Nottinghamshire family health services authority serves a population of around a million people and so far eight of the 52 eligible practices have become budget holders. A further eight practices have joined the scheme this April, bringing the percentage of people in budget holding practices to 17% of the Nottinghamshire population. The Calverton practice was one of the first budget holding pra...

The views expressed in this publication do not represent any official position on the part of the Social Policy Research Centre, but are the views of the individual author(s). Executive Summary • This report presents updated estimates of the incomes required by Australian working families to meet their needs in 2003. The research is based on earlier SPRC research commissioned in 1995 by the Dep...

This study analyzes the behavior of a representative sample of U.S. families in two measures of financial acumen in 1989-94. Budget acumen is success at paying bills on time and maintaining good relationships with creditors. Wealth acumen is achieving increases in family wealth over time. First, in univariate comparisons black families achieve lower levels of budget acumen in most of the measur...

The Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory has become a fundamental tool in modeling the metabolic behaviour of organisms. Its capacity to describe the biological aspect of life alone justifies its applicability in Artificial Life. Aware of this potential, the DEB research group in Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in Lisbon has joined the videogame company Biodroid Entertainment in the Life Engine ...

This year has been a difficult one for the nation's publicly funded family planning programs, which have faced unprecedented threats. Some of these threats appear driven primarily by policy makers struggling to close budget deficits, many of whom have set their sights on Medicaid. During FY 2011, 43 states attempted to reduce Medicaid costs through such steps as cutting provider reimbursement, ...

monthly and annual water and phosphorus mass budgets were set up over the year 2010 for thelake rio verde, brazil. limited data for the water budget was compensated using an interpolation methodwith data water budget data of a nearby reservoir. thus, errors of ca. 1.5% were estimated for the waterbudgets. dominant p mass input terms were inflows from the rivers and direct run off into the reser...