OBJECTIVE Regularly engaging in physical activity should enable disease incidence to become reduced and may result in reducing healthcare costs. Exploring possible health care cost reduction in active people. METHODS An active group of people's medical costs were contrasted with those of a control group of people taken at random from the rest of the population so covered in a health-care prov...

Dis trib u tio n lis t Cop yright a nd Dis c la im e r Im porta nt Dis cla im e r CSIRO advises that the information contained in this publication comprises general statements based on scientific research. The reader is advised and needs to be aware that such information may be incomplete or unable to be used in any specific situation. No reliance or actions must therefore be made on that infor...

In this era of globalization we see an increase in specialization: the production chain is split up in more and more parts and the production of these parts is outsourced to those places in the world where production is relatively the cheapest and most efficient. This implies that transaction costs, associated with the coordination of production and trade in parts and components, become increas...

Graph copying is used in parallel implementations of functional languages on architectures with distributed memory. This paper will explore the costs of graph copying in detail. It will make clear that these costs can form a bottleneck for a class of serious parallel programs. This not only comprises practical divide and conquer style programs of which parallel matrix multiplication is an examp...

Title IV of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments initiated a dramatic reduction in emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides by electric power plants. This paper presents the results of an integrated assessment of the benefits and costs of the program, using the Tracking and Analysis Framework (TAF) developed for the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP). Although dramatic u...