background public district hospitals (pdhs) in tunisia are not operating at full plant capacity and underutilize their operating budget.   methods individual pdhs capacity utilization (cu) is measured for 2000 and 2010 using dual data envelopment analysis (dea) approach with shadow prices input and output restrictions. the cu is estimated for 101 of 105 pdh in 2000 and 94 of 105 pdh in 2010.   ...

this paper aims to investigate the effect of budget deficit shock on government spending in indonesia. for this propose, this reasearch uses an alternative error correction model based on loss function of government spending. the model assumes the short run disequilibrium, in which shock variables may play an important role. a spesific loss function model is applied to develop the long run gove...

the mechanism of public-private partnership (ppp) has been used in different countries. many countries have enacted special laws to regulate ppps. in iran, ppp as such has been briefly mentioned in the fifth five year development act and more details of ppps were provided in the yearly budget acts of 1391 and 1392 (2012 and 2013). in the budget act of 1393 (2014) the detailed provisions regardi...

The problem of maximizing the spread of influence with a limited budget is central to social networks research. Most problems addressed in existing literature spend the entire budget towards triggering diffusion at seed nodes. In this paper, we investigate the effect of splitting the budget across two sequential phases; each phase corresponds to a different way of spreading influence. In phase ...

The risk-sensitive foraging theory formulated in terms of the (daily) energy budget rule has been influential in behavioural ecology as well as other disciplines. Predicting risk-aversion on positive budgets and risk-proneness on negative budgets, however, the budget rule has recently been challenged both empirically and theoretically. In this paper, we critically review these challenges as wel...

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Links: [1] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/departments-services/budgeting/20152016-operating-budget-forecast-guideline [2] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/system/files/Forecast%20Carryforward%20Summary%201617.xlsx [3] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/system/files/Chairs%20Endowed%20Policy%20final%20feb%2022_0.pdf [4] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/system/files/Carryforward%20Policy%20Guideline....