The Impact of Budget Participation and Organizational Commitment on Slack Budgeting (SKPD Province West Sumatera Case Study.) In fact, all local government agencies, as well the central government, must have adequate effective budgets. SKPD (Regional Work Unit) in Sumatra is a regional agency that manages existing aim this study was first to find out how budget participation affects congestion....

Medicare spending for physicians' services, the second largest component of the Medicare program (24.5 percent), represents 1.3 percent of the Federal budget, 0.41 percent of the gross national product, and 19.4 percent of national spending for physicians' services. Interest in reforming the Medicare physician payment system is growing. Detailed information on patterns of Medicare spending for ...

The Medicare+Choice (M+C) program, created by the 1997 Balanced Budget Act (BBA), expands Medicare's health insurance options to include a wider range of health plan options. In this article, we describe the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS®) survey and its use with beneficiaries receiving care through Medicare managed care (MMC) plans. We also discuss the implications of these ...

Eric Hanushek is Professor of Economics and of Public Policy and Director of the W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy at the University of Rochester. He joined the University of Rochester in 1978 and has previously been Director of its Public Policy Analysis Program and Chairman of the Department of Economics. From 1983 through 1985, he was Deputy Director of the Congressional Budget ...

Much of the research on flexible scheduling schemes is prevented from being used in practice by the lack of implementations that provide the necessary abstractions. In this paper we show how Ada’s tasking facilities do enable such schedulers to be constructed. A case example is given that shows that the combination of existing language features is sufficient to program the required functionalit...

Background: The construction of metro lines is a high-risk project. Using a budget-based model for the safety units of metro construction projects can help safety managers to spend optimal budget allocation. The purpose of this study was to plan a budget model based on safety unit performance in an under construction metro station for better budget allocation using robust optimization. Methods...

Budget feasible mechanism considers algorithmic mechanism design questions where there is a budget constraint on the total payment of the mechanism. An important question in the field is that under which valuation domains there exist budget feasible mechanisms that admit ‘small’ approximations (compared to a socially optimal solution). Singer [20] showed that additive and submodular functions a...

Background and Objectives: Over the past decades, the Iran’s anti-tuberculosis campaign has become highly structured and many achievements have been made. The purpose of this study was to describe the characteristics of the TB surveillance system and its components in the Islamic Republic of Iran.   Methods: The data of this study were obtained from the surveillance system of the Center for C...