The impact of aid inflows on relative prices and output is ambiguous. Aid inflows that increase domestic expenditure are likely to cause real exchange rate appreciation, ceteris paribus. However, if this expenditure raises the capital stock in the traded goods sector, then output in this sector might not contract, at least in the steady state. Moreover, if investment in the nontraded goods sect...

Energy conservation has been the prime motivation behind the design of conventional protocols for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, recent trends toward high data rate multimedia communication over WSNs demand trafficand deadline-aware content delivery with minimum energy expenditure. The basic quality of service requirement in wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs) is time-bound d...

Estimating a person’s energy expenditure and activity intensity over time is an important component in managing various health conditions or tracking lifestyle choices. To implement an automatic estimation, most current systems ultimately require users to wear sensor devices. In contrast, this paper presents a framework for the contact-free, real-time estimation of energy expenditure, applicabl...

Résumé—MOPED (an acronym for Model of Peloton Dynamics) is a proposed model for peloton dynamics in competitive cycling. Using an agent-based approach, it aims to generate the very complex behaviour observed in real-life competitive cycling from a collective of agents with very simple rules themselves. Cyclists try to minimize the average energy expenditure by riding behind other cyclists, in a...

The presentation is about the design of the backbone of the Estonian governmental information systems X-Road. The system is already ten years old and has proven to be useful and reliable. The presentation describes the vision of the system, the requirements analysis process and the technical design decisions. The vision was to create a web-services based unified access to all governmental regis...

In the last decade, caseloads in AFDC/TANF have shifted dramatically up, then down. Existing studies fail to explain the changes well. Also, they do not reveal the policies behind the changes, nor the important role of governmental quality in shaping welfare reform. In this study, I use cross-sectional models based on states, measure welfare reform policies directly using program data, and rela...

The thesis examines how public expenditure on the National Health Service (NHS) was constituted as a political 'problem' resulting in expenditure constraint throughout the 1950s. It argues that the 'problem' related to the influence of estimates made during wartime planning which were frequently used to judge current expenditure from the beginning of the Service to 1960. Such estimates understa...

This paper studies the phenomenon of service-led growth in India over the past two decades from the perspective of household expenditure. We use consumption expenditure data from four recent “thick” rounds of the National Sample Survey in 1993-94, 2004-05, 2009-10 and 2011-12, and study aggregate services as well as 5 individual categories – education, healthcare, transportation, entertainment,...

Abstract In this work, we reconsider the dynamics of a few versions classical Samuelson’s multiplier–accelerator model for national economy. First recall that one with constant governmental expenditure, represented by linear second-order difference equation, is able to generate oscillations converging equilibrium wide range values parameters, and give its analytic solution all possible cases. A...