Three hospital PFI schemes are delayed while government looks at their cost

kids and teenager are sleepy at school because the electronic media they have in their bedrooms leads them to have delayed sleep phase disorder (dspd)

bserved by many teachers that most of the time, mumbling and searching for their intended words, students complain why they have forgotten the words they have learned in the previous semesters. they ask for some new ways that may help them to recall and apply the learned words more efficiently, since as they declare one of the most important skills in foreign language learning is having a g...

The Business Community Looks at Drg-based Hospital Reimbursement

Value for money tests and accounting treatment in PFI schemes

In Private Finance Initiative (PFI) projects, value for money (VFM) tests and accounting treatment are distinct but related issues. VFM analysis should be concerned with total risk, not just with the sharing of risk, which dominates the accounting treatment decision. A framework is developed for logical thinking about what is meant by `̀ best VFM’’ in the context of PFI projects. This involves c...

PFI hospitals bear the cost of Libor manipulation.

The fraudulent manipulation by Barclays Capital of the interbank lending rate (Libor) has real consequences for cash strapped NHS hospitals facing merger and service closure as a result of private finance initiative (PFI) debt repayments. Libor, which is used by banks to set interest rates, is linked to financial products known as derivatives that are widely used in PFI deals. By manipulating t...

An Observer Looks at Synchronization

In the literature on dynamical systems analysis and the control of systems with complex behavior, the topic of synchronization of the response of systems has received considerable attention. This concept is revisited in the light of the classical notion of observers from (non)linear control theory.