BACKGROUND: To mitigate the effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), jurisdictions
worldwide ramped down nonemergent surgeries, creating a global surgical backlog. We …

Performance evaluation of Canadian wood-product manufacturing is an important issue,
considering the significance of this industry for the Canadian economy. In this paper, efficiency …

Importance The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted cancer systems worldwide. Quantifying
the changes is critical to informing the delivery of care while the pandemic continues, as well …

In this study, the productivity changes of the manufacturing industries in Canada were evaluated
using the Malmquist productivity index, then the productivity change was decomposed …

Considering the economic importance of forest products industries in Canada, there has
been an increasing interest in studying the operations and interactions of all the relevant …

An agent-based forest sector model, CAMBIUM 2.0, is developed and applied to case studies
of the forest industry in the coastal British Columbia (BC). By combining optimization and …

To remain competitive in today's business environment, forest products manufacturing
enterprises can greatly benefit from the concept of Supply Chain Management (SCM). Modelling …

The wood product manufacturing is one of the important manufacturing industries in the
United States. Similar to other manufacturing industries, it has been facing many challenges …

Performance assessment has been gaining increasing attention in different sectors,
including the manufacturing industries. The need for assessing the performance of firms has …

Objectives: Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial governmental organization responsible
for planning hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) services in Ontario, Canada. The …