135,349 research outputs found
Bowman the horse keeper and the artist threatened with spears while searching for stray horses near the Baines River, Victoria River, Northern Territory, ca. 1856 [transparency] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer from inscription.; Part of the collection: Thomas Baines collection of lantern slides, 1855-1861.; Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK6954/D.; Inscriptions: "Bowman the horse keeper and the artist threatened with spears while searching for stray horses near the Baines River, Victoria River, North Australia"--On label on mount.; Also available online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an4054180
Medicare Act Signing with John D. Dingell and Lyndon Baines Johnson, July 30, 1965
No full text89th Congress (1965-1966). Photograph of John D. Dingell and President Lyndon Baines Johnson at the signing of the 1965 Medicare Act, from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/139168/2/0003.ziphttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/139168/3/39015094758524.zi
The MFP : city of lost opportunities
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Examining green production and its role within the competitive strategy of manufacturers
No full textPurpose: This paper reviews current literature and contributes a set of findings that capture the current state-of-the-art of the topic of green production.
Design/methodology/approach: A literature review to capture, classify and summarize the main body of knowledge on green production and, translate this into a form that is readily accessible to researchers and practitioners in the more mainstream operations management community.
Findings: The existing knowledge base is somewhat fragmented. This is a relatively unexplored topic within mainstream operations management research and one which could provide rich opportunities for further exploration.
Originality/value: This paper sets out to review current literature, from a more conventional production operations perspective, and contributes a set of findings that capture the current state-of-the-art of this topic
Portfolio frontier analysis: Applying mean-variance analysis to health technology assessment for health systems under pressure
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic is challenging how healthcare technologies are evaluated, as new, more dynamic methods are required to test the cost effectiveness of alternative interventions during use rather than before initial adoption. Currently, health technology assessment (HTA) tends to be static and a priori: alternatives are compared before launch, and little evaluation occurs after implementation. We suggest a method that builds upon the current pre-launch HTA procedures by conceptualizing a mean-variance approach to the continuous evaluation of attainable portfolios of interventions in health systems. Our framework uses frontier analysis to identify the desirability of available health interventions so decision makers can choose diverse portfolios based upon information about expected returns and risks. This approach facilitates the extension of existing methods and assessments beyond the traditional concern with pre-adoption data, a much-needed innovation given the challenges posed by COVID-19
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
A strategy formulation methodology for companies seeking to compete through IVHM enabled service delivery systems
No full textThis thesis makes a contribution to knowledge through the development of a
strategy formulation methodology for manufacturing organisations who wish to
compete through advanced technology enabled service delivery systems. The
research introduces the reader to the concept of Product Service Systems
(PSS) and the process of ‘servitization’. It identifies Integrated Vehicle Health
Management (IVHM) as one of a set of enabling technological applications,
which if adopted, can facilitate the supply of “intelligent” or “informated”
products. Such products enable the manufacturer to monitor the condition and
usage of these products ‘in the field’ thereby enabling aligned service solutions
to be offered.
A five phase research programme is undertaken which seeks to understand the
principles of IVHM and gain knowledge of the level of practitioner awareness of
the concept and related issues. The research then explores and defines the
concept of the service delivery system, and identifies and reviews operations
strategy formulation methodologies. A pre-pilot methodology is adopted which
is then tested via case application to generate a list of requirements and
specification. A pilot methodology is designed to suit the specification and
tested via industrial case studies and expert practitioner evaluation. The pilot
methodology is finally refined prior to verification and validation through
industrial case application and further expert practitioner evaluation.
This research delivers a sequential and iterative strategy formulation
methodology which fills a gap that is identified through a state of the art
literature review and practitioner survey. The documented methodology is the
result of a structured development and test programme and is shown to be
feasible, useable and useful by test and validation by numerous manufacturing
organisations. It makes a significant contribution to knowledge. This is attained
through seeking to understand the organisation’s actual competitive position,
its alignment to the stakeholder’s service requirements, and organisational
structure. It also offers alignment relative to the level of technology adoption
when offering intelligent/informated products. The research provides a strategy
formulation methodology to deliver an enhanced service delivery system
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