Objective: Decrease  in the staff Productivity in some of the enterprises is one of the  problems  that the managers have to encounter. The purpose of this study was to the study of  investigating the relationship between social capital and intellectual capital with staff productivity in Kerman University of Medical Sciences. Methods: A descrip...

The endogenous approach to regional development policy has become central over the last decade. By employing the conditional frontier approach, this paper investigates the relative contribution to labour productivity growth of: (1) capital accumulation, (2) exogenous technical change and efficiency, and (3) endogenous technological capabilities – i.e. innovation capability and human capital. We...

We analyze labor productivity in coal mining in the United States using indices of productivity change associated with the concepts of panel data modeling. This approach is valuable when there is extensive heterogeneity in production units, as with coal mines. We ̄nd substantial returns to scale for coal mining in all geographical regions, and ̄nd that smooth technical progress is exhibited by ...

Retail inventory productivity is of considerable interest to retailers, manufacturers and distributors who service them, and stock market analysts. Inventory turnover is frequently used to measure inventory productivity. We find wide variation in inventory turnover across retailers and over time. The causes of this variation have not been studied systematically to our knowledge. We develop a lo...

In the production function approach, an accurate output gap assessment requires a careful evaluation of the total factor productivity (TFP) cycle. We build a common cycle model that links TFP to capacity utilization and we show that, in almost all of the preenlargement EU countries, using information about capacity utilization reduces both the total estimation error and the revisions in real-ti...

Hot–spots are anomalous regions of magmatism that cannot be directly associated with plate tectonic processes. They are widely regarded as the surface expression of hot, columnar plumes, upwelling from deep within Earth’s 2900–km thick mantle. Hot–spots have variable life–spans, magmatic productivity and fixity. This suggests that a wide– range of upwelling structures co–exist within Earth’s ma...

BACKGROUND Cambodia has been reconstructing its economy and health sector since the end of conflict in the 1990s. There have been gains in life expectancy and increased health expenditure, but Cambodia still lags behind neighbours One factor which may contribute is the efficiency of public health services. This article aims to understand variations in efficiency and the extent to which changes ...

One of the main reasons debugging is hard and time consuming is that existing debugging tools do not provide an explanation for the root causes of failures. Additionally, existing techniques either rely on expensive runtime recording or assume existence of a given program input that reliably reproduces the failure, which makes them hard to apply in production scenarios. Consequently, developers...

Areas within an agricultural field in the same season often differ in crop productivity despite having the same cropping history, crop genotype, and management practices. One hypothesis is that abiotic or biotic factors in the soils differ between areas resulting in these productivity differences. In this study, bulk soil samples collected from a high and a low productivity area from within six...

The problem of assessing the impact of firm entry and exit on aggregate productivity growth is addressed. The proposed method overcomes some problems with currently proposed methods. The paper also addresses some of the problems involved in aggregating outputs and inputs when firms enter and exit so that the one output and one input aggregate productivity decompositions can be applied. It turns...