cost by considering earnings quality for accepted companies in Tehran StockExchange. This survey investigates a population of 76 companies during the timeperiod of 2009-2014. The results show that under high earnings quality, the marketrisk factor, the book risk to market factor, and the size risk factor have positiveeffects, and the profit risk factor has negative effects on shareholders equit...

Water quality is a very important issue related to people health, but it is not usually considered in water distribution networks (WDNs) design. In this paper, new constraints such as free residual chlorine and the quality performance index are incorporated into the least cost design of water distribution networks. EPANET2 was applied for the hydraulic and quality analysis of water distributio...

In the debate over health care costs, the tired statement that ‘everyone does not need a Cadillac when a Chevy will do’ is all too frequently cited. One implication of this statement is that high quality equals high cost. In fact, health care should turn to another automotive slogan, ‘Quality is Job 1’. In health care, high quality care often results in lower costs and improved outcomes. Consid...

PURPOSE Although the inclusion of non-native-speaking participants in nursing research is important in every country where nursing research takes place, the literature contains little on the method of achieving quality translation while simultaneously addressing cost containment. We describe a process for evaluating translation adequacy and demonstrate its use in comparing procedures for transl...

This article summarizes what is known about the cost and quality of full-time child care in centers and family child care homes, and about parents' attention to quality in making child care choices. It relies primarily upon two recent studies which are among the first to collect detailed information about child care operating costs: the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers st...

Most of the inventory control models assume that quality defect never happens, which means production process is perfect. However, in real manufacturing processes, the production process starts its operation in the in-control state; but after a period of time, shifts to the out-of-control state because of occurrence of some disturbances. In this paper, in order to approach the model to real man...

one of the most important issues in the management of production is select the best option for each production activity, so that the time and cost of production is minimal and quality is the maximum. considering to the large number of activities and options for each activity, usually, this choice does not have a unique solution and can be used the utility function and assign weights to time, co...