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HUSSAIN, RADI RADI MOHAMMED ABDUL. "Structural construction and economic benefits for precast concrete high-rise housing buildings." Doctoral thesis, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11566/242978.
Full textPrecast concrete technology is considered one of the greatest importance systems in multifamily housing buildings. The concept of manufacturing, production and construction makes this technology different from cast in place concrete and often more interesting and befitting. The objective of this thesis is to investigate the possibilities and capabilities of the precast concrete technology in terms of structural performance and construction cost of high-rise housing buildings, to ensure the optimal use of this technology to solve the housing crisis in the Middle East and the areas affected by natural disasters and wars. The study includes a review of the most widely systems used in this field such as the precast concrete frame systems and large panel system, which therefore have been studied intensively by considering real cases. The practical applications and experiences of housing projects and real case studies, additional to the codes, are considered the important parts of this thesis. Comparison between precast concrete systems are conducted to find out the suitable system; the comparison depends on the characteristics, rules and constraints for each system. In order to compare different precast structural housing systems for a number of case studies, the seismic performance and the construction costs are assumed as criteria for the assessment and selection of the system. The seismic performance is obtained with push-over non linear analyses, whereas the construction cost is estimated to total cost for each case study; the results obtained for various case studies are then compared. Precast concrete frame structural systems represent a suitable solution for the high rise housing buildings in terms of seismic performance and construction cost. Furthermore, the results showed that this system is a good economic alternative for the structural buildings not only in the non-seismic or low seismic areas but also in high seismicity areas.
RICCI, ORNELLA. "Bancassurance in Europe: what are the efficiency gains?" Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2108/1015.
Full textDuring the last 20 years, financial services industry has experimented a general trend of integration and consolidation: in Europe the combination between the banking and the insurance activities, named “bancassurance”, has become particularly successful, catching the attention of managers and academia. As outlined in Chen et al. (2008), most studies dealing with bancassurance have only been descriptive in nature, providing a broad insight into economic rationales, advantages and drawbacks for all the institutions involved. Only few authors have provided quantitative findings, focussing on the potential risk diversification benefits associated with bank expansion into the insurance industry, while potential efficiency gains are still a poorly investigated issue, even if cost and revenue synergies are commonly recognised as the most valid economic rationale. The aim of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon assessing if bancassurance results in efficiency gains from both the banking and the insurance sides. Results from the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) on the banking side show only weak evidence in favour of entering the life business. Investigating the insurance side, we find that the competitive viability of bancassurance as a distribution channel is relevant and consolidated, especially from the cost side, while insurance products with an high financial content appear less profitable than traditional protection insurance. As a consequence the mix of products should be continuously revised in the light of customers’ needs and financial markets evolution; then banks should carefully choose the most convenient bancassurance model, considering also the alternative of flexible and reversible forms of cooperation, such as cross selling agreements and non equity financial alliances.
Asif, Mohammad. "Simple generic models for cost-significant estimating of construction project costs." Thesis, University of Dundee, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.330103.
Full textYang, Shih-Hsien. "Effectivess of Using Geotextiles in Flexible Pavements: Life-Cycle Cost Analysis." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31442.
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Berry, Max. "Virtual reality simulations and interventional radiology /." Göteborg : Department. of Radiology, Institute of Clinical Sciences, The Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/3188.
Full textVigren, Andreas. "Costs in Swedish Public Transport : An analysis of cost drivers and cost efficiency in public transport contracts." Licentiate thesis, Transportekonomi, TEK, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-174378.
Full textDe senaste sju åren har de totala kostnaderna för att bedriva kollektivtrafik i Sverige ökat med över 30 procent i reala termer enligt siffror från myndigheten Trafikanalys. Jämförs en längre tidsperiod hittas samma mönster. En del av kostnadsökningen kan förklaras med ett ökat utbud under perioden, och en del med ökade priser på insatsfaktorer vilket kan mätas med ett prisindex sammansatt av kollektivtrafikbranschen. Det faktum att ungefär hälften av kollektivtrafikens kostnader täcks av offentliga medel ställer krav på ett ansvarsfullt utnyttjande, vilket i sin tur kräver information om hur kostnader och kostnadseffektivitet påverkas. Dylik information är begränsad för svensk kollektivtrafik, vilket är den huvudsakliga motiveringen till de två papperen i denna uppsats. I den tillhörande kappan beskrivs de senaste decenniernas utveckling i den svenska kollektivtrafiken, med ett större fokus på de senaste tio åren med branschens fördubblingsprojekt samt marknadsöppningen år 2012. Som nämndes tidigare har kostnaderna som helhet, samt olika typer av styckkostnader såsom kostnad per körd utbudskilometer, ökat i reala termer sedan 2007. Även om delar av kostnadsökningarna kan attribueras till ett ökat utbud eller prisökningar i insatsfaktorer kan utvecklingen ändå vara problematisk av åtminstone två anledningar. För det första verkar branschens ambition att fördubbla resandet till år 2020 ha gett en utbudsökning under åren kring 2010, och en resandeökning något år senare. Vad som är tydligt är dock att både kostnaden per utbudskilometer och passagerare ökat. I ljuset av detta blir det tveksamt om utbudsökningarna skett på rätt ställen. För det andra är det oklart om en prisökning i insatsfaktorerna kan ses som ”acceptabla” anledningar till branschens kostnadsökning. I den mån kollektivtrafikmyndigheter och/eller operatörer kan påverka priset på insatsfaktorer såsom bussar (särkrav, miljökrav etc.) eller personal (personalövertagande etc.) riskerar man ett endogent samband vilket gör att dessa, potentiellt kostnadsdrivande, faktorer lätt kan sorteras bort som allmänna prisökningar. I slutet av kappan förs även en diskussion om den bristande tillgången på offentlig data i svensk kollektivtrafik, och att kollektivtrafikmyndigheterna inte följer uppsatta EU förordningar relaterat till detta. Ett större utbud av data, och helst ett öppet sådant, skulle möjliggöra för mer jämförelser mellan kontrakt, utförare och kollektivtrafikmyndigheter, vilket i förlängningen tydligare skulle kunna påvisa bra och dåliga exempel i branschen och bidra ett bättre resursutnyttjande av skattemedel. Nedan följer en sammanfattning av de två papper som ingår i licentiatuppsatsen. Papper I, “Costs for Swedish Public Transport Authorities”, använder data från år 2012 på kontraktsnivå för att med ekonometriska metoder analysera hur olika kontraktsfaktorer påverkar kostnaderna i busskontrakt. Analysen utgår från en teoretisk modell visar på kostnadsmekanismer i de två vanligaste kontraktstyperna, och som ger några insikter om vilka resultat som kan förväntas från den empiriska analysen. De viktigaste resultaten från den ekonometriska analysen är att kostnaderna är högre om kontraktet körs i ett område med hög befolkningstäthet, eller om operatören av ett kontrakt har en offentlig ägare (kommun eller landsting). Incitamentsersättning till operatören kan inte påvisas ha en statistiskt signifikant påverkan på kostnaderna. Papper II, “Cost Efficiency in Swedish Public Transport” , har en liknande utgångspunkt som Papper I, men använder stokastisk frontanalys för att fokusera på kostnadseffektivitet och skillnader i denna mellan kollektivtrafikmyndigheter. Data från år 2013 används tillsammans med ett antal andra datakällor för att ta fram en kostnadsfront, där vissa avvikelser från denna attribueras som kostnadsineffektivitet. Resultaten påminner om de i Papper I, nämligen att kostnadseffektiviteten är lägre i tätbefolkade områden, samt i kontrakt som direkttilldelas en offentligt ägd operatör. En jämförelse av kollektivtrafikmyndigheternas (länens) kostnadseffektivitet visar att de flesta län inte skiljer sig åt. Skillnaden mellan den mest effektiva och 15e mest effektiva länet är ca 8 procent. Skillnaden är något större till Stockholms och Skåne län, som har tredje respektive näst lägsta kostnadseffektivitet, samt det sist placerade länet, Västmanland, som är cirka 30 procent mer ineffektiv än det bäst placerade.
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Costa, Nadège. "Analyse médico-économique de différentes stratégies de prévention dans les maladies neurodégénératives : application à la maladie d’Alzheimer et à la maladie de Parkinson." Thesis, Lyon 1, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LYO10308.
Full textIn the current context of the growth of healthcare expenditures, health economics can help decision making in the process of resources allocation in the field of health. Neurodegenerative diseases (ND) are huge and costly diseases for which no cure is available to date. Prevention can be an axis of care of theses pathologies. It could help delay the disease progression or complications linked to these ones or to its treatments. In the frame of NDs, health economics can help to make choices in order to provide quality of healthcare to patients in the context of constraint resources. This thesis aimed to describe and analyze methodological characteristics of studies which assessed NDs costs, paying particular intention to informal costs. Our works revealed significant variations of methodological characteristics of a study to another. An additional effort must be performed by the scientific community in the field of methodological validation. This thesis also aimed to assess medical and economic consequences of prevention strategies in Alzheimer disease (AD) and Parkinson disease (PD). The observed results concerned the implementation of a directed prevention program in AD (I.e. multidomain intervention) and of a targeted prevention program in PD (i.e. therapeutic education). They confirmed the need to implement studies on prevention program on substantial time horizons
Dodson-Pringle, Angela Jackson. "A Comparison of the Cost Analysis of Three Years of Special Education Costs in Danville, Virginia." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29822.
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Palomino, Alejandro, and Jesse C. Epp. "An Analysis of Aviation Maintenance Operations and Supporting Costs, and Cost Capturing Systems." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/27885.
Full textKavaliauskienė, Liubov. "Analysis of the cost-effectiveness and costs rationalization of antidepressants consumption in Lithuania." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2013. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2013~D_20130222_153819-30983.
Full textPastaraisiais metais kyla daug diskusijų dėl antidepresantų panaudojimo racionalumo bei sąnaudų efektyvumo. Rinkoje atsirandant naujiems antidepresantams vis dažniau analizuojami ekonominiai depresijos gydymo aspektai, o sveikatos priežiūros sektoriaus valdymo institucijos bando spręsti išlaidų didėjimo problemą. Darbo tikslas. Ištirti ir įvertinti galimybes racionaliau naudoti viešąsias ir privačias Lietuvos gyventojų lėšas vaistams, skiriamiems medikamentiniam depresijos atvejų gydymui. Darbo uždaviniai. 1. Atlikti lyginamąją antidepresantų sunaudojimo 2004–2009 m. Lietuvoje analizę. 2. Įvertinti depresijos diagnozavimo ir gydymo efektyvumą bei depresijos diagnozavimo dinamiką Lietuvoje 2004–2009 m. 3. Atlikti išlaidų antidepresantams per 2004–2009 m. Lietuvoje analizę. 4. Atlikti depresijos gydymo sąnaudų efektyvumo analizę ir pateikti galimus išlaidų racionalizavimo būdus. Darbo mokslinis naujumas ir praktinė reikšmė. Vertinant gydymo antidepresantais išlaidų racionalumą, pirmą kartą kaip medikamentinio depresijos atvejų efektyvaus gydymo vertinimo indikatorius buvo panaudotas depresijos pasikartojimo rodiklis. Tyrimo rezultatai gali būti naudojami praktikoje, nagrinėjant antidepresantų panaudojimą, sąnaudų efektyvumo vertinimą ir kompensavimo sistemos tobulinimą Lietuvoje.
Lindberg, Gunnar. "Valuation and pricing of traffic safety /." Örebro : Universitetsbiblioteket : Örebro University, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-787.
Full textHunt, William H. "Enhancing the value of value engineering." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24079.
Full textStanislaw, Andrew C. "A cost benefit analysis for the bicycle as a transportation alternative." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1020173.
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Meadows, Thomas A. "Analysis of F/A-18 engine maintenance costs using the Boeing Dependability Cost Model." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1994. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA289983.
Full textRivera, Allen. "Cost benefit analysis of integrated cots energy-related technologies for Army's force provider module." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Sep/09Sep%5FRivera.pdf.
Full textThesis Advisor(s): Nussbaum, Dan. "September 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on November 5, 2009. Author(s) subject terms: Net Zero Plus, Expeditionary Force Provider Kit, Fully Burdened Cost of Fuel, National Training Center, U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center Natick, Joint Capability Technology Demonstration. Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-72). Also available in print.
Zagler, Martin, and Ulrike Mühlberger. "The European Employment Price Index: Implementation and Feasibility in Austria." Austrian Statistical Society, 1998. http://epub.wu.ac.at/5640/1/538%2D1529%2D1%2DSM.pdf.
Full textBerrum, Svennung Ingela. "Carcinoma of the urinary bladder : aspects of treatment, costs and follow-up routines /." Göteborg : Göteborg University, Department of Urology, Institute of Clinical Sciences, The Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/7536.
Full textVanhook, Patricia M. "Cost-Utility Analysis/Cost Effectiveness of Nursing Care." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7432.
Full textCarlsén, Richard, and Marcus Ejder. "Cost Drivers in the Photovoltaic Solar Industry : An Analysis of the Potential for Reducing Costs." Thesis, KTH, Industriell produktion, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-58790.
Full textDen globala efterfrågan för energi ökar i en snabb takt. Elektricitet, av den typ somlevereras via vårt elnät, är en viktig komponent av denna efterfrågan. Elmarknadenbefinner sig dock i ett utdraget förändringstillstånd idag. Ökade kostnader förkonventionella, oförnybara energikällor i kombination med växande medvetenhet omnegativa miljöeffekter leder mot ett paradigmskifte i energipolitiken för regeringar,företag och allmänhet att följa. Det växer fram en önskan om att göra rena ochförnybara energikällor till en större del av vårt samhälle. Solceller, via den kristallinakiselteknologin (c-Si), uppfyller samtliga dessa kriterier. För att göra solceller till enstörre del av vår elproduktion måste dessa dock bli mer prismässigt konkurrenskraftiga. Det finns därför ett starkt incitament för industrin att minska sina kostnader och tadenna chans. Denna rapport identifierar de största kostnadsdrivarna för den kristallina kiselteknologinoch söker vägar för framtida kostnadsminskningar inom dessa. En analys avkostnadsminskningarna presenteras även för nästkommande fem år (2010-2015), somuppdelas efter den grundläggande kostnadsstrukturen i teknologin. Denna är delvismodulkostnaden, vilket är kostnaden för att tillverka själva solcellen, och arbetet eftertillverkningen (såsom arbete, underhåll, ytterligare elektriska komponenter osv). Kostnaderna reduceras här främst genom tekniska innovationer, som att ökaeffektiviteten i solcellen, stordriftsfördelar och genom att optimeraproduktionsprocesserna. Ökningar i effektivitet konstaterades här vara den störstaenskilda kostnadsdrivaren, då den ökar mängden genererad elektricitet för en vissbestämd cellstorlek. Följande tabell representerar den prognostiserade kostnadsminskningen för fem olikaproduktionsfaser (råmaterial, ingot/wafer, cell, modul och efterarbete). Den totalakostnaden för ett solcellssystem förväntas minska från $3.65/W under 2010 till $2.94/Wår 2015. Detta speglar en kostnadsminskning på 19.5% under fem år. Vidare kan manutläsa ur tabellen att den största kostnadsnedskärningen blir resultatet av minskningar imodulkostnaden, dvs. 77.5%, medans endast 22.5% kommer från efterarbetet. (För att se tabellen, se bifogad pdf)
Seristö, Hannu. "Airline performance and costs : an analysis of performance measurement and cost reduction in major airlines /." Helsinki, 1995. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/257484760.pdf.
Full textSellers, Charles L. "Cost analysis of inter-depot transportation options for U.S. Navy east coast air-launched missiles." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/8158.
Full textSince the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union, the Department of the Navy has had to learn how to meet its commitments with an ever-decreasing budget. One Navy community addressing this downsizing is the east coast ordnance community. Because of restructuring and the closure of weapon station Charleston, South Carolina, the remaining east coast weapons stations are handling the same amount of ordnance with fewer personnel. As a result of the restructuring, the aircraft carriers, ordnance ships, and large deck amphibious ships conduct ordnance transfers at Naval Weapon Station (NWS) Earle, New Jersey. These ships all carry air-launched missiles that have to be maintained and Naval Weapons Station Yorktown. This thesis develops cost equations associated with several different methods of transportation (commercial and Department of Defense). These equations are used to generate costs curves for each of four types of missiles being transported between NWS Earle and NWS Yorktown. The curves are analyzed and decision policies are determined which ensure the most cost-effective method of transportation is being used to transport the missiles.
Damli, Tolga. "Cost benefit analysis of establishing a network-based training system in the Turkish Coast Guard." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Dec/09Dec%5FDamli.pdf.
Full textThesis Advisor(s): Brinkley, Douglas E. ; Doerr, Kenneth H. ; Hatch, William D. "December 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 27, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Network-based training, web-based training, E-learning, CBT, training deliver methods, cost benefit analysis, sensitivity analysis, online training, coast guard training, shipboard training. Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-85). Also available in print.
Retali, Gérald-Réparate. "Essai sur l'évaluation économique de l'e-santé." Thesis, Rennes 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014REN1G046/document.
Full textThe new information and communication technologies represent useful tools for improving the health system. Decisions on their implementation and use must be based on solid observations to assess their impacts on care and health. The difficult use of classical economic evaluation methods is due to the multidimensionality of the assessment of telemedicine implementations. Indeed, to evaluate the impact of the introduction of telemedicine, it is necessary to take into account various indicators identified in the literature, as cost, accessibility, acceptability and quality. Furthermore, they need to be considered with respect to all the stakeholders involved in the decision process. In this context, decision support theories provide additional insight into the evaluation of telemedicine. The objective of this thesis is to present a multicriteria evaluation methodology involving multiple decision makers for the establishment of remotely monitored medical dialysis (RMMD) solutions. To reach a decision, the hospital director wishes to take into account, next to the above mentionned indicators, the preferences of the physicians and the dialysis patients. In order to explicit these preferences, we suggest to consider that the patients and the physicians are decision makers which have to express a ranking of care modalities evaluated on multiple criteria. We thus face a situation involving multiple judges which overlay a multiplicity of viewpoints. To solve this problem, we use techniques both from social choice theory and multicriteria decision analysis. First we propose to agregate the individual rankings of the patients on the potential multicriteria care modalities into a patient-wide order, which is then used in the multicriteria preference elicitation phasis of the physicians. The individual rankings of the latter ones is then aggregated into a physician-wide ranking which is then combined with the patients' one and further economical criteria to elicit the hospital director's preferences on the care modalities. This methodology is applied to the implementation of medical dialysis units in Brittany (France), on basis of the preferences of 16 patients, 8 physicians and 1 hospital director. The preferences of all the stakeholders of this decision process are representable by additive value models. The preferred alternative among the patients and the physicians is the medical dialysis unit with remote monitoring. The criterion which has the highest impact on the patients' (resp. physicians') decision is the distance to the dialysis unit (resp. the patients' satisfaction). Finally, the analysis shows that the most important criteria for the hospital director are the physicians' and the patients' satisfaction. This work shows that it is important to consider the heterogeneity and the multiplicity of viewpoints and actors in the evaluation of the implementation of RMMD solutions via multicriteria decision support techniques
Andrš, Jiří. "Analýza a řízení nákladů." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-113591.
Full textMaroun, Rana. "Analyse comparative coût et efficacité des traitements du cancer du rein métastatique : analyse à partir des données de vie réelleet des données d’essais." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SACLS012/document.
Full textTargeted therapies have improved the survival of patients suffering from cancer. However, due to the introduction of new targeted therapies, treatment costs have rapidly increased. In this context, Economic Evaluation (EE) proposes a set of tools in healthcare decision making. EE is usually based on decision modeling that requires a set of clinical, economical and quality of life data. These data are often collected in randomized controlled clinical trials also called Direct Comparisons (DC), in the literature and on the basis of experts’ opinions. Yet, it is not always possible to conduct a clinical trial that directly compares treatment A to treatment B. Therefore, the use in EE of statistical techniques that uses results from separate clinical trials to compare the efficacy between treatment A and B is increasing. One of these techniques is called Indirect Comparisons (IC). Differences in patients’ characteristics between the population in the trial and the one treated in practice, makes it difficult to extrapolate the results of clinical trials to the population treated in real life. Moreover, analytic decision models are often sensitive to clinical, quality of life and costing parameters. Hence, real life cost-effectiveness may differ from the cost-effectiveness based on clinical trials data. In addition, the use of indirect comparisons in decision analytic modeling may yield different results from the use of data collected in head to head trials. The objective of this thesis was to evaluate the impact of using different data sources (DC, IC and real life data) on the results of a decision analytic model. To attain our objectives, the effectiveness of pazopanib versus sunitinib in first line treatment of patients with metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (mRCC) was used as a case study. To evaluate the impact of different data sources on the cost-effectiveness results, we used a partioned survival model and compared the results of three different scenarios: direct comparison, indirect comparison and real life. In order to derive the parameters used in the model, we conducted three retrospective database analyses. For DC and IC scenarios, cost data were collected using multiple data sources (PMSI, Oncology Analyzer and the literature) and clinical data were collected respectively in a clinical trial and from an indirect comparison comparing pazopanib to sunitinib. Costs and survival data used in the real life scenario were collected in the DCIR. Similar utility values were used for the three scenarios. In the DC scenario, pazopanib was found to be more effective and less costly than sunitinib. However, for both IC and real life scenarios, pazopanib was found to be more effective and costlier than sunitinib. Even though both scenarios found pazopanib more effective and costlier than sunitinib, there is an important variability on the Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio (ICER) that may lead to different decisions according to the willingness to pay. Sensitivity analyses showed that the results were sensitive to utility and cost data. This thesis highlighted the disparity of the cost-effectiveness results based on clinical trial data (CD and IC) and those estimated using real life data. We observed that a small variation in survival data estimates has a significant impact on the cost-effectiveness results. In order to reduce uncertainty around real life cost-effectiveness, a preliminary work on harmonizing the methods used to estimate cost data from the DCIR must be performed. Furthermore, no matter the scenario studied, we observed a great uncertainty regarding the cost-effectiveness of pazopanib versus sunitinib in first line treatment of mRCC patients. Hence the importance of modeling the value of information to identify the studies that should be implemented in order to reduce the uncertainty around the cost-effectiveness results
Gavin, Victor S. "Evaluation of cost estimating methods for military software application in a COTS environment." Master's thesis, This resource online, 1996. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02232010-020031/.
Full textBaker, John T. "Completion cost trend analysis." Thesis, Lafayette, IN. Purdue University, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/37571.
Full textOscarson, Nils. "Health economic evaluation methods for decision-making in preventive dentistry." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Public Health and Clinical Medicine, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-687.
Full textMitchell, Zane Windsor Jr. "A Statistical Analysis Of Construction Equipment Repair Costs Using Field Data & The Cumulative Cost Model." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30468.
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Trtílek, Tomáš. "Náklady a jejich vliv na řízení firmy." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-222534.
Full textBjörkdahl, Ann. "Stroke rehabilitation : a randomized controlled study in the home setting : functioning and costs /." Göteborg : Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology/Rehabilitation Medicine, The Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/2555.
Full textMaalej, Kammoun Maroua. "Low-cost memory analyses for efficient compilers." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE1167/document.
Full textThis thesis was motivated by the emergence of massively parallel processing and supercomputingthat tend to make computer programming extremely performing. Speedup, the power consump-tion, and the efficiency of both software and hardware are nowadays the main concerns of theinformation systems community. Handling memory in a correct and efficient way is a step towardless complex and more performing programs and architectures. This thesis falls into this contextand contributes to memory analysis and compilation fields in both theoretical and experimentalaspects.Besides the deep study of the current state-of-the-art of memory analyses and their limitations,our theoretical results stand in designing new algorithms to recover part of the imprecisionthat published techniques still show. Among the present limitations, we focus our research onthe pointer arithmetic to disambiguate pointers within the same data structure. We develop ouranalyses in the abstract interpretation framework. The key idea behind this choice is correctness,and scalability: two requisite criteria for analyses to be embedded to the compiler construction.The first alias analysis we design is based on the range lattice of integer variables. Given a pair ofpointers defined from a common base pointer, they are disjoint if their offsets cannot have valuesthat intersect at runtime. The second pointer analysis we develop is inspired from the Pentagonabstract domain. We conclude that two pointers do not alias whenever we are able to build astrict relation between them, valid at program points where the two variables are simultaneouslyalive. In a third algorithm we design, we combine both the first and second analysis, and enhancethem with a coarse grained but efficient analysis to deal with non related pointers.We implement these analyses on top of the LLVM compiler. We experiment and evaluate theirperformance based on two metrics: the number of disambiguated pairs of pointers compared tocommon analyses of the compiler, and the optimizations further enabled thanks to the extraprecision they introduce
Perera, Attanayake A. D. A. J. "Cost effective designs." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1989. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7085.
Full textVon, Dach Elodie. "Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) : Prevention and fight against this pathogen." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017SACLS090/document.
Full textStaphylococcus aureus is a bacterium that can cause blood infections that can have a community or hospital origin. Among people infected with S.aureus, about 20-25% is healthy adults that carry the pathogen on their bodies, without suffering any symptom (they are said "colonized"). Although asymptomatic and often benign, colonization with S. aureus involves a risk of secondary infection and represents a serious risk of transmission to a third party. In hospitals, the risk of infection and transmission appears to be unusually high for methicillinresistant S. aureus (MRSA) and complications can be very severe. Prevention and the fight against MRSA is a major public health concern. The United Nations recently engaged in this struggle by creating the "Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance". This work is about three different studies in the prevention and control of this pathogen
Sennfält, Karin. "Economic studies of health technology changes in prostate cancer care /." Linköping : Center for Medical Technology Assessment, Department of Healt and Society, Linköping University, 2005. http://www.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp2005/med889s.pdf.
Full textBjörkman, Martin. "Cost analysis of robot families." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Maskinkonstruktion, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-65387.
Full textRajamohan, Venkatramani. "Highway cost-benefit analysis system." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 1999. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=781.
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Myers, Lorena. "Performance bond cost-effectiveness analysis." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0041335.
Full textIcyk, Bryan. "At What Cost? A comparative evaluation of the social costs of selected electricity generation alternatives in Ontario." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2899.
Full textThe findings reveal that social cost estimates for nuclear refurbishment are the lowest of the generation alternatives studied regardless of the evaluation perspective. Therefore, if the capacity expansion decision were based solely on these estimates, nuclear refurbishment should be utilized until its capacity constraints are reached. The generation alternative with the second lowest social costs depends on the perspective from which private costs are evaluated: from a public perspective, the remainder of the supply gap should be filled by new nuclear generation and from a merchant perspective, which is assumed to be more reflective of the current Ontario electricity market, natural gas-fired generation should be used.
Due to inherent uncertainty and limitations associated with the estimation of social costs, the estimates obtained in this thesis are considered to be context and data specific. A sensitivity analysis, which is employed to attempt to mitigate some of the uncertainty, shows that changes to key variables alter the capacity expansion plan. This reinforces the observation that methods and assumptions significantly affect social cost estimates.
Despite the limitations of this kind of evaluation, it is argued that a social cost assessment that is consistent, transparent and comprehensive can be a useful tool to assess the trade-offs of electricity generation alternatives if used along with existing evaluation criteria. Such an assessment can increase the likelihood that actual social costs are minimized, which can steer electricity generation in Ontario towards a system that is more efficient and sustainable.
Dekker, Kaely. "The Dollars and Cents of Driving and Cycling: Calculating the Full Costs of Transportation in Calgary, Canada." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-296031.
Full textSoriton, Franky Obron Novijanes Sukhontha Kongsin. "Unit cost analysis of a Primary Care Unit in Thailand fiscal year 2004 : a case study of Ban Mai, Ayutthaya Province /." Abstract, 2005. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2548/cd375/4737947.pdf.
Full textFranklin, Brandi E. "Stepped care for smoking cessation a cost-effectiveness analysis and simulation of future outcomes /." View the abstract Download the full-text PDF version, 2009. http://etd.uthsc.edu/ABSTRACTS/2009-041-Franklin-index.htm.
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Lux, Michael P., Achim Wöckel, Agnes Benedict, Stefan Buchholz, Noémi Kreif, Nadia Harbeck, Rolf Kreienberg, et al. "Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Anastrozole versus Tamoxifen in Adjuvant Therapy for Early-Stage Breast Cancer – a Health-Economic Analysis Based on the 100-Month Analysis of the ATAC Trial and the German Health System." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-134902.
Full textHintergrund: Bei der adjuvanten Therapie von postmenopausalen Patientinnen mit Hormonrezeptor-positivem (HR+) Mammakarzinom belegen die ATAC-100-Monatsdaten (ATAC-Studie: ‘Arimidex’, Tamoxifen Alone or in Combination) einen signifikanten Vorteil von Anastrozol gegenüber Tamoxifen in Bezug auf Rezidivrisiko und Verträglichkeit. Es wurde eine Kosten-Nutzwert-Analyse von Anastrozol im Vergleich zu Tamoxifen aus der Sicht des deutschen Gesundheitssystems durchgeführt. Material und Methoden: Als Berechnungsbasis wurde ein Markov- Modell zur Abschätzung der Kosteneffektivität entwickelt. Der Modellierungszeitraum umfasste 25 Jahre. Die Daten wurden anhand der ATAC-100-Monatsdaten, vorliegender Literatur und durch ein interdisziplinäres Expertenteam ermittelt. Ergebnisse: Eine adjuvante Therapie mit Anastrozol erzielte 0,32 quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) pro Patientin mehr, verglichen mit einer adjuvanten Tamoxifentherapie. Die zusätzlichen Kosten der Therapie mit Anastrozol lagen bei 6819 D pro Patientin. Im Vergleich mit Tamoxifen erzielte Anastrozol einen ICER (Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio) von 21 069 D (30 717 $)/QALY über den gesamten Modellierungszeitraum. Schlussfolgerung: Diese Kosten- Nutzwert-Analyse eines Aromatasehemmers basiert erstmals auf einer Datenanalyse, die auch das Follow-Up und den sogenannten Carryover- Effekt nach einer abgeschlossenen 5-Jahres-Therapie beinhaltet. Anastrozol ist auch nach dieser Analyse aus der Sicht des deutschen Gesundheitssystems eine kosteneffektive Therapieoption für postmenopausale Patientinnen mit einem HR+ frühen Mammakarzinom
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Trevino, Cantu Hector. "Life-Cycle Cost Analysis for Offshore Wind Farms:Reliability and Maintenance.O&M Cost Drivers Analysis." Thesis, Högskolan på Gotland, Institutionen för kultur, energi och miljö, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-217018.
Full textLam, Yan-yan, and 林欣欣. "Algorithms for the minimum cost flow problem." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30246052.
Full textKalibatas, Vytenis. "Evaluating Hospital Costs in Kaunas Medical University Hospital." Thesis, Nordic School of Public Health NHV, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:norden:org:diva-3289.
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McDonald, Joseph R. "An analysis of CG-47 Cruiser class operating and support costs trends and cost relationship with platform age." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/5707.
Full textS cost data in this thesis yielded results that differed from the 2002 IDA report, and showed a statistically significant relationship between platform age and maintenance costs. This analysis is intended to aid in future naval leadership decisions on how best to achieve the desired force structure of the fleet. Conclusions drawn from this thesis will contribute relevant cost prediction insight that could greatly impact future decisions between extending the life of active surface combatants versus developing and procuring new ships. Predictions of future maintenance funding requirements drawn from this thesis can be incorporated into ship service-life decisions and potentially improve cost forecast accuracy and legitimacy.
Baker, Katherine. "Costs of Reclamation on Southern Appalachian Coal Mines: A cost-effectiveness analysis for reforestation versus hayland/pasture reclamation." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33783.
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Sgobin, Sara Maria Teixeira 1978. "Custos diretos e indiretos de tentativas de suicídio de alta letalidade internadas em hospital geral." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/311458.
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Resumo: O suicídio, ao longo dos anos, vem se tornando um problema de saúde pública. Além do impacto emocional e social, a morte prematura por suicídio implica um grande impacto econômico. Apesar de se estimar que as tentativas de suicídio sejam de 10 a 20 vezes mais frequentes que o suicídio, seu impacto socioeconômico é pouco estudado. Na tomada de decisão para medidas de prevenção do comportamento suicida, o conhecimento do ônus financeiro, levando-se em conta o custo do suicídio e de tentativas de suicídio, pode ser um forte sensibilizador de gestores públicos para a implementação de estratégias de prevenção, e estimular futuros estudos de custo efetividade. No Brasil, segundo o que pudemos revisar, não há dados publicados a esse respeito, sendo este, o intuito do presente estudo. Objetivo: Descrever os custos direto (custo diretamente ligado ao tratamento da tentativa de suicídio) e indireto (perda de produtividade após a tentativa de suicídio) de casos de tentativas de suicídio com alta intencionalidade suicida e alta letalidade de método internados em um hospital geral universitário, e comparar esses custos aos de casos de síndrome coronariana aguda internados no mesmo hospital, no mesmo período. Método: Estudo observacional comparativo tipo análise de custo de doença desenvolvido com pacientes internados no Hospital de Clínicas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Resultados: Os valores médios de custo encontrados por episódios de tentativa de suicídio de alta intencionalidade suicida e alta letalidade de método foram: custo direto individual R$10635,62 ($6168,65USD), Custo indireto individual R$1186,35 ($688,08 USD) e, custo total de R$12.351,31 ($7163,75USD). No grupo de síndromes coronarianas agudas, o custo direto médio por episódio foi R$7989,56 ($4633,94 USD), e o custo indireto médio foi R$2228,15 ($1292,27 USD). O custo total por episódio foi R$10220,61 ($5929,95 USD). A análise comparativa entre os diferentes tipos de custo (custo direto, custo indireto e custo indireto familiar), indica uma diferença significativa entre os custos indiretos a familiares dos dois fenômenos, apontando para custos significativamente mais elevados no grupo de tentativas de suicídio (p=0,0022 e 0,0066 quando ajustado para a idade). Conclusão: as tentativas de suicídio graves, com alta intencionalidade suicida e alta letalidade de método utilizado na tentativa de suicídio podem apresentar um custo econômico total tão elevado quanto às síndromes coronarianas agudas, doença com maior fardo econômico mundial. Dentre os componentes do custo direto, o custo hospitalar é responsável pela maior parte dos custos, particularmente as diárias hospitalares. Um dos achados mais importantes deste estudo foi à diferença encontrada entre o custo indireto familiar dos dois eventos. Familiares da amostra de pacientes com tentativa de suicídio apresentaram um custo indireto significativamente maior que familiares do grupo de pacientes de síndrome coronariana aguda. Este fato reforça a ideia que o comportamento suicida não afeta apenas o indivíduo, mas sim o meio social à sua volta: emocionalmente e economicamente
Abstract: Besides the socio-emotional impact, the premature death caused by suicide implies a high economic impact. Although being more frequent, the social-economical impact of suicide attempts is little studied. The knowledge of this financial burden, through studies of direct and indirect costs may be a strong sensitizer of public gestors for the implementation of prevention strategies. Considering suicide prevention in Brazil, there are no published data about it. Objective: to describe the direct and indirect costs of suicide attempt cases with high suicide intention and high lethality of the method taking in account inpatients of general university hospital and to compare to the costs of acute coronary syndrome cases considering inpatients of the same hospital. Method: a comparative observations study analyzing the cost of the illness. Results: the average values of the costs met per episodes of suicide attempt were: direct individual cost $6168,65 USD, indirect individual cost $688,08 USD and total cost of $7163,75 USD. In the group of acute coronary syndromes, the direct cost per episode was $4633,94 USD, the indirect average cost was $1292,27 USD, and the total cost per episode was $5929,95 USD. The comparative analysis among the different types of cost (direct cost, indirect cost and family indirect cost) shows a meaningful difference between the indirect costs and the family cost of the two phenomena with meaningfully more elevated costs in the group of suicide attempts (p=0,0022 and 0,0066 when age adjusted). Conclusion: the severe suicide attempts may present a total cost as elevated as the acute coronary syndromes, an illness with the biggest economic burden in the world. Among the components of the direct cost, the hospital cost is responsible for most of the costs. An important finding of this study was the meaningful difference between the indirect family costs of the two events. Relatives of the patients with suicide attempt showed an indirect cost significantly higher than relatives of patients with acute coronary syndrome. This fact reinforces the idea that the suicide behavior does not affect only the individual but the social environment around him/her, both emotionally and economically
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Jhally, Gaganjit Singh. "Sampling of Dynamic Dependence Graphs for Data Locality Analysis." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1462885420.
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