OBJECTIVE To estimate the budget impact of using the Kangaroo Method in a municipal health care network. METHODS An analytical decision model was developed to simulate the costs of the Kangaroo Method and Neonatal Intermediate Care Unit in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, in 2011. The reference population was clinically stable newborns, who may receive either of the two types of care. The budget impact fo...

The Faculty of Medicine of Dalhousie University (the Faculty) has applied a mission-based approach to the allocation of the academic budget since 1993. Over the ensuing decade, large shifts in budgets to academic departments have been effected, and two goals that required special emphasis-the successful implementation of a tutorial-based undergraduate medical curriculum and an increase in resea...

ODI is the UK’s leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues. the findings of a study, led by the International Budget Project and the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, which attempts to fill this gap by bringing together evidence from case studies of organisations in Brazil, Croatia, India, Mexico, South Africa, and Uganda that...

Optimal housing selection is one of the most important challenges in housing demand, which most people, especially housing investors, are facing. Although there is an overall agreement on the importance of the budget role on choosing the house, the model that uniquely measures the role and impact of all the factors of investment demand for housing has not been presented and no clear explanation...

Jinzhu Duan, Costin Gherghe, Dianxin Liu, Eric Hamlett, Luxman Srikantha, Laurel Rodgers, Jenna N Regan, Mauricio Rojas, Monte Willis, Andrew Leask, Mark Majesky and Arjun Deb* Department of Medicine, McAllister Heart Institute and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, McAllister Heart Institute a...

The standard intertemporal model of open economy with a dynamic budget constraint predicts that investment and saving should be cointegrated as long as the economy does not violate its budget constraint. Recent empirical studies of the long run investment-saving comovement for the 1947:1–1987:3 period US data, however, report conflicting findings: some studies find that the time series of inves...

Stephen E. Schauer, Teresa A. Golden, Delwin S. Merchant, Biranchi N. Patra, Jean D. Lang, Sumita Ray, Bulbul Chakravarti, Deb Chakravarti, and Animesh Ray Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA and Keck Graduate Institute, 535 Watson Drive, Claremont, CA 91711, USA Address communication to: Animesh Ray, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont, CA 91711; Phone: (909...

The Impact of Customer-Based Brand Equity on Revisit Intentions: An Empirical Study of Business and Leisure Travelers at Five Shanghai Budget Hotels Yaqian Zhou Abstract The purpose of this study is to explore how, from a customers’ point of view, brand equity influences budget hotel revisit intentions. The research is based on a convenience sample of 400 respondents who had stayed at top-5 bud...