Cost-utility analysis of indacaterol in Germany: a once-daily maintenance bronchodilator for patients with COPD. by Price, D, Gray, A, Gale, R, Asukai, Y, Mungapen, L, Lloyd, A, Peters, L, Neidhardt, K, Gantner, T

“…With constrained healthcare budgets, the objective of this analysis was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of indacaterol 150 μg, the approved starting dose for maintenance therapy, from a German heath service perspective against the most widely used bronchodilator tiotropium, and the twice-daily LABA, salmeterol. …”

How do older adults spend their time? Gender gaps and educational gradients in time use in East Asian and Western countries by Kan, M-Y, Zhou, M, Negraia, DV, Kolpashnikova, K, Hertog, E, Yoda, S, Jun, J

“…Findings from bivariate and multivariate models suggest that daily time budgets of East Asian older adults are different from their counterparts in most Western countries. …”

Drivers and fitness consequences of dispersive migration in a pelagic seabird by Fayet, A, Freeman, R, Shoji, A, Boyle, D, Kirk, H, Dean, B, Perrins, C, Guilford, T

“…We investigate differences in activity budgets and energy expenditure between different strategies. …”

Nitric acid from volcanoes by Mather, T, Allen, A, Davison, B, Pyle, D, Oppenheimer, C, McGonigle, A

“…While comparatively small on the global scale, this flux could have important implications for regional fixed N budgets. The precise mechanism for the emission of this HNO3 remains unclear but we suggest that thermal nitrogen fixation followed by rapid oxidation of the product NO is most likely. …”

Importance of economic evaluation in health care decision making by I Aniza, M Hossein, R Otgonbayar, Y Munkhtuul

“…Furthermore, evaluations can be used with other approaches to help set priorities, such as program-budgeting marginal-analysis. Methodology : Compile and systematically describe from the publications, articles and reports on economic evaluation in healthcare decision making. …”
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Managing Electronic Resources through Challenging Times by Akhir, Mazmin Mat, Jalal, Hasdarinar Abdul

“…Apparently, Big deal packages have become increasingly serious problems due to its inflexibility to cater libraries in numerous scales and focuses. As library budgets have fallen relatively, libraries are facing huge challenges to maintain subscriptions to increasing subscription cost of Big deal packages. …”
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Information usefulness and usage in business decision-making: an activity-based costing (ABC) perspective by Abu Mansor, Nur Naha, Tayles, Michael, Pike, Richard

“…The study found ABC provided better information in areas of budgeting and planning and opportunities for improvement in other business areas. …”

Cost performance and change managementcapability level of contractors: A relational quantitative study by Ajayi, Arowosegbe A., Mohamed, Sarajul Fikri

“…It has been recognized that higher capability maturity levels leads to better and consistent performance and that projects that adopts change management capability maturity level as a criterion for contractor’s pre-qualification incurs lower costs overrun on project budgets. Therefore, examining the relationship between the change management capability maturity level of contractors and cost performance of building projects is the focus of this research. …”

Cost performance and change management capability level of contractors: a relational quantitative study by Ajayi, Arowosegbe Augustine, Mohamed, Sarajul Fikri

“…It has been recognized that higher capability maturity levels leads to better and consistent performance and that projects that adopts change management capability maturity level as a criterion for contractor’s pre-qualification incurs lower costs overrun on project budgets. Therefore, examining the relationship between the change management capability maturity level of contractors and cost performance of building projects is the focus of this research. …”

CORPORATE FINANCE / by Ross, Stephen A. Prof. author 378828, Westerfield, Randolph Professor Emeritus author 268370, Jaffe, Jeffrey F., 1946-, author 260048

Advertising and Promotion : An Integrated Marketing Communications Perspective / by Belch, George E., (George Edward), 1951-, author 460649, Belch, Michael A., author 196297

BUSINESS PLANS FOR DUMMIES / by Tiffany, Paul, author 206024, Peterson, Steven (Steven D.) author 641814

4P delays in project management by Ansah, Richard Hannis, Sorooshian, Shahryar

“…In the construction industry, projects are enormously complicated and involve significant budgets, and therefore optimizing project performance through the root cause analysis should be imperative for every project manager. …”
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Production Cost Modeling and Simulation in the Glove Manufacturing Industry by N., Agus Salim, M. F. F., Ab Rashid

“…Developing a cost model for the manufacturing industry involves collecting data from the industry and existing literature; developing a cost model with several function modules based on the data; validating the model by comparing its estimates to actual costs; and using the model for cost estimation, budgeting, and product pricing while keeping it updated and calibrated regularly to ensure its accuracy over time. …”
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Financial management practices and performance of agricultural small and medium enterprises in Tanzania by Kulwa Mwita Mang'ana, Daniel Wilson Ndyetabula, Silver John Hokororo

“…Findings from the empirical study shows that working capital management practices and financing management practices have significant positive influence on both financial and organizational performance of the surveyed agro enterprises, while the accounting, financial reporting practices and capital budgeting management practices have insignificant influence on the performance agri-SMEs performance. …”
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DETERMINING THE SUITABILITY OF CLAY AT ITU, AKWA IBOM STATE, NIGERIA FOR ROAD CONSTRUCTION by Emanuel B. Umoren, Kufre I. Udo, Akaninyene O. Akankpo, Sunday E. Etuk

“…Incessant road failures in Nigeria have become an issue of serious concern in recent times as a large portion of states and federal budgets are dedicated to revamping road infrastructures. …”
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‘The Open Typology’: Towards Socially Sustainable Architectural and Care Types by Davide Landi, Glyn Everett

“…With the increase in demand for high-dependency-related services, while at the same time costs are spiralling possibly out of control of societal budgets, there is a need for a shift in the care model. …”
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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) system implementation in a manufacturing firm: Rationales, benefits, challenges and management accounting ramifications by Udani Weerasekara, Tharusha Gooneratne

“…Findings: Our findings suggest that while the implementation of the ERP system was driven by the pressure from the regional (South Asian) headquarters, it enabled streamlining of the management accounting function and facilitated the costing, budgeting as well as the internal reporting system. …”
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Unlocking the power of Twitter communities for startups by Ana Rita Peixoto, Ana de Almeida, Nuno António, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro, Elsa Cardoso

“…They allow companies with fewer budgets, like startups, to achieve their goals and grow. …”
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The embeddedness of digital infrastructures for data collection by the Courts of Accounts by André Carlos Busanelli de Aquino, André Feliciano Lino, Ricardo Rocha de Azevedo

“…The automation of data collection by the Court of Accounts, particularly its scope and frequency, affects how the audited public organizations prioritize the adoption and maintenance of accounting, budgeting, and financial planning policies and processes. …”
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