monthly and annual water and phosphorus mass budgets were set up over the year 2010 for thelake rio verde, brazil. limited data for the water budget was compensated using an interpolation methodwith data water budget data of a nearby reservoir. thus, errors of ca. 1.5% were estimated for the waterbudgets. dominant p mass input terms were inflows from the rivers and direct run off into the reser...

The work to develop a model curriculum and guidelines for undergraduate degree programs in Information Systems has evolved over a number of years. The current version of this effort is called the Information Systems 2002 (IS 2002) model curriculum. Many Business schools have used these guidelines as a basis for improving their IS curriculum. However, we have found, in a previous study, that, IS...

library program and such elements as budget, holdings, and staff were compared with the standards of state and regional accrediting associations. Today, interest centers upon the effectiveness of the library's service, and attempts are made to judge the contribution of the library program to the personal development of the individual pupil. Appraisal of the adequacy of library facilities contin...

Background & Aims: Full-time Practice is one of the main objectives of Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME) and a priority in Iran 5th development program. The aim of this study was to explore the perception of the chancellors at Iran universities of medical sciences, regarding the challenges, possible negative consequence and their suggestions for improving the implementati...

Medicare has lagged behind the private sector in its reliance on managed care, which, properly done, has the potential to restrain budget growth and enhance quality. This paper addresses how the Medicare fee-for-service program--traditional Medicare--might apply managed care techniques. It first discusses the institutional constraints Medicare faces in implementing managed care techniques and t...

During the Line Islands Experiment in spring 1967, surface shortwave and net radiation was continuously recorded a t Palmyra, and Suomi-Kuhn infrared radiationsondes were released daily at the islands of Palmyra, (5’53’ N., 162’05’ W.) and Christmas (1’59’ N., 157’22’ W.) as part of an extensive surface and upper air observation program. Data are evaluated in terms of the diurnal march of the s...

In this paper, the sustainability of public debt is interpreted as the result of the interaction of fiscal policy with the economic environment, and not as a statistical concept as in most of the recent literature. If debt must not explode over time, policy makers have to respond to the changing conditions in the macroeconomic environment. This paper defines the conditions which will ensure com...

This bulletin is based on research conducted by Professor Gavin Wood and Dr Melek Cigdem at the AHURI Research Centre—RMIT University, and Ms Deb Batterham and Professor Shelley Mallett at Hanover Welfare Services. The research examined, for the first time, the geography of homelessness in Australia and its relationship to potential structural drivers of homelessness (specifically housing and l...