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  • Hospital Investment Decisions and the Cost of Capital
    Wedig, Gerard J; Hassan, Mahmud; Sloan, Frank (Journal of Business, 1989-10)
    Hospital investment decisions depend on several factors that are not relevant to the typical for- profit firm. First, most hospitals are not-for-profit organizations. Roughly 60% are privately owned not-for-profits (NFPs); ...
  • No-Holdback Allocation Rules for Continuous-Time Assemble-to-Order Systems
    Song, Jeannette (INFORMS, 2010)
    This paper analyzes a class of common-component allocation rules, termed no-holdback (NHB) rules, in continuous-review assemble-to-order (ATO) systems with positive lead times. The inventory of each component is replenished ...
  • Risk communication in clinical trials: A cognitive experiment and a survey
    Cheung, Yin Bun; Yong, Yu Fen; Tan, Say Beng (BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, 2010)
    Background: A Royal Statistical Society Working Party recently recommended that "Greater use should be made of numerical, as opposed to verbal, descriptions of risk" in first-in-man clinical trials. This echoed the view ...