readmission is an important criterion in performance evaluation of healthcare settings. Identifying the causes of the readmissions would help the policymakers in designing strategies for efficient management of health facilities. This stud aimed to explore factors contributing to readmission by sampling from an Iranian hospital. Methods: Clinical records of ...