How Independence Saved an African Reserve

How Many Lives were Saved by the Evacuation

It is difficult to know how many fatalities and injuries in an earthquake may have been avoided by a mitigating action because the result without the mitigation can usually not be estimated with a useful reliability. The case of the evacuation before the 1975, M 7.3, Haicheng earthquake offers a rare opportunity to quantitatively estimate the number of casualties saved. We show that the compute...

How American Express Saved $1M in CPU charges

There are many advantages of using code generators, for example, reducing the number of programming hours, thus allowing the SAS users to focus on analysis. Another example, in cases like this, is reducing the cost of CPU. This project was designed with interaction on multiple platforms: Unix, Windows, and Mainframe. It is difficult to synchronize the programs running on these different platfor...

How Much Could Be Saved with Improved Education ?

Valuing “ Lives Saved ” vs . “ Life - Years Saved ”

There is long-standing debate whether to count “lives saved” or “life-years saved” when evaluating policies to reduce mortality risk. Historically, the two approaches have been applied in different domains. Environmental and transportation policies have often been evaluated using lives saved, while life-years saved has been the preferred metric in other areas of public health including medicine...

How an “Imperative” IS Development was Saved from a Failing Course of Action – A Case Study

When an information systems (IS) development project exceeds time, budget and functional constraints a point is reached where the decision has to be made to abandon it or attempt to save it. Some systems are of such value that management is prepared to take extraordinary measures to save them. This paper examines a case study of one such system whose development was saved from likely failure by...