In the 12th Five-Year Plan of China proposed in 2011, China carried out the target to reduce its economy’s carbon intensity by 17 percent by 2015 compared to 2010 levels. To achieve this goal, seven carbon emissions trading pilots have been established to find a way for the unified national carbon trading market. In China, regional differences and interregional economic linkages have played key...

In previous work we have investigated a framework for distributed temporal plan repair. Using temporal constraints for activities to be executed, we developed a distributed algorithm capable of dealing with temporal changes (disruptions) in these constraints to perform fast plan repair. This framework, however, did not include resource management issues. In this paper, we extend our framework t...

Information on cancer prevalence and survival is of primary interest for health care planning and resource allocation because it identifies the burden of the disease on the population and health care system. Prevalence represents new and pre-existing cases alive on a certain date or period, in contrast to incidence which reflects new cases of a condition diagnosed during a given period of time....

The health of a nation is a reflection of the health of the people. The health of a nation is a composite variety of health indicators, of which the chief are infant mortality rate, maternal mortality rate, and life expectancy. The Health of India lags behind that of many nations both developed and developing, something which the Government has been trying to improve for the last 64 years. Obvi...

Israel’s system for organ donation has been based, since its inception in 1968, on a model in which organs for transplantation are retrieved from brain-dead donors only after consent has been obtained from the appropriate fi rst-degree relatives. This consent is needed even if the potential donor has expressed a wish for posthumous organ donation by signing a donor card, which is a government f...

The initial allocation of tradable carbon emission allowances is among the most contentious issues in developing an emission trading scheme (ETS). China faces serious dilemmas of system complexity and information incompleteness and asymmetry in allocating carbon allowance among enterprises. As one of the pilot ETS regions, Shenzhen has launched the first regional cap-and-trade ETS (SZ ETS) in C...

The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) and the Investment Company Institute (ICI) have been collaborating for the past two years to collect data on participants in 401(k) plans. This effort, known as the EBRI/ICI Participant-Directed Retirement Plan Data Collection Project, has obtained data for 401(k) plan participants from certain of EBRI and ICI sponsors and members serving as plan r...