This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...

Ohne weitere Effizienzsteigerungen sind Krankenhäuser in Deutschland langfristig weder dem finanziellenDruck noch den Herausforderungen des demographischen Wandels gewachsen. Zur Unterstützung von Ressourcenkapazitätsentscheidungen auf strategischer, taktischer und operativer Ebene wird in...

Activation programs, such as job search assistance, training, or work experience programs for unemployed workers, typically initially produce negative employment effects. These so-called “lock-in effects” occur because participants spend less time and effort on job search activities than...

The time–cost tradeoff problem is one of the most important and applicable problems in project scheduling area. There are many factors that force the mangers to crash the time. This factor could be early utilization, early commissioning and operation, improving the project cash flow, avoiding...