BACKGROUND The success in learning of emergency depends on many factors that can be summarized as: student, instructors and course. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence of financial subsidy and venue of course in learning cardiovascular emergency. METHODS Data were analyzed regarding the courses of Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) in the period from December 2005 to December 2006. In agr...

The concern over population decline has led Taiwan government to examine how and to what extent pronatalist policies could reverse the trend. The exclusive provision of the education subsidy to government employees allows us to examine whether the availability of the education subsidy explains differences in fertility behavior between public-sector and private-sector households. In 1996, the go...

We evaluated several variants of a variable biofuel subsidy and compared them with the fixed subsidy and Renewable Fuel Standard. We used two different modeling approaches. First we used a partial equilibrium model encompassing crude oil, gasoline, ethanol, corn, and ethanol by-products. Second, we used a stochastic simulation model of a prototypical ethanol plant. From the partial equilibrium ...

The low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) is the largest project-based housing subsidy in the United States. Within the program, private developers receive a subsidy in exchange for constructing apartment units that rent for a predetermined affordable rate. Because the subsidy requires apartment buildings to charge a lower rental rate, the opportunity cost of developing subsidized housing in a ...

Background: Out of the MYR 14 billion fuel subsidy, top 20% households (T20) in country enjoy 8 compared to 6 subsidy restructure enjoyed by low income (B40) households. As Malaysian government has started scheme December 2022 when national economy began recover post coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, this study is need as it highlights key concerns B40 and middle...

Abstract: Affordability is a major barrier to the adoption of clean energy technologies in low-income countries, which partly why many governments provide subsidies offset some upfront (installation) costs. However, simple administrative rules might not fully account for economic geography, resulting lower remote areas. Using regression analysis on rich dataset adoption, cost and subsidy about ...

Some favor maintaining constraints on bank powers and organizational form because they believe banks receive a significant net subsidy from access to the federal safety net. They argue that this net subsidy will be successfully transferred to subsidiaries or affiliates engaged in non-traditional activities, giving these units a significant competitive advantage vis a vis rivals not affiliated w...

BACKGROUND Physical inactivity is a major risk factor for many chronic diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and some cancers. It is estimated that, in Australia, physical inactivity contributes to 13,500 annual deaths and incurs an annual cost of AU$ 21 billion to the health care system. The cost of physical inactivity to the Western Australian (WA) economy is estimated to be ab...