1. Describe the balanced scorecard and dashboard reporting. 2. Describe the four key elements of dashboard reporting. 3. Explain what the most important measure of financial success is. 4. Explain what a health care firm’s primary financial objective should be. 5. Describe the critical drivers of financial performance. 6. Discuss relevant healthcare financial performance measures. 7. Describe t...

Research is often seen as tremendously timeand resource-intensive, diffi cult to undertake save for the initiated few. In fact, research is actually an uncomplicated undertaking if clearly planned and executed in a straightforward method. The ultimate reward is that of discovery. Proving the expected theory can be gratifying, but nothing comes close to fi nding something unexpected and then sea...

Measurements of the observed parameters are carried out using a multiplex measuring system based on the adaptive commutation principle. The unit of numerical reflection of the state of the object performs the processing of non-redundant samples. The numerical procedure provides us with a specific number associated with its vector. The information uncertainty numerical representation algorithm a...

Microarray technology is now routinely used to monitor genome-wide expression profiles. However, current microarray imaging and analysis packages typically require manual intervention and assumptions on alignments. Unfortunately, limitations and assumptions are typically undisclosed and methods are not published. To facilitate exploration of image data, we developed SignalViewer. This paper pre...

Enacting tasks in a workflow cannot always follow a predefined process model. In application domains like disaster management workflows are partially specified and circumstances of their enactment change. There exist various approaches for formal workflow models that are effective in such situations, like declarative specifications instead of operational models for formalizing flexible workflow...

Qualitative research begins with questions, and its ultimate purpose is learning. To inform the questions, the researcher collects data. Data are like building blocks that, when grouped into patterns, become information, which in turn, when applied or used, becomes knowledge (Rossman & Rallis, 2003). The challenge of qualitative analysis lies in making sense of large amounts of data—reducing ra...

Scrip systems provide a non-monetary trade economy for exchange of resources. We model a scrip system as a stochastic game and study system design issues on selection rules to match potential trade partners over time. We show the optimality of one particular rule in terms of maximizing social welfare for a given scrip system that guarantees players’ incentives to participate. We also investigat...

Many objects in the real world are tubular in shape and this paper is about understanding this object class, which we refer to in the paper as generalized tubes (hereafter GTs). Intuitively, a GT is constructed by sweeping some planar closed curve (the GT cross-section) along a 3D space curve (the GT axis). First, we examine the GT class as a whole and identify two important GT subclasses where...

1. INTRODUCTION The university is a fundamental social institution. It is a haven for research and is where the next generation gets educated. Gaining knowledge of its properties and understanding how it functions are thus of inherent value to society. In our project, we analyzed Stanford's academic network , where faculty members are vertices and edges between faculty members represent academi...