despite all attractions of social participation in most parts of the rural development, due to the lack of practical approaches, it has just remained an advertising slogan. one of the necessities of rural development is the execution of plans which enjoy maximum social acceptance. one of these plans is locating and equipping high-order service settlements. using an operative process including e...

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Small manufacturers often experience great volume variability of potential orders. Orders can make up a greater percent of the firm’s volume than in larger firms. Order acceptance strategies based on traditional accounting techniques, or even newer techniques such as Activity Based Costing may not yield the best results. With large orders and high variability, the wisdom of accepting an order i...

The last fifteen years have witnessed radical reforms in the Chinese college admissions system, with many provinces moving from the “sequential” (Immediate Acceptance) to various versions of the “parallel” college admissions mechanisms. We evaluate the old and new mechanisms both in the laboratory and with naturally-occurring data. In the laboratory, we find that the more emphasis a mechanism p...