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DLA forward stocking: an economic analysis
Introduction The Defense Logistics Agency DLA supplies Air Force units in the area of responsibility AOR with relatively inexpensive, consumable items. The DLA-managed items originate in the continental United States CONUS, where they are stored and shipped directly to the forward bases in the AOR. DLA recently proposed forward...
Tags: Air Force, analysis, criterion, FINANCE, HARDWARE, Investment, performance, stock, Storage, Transportation
Research articles 2007-09-22
Science's Social Effects
We need to explore the possibility of a new ideal of "impure" science, in which scientists and engineers both educate and learn from others about the relation between science and society. In 2001, the National Science Foundation NSF told scientists that if their grant proposals failed to address...
Tags: criterion, education, National Science Foundation, scientist
Research articles 2007-04-01
Policy analysis for natural hazards: some cautionary lessons from environmental policy analysis.
ABSTRACT How should agencies and legislatures evaluate possible policies to mitigate the impacts of earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and other natural hazards? In particular, should governmental bodies adopt the sorts of policy-analytic and risk assessment techniques that are widely used in the area of...
Tags: agency, analysis, Council, criterion, cutoff, Environmental, hazard, hurricane, technique, Technology, toxin, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, well-being
Research articles 2006-10-01
Professionalism and OD: The Past, the Present, and Future Scenarios
Abstract This article reviews the history of how occupations become professions. It also reports on the shifting power and alliances between capitalism, government, the professions and consumers. Organization development practitioners are encouraged to consider these concepts in their desire to achieve global professional status for O.D., especially with regard to...
Tags: American Medical Association, capitalism, Council, criterion, Government, occupation, practitioner, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2006-10-01
Prioritizing Invasive Species Threats Under Uncertainty
Prioritizing exotic or invasive pest threats in terms of agricultural, environmental, or human health damages is an important resource allocation issue for programs charged with preventing or responding to the entry of such organisms. Under extreme uncertainty, program managers may decide to research the severity of threats, develop prevention or...
Tags: criterion, decision-making, Government, M., SECURITY, species, Strategy, terrorism, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Research articles 2006-04-01
FAST and Criterion Systems Team to Deliver Premier Service and Support of Convera RetrievalWare for Federal Government
Criterion to Resell and Support FAST Technologies, Including FAST ESP, Providing Sensitive Government Agencies Access to Cleared Knowledge Ecosystem
Tags: criterion, team
Research articles 2007-05-15
The political question doctrine: suggested criteria.
ABSTRACT Whether there should be a political question doctrine and, if so, how it should be implemented continue to be contentious and controversial issues, both within and outside the Court. This Article urges that the Justices should reformulate the detailed definition that they...
Tags: criterion, liberty, Lincoln, Marshall, Miller, president, Robert, U.S., U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2005-04-01
Errata for Anselin, Bongiovanni, and Lowenberg-DeBoer, AJAE, 86, p. 675-687
p. 682--The second sentence in the section entitled "Coefficient Estimates and Model Diagnostics," should be: "Because the model was estimated with dummy variables for all landscape areas and a restriction that the dummy variable coefficients sum to zero, the estimated intercept and nitrogen coefficients are mean responses and the estimates...
Tags: coefficient, criterion, General Motors Corp., kilogram
Research articles 2005-02-01
Ceatinine criterion concluded.(Slants & Trends)
CEATININE CRITERION CONCLUDED--The Department of Health and Human Services has published notice of its determination of the property creatinine criterion for laboratories engaged in urine drug testing for federal workplace drug testing programs. In April 2004, the department published the final changes to the...
Tags: criterion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, workplace
Research articles 2005-02-03
DISTRIBUTING THE COSTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL, HEALTH, AND SAFETY PROTECTION: THE FEASIBILITY PRINCIPLE, COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS, AND REGULATORY REFORM
Abstract:This Article offers a normative theory justifying the feasibility principle animating many environmental statutes. The feasibility principle avoids widespread plant shutdowns while maximizing the stringency of regulation that does not close plants. This principle offers a reasonable, democratically chosen response to distributional concerns and provides meaningful guidance regarding both maximum...
Tags: agency, analysis, benefit, closure, criterion, feasibility, Government, MARKETING, pollution, Regulations, shutdown, standards, statute, Technology, theory, U.S. Congress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2005-01-01
Disclosure of information on order execution practices of market centers: How can investors utilize it?
AbstractThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has recently adopted Rule 11Ac1-5 that requires market centers to disclose statistical information regarding their order execution practices. The rule enables investors to assess the quality of execution for different types and sizes of orders in market centers. This paper develops a framework for...
Tags: AMEX, criterion, FINANCE, investor, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., NYSE Euronext, SEC
Research articles 2004-07-01
OPINION: European Union Stability Pact's Demise May Haunt Future Negotiations.
Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Murdered when France and Germany refused to abide by its rules, the Stability Pact's ghost is haunting Europe, particularly the post-communist countries that joined the European Union on May 1. By breaking the Pact's...
Tags: Bangkok Post, criterion, FINANCE, Germany, inflation, negotiation
Research articles 2004-05-11
Investment Firms Look to EPA Performance Track Companies
WASHINGTON, DC ENS ? Calvert Group, Ltd. and KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. have announced that they will use membership in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's EPA National Environmental Performance Track program as a criterion in developing their investment ratings. Ratings are used by investors to help make informed...
Tags: criterion, performance, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2004-03-30
Improving Performance Reporting for Government: New Guidance and Resources
Since the late 1980s, an increasing number of government officials have expressed a desire to use performance measures in managing operations and for presenting objective information about the results of government programs to the public and elected officials. Numerous conferences and training sessions have been held and publications released over...
Tags: criterion, government, Governmental Accounting Standards Board, performance
Research articles 2004-04-01
California Air Force Base's Supporters Seek Positive Spin to Avert Closure.
By Ching Lee, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 9--Clever wordplay may be needed to save Beale Air Force Base from closure. At least that's what members of the Beale Regional Alliance Committee attempted to do on...
Tags: Air Force, closure, criterion, Government, Johnson, Leadership, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2004-01-09
Noise dosimeter badge. (Advertisements: Exhibitor Spotlights).(Brief Article)
Casella's new CEL-310 Noise Dosimeter Badge and Reader System offers a lightweight and economical solution to complying with OSHA and ISO noise measurement protocols. The 310 provides user selectable criterion level and duration, time history, dose percentage, and more. Using no wires or microphone cables, the...
Tags: advertisement, criterion, Fax, ISO, OSHA, Quality
Research articles 2003-05-01
PROBLEMS OF EXCLUSIONARY RESEARCH CRITERIA: THE CASE AGAINST THE "USABLE KNOWLEDGE" LITMUS TEST FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE COMMUNICATION RESEARCH
In 1996 five Loyola University faculty members proposed limiting the term "social justice communication research" exclusively to studies whose designs focused on "usable knowledge." For them, that criterion necessitates that a legitimate social justice research project entail immediate action recommendations and direct researcher intervention in the interests of immediate study...
Tags: criterion, essay, knowledge, Loyola University, M., researcher, scholar, scholarship, Strategy, Wood
Research articles 2003-01-01
A premium on satisfaction.
Oct 27, 2002 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) In terms of consumer satisfaction, various industries posted mixed results in a Consumers Federation of Australia report. This criterion of John Fairfax Holdings' 2002 good reputation index GRI showed utilities positively, while insurers generally failed...
Tags: Australia, criterion, debacle, Insurance, MARKETING, National Australia Bank, Strategy, Sun Microsystems Inc.
Research articles 2002-10-28
Choice of optimal blocking schemes in two-level and three-level designs.
Blocking is commonly used in design of experiments to reduce systematic variation and increase precision of effect estimation. For [2.sup.n-k] designs in [2.sup.p] blocks, others have studied the confounding pattern between blocking effects and treatment effects and proposed some criteria to choose optimal blocking schemes. We...
Tags: ABC Inc., criterion, HUNTER
Research articles 2002-08-01
Business school research: bridging the gap between producers and consumers.(Statistical Data Included)
There has been a great deal of continuing discussion concerning the seemingly unbridgeable gap between so much of the research produced by business school professors and the needs of the business people who, ideally, would use it. Here, we examine this gap and suggest a model for bridging it. We...
Tags: academics, analysis, criterion, generalization, knowledge, professor, quality
Research articles 2002-08-01