Plan hatched to double NSF budget

NSF Implementation Plan for Interagency Interim NREN

This document outlines an architecture and implementation plan for the National Science Foundation's Interagency Interim National Research and Education Network (NREN) component of the HPCC Program. The Interagency Interim NREN is intended as a near term research and development program to extend the capabilities and breadth of connectiv-ity of today's research and education (R&E) networks. Thi...

Europe seeks to double research budget

'This increase is not in any way disproportionate in the context of the 3 per cent objective requested of all member states by 2010,' says research commissioner Philippe Busquin. To achieve it he stresses the necessity of increasing research investment by private companies to the equivalent of 2 per cent of GDP and national public research budget increases up to 1 per cent of GDP. 'We expect to...

Selecting a Response Plan Under Budget Constraints

Health plan budget impact analysis for pimecrolimus.

OBJECTIVE Budget impact models are useful tools for managed care organizations to make drug formulary decisions. The objective of this study was to estimate the incremental budgetary change in per-member-per-month (PMPM) medical and pharmacy costs for atopic dermatitis (AD) or eczema after the introduction of pimecrolimus cream 1%, a topical calcineurin inhibitor. METHODS Estimates of the per...

Fuzzy Double Variable Sampling Plan under Uncertainty

Double sampling plan is an examination with a certain parameter, so it cannot decide about manufactured products whose portion parameter ( ) is not certain. The main goal of this survey is to introduce double variable plan when  is indefinite to examine manufacturing products when concerned characteristics are normally distributed. Plan parameters are achieved by an optimization manner. Sum of ...