Government Environmental Audit Can Improve Company Performance

Can public-private partnership (PPP) improve hospitals’ performance indicators?

    Background: This study was conducted to compare the main performance indicators of Hasheminejad hospital before and after implementing PPP model.    Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted in Iran in 2015. Performance indicators of Hasheminejad hospital, the only Iranian unit that implemented PPP model, were applied. Data were collected based on a researcher-designed checklist af...

Can Multibiometrics Improve Performance?

While it is widely acknowledged that the performance improvement in current biometrics-based personal authentication systems is necessary, it is not clear what mechanisms could be used to improve the performance. In this paper, we formulate the problem of multiple biometrics integration and examine whether the improvement in performance could be achieved from integrating multiple biometrics. Fo...

What the Federal Government Can Do to Improve High School Performance

The competitive food conundrum: can government regulations improve school food?

Can Linear Approximation Improve Performance Prediction ?

Software performance evaluation relies on the ability of simple models to predict the performance of complex systems. Often, however, the models are not capturing potentially relevant effects in system behavior, such as sharing of memory caches or sharing of cores by hardware threads. The goal of this paper is to investigate whether and to what degree a simple linear adjustment of service deman...