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Hospital Resource Consumption Modelling
Research in Business and Management, 2014 Health service researchers frequently study length of hospital stay (LoS) as a health outcome. LoS is a valid proxy to estimate the consumption of hospital resources. Average LoS, however, albeit easy to quantify and calculate, can be misleading if the underlying distribution is not symmetric.
Marco Papi, Luca Pontecorvi
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Online Resource Allocation with Stochastic Resource Consumption
, 2020 We consider an online resource allocation problem where multiple resources, each with an individual initial capacity, are available to serve random requests arriving sequentially over multiple discrete time periods. At each time period, one request arrives and its associated reward and size are drawn independently from a known distribution that could ...
Jiang, Jiashuo, Zhang, Jiawei
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Resources, 2015 Intensified mineral consumption and reserve depletion means that it is becoming increasingly important for policymakers to account for and manage national mineral capital.
Guiomar Calvo +3 more
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INCORPORATING MCDS AND VOTING INTO SWOT – BASIC IDEA AND EXPERIENCES [PDF]
Serbian Journal of Management, 2016 The idea in using Multiple Criteria Decision Support (MCDS) and voting methods within a SWOT framework is to evaluate systematically the SWOT factors, and to assess them with respect to their priorities.
Jyrki Kangas +3 more
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Green Hydrogen: Resources Consumption, Technological Maturity, and Regulatory Framework
Energies, 2023 Current climate crisis makes the need for reducing carbon emissions more than evident. For this reason, renewable energy sources are expected to play a fundamental role.
Jesús Rey +2 more
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Energies, 2019 The use of new sources of biomass residues for energy purposes in Europe is crucial for increasing the share of renewable energy sources and the limitation of carbon dioxide emissions.
Arkadiusz Dyjakon +1 more
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Exploring antecedents of responsible consumption using structural equation modeling [PDF]
Serbian Journal of Management, 2019 The perennial use of resources due to excess consumption has endangered the environment and is a grave concern for all of us. The current rate of resource consumption may deprive the future generation from the resources that we have been enjoying.
Vijay Kumar Jain, Pankaj Chamola
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Escape from self: Stress increase consumers' preference for experiences over material possessions
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 IntroductionConsidering the theory of self-escape, this research systematically investigates the effect of stress on consumers' preference for experiences vs.
Yurou Zhao +3 more
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Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 2019 This study evaluated the use of submicrometre-sized particles based on titanium carbide from both technical and environmental points of view. The objective was to improve the mechanical properties of the magnesium alloy intended for use in the automotive
Victor Ferreira +6 more
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SOFIAS – Herramienta para el análisis de ciclo de vida y la calificación ambiental de edificios
Informes de la Construccion, 2016 Este artículo describe el proceso de desarrollo de la nueva herramienta informática SOFIAS (Software de Funciones Integradas para una Arquitectura Sostenible), financiado por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad del Gobierno de España.
X. Oregi Isasi +8 more
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