BACKGROUND Typically, little consideration is given to the allocation of indirect costs (overheads and capital) to hospital services, compared to the allocation of direct costs. Weighted service allocation is believed to provide the most accurate indirect cost estimation, but the method is time consuming. OBJECTIVE To determine whether hourly rate, inpatient day, and marginal mark-up allocati...

We consider several problems of optimal resource allocation in telecommunication networks and show that they can be formulated as market equilibrium models. This approach enables us to create simple and efficient solution methods. Next, we consider such a resource allocation problem for a provider of a wireless communication network divided into zones (clusters). The network manager aims to dis...

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" The cost of transmission facilities must be allocated to those within the transmission planning region that benefit from those facilities in a manner that is at least roughly commensurate with estimated benefits. " (FERC 2010, p. 91) Benefits include reliability, economic and public policy related impacts. Turning the principle into a workable policy is important as a support for restructured...

Fixed-frequency superconducting quantum processors are one of the most mature computing architectures with high-coherence qubits and simple controls. However, high-fidelity multi-qubit gates pose tight requirements on individual qubit frequencies in these , constraints difficult to satisfy when constructing larger due large dispersion fabrication Josephson junctions. In this article, we propose...

Existing channel allocation methods are usually implemented for voice oriented services where the aim is to reduce the call blocking and call dropping rate. In this paper, we will investigate channel allocation schemes appropriate for data oriented services in a Broadband Fixed Wireless Access network where the aim is to reduce interference and improve overall packet throughput. A Fixed Channel...

Background: Communicable diseases are the leading causes of illness, deaths, and disability in sub-Saharan Africa. To address these threats, countries within the World Health Organization (WHO) African region adopted a regional strategy called Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR). This strategy calls for streamlining resources, tools, and approaches to better detect and respond t...

A se t of points, called consumers, and another point called central supplier, are located i n a Euclidean plane. The cost of constructing a connection between two points i s proportional t o the distance between them. The minimum cost required for connecting a l l the consumers t o the supplier i s given by a minimal Steiner tree. An example i s given i n which for every allocation of the tota...

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