Proper performance measurement is an important issue in library operational management. A data envelopment analysis (DEA) model is applied to evaluate the relative operational efficiency of 25 U.S. private research-university library members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL)....

Public schools in the United States continue their struggle with the divergent goals of improving performance and reducing spending. For almost a decade, they have been challenged to comply with the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). In many local districts, those goals have been pursued...

Many urban areas of the United States have experienced urban sprawl in the past 60 years. Severe out-migration of relatively wealthier families to ex-urban counties has left relatively poorer families behind. When combined with the recent national conversation about school improvement, this...

The purpose of this study is to determine and evaluate utilization levels of the operating-room and recovery-room facilities of a hospital under different policy considerations governing patient flows. The utilization rates are examined under constraints that apply to the particular hospital...

This paper presents a stochastic technique for short-term demand forecasting of manpower requirements for a particular functional skin group. The demand model is adaptable to any organization in which the demand for services from a skill group is derived from several projects or activities....