Some studies suggest that fishery yields can be higher with reserves than under conventional management. However, the economic performance of fisheries depends on economic profit, not fish yield. The predictions of higher yields with reserves rely on intensive fishing pressures between reserves; the exorbitant costs of harvesting low-density populations erode profits. We incorporated this effec...

A small printing company in Johannesburg has experienced a steady decline in profits over the past four years, and wishes to reverse this trend. The objective of this study was to assess the implementation of Lean Manufacturing in that context, and to determine the impact it had on the printing company’s profit margin. A process-mapping of the printing organization was performed; this process-m...

Le point de départ doit être ici la compréhension du mode de fonctionnement actuel du capitalisme. Pour l’essentiel, c’est un capitalisme qui augmente tendanciellement le taux d’exploitation (et donc le taux de rentabilité) et refuse de répondre aux besoins sociaux non rentables. Il assure sa reproduction de deux manières : par une distribution de plus en plus inégalitaire dans chacun des pays,...

Ce travail s’intéresse aux évolutions récentes du marché de la santé et notamment au développement capitalisme sanitaire. Si l’accès à s’est généralisé fin XIXe siècle comme un outil d’amélioration qualité force travail, il tend aujourd’hui évoluer. Le système s’émancipe ainsi sa mission initiale pour devenir élément part entière capitalisme. Les (développement l’assurance maladie complémentair...

The distribution of subcutaneous fat at the triceps and subscapular skinfold sites is described for four groups of children living in Guatemala. These groups are high socioeconomic status (SES) children of Ladino (mixed Spanish and Indian) ancestry, high SES children of European ancestry, low SES Ladino children, and very low SES Indian children. The method of Healy and Tanner (1981) is used, e...

A large and growing portion of the economy transpires within software platforms. These environments are bounded high growth economies that embed many novel features: the platform owner sets rules for participation; R&D occurs rapidly, with generations of innovations building on one another; there are profit and adoption tradeoffs in open versus closed code. This paper introduces and develops a ...

background: about 80% of deaths in 350 million cases of diabetes in the world occur in low and middle income countries. the aim of this study was to determine the status of diabetes socioeconomic inequality and the share of determinants of inequalities in kurdistan province, west of iran, using two surveys in 2005 and 2009.   methods: data were collected from non-communicable disease surveillan...

RATIONALE Health disparities defined by neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) are well established; it is less well understood whether neighborhood SES is differentially associated with health depending on one's own SES. OBJECTIVE The double jeopardy hypothesis, collective resources model, fundamental cause theory, and relative deprivation hypothesis support differential patterns of associa...