The value returned by Enterprise Architecture (EA) is increasingly under consideration by researchers and practitioners. They struggle to justify the EA investments made. Quantifying the Enterprise Architecture benefits has always been a challenge because measurements and real value delivered can not often be expressed in simple technical oriented metrics only. In this paper we suggest a multi-...

Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness in Brazil. Its prevalence and incidence tend to increase significantly in the future, mainly due to the population increase and aging. The scarcity of health care resources and the increasing costs in health require a balanced analysis of health interventions and an efficient allocation of resources. The cost-effectiveness and cost-utility...

We develop a general method for cost-sharing that is approximately budget balanced and group strategyproof. We use our method to design cost sharing mechanisms for two NP-complete problems: metric facility location, and single source rent-or-buy network design. Both mechanisms are competitive, group strategyproof and recover a constant fraction of the cost. For the facility location game our co...

1. Describe the balanced scorecard and dashboard reporting. 2. Describe the four key elements of dashboard reporting. 3. Explain what the most important measure of financial success is. 4. Explain what a health care firm’s primary financial objective should be. 5. Describe the critical drivers of financial performance. 6. Discuss relevant healthcare financial performance measures. 7. Describe t...

How to select an architecture which has better performance cost ratio, how to design a balanced architecture which can fit most DSP programs and how to generate a custom-fit DSP processor are important topics now. This paper presents a novel methodology based on source-level loop optimization which can avoid expensive retargetable compiler and simulator, and exhaustive experiments.

This paper presents aggregated cost efficiency scores for a balanced panel of British and Irish credit institutions and relates these scores to loan loss reserves as a first step in investigating their usefulness as possible indicators of financial fragility. The efficiency scores are obtained using the two most popular methods of efficiency measurement – data envelopment analysis (DEA) and the...

Stoichiometric balance, or dosage balance, implies that proteins that are subunits of obligate complexes (e.g. the ribosome) should have copy numbers expressed to match their stoichiometry in that complex. Establishing balance (or imbalance) is an important tool for inferring subunit function and assembly bottlenecks. We show here that these correlations in protein copy numbers can extend beyon...

—In this paper, a clustering algorithm based on the cooperative transmission technology is proposed with respect to uneven energy consumption in large scope wireless sensor network. In this algorithm, to ensure the even distribution of the cluster head nodes in large scope wireless sensor network which has even clusters, the cooperative transmission technology is applied in data transmission a...