Many recent studies have focused on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, such as investigations into the productivity of experimental plant communities. One of the central issues affecting the functioning of ecosystems is the diversity of resident species richness and the composition of the plant community. However, one challenge to experimental studies is that resul...

Abstract In this paper,using a structural decomposition analysis (SDA) and the latest available input-output tables we investigate the sources of labor productivity growth in Norway, South Korea and Iran. Then, the contribution of each source in the growth of labor productivity is discussed. The results show that among six factors, value added coefficient is the most influencing factoracross al...

Productivity growth and efficiency improvements are the major sources of economic development. Pure efficiency, scale efficiency, and technology are basic factors, and rules and regulations and balance are recently known factors affecting the productivity growth. This paper focuses on the effect of manpower ethics and physical space facilities of bank branches as two factors affecting the Malmq...

The software productivity in any software organization can be greatly enhanced if the human factors associated with the company employees are aligned in proper direction of cooperation and unity, among different developments teams working on same software project. In brief, the growth of any software company highly depends on understanding the concept of software productivity, and a means to me...

Publications listed in Chemical Abstracts (1962-1966) for 1539 members of the American Association of Clinical Chemists have been analyzed statistically by the “Product of Factors Law” as developed by Zener to assess research productivity. The observed data agreed well with a theoretical distribution curve for research productivity derived from the use of seven individual, uniform, statisticall...

Productivity is one of the main objectives in team working, and among other goals such as quality, efficiency, etc., it is a key to success in any organization. Team members have to work collaboratively and cohesively on the task, and the level of cooperation will also reflect on the final productivity. Many factors affect team productivity. Some are clear and obvious, e.g. technical and physic...

In this paper, the bootstrapping Malmquist index is used to derive the productivity levels of Iranian steam power plants for the period of 2007e2012. The research shows that the average level of productivity has significantly decreased. It was also indicated that technological changes have had more effects on productivity than efficiency changes. To study the influence of various explanatory fa...

Productivity growth has been quite strong over the past 21⁄2 years, despite a drop in the second quarter of 2010. Many analysts believe that productivity growth must slow sharply in order for the labor market to recover robustly. However, looking at the observable factors underlying recent productivity growth and the patterns of productivity over past recessions and recoveries, a sharp slowdown...