BACKGROUND China is investing considerably in health care reforms to address issues in its health care system. An example is access to innovative drugs, which remains challenging because it is largely dependent on patient self-pay. Recognizing this, the government has invested considerably in its basic medical insurance. As health care expenditure increases, there are growing concerns on budget...

1. The United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) has experienced 10 years of primary care budget holding in a variety of forms. 2. Half of all general practitioners had joined the GP fundholding scheme by 1997, and many others had joined broader GP commissioning groups, but fundholders controlled only about 20% of the budget for hospital and community health services. 3. Research on fundhold...

Ankur Sinha [email protected] Department of Information and Service Economy, Aalto University School of Business PO Box 21210, FIN-00076 Aalto, Helsinki, Finland Pekka Malo [email protected] Department of Information and Service Economy, Aalto University School of Business PO Box 21210, FIN-00076 Aalto, Helsinki, Finland Kalyanmoy Deb [email protected] Department of Electrical and Computer ...

Received: 12 May 2009 Revised: 17 September 2009 2nd Revision: 1 December 2009 3rd Revision: 12 January 2010 4th Revision: 18 January 2010 Accepted: 19 January 2010 Abstract This paper investigates the tightness of budgetary control over projects in a large systems development multinational. This represents a case of extreme information systems development (ISD) failure en masse, where all but ...

This thesis analyzes the impact of capital budget on capital spending in the U.S. states. The analysis is based on the James Poterba's 1995 study of the impact of a capital budget on capital spending using 1962 U.S. state-level data. I first replicate Poterba's model using the 19921996 data set that I had constructed for this study. I then extend Poterba's model to include a set of variables th...

Since power consumption has become a major constraint for the further throughput improvement of chip multiprocessors (CMPs), a key challenge is to optimize the performance of a CMP within a power budget limited by the CMP’s cooling, packaging, and power supply capacities. Most existing solutions rely solely on dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) to adapt the power consumption of CPU co...