Cutting overhead costs

Case Study - Overhead Costs Analysis

Construction projects become complicated and fragmented so that many specialty contractors are involved. In such changed environments, a general contractor’s overhead costs are increasing comparable to direct costs. In addition to an increase of volume, activities consisting of overhead costs play an important role in coordinating different participants who include different specialty contracto...

Cutting Down Routing Overhead in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

An ad hoc network is a P2P network, formed by a collection of wireless mobile hosts requiring no fixed infrastructure. Many on-demand routing algorithms proposed for such kind of networks incur much routing overhead during the route discovery process. This paper presents Band Zone Route Discovery, a new route discovery scheme to cut down the routing overhead. The basic idea of the proposed sche...

Unforeseen Costs of Cutting Mosquito Surveillance Budgets

A budget proposal to stop the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funding in surveillance and research for mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue and West Nile virus has the potential to leave the country ill-prepared to handle new emerging diseases and manage existing ones. In order to demonstrate the consequences of such a measure, if implemented, we evaluated the impact of ...

EtherCAT | Cutting Costs with High-speed Ethernet

Public payments to physicians in Ontario adjusted for overhead costs.

We used data collected in the 2010 National Physician Survey and public payment data published in the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences report Payments to Ontario Physicians from Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Sources 1992/93 to 2009/10 to estimate 2009/2010 net physician income from public payments for Ontario physicians by specialty. Incorporating overhead substantially af...