Purpose: The purpose of the study was to establish influence cost reduction strategies on performance commercial banks.
 Methodology: used census approach and targeted all 41 banks in Kenya. This is because population small. Senior finance operations managers working headquarters were targeted. therefore a total 82 respondents. research adopted cross-sectional survey. both primary secondar...

BACKGROUND Supervised injection facilities (SIFs) are venues where people who inject drugs (PWID) have access to a clean and medically supervised environment in which they can safely inject their own illicit drugs. There is currently only one legal SIF in North America: Insite in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The responses and feedback generated by the evaluations of Insite in Vancouver ...

Here we consider the p-center problem on different types of fuzzy networks. In particular, we are interested in the networks with interval and triangular fuzzy arc lengths and vertex-weights. A methodology to obtain the best satisfaction level of the decision maker who wishes to reduce the cost within the tolerance limits is proposed. Illustrative examples are provided.

BACKGROUND As a harm reduction strategy in response to HIV epidemics needle and syringes programs (NSPs) were initiated throughout China in 2002. The effectiveness of NSPs in reducing the spread of infection in such an established epidemic is unknown. In this study we use data from Yunnan province, the province most affected by HIV in China, to (1) estimate the population benefits in terms of i...

cost of quality analysis is emerged as an effective tool for the industrial managers for pinpointing the deficiencies in the system as well as for identifying the improvement areas by highlighting the cost reduction opportunities. however , this analysis will be fully effective only if it is further extended to identify the cost incurred in ensuring quality in all areas of the supply chain incl...