Financial Statements, 2006

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Financial Statement, 2002

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Financial Statement, 2003

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Catalog Maintenance

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Maintenance

Maintenance and production interact. The ideal way of accounting for this interaction, when estimating production functions, is by picking the temporal length of observations so that they embed integer multiples of the production—maintenance cycles for all inputs. In contrast to labor and land, the production—maintenance cycles of capital sometimes vary tremendously in temporal length, which can make it impossible to implement the ideal method of accounting for the interaction between maintenance and production. This paper empirically tests four second best methods of accounting for maintenance, when the ideal method is impossible. The output elasticities of all inputs (not just the input undergoing maintenance), which emerge from these tests, vary tremendously. This implies that the way that maintenance is incorporated into the analysis (including the standard approach of ignoring maintenance) drastically affects the profit maximizing combinations of inputs derived from production function estimations.maintenance; efficiency; electricity; production and cost functions

Forest biodiversity maintenance

The global biodiversity loss within forest ecosystems has attracted attention during the last decades. Awareness increased both world-wide and in Sweden, which led to changes in the Swedish forests policy. In the Swedish Forestry Act of 1993 the environmental and production goals became equally important, and several new policy implementation instruments were taken into use. One of these was the Woodland Key Habitat Survey, in which indicator species are used to identify sites with conservation values. The first two papers in this thesis assess the relationships between the lichen indicator species found in the study area (in South-Central Sweden) and their growing-substrates and habitats, respectively. Both studies confirm that the indicator species showed habitat preferences which included old or deciduous trees. In Paper II also the habitat preferences of sedentary birds were assessed and the mixed deciduous habitats showed to be the more species rich, compared to pure coniferous forest. Paper III and IV evaluate the forest owners’ intentions and knowledge of nature conservation, as well as their attitudes towards it. In paper III the conservation intentions of the forest owners were estimated on the harvest registration form and compared to the actual retention at the clear-cuts. The intentions were followed by associated practices, however, the retained amounts of stand structures were overall low. I conclude that the intentions did not increase over the study period, the retained amounts were too low to meet, e.g., the Forest Stewardship Council standards, and, also, that such forms could become important information instruments to the forestry authorities concerning intentions and practices of the forest owners. In Paper IV the results of a questionnaire sent to non-industrial private forest (NIPF) owners within the study area, showed that knowledge about conservation and attendance to a recent educational programme, which included conservation information, were positively related to the attitude towards it. However, those occupied with land-use had a more negative attitude towards conservation than others. Also, in the ranking of operational goals for their own conservation efforts, only 7% of the respondents ranked ‘long-term species survival’ as their first priority, while the vast majority ranked ‘forest health’ as number one. In the fifth and last paper the usefulness of indicator species in monitoring systems adapted to NIPF owners, is discussed. In the questionnaire used in paper IV, NIPF owners were asked to mark all species that they could recognise, from a list of 12 forest species. The results showed that they had a weak knowledge of the listed lichens and fungi, but all four birds were recognised by more than 50%. Thus, in indicator species based monitoring systems for NIPF owners and the public only a few easily communicated and conspicuous species of documented indicator value should be used, e.g. vertebrates

Evaluating Patient Preferences of Maintenance Therapy for the Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Discrete Choice Experiment in the UK, USA and Germany.

Introduction: With increasing availability of different treatments for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), we sought to understand patient preferences for COPD treatment in the UK, USA, and Germany using a discrete choice experiment (DCE). Methods: Qualitative research identified six attributes associated with COPD maintenance treatments: ease of inhaler use, exacerbation frequency, frequency of inhaler use, number of different inhalers used, side effect frequency, and out-of-pocket costs. A DCE using these attributes, with three levels each, was designed and tested through cognitive interviews and piloting. It comprised 18 choice sets, selected using a D-efficient experimental design. Demographics and disease history were collected and the final DCE survey was completed online by participants recruited from panels in the UK, USA and Germany. Responses were analyzed using mixed logit models, with results expressed as odds ratios (ORs). Results: Overall, 450 participants (150 per country) completed the DCE; most (UK and Germany, 97.3%; USA, 98.0%) were included in the final analysis. Based on relative attribute importance, avoidance of side effects was found to be most important (UK: OR 11.65; USA: OR 7.17; Germany: OR 11.45; all p<0.0001), followed by the likelihood of fewer exacerbations (UK: OR 2.22; USA: OR 1.63; Germany: OR 2.54; all p<0.0001) and increased ease of use (UK: OR 1.84; USA: OR 1.84; Germany: OR 1.60; all p<0.0001). Number of inhalers, out-of-pocket costs, and frequency of inhaler use were found to be less important. Preferences were relatively consistent across the three countries. All participants required a reduction in exacerbations to accept more frequent inhaler use or use of more inhalers. Conclusion: When selecting COPD treatment, individuals assigned the highest value to the avoidance of side effects, experiencing fewer exacerbations, and ease of inhaler use. Ensuring that patients' preferences are considered may encourage treatment compliance

Maintenance management and servises (case study: PERKESO building's in penisular of Malaysia)

Maintenance Management and Services is a combination of several actions in which to retain or restore an item to perform its required action. PERTUBUHAN KESELAMATAN SOSIAL (PERKESO) as one of the semi government sector in Malaysia that has many assets, needs maintenance to prevent the assets from deterioration. Maintenance in PERKESO was monitor and control by Property Unit and Local PERKESO Office. There are two maintenance system presently implemented at PERKESO: Preventive maintenance and Corrective Maintenance. The maintenance and services in PERKESO are divided to two building type: stand alone building and shop lot building. Maintenance and services for stand alone PERKESO building is total preventive maintenance and services scope and for shop lot PERKESO building scope maintenance and services only cover cleaning, M&E preventive maintenance and Pest Control. Aim of this study to propose maintenance management & services system. To achieve the aim of this study, five objectives have been set, to study the maintenance management system presently implemented. To identify the common problem in maintenance management and services. To identify the tenant satisfactory level upon the maintenance and services implemented. To identify tenant opinion to make improvement for maintenance management and services. From the data analyze and propose maintenance management and services system. This research focused on PERKESO Building’s in Peninsular of Malaysia. To obtain the data the following knowledge acquisition methods were used by interview, questionnaire and archives. An interview were set for two session, pre-interview done before set questionnaire and interview after the analysis data had done Result of the study showed the responds of the end user customer for the overall building conditions and the services given is fair. To achieve the tenants’ satisfaction level, a new maintenance management system is proposed