Although an increasing number of hospitals are reporting net losses from the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for inpatient care, overall hospital facility profit rates remain stable. Hospitals that reported net profits in the Medicare inpatient PPS sector in PPS 7 (1990) had smaller increases in Medicare expenses than hospitals that reported PPS losses in PPS 7. Medicare PPS inpatient...

Our objective was to evaluate life-cycle performance of flocks of two Egyptian breeds, Rahmani (R) and Ossimi (O), and their crosses with Finnish Landrace (F) in two management systems. Management systems were one mating season per year (1M) and three mating seasons per 2 yr (3M). Breeds and crosses studied included purebred R and O, F1 crosses 1/2F-1/2R (FR) and 1/2F-1/2O (FO), and inter se ma...

The multi-party (multi-agent) scheduling problems have received increasing attention for about ten years. Most of the research only focuses on the scheduling aspect while a distinct cooperative game model is originally constructed for a two-party setting in this literature. This game model is established to highlight the reasonable (cooperative) profit sharing, although the current multi-agent ...

Genetic improvement programs in dairy cattle have until recently focused on increasing net profit by increasing gross income per cow, rather than reducing costs of production [1]. Strong selection pressure on yield traits coupled with management practices aimed at maximizing production may have resulted in undesirable side effects related to decreased fitness [2]. These concerns have been confi...

We develop a spatial model in which consumers receive firm-specific location shocks and firms endogenously determine both franchise/product locations and prices. Remarkably, firms fail to profit from endogenous product-specific heterogeneity alone: while ex-post consumer heterogeneity ensures positive gross profits, competition for market share results in socially-excessive product lines and ze...

Tujuan penelitian ini untuk menganalisis ada tidaknya pengaruh antara gross profit margin dan net terhadap pertumbuhan laba. Penelitian termasuk jenis asosiatif dengan populasi selama 12 tahun (2008-2019) sampel yaitu 8 (2012-2019). Penarikan anggota purposive sampling pengumpulan data menggunakan metode dokumentasi studi pustaka. Untuk memaksimalkan interprestasi maka dianalisis uji t f. Hasil...