• Advising on academic quality: ready with numbers 

      Herrera, Maria Inés; Mar Molinero, Cecilio (Institut d'Organització i Control de Sistemes Industrials, 2004-02)
      Report de recerca
      Accés obert
      Degree validation is a delicate business. Validation teams have to ensure that the institution or the degree being validated meets academic quality standards. Often this means standards in two different countries with ...
    • Buscando el procedimiento heurístico más adecuado para resolver un ejemplar concreto de un problema de optimización combinatoria, utilizando técnicas estadísticas 

      Pastor Moreno, Rafael; Mar Molinero, Cecilio; Corominas Subias, Albert (2006-06)
      Report de recerca
      Accés obert
      Para resolver un ejemplar concreto de un problema de optimización combinatoria determinado se pueden utilizar algoritmos heurísticos. Cuando se dispone de varios, se debería determinar cuál de todos es el procedimiento ...
    • Eficiencia en instituciones de microfinanzas 

      Mar Molinero, Cecilio; Gutiérrez Nieto, Begoña; Serrano Cinca, Carlos (2004-08)
      Report de recerca
      Accés obert
      Microfinance Institution (MFIs) are special financial institutions. The have both a social nature and a for-profit nature. Their performance has been traditionally measured by means of financial ratios. The paper uses a ...
    • Missed appointments at a NHS dental practice 

      Herrera, Maria Inés; Mar Molinero, Cecilio (Institut d'Organització i Control de Sistemes Industrials (UPC), 2004-02)
      Report de recerca
      Accés obert
      Missed appointments create many problems in dental practices, as those patients who fail to turn up deprive other patients of an opportunity for treatment. This paper reports on a study of failures to attend appointments ...
    • On the autocorrelation function of a trended series 

      Mar Molinero, Cecilio (Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona. Centre de Càlcul, 1985-06)
      Article
      Accés obert
      Equations are derived for the autocorrelation function of a trended series. The special case of a linear trend is analysed in detail. It is shown that the zero of the autocorrelation function of a trended series is, in ...