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Ergonomics—costs and benefits

Applied Ergonomics, 1970
Ergonomics is primarily concerned with improving the performance of man or of man-machine systems. Although many applications have produced evident improvements, the terms of reference and the results are not often expressed in measures that are easily converted into financial savings.
D, Beevis, I M, Slade
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On the cost and benefit of cost and benefit.

Psychological Bulletin, 1984
Cost-benefit analysis of reaction times has become a popular chronometric tool in the study of cognitive processes. We review the technique, assumptions underlying its application, and pitfalls that are encountered in actually implementing it in various experimental contexts, this review suggests that the unthoughtful application of the technique may ...
John Jonides, Robert Mack
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On the cost and benefit of cooperation

2015 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2015
In cooperative communication, network nodes that would otherwise act independently instead coordinate their efforts with the aim of improving communication performance. To better understand cooperation, we consider communication over a multiple access channel using a “cooperation facilitator”, a node that receives rate-limited message descriptions from
Noorzad, Parham   +2 more
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The costs and benefits of benefit-cost analysis

Environment and Development Economics, 1997
Among the tools of the economic trade, cost-benefit analysis is the most widely used in policy circles. Asking whether there is a role for cost-benefit analysis is like asking whether there is a role for the weatherman. Of course there is.
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Cost and Benefit

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1973
Excerpt To the editor: In the April 1973 issue (p. 580), in the excerpt "'Cost/Benefit' in Medicine" fromThe Medical Journal of Australia, I was particularly interested in the last sentence, "Is th...
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Benefits and costs of vaccination

Vaccine, 1992
Vaccination programmes supported by the WHO and other organizations have dramatically reduced disease in developing countries, but there remains a need to extend coverage rates and expand the number of vaccines included. In industrialized countries, where paediatric vaccination is almost universal, there will be an increasing opportunity to protect ...
P, Dejonghe, B, Parkinson
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