Much has been written about the challenging market environment and the difficulties non-profit organizations confront as they seek to reach their investment return targets. Charged with maintaining consistent levels of annual spending while simultaneously safeguarding their assets so as to support their operations in perpetuity, many non-profits are reconsidering their approaches to their inves...

This paper analyses how different management schemes influence the exploitation and economics of a wildlife population--the moose (Alces alces)--that is both a value (harvesting income) and a pest (forestry damage). Two regimes are explored; the unified management scheme where the wildlife manager aims to find harvesting quotas that maximise the overall benefit of the moose population, and the ...

the control problem and dynamic programming is a powerful tool in economics and management. we review the dynamic programming problem from its beginning up to its present stages. a problem which was involved in physics and mathematics in i 7” century led to a branch of mathematics called calculus of variation which was used in economic, and management at the end of the first quarter of the 20” ...

In this study production, reproduction, population, management and economic parameters resulted from recording of 7 flocks with size 57 to 400 and 721 heads of camels in a cycle of reproduction, during three years from 2011 to 2013 were used to find out of the economic values of important traits in one hump camel in desert areas rearing system. The economic traits that appeared in profit equati...

1389-1286/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier B.V doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2011.11.004 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (P.K. Mut rpi.edu (A. Gupta), [email protected] (M. Yuksel), We consider an Internet Service Provider’s (ISP’s) problem of providing end-to-end (e2e) services with bandwidth guarantees, using a path-vector based approach. In this approach, an ISP uses its edg...

This paper analyzes the for-profit transformation of health care, with emphasis on Internet start-ups, physician practice management firms, insurance plans, and hospitals at various stages in the industry life cycle. Venture capital, conglomerate diversification, publicly traded equity, convertible bonds, retained earnings, and taxable corporate debt come with forms of financial accountability ...

Due to many success stories, social software received much attention in public and academia. Although it is widely used for business support, its relationship with business process management has not been analysed. The results of the workshop on Business Process Management and Social Software as part of the international conference on Business Process Management in Milano workshop show the mani...