Desired Growth Rate Research Articles

Solving the Small Order Problem

Many companies are finding that achievement of the desired growth rate in corporate profitability is becoming increasingly difficult. Consequently, management must search for ways to improve the efficiency of existing operations. One area of significant potential which is often overlooked in the search for improvement is the small order problem. Small orders may represent a large percentage of the total orders processed but usually represent a relatively small percentage of sales volume and, therefore, become an obstacle to channel efficiency and a drain on corporate profitability. Evaluation of the extent of this problem and the establishment of an acceptable minimum‐order quantity can result in a significant improvement in profitability for the corporation and its partners in the channel of distribution.

Influence of Seedbed Configuration on Growth, Development, and Yield in Muskmelon

Abstract Four seedbed configurations, north-sloped, south-sloped, mid-bed trenched, and standard flat-topped beds, were evaluated for influence on plant growth, development, and yield in ‘TAM Uvalde’ muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.). The most desirable growth rate and yield pattern was produced in mid-bed trenches. This configuration significantly increased early yield. Early season yield (June harvest) was 8670 kg/ha or 48% of total yield for the mid-bed trenched treatment as compared with 7170 (38%), 4730 (32%), and 3380 kg/ha (20%), respectively, for the south-sloped, standard, and north-sloped beds.

Some Programming Problems in Population Projection

This paper, which concerns a population model relating the birth rate to a stable age distribution and a stable rate of population growth, gives a nonlinear programming formulation based on this model that allows us to determine (1) the birth rate minimizing the sum of the costs due to changing the current birth rates and the costs of social goods and services associated with the resulting age distribution, and (2) the birth rate achieving a desired age distribution and population growth rate while minimizing the cost due to birth control.

Continuous phased culture--a technique for growing, analyzing, and using microbial cells.

AbstractContinuous phased growth produces a culture in which most of the cells in the population are in the same stage of their development. The cell, thereby amplified by the size of the synchronous population, may be examined in the phased culture at any desired growth rate. Changes taking place in the cell after the cell cycle, i.e., post‐cycle changes, may be examined by a modification of the procedure. Further systematic applications of the method permit a rational approach to problems of cell growth and metabolism.The phasing technique recognizes the cells as the fundamental unit for experimental investigation, and offers a great potential in the analysis of the cell throughout its cycle, a relatively unexploited field in cell physiology and fermentation. Experiments with yeasts and bacteria illustrate some of the applications and progress made so far.

Controlling Money

This paper considers the question of the appropriate definition of money and discusses the ways that the Federal Reserve can control the money stock consistent with achieving its short-term money market objectives. Professor Meltzer advocates the use of the growth of the money stock as an indicator of the influence of monetary actions on economic activity, and then describes the manner in which the desired growth rate of money can be achieved through the Federal Reserve’s control of the monetary base.