Purpose: We have a crisis in health care delivery, originating from increasing health care costs and inconsistent quality-of-care measures. During the past several years, value-based health care delivery has gained increasing attention as an ap-proach to control costs and improve quality. One proven way to control costs and improve the quality of health care is subspe-cialty pathologic review of patients with cancer before initiation of therapy. Our study examined the diagnostic error rate among patients with cancer treated at a tertiary care hospital and dem-onstrated the value of subspecialty pathologic review before ini-tiation of treatment.

with active managers do not outperform passive benchmarks because of the competitive market for capital provision, combined with decreasing returns to scale in active portfolio management. Consequently, past performance cannot be used to predict future returns, or to infer the average skill level of active

Abstract. High speed networks are now providing incredible performances. Software evolution is slow and the old protocol stacks are no longer adequate for these kind of communication speed. When bandwidth increases, the latency should decrease as much in order to keep the system balance

This study used two operational research components to explore strategies to decrease waste in university dining facilities. Component one assessed students ’ beliefs and behaviors toward food waste in a selected dining center. The relationships between students ’ food waste behavior

efficiency because of forced serialization of intrinsically parallel operations; wasted space (small data elements do not use the processor's wide data path); and excessive instruction bandwidth for regular, dataflow-dominated computations on large data sets. A system using a

We theorize that people are in a default abundance mindset, which accentuates the need for convenience in consumption and consequently increases waste. We demonstrate that non-abundance cues can trigger a conservation goal and decrease waste in unrelated domains. Interestingly, this decrease

Abstract. Fluxes of atmospheric ammonia-nitrogen (NH3-N, where NH3-N 5 (14/17)NH3) from an anaerobic;2.5 ha (1 ha 5 10,000 m 2) commercial hog waste storage lagoon were measured during the summer of 1997 through the spring of 1998 in order to study the seasonal variability in emissions of NH3-N

Abstract Worldwide natural resources such as coal and water are becoming scarcer each year. Individuals as well as companies need to use natural resources sparingly and responsibly, and decrease waste production.

The stages of implementation completion for evidence-based practice: protocol for a mixed will help increase the uptake of EBPs, thereby increasing the availability of services to youth and decreasing wasted resources from failed implementation efforts. Implementation

An industry faced with escalating off-site waste disposal costs will often consider increasing on-site waste treatment capacity or the implementation of a waste reduction program. Waste reduction program options include input and process changes that decrease waste quantity and waste toxicity