As part of the planning of a new hospital, an analysis was performed to determine the number of procedures that would be performed in each of nineteen ancillary departments on a day of the week basis. Because the planned occupancy was not the maximum possible, attempts were made using simulation to smooth the daily ancillary loads by varying the admission day of elective, urgent inpatient and o...

This paper presents a quantitative exploratory analysis of expressive movements of several clarinetists playing standard concert solo repertoire. It builds on our previous work involving the analysis of clarinetists’ ancillary gestures by focusing on the timing of various performance manners, the relation that ancillary gestures have to the musical score, the different styles of expressive move...

This exploratory study seeks to promote investigation about knowledge sharing between enterprises of the same enterprise group and is motivated by the growing importance of knowledge management (KM) to businesses. The data was collected from Community Innovation Survey (CIS) 2012 and three linear regressions were performed (one to all enterprises, one to SME and one to large enterprises). The r...

The present research study aims to discover the effects of IT adoption in micro-enterprises in the Latino community in the United States. While the majority of the IT adoption literature considers large organizations, this study relies on Sen’s Capability Approach and an adaptation of Action Research to support the adoption of IT by micro-enterprises. This “IT therapy” process enables IT to be ...