Australia's 'free-ride' in pharmaceuticals: can it last?

A new semi-active magnetorheological engine mounts for improving vehicle ride comfort using sliding mode controller

Abstract Inthispaper,anewsemi-activemagnetorheological(MR)enginemountinhalfcarmodelisproposed for improving ride comfort. Such a model uses a dynamic sliding mode controller. It operates as a controller system for controlling the magnetic field strength of the engine mount coil. Controlling the magnetic field strength leads to change the magnetorheological liquid properties and thereby the gene...

A perspective on Australia's National Medicines Policy.

There is international interest in Australia's health care system for prescription medicines. The issue is particularly topical in Canada with the debate following publication of the Romanow Report into the future of health care in Canada. This Report recommended a new National Drug Agency. Australia has a National Medicines Policy with four arms-quality, safety and efficacy of medicines; equit...

Medicaid Drugs

The following commentary unites a collection of articles primarily concerned with prescription drug issues in Medicaid. It also features highlights from a piece outlining Australia's pharmaceutical delivery system. Specifically, in this issue, you will find comprehensive analyses of drug expenditure trends, issues regarding access to pharmaceuticals in Medicaid, and an evaluation of ongoing gen...

Does a region need its own zero emission vehicle mandate , or can it free - ride off another ?

Protecting Replicated Objects Against Media Failures

We present a replication control protocol that provides excellent data availabilities while guaranteeing that all writes to the object are recorded in at least two replicas. The protocol, robust dynamic voting (RDV) accepts reads and writes as long as at least two replicas remain available. The replicated object remains inaccessible until either the two last available replicas recover or one of...