A Remarkable Book about Personal Finances

Scheduling Personal Finances via Integer Programming

Personal financial planning is the preparation of a series of ongoing targetoriented decisions concerning personal assets, incomes and expenses. An important task of personal financial planning is the generation of a financial schedule defining suitable times for realization of the expenses and incomes at a given point of time. We describe an integer programming model and algorithms for schedul...

European Public Finances : Much Ado About Nothing ?

In this article, European public finances are analyzed by focusing on the EU budget and the influence of the EU on member states’ taxes and spending. Starting from the economic theory of federalism, the chapter surveys the development of EU revenue, spending and off-budget activities, discusses the redistributive impact of the EU budget on member states, budgetary decision-making procedures and...

Combinatorial Remarks about a “ Remarkable Identity ”

In the June 2012 issue of this Magazine, Frumosu and Teodorescu–Frumosu proved that, for all integers m ≥ 2,

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Personal Health Book Application for Developing Countries

We introduce a Personal Health Book application that is used as a portable repository for Personal Health Records (PHR) in order to alleviate healthcare organizational problems in developing countries. The Personal Health Book application allows low literate people to access and carry their own medical history from a rural healthcare provider to an urban healthcare provider. This will improve t...