Because unemployment benefit reforms tend to package together changes to job search requirements, monitoring and assistance, few existing studies have been able to empirically isolate the effects of job search monitoring intensity on the behaviour of unemployment benefit claimants. This paper exploits periods where monitoring has been temporarily withdrawn during a series of Benefit Office refu...

Advocates of health system reform are striving to assure that a valuable new benefit for home- and community-based long-term care is included. Yet in many legislative proposals, a long-term care benefit is kept separate from the rest of the benefit package. Experience from the social health maintenance organization (social HMO) demonstration shows that for the elderly at least, community long-t...

Scripting in radiotherapy treatment planning systems not only simplifies routine planning tasks but can also be used for clinical research. Treatment planning scripting can only be utilized in a system that has a built-in scripting interface. Among the commercially available treatment planning systems, Pinnacle (Philips) and Raystation (Raysearch Lab.) have inherent scripting functionality. CMS...