The analysis presented in this paper is constructed to determine the pattern of resource allocations among competing individuals of the same and/or different species in some defined habitat. Competing individuals have at their disposal various activities which can be run at different intensities and consume or produce resources in the habitat linearly. The linearity of resource utilization rest...

In this article, we make three contributions: i) wealth is the correct linear indicator of welfare (defined as the present value of future utilities) if population is constant, ii) there is no need to make assumption of an optimal economy and by using the abstract notion of a resource allocation mechanism, it is possible to develop intertemporal welfare economics in imperfect economies, iii) wi...

demands are directly related to participation, the other element in political development. Regardless of the form or the mechanism, the essence is to allow the people to have a role in electing their representatives through whom they can, or believe they can, have some say in the process of resource allocation. To be sure, there is

BACKGROUND Over the past three decades, a limited range of market like mechanisms have been introduced into the hierarchically structured English National Health Service ('NHS'), which is a nationally tax funded, budget limited healthcare system, with access to care for all, producing structures known as a quasi market. Recently, the Health and Social Care Act 2012 ('HSCA') has been enacted, in...

This study shows that China’s post-1949 state-led industrialization has closely followed an underlying path that began in the late nineteenth century. It was initiated by pressing national defence needs and has since been motivated by the same and strong incentives for a faster catch-up with the West despite radical regime shifts. Government determined or influenced resource allocation benefite...

Behaviors recruit multiple, mutually substitutable types of cognitive resources (e.g., data acquisition and memorization in comparative visual search), and the allocation of resources is performed in a cost-optimizing way. If costs associated with each type of resource are manipulated, e.g., by varying the complexity of the items studied or the visual separation of the arrays to be compared, ac...

Credit transfer protocols are being designed and implemented in market-based resource allocation infrastructures. The design details of these protocols determine the accesscontrol policies that can be expressed and the trading patterns that can be supported. A protocol that enables fine grained manipulation of ownership authorities can support a wider range of access policies and trading patter...

Due to the success of new multimedia technologies, there is a great interest for providing a resource allocation strategy suitable for multimedia applications. Many solutions proposed in literature are based on proportional share resource allocation, such as WFQ, WF2Q, EEVDF, or SFQ. In a previous paper, we showed how to perform resource reservation according to a Constant Bandwidth allocation....