In recent years, there has been concern in many sections of the community about the cost of housing in Australia. This is not the fi rst time that such concerns have surfaced: the 2003/04 Productivity Commission Inquiry on First Home Ownership was preceded by studies into housing issues in 1977–78 and 1990–92.2 But the current episode of high housing costs has been quite prolonged, and there ar...

i). To ascertain the nutritional status of children aged 9-12 years in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. ii). To find the factors responsible for nutritional deprivation. iii). To see the effects of nutritional status on physical development. iv). To find the impact of Mid Day Meal on the nutritional status of school going children. v). To suggest measures for the amelioration of poor educational st...

Recent literature suggests that electoral budget cycles are a phenomenon of new rather than established democracies. What part of the democratization process explains the amelioration of the political budget cycle? We argue the answer lies (in part) in the development of a strong party system. We extend the classic Rogoff-Siebert model to show that political budget cycles are possible in a legi...

We analyze the global dynamics of a mathematical model for infectious diseases that progress through distinct stages within infected hosts with possibility of amelioration. An example of such diseases is HIV/AIDS that progresses through several stages with varying degrees of infectivity; amelioration can result from a host's immune action or more commonly from antiretroviral therapies, such as ...

The self has been debated about ever since the emergence of philosphy in classical antiquity, and more recently has become the subject of intense study in the understanding and possible amelioration of mental diseases such as schizophrenia. An effective model of the self is needed to understand the breakdown of inner experience and its relation to content in such mental diseases, and how this m...

The little hierarchy problem encountered in the constrained minimal supersymmetric model (CMSSM) can be ameliorated in supersymmetric models based on the gauge symmetry G422 ≡ SU(4)c × SU(2)L × SU(2)R. The standard assumption in CMSSM (and in SU(5) and SO(10)) of universal gaugino masses can be relaxed in G422, and this leads to a significant improvement in the degree of fine tuning required to...