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Counting the Hidden Costs of Male Reproductive Health [PDF]

open access: yesThe World Journal of Men's Health, 2022
Christopher J. De Jonge   +2 more
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Uncovering the hidden costs by evaluating ecological costs

open access: yesJurnal Ekonomi dan Bisnis, 2021
This study aims to calculate the environmental costs of a sugar cane producer. Worsening environmental problems have required the company to implement environmental management practices.
Ignatius Novianto Hariwibowo
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Hidden opportunities to reduce order fulfilment costs [PDF]

open access: yesMATEC Web of Conferences, 2021
The purpose of the work is to draw attention to the existing hidden reserves of increasing the efficiency of systems, in which solutions for their optimisation are associated with the analysis of models of problems of the theory of queueing networks (for
Gerami Victoria, Shidlovskii Ivan
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The Accumulating Costs Hypothesis—to Better Understand Delayed “Hidden” Costs of Seemingly Mild Disease and Other Moderate Stressors

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Mild diseases and moderate stressors are seemingly harmless and are therefore often assumed to have negligible impact on Darwinian fitness. Here we argue that the effects of “benign” parasites and other moderate stressors may have a greater impact on ...
Dennis Hasselquist, Michael Tobler
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The Hidden Costs of Control [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Economic Review, 2006
We analyze the consequences of control on motivation in an experimental principal-agent game, where the principal can control the agent by implementing a minimum performance requirement before the agent chooses a productive activity. Our results show that control entails hidden costs since most agents reduce their performance as a response to the ...
Falk, Armin, Kosfeld, Michael
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Distrust – the Hidden Cost of Control [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2004
We show experimentally that a principal's distrust in the voluntary performance of an agent has a negative impact on the agent's motivation to perform well. Before the agent chooses his performance, the principal in our experiment decides whether he wants to restrict the agents' choice set by implementing a minimum performance level for the agent ...
Falk, Armin, Kosfeld, Michael
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Rational efficiency in agro-industrial process with cold chain: Thermodynamic and exergoeconomic measurement

open access: yesRevista Facultad de Ingeniería, 2018
The cold chain is the succession of links such as pre-cooling, refrigeration, freezing, and refrigerated transport. The physical variables of the heat transfer process are temperature control, relative humidity, dew point, and cooling surface. This paper
Víctor Hugo Cely-Niño   +2 more
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Costs of Quality: Exploratory Analysis of Hidden Elements and Prioritization using Analytic Hierarchy Process [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Supply and Operations Management, 2015
Cost of Quality analysis is emerged as an effective tool for the industrial managers for pinpointing the deficiencies in the system as well as for identifying the improvement areas by highlighting the cost reduction opportunities. However , this analysis
Sailaja A, P. C. Basak, Viswanadhan K G
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IMPACT OF LONG WORKING HOURS ON WOMEN’S SOCIOECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

open access: yesCostos y Gestión, 2020
Due to continuous and rapid technological, cultural, and economic changes in the banking sector in specific, the need of working for long hours has increased dramatically among bankers especially after the economic crisis of 2008, which put bankers ...
Sajida El Othman
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The Hidden Costs of Teacher Turnover

open access: yesAERA Open, 2020
High teacher turnover imposes numerous burdens on the schools and districts from which teachers depart. Some of these burdens are explicit and take the form of recruiting, hiring, and training costs. Others are more hidden and take the form of changes to
Lucy C. Sorensen, Helen F. Ladd
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