In computer networks and social networks, the betweenness centrality of a node measures the amount of information passing through the node when all pairs are conducting shortest-path exchanges. In this paper, we introduce a strategic network-formation game based on the betweenness centrality. In this game, nodes are selfish players, each of which has some budget to build connections. The goal o...

GOAL The goal was to determine the optimal strategy for screening coverage, test selection, and treatment for infection in asymptomatic women for a given family-planning-program budget. STUDY DESIGN We developed a resource allocation model to determine the optimal strategy using data from 5078 visits by women universally screened for infection in a publicly funded family planning clinic syste...

When evaluating of the senior manager’s performance is based on the achieving to budget and they have responsibility to report the capacity of resources which are in their part too; it is possible to create budget slack and effect on their performance evaluation by providing pessimistic and conservatively estimates or manipulated information of income and expenses. So, Senior Manager and Budget...

the relationship between added value of economic activities and the governments budget along with the impact of this budget on the employment of economic activities are among the issues that economic decision-makers and analysts assume to be crucial. classification of statistical data has not yet allowed experts and decision-makers to evaluate the governments role in production and employment i...

Indifference-zone-selection procedures have been widely studied and applied to determine the required sample sizes for selecting a good design from k alternatives. However, efficiency is still a key concern for application of simulation to ranking and selection problems. In this paper, we present a new approach that can further enhance the efficiency of indifferencezone-selection procedures. Ou...

The Loanable funds theory Hypotheses: Individuals care only about real variables (output gains or losses, purchasing-power gains or losses). The marginal productivity of capital assets (MPK) is given and determined by the technical characteristics of the productive assets. It represents the gain, in terms of output, obtained by increasing the capacity of production by one additional capital ass...

This article aimed to give a brief panorama concerning the public ATER course, highlighting characteristics of current assistance given Northeastern family farmers. To do so, it was reviewed part literature on subject and analyzed information extracted from 2017 IBGE Agricultural Census, Annual Budget Law (LOA) Activity Reports carried out by agencies in states Alagoas, Sergipe, Piauí, Pernambu...

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....