This program is fully staffed and all proposed investigations are proceeding as outlined in the Task Schedule of our original proposal. The program aims remain unchanged and excellent progress is reported below. We anticipate no substantial unexpended funds from the first year’s budget at the end of the first year of support. Any such remaining funds will certainly be less than 10% of the budge...

In 2009, the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission recommended the establishment of a universal dental program for Australia. This recommendation was not implemented and the Australian Government’s 2012/13 budget allocated $515.3million to improve dental services, with something of a shorter term focus on the needs of low income earners. After 16 difficult years for states’ and territo...

As for the East Asian countries, the total amount of government debt in Korea has risen sharply over the following several years in the wake of the Asian financial crisis. The purpose of this paper is to assess whether the current levels of government debt are sustainable for a severely attacked country, namely, Korea. Under the intertemporal budget constraint model, the study tests for fiscal ...

President Obama has proposed an overall budget increase of $825 million for the NIH in fiscal year 2017 compared with 2016. That money would be reserved for three efforts: the NCI's "moonshot" initiative, the Precision Medicine Initiative cohort program, and the BRAIN program.

The juxtaposition of new federal and state laws with current reimbursement and budget cuts has created a disparity for today’s providers. Federal regulations like the Affordable Care Act of 2010 will require nursing homes to institute a facility-wide compliance program by 2013, while mandating enhanced nurse aide training and a comprehensive quality assurance and performance improvement program...

Impediments to the Deployment of Knowledge Management Program in the Provincial Department of Education in Yazd M. Zanjirchi, Ph.D. M. Hakkaaki A.R. Konjkaav Monfared F. Behniyaa To identify the impediments to the deployment of knowledge management program in the provincial department of education in Yazd, a questionnaire was completed by a carefully selected sample of 2...

Customer Relationship Management generally uses the value of customers to allocate marketing budget. But marketing interventions generally change the customer behavior, turning upside-down the customers ranking based on their initial valuations and making the budget allocation suboptimal. Rational Managers should allocate the marketing budget to maximize the expected net present value of future...

In this paper, a new model of phytoplankton growth in the chemostat is proposed. First, we give a description of the chemostat and we recall the main models: the simple Monod model, experimentally validated for bacteria growth and the Droop model, which is validated for phytoplankton growth and takes into account the possible nutrient storage. Though our model is quite similar to the Droop one,...

Investment in advanced defense technologies is a common characteristic of modern age armed forces. The operational benefit of such technologies is an S-shaped function of their technological progress, which is highly uncertain. We model investment problem facing a defense decision maker, aiming to maximize the value of a military system, by choosing its target technological level and the quanti...