The drive for productivity in the software industry is forcing major changes in the ways that software development and maintenance are being done. The technical trends contributing most to improved productivity are the improvement in quality of products and processes; and the reuse of code and other software components, such as design and require-

The purpose of this paper is to study relative developments in total factor productivity (TFP) growth between the Australian and New Zealand traded goods sectors during the 1975–1998 period. Particular attention is paid to the effect of the mid-1980s economic reforms on overall productivity and efficiency change (ECH). We use an approach that decomposes TFP growth into an ECH and a technical ch...

To achieve productivity improvements in manufacturing companies, application of new technology or adoption of mass production may not always be possible.The most practical approach is to attack the work process itself—that is, review and redesign the operations and apply automation and mechanization.In such cases,a productivity audit employing industrial engineering (IE) techniques is used for ...

Tremendous growth of the home information appliances requests semiconductor manufacturing to respond High Product Mix and Low Production Volume condition. Such condition in manufacturing operations challenges production management to have rapid improvement activities in an environment with uncertain productivity and demand. In this research Visualized Coefficient of Variation Analysis (VCVA) wa...

BACKGROUND Rhinitis can cause a heavy toll on patients because of its bothersome effects on productivity. This retrospective study was conducted to explore the clinical profile, outcomes and improvement in the symptoms and productivity resulting from treatment of allergic rhinitis in Pakistan. METHODS We carried out a retrospective file review of all allergic rhinitis patients who presented t...

BACKGROUND The ability to function at work is impaired in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) but few clinical trials include occupational outcome assessments. This study examined whether symptom remission following treatment for MDD is associated with work functioning improvement. METHODS We conducted a secondary analysis of a 12-week randomized clinical trial comparing escitalopra...

India is the largest tea producing country in the world and tea contributes 1% of the GDP of the country, apart from providing a direct livelihood to a large number of workers. However, in the recent past the productivity performance of Indian tea industry has not been very satisfactory. India’s predominance in the tea production is on decline and this has already started showing its bad effect...

The Taiwan Quality Indicator Project (TQIP) is a quality management program that measures and monitors the healthcare quality of hospitals in Taiwan. This paper examines the impact of TQIP participation on hospital productivity growth with the application of the Malmquist productivity change index based on data envelopment analysis (DEA). Analyzing operations data from 31 TQIP regional hospital...