This paper considers the portfolio management problem for an investor with finite time horizon who is allowed to consume and take out life insurance. Natural assumptions, such as different discount rates for consumption and life insurance lead to time inconsistency. This situation can also arise when the investor is in fact a group, the members of which have different utilities and/or different...

Temporal management and assurance of temporal compatibility is an important quality criteria for processes within and across organizations. Temporal conformance increases QoS and reduces process execution costs. WS-BPEL as the accpetd industry standard lacks sufficient temporal management capabilities. In this paper we introduce BPEL-TIME, a WS-BPEL extension for time management purposes. It al...

Background: Teacher burnout and role conflict are considered as serious problems in school environments. This study was carried out in order to investigate the mediating role of time management in the correlation between role conflict and job burnout in the teachers of technical training colleges in the Iranian city of Zahedan. Materials and Methods: In this descriptive correlational study, 20...

Background: Time management is effective in controlling stress especially for medical residents. Time management in the surgical field and residential education is very important as they are directly involved in treating patients. Proper time management will help decrease work-related stress and increase efficacy, although there is no time management in medical courses. There are few studies in...

Background: Operating room (OR) is one of the main hospital parts and management of time and cost are very important in this essential unit. Also, due to the close relationship with other departments, improving its service quality and performance, significantly increases the efficiency of hospital. OR is a complex system in which each lack of coordination effects on all hospita...

in this paper, we consider a stochastic time-cost tradeoff problem (tctp) in pert networks for project management, in which all activities are subjected to a linear cost function and assumed to be exponentially distributed. the aim of this problem is to maximize the project completion probability with a pre-known deadline to a predefined probability such that the required additional cost is min...

there are many problems that usually r & d centers and organizations in the decision making and achieve its higher goals, are faced with.such as the density of information in the administrative departments, human resources information and facilities and equipment. the researcher had to make it investigate effective factors in improving management information systems in private banks accordi...

objective: this research was conducted to study the effectiveness of self-regulation training among female students’ academic achievement motivation in birjand city, iran. methods: in this interventional comparative study (pretest-posttest design with control group), 84 eighth grade students (from public intermediate schools) in birjand were selected through multi-stage cluster sampling. they w...

Objectives: The present research aimed to determine the effect of time-use training on the quality of time management in the mothers of girls with Intellectual Disability (ID) attending special schools.  Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study with a control group design. In total, 80 mothers (40 mothers in the intervention group & 40 mothers in the control group) of children with ID (age...

Introduction. This descriptive study was done in lorestan university of medical sciences with the aim to determine viewpoints of university students about factors related to suitable time spent or time management . Methods. A valid and reliable questionnaire was given to the 100 university students which had been chosen randomly. Results. Ctor of students' suitable time management was c...