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Ada News Letter - 02/05/1968, American Dental Association

ADA News Letter

A newsletter published monthly to provide current information to officers of state and local dental societies on American Dental Association activities, 1948-1971

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Analysis Of A Multistage Inventory Task -- Comments On A Paper Of Amnon Rapoport, William P. Pierskalla

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

In an interesting paper in Behavioral Science, Volume 12 (1967) Professor Amnon Rapoport reported on his tests of the dynamic decision making capabilities of a group of students. He found that the students did not perform well relative to the normative results predicted by two quantitative inventory models he had chosen. It is the purpose of this paper to point out that the wrong normative models were chosen and that if the appropriate inventory model is picked, the students actually performed reasonably well.

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1968-01-31, Morehead State Board Of Regents

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

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Optimality Of Full-Funding Strategies In R & D Allocation Problems, T. S. Chidambaram

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

$C is to be allocated among n "approaches" such that the expected probability of successful completion of at least one of the n approaches is maximized. The ith approach involves a cost ci which is a random variable with probability density function $\i_ and has a probability P_i(c_i) of success. Faced with this uncertainty in cost, the R & D manager can either: a) Choose a large number of approaches to support but allocate to them small amount of money or b) Choose a small number of approaches to support but allocate to them large amount of money. This allocation …

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Ada News Letter - 01/22/1968, American Dental Association

ADA News Letter

A newsletter published monthly to provide current information to officers of state and local dental societies on American Dental Association activities, 1948-1971

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Report Of The President's Commission On Budget Concepts, Robert M. Trueblood, Federal Government Accountants Association

Publications of Accounting Associations, Societies, and Institutes

The Commission addressed itself to the conceptual problems of what the budget ought to be, and to what the budget ought to do. The Commission rightly concerned itself in establishing and recommending criteria and rules by which the budget could be made a more understandable document, and a more useful instrument for public policy decisions now and in the future. After a six-month study, and we all wish there had been more time, the Commission made its recommendations last October. Less than a month ago, as you undoubtedly know, the President approved the Commission's report and its recommendations for adoption …

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Ada News Letter - 01/08/1968, American Dental Association

ADA News Letter

A newsletter published monthly to provide current information to officers of state and local dental societies on American Dental Association activities, 1948-1971

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