from among the major problems of iran's present financial resources allocation system, one could refer to unclear relations between financial resources allocation policies and economic indicators as well as insufficient attention to the allocations according to projects priorities, absence of a controlled mechanism for allocation aimed for decreasing or eliminating deviations from the plan...

This paper shows that under some circumstances the so called BCU method may not be able to find the true CUEP for a specific fault-on trajectory of a power system. The reasons to that malfunction are analysed, and a methodology than can improve the capability of the BCU method to successfully find the CUEP is presented. Finally, several applications of the proposed method to power electrical sy...

Playing games against people with a different skill level can be boring or frustrating, which decreases fun. A solution is to introduce specific rules that balance a game. In this paper we describe a study in which we used an electronic board game with tangible interaction to investigate whether balancing a game indeed increases fun experienced. We also investigate whether balancing skill level...

Background and Objectives: Balanced Scorecard is an increasingly popular tool for performance evaluation. Healthcare organizations have broadly adopted this method for implementing their strategic plans. There is, however, increasing concerns on barriers to balanced scorecard implementation. Built on the fundamental impacts of organizational culture on hospital performance, this study explored ...

T he textbook paradigm of economywide development rests on the premise of “balanced growth”: that is, on the presumption that all sectors will grow in unison over time as a country gets richer. This view has served us reasonably well in several circumstances, particularly those pertaining to macroeconomic models of long-term growth. An implicit view that growth is balanced across sectors, or so...

Balanced scorecard has proven to be a functional tool for large companies, however, smalland medium-sized enterprises (SME) have experienced it too complicated for their purposes. The aim of this research is to analyse the potential of simplifying balanced scorecard in order to acknowledge the practical realities of SMEs. The results of this study indicate that the viewpoints covered by balance...

In [Tal94], Talagrand showed a generalization of the celebrated KKL theorem. In this work, we prove that the converse of this generalization also holds. Namely, for any sequence of numbers 0 < a1, a2, . . . , an ≤ 1 such that ∑n j=1 aj/(1 − log aj) ≥ C for some constant C > 0, it is possible to find a roughly balanced Boolean function f such that Infj [f ] < aj for every 1 ≤ j ≤ n.

Introduction: Continuous performance assessment and improvement are critical to the survival of all organizations. An assessment tool the health care industry has started to use is the Balanced Scorecard (BSC). The authors present their BSC, a multidimensional framework linking their department’s values and goals with day-to-day activities. The BSC measures performance along multiple dimensions...