Sentence examples for stepwise cost from inspiring English sources

The stepwise cost decrease with growing experience can be complemented by cost savings by simultaneous orders of equipment or by replication if several plants of the same design are erected in the so-called convoy mode.

In this paper we consider the lot-sizing problem with backlogging under stepwise transportation costs.

To assess the economic impact of the quality improvement project on costs of the emergency service, we used a stepwise approach: First, treatment costs per patient in the ED and H-GP-unit were calculated for each assessment year.

Moreover, a VPN specification algorithm is presented which utilizes the stepwise nature of the cost functions.

Step-fixed costs are defined as costs that are fixed within a range; otherwise – if the volume exceeds the range – the costs increase stepwise [22].

Lindström et al. found that the gradual-change hypothesis did not provide an easy solution to the beginnings of aposematism, but that "cost-free stepwise mutations over the range of weak signals could accumulate under neutral selection to produce effective strong signals".

As a stepwise testing might reduce costs compared to a simultaneous testing of markers, we simulated the performance of stepwise testing for the two-marker combinations with the highest accuracy.

Given the proportion of all breast/ovarian cancer families in our population attributable to recurring mutations, a cost-effective stepwise molecular screening strategy of BRCA1 and BRCA2 may be applied in the future.

A stepwise procedure to determine various cost components that come into LCC calculation is also illustrated.

When we examined the costs between groups using stepwise logarithmic regression and the log of total costs as the dependent variable, (Table 2) we see that that celiac patients have substantially increased costs compared to that of the control group.

Further research on the cost effectiveness of different stepwise population based screening strategies is needed to inform future public health policy.