Environmental Hazards
- 15 December 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 275 (24) , 1342-1350
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196612152752405
Abstract
FOR most aware people operations research evokes an image of the World War II race of technologies: in particular, perhaps, the development of radar and the conduct of bombing raids on Germany.1 Nowadays, these words often refer to the more scientific aspects of managerial decision making in defense and aerospace systems.2 , 3 Even a brief look at the work of the "New Utopians,"4 however, suggests that scarcely any aspect of current society is completely unrelated to some of the concerns of operations researchers, management scientists, systems analysts and the like. It is the purpose of this article to survey some of . . .This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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