Recent literature on risk management has suggested that the selection of risk assessment tools may be influenced by the type of risk being managed. In particular, the assessment of strategic risk seems to imply the use of both quantitative and qualitative techniques. This exploratory study investigates whether this characterisation holds in practice, based on a survey considering a random sampl...

abstract background: today disasters are a part of many people’s lives. iran has a long history of disaster events and nurses are one of the most significant groups within the iranian disaster relief operations, providing immediate and long-term care for those affected by the disaster. however, the technical competence of iranian nurses and their training for this work has received little atten...

For some time now, the relationship between university and private enterprise has been receiving increasing attention, both from research policy planners and managers, with a view to enhancing cooperation, and from researchers analysing and seeking to improve and make such collaboration more effective through networking. The European Union’s Sixth Framework Programme, for instance, designed a s...

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Activity-based costing (ABC) and the theory of constraints (TOC) represent alternative paradigms for evaluating the economic consequences of production-related decisions. However, their application can lead to contradictory productmix decisions. To resolve this con#ict, it is frequently suggested that the TOC is appropriate for the short run, while ABC is appropriate for the longer term. This p...

We study the problem of constructing a cost-effective regular cover of a strip with identical sectors. Three effective coverage models are considered and their comparative analysis is performed which allows to obtain an upper bound for the minimum number of the sectors per unit length of the strip.