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Lei, Xiaoli. "Resource Sharing Algorithm of Ideological and Political Course Based on Random Forest." Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2022 (May 21, 2022): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/8765166.

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Three aspects of the system’s online resource distribution and application are built around subject, object, and intermediary resources. The invention relates to a method for allocating resources based on the random forest algorithm. The resource allocation process entails the following steps: constructing a mathematical model of the resource allocation process, defining a mathematical model of the resource allocation process for the target object, and designing the cost function. The training data set for random forest is constructed using the classification concept. It is based on the mathematical model of resource allocation and cost function. Generation of random forests and prediction of target objects are based on historical data. Resource allocation steps are based on predictive structure. The invention provides a resource allocation method that satisfies task completion degree constraints and includes a resource allocation algorithm based on random forest with a high probability of finding an optimal solution. It also addresses the issue that intelligent optimization algorithms such as genetic algorithms are prone to fall into local optimum.
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Regier, H. A., and A. P. Grima. "Fishery Resource Allocation: An Exploratory Essay." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 42, no. 4 (April 1, 1985): 845–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f85-109.

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In Canada our approach to the management of fish resources and their habitats has been in turmoil for several decades, especially during the past decade. That many direct and indirect users of the aquatic ecosystems have been and are continuing to make improper use of them is widely recognized by the public and in formal government policies. Some of the improprieties have been reduced while others are intensifying. How to reduce all improprieties and how to foster meliorative husbandry are being addressed with respect to ecological, social, economic, and political aspects of the man–nature ecosystem. Reconsideration of all rights to the use of fish and their habitats, where the "rights" may be de jure and formally sanctioned, or de facto and informally accepted or imagined and illegal, is leading to proposals that legitimate rights be clarified and be allocated in more explicit and open ways. As allocative devices both the market system and processes of community-level negotiation are being developed further, and the centralized administrative (or bureaucratic) device is being reformed to accommodate the greater use of complementary devices. These issues are here explored with respect to intrajurisdictional problems and opportunities in Canada.
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Ganjali, N., and C. Guney. "GIS AND GAME THEORY FOR WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT." ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences IV-4/W4 (November 13, 2017): 215–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-iv-4-w4-215-2017.

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In this study, aspects of Game theory and its application on water resources management combined with GIS techniques are detailed. First, each term is explained and the advantages and limitations of its aspect is discussed. Then, the nature of combinations between each pair and literature on the previous studies are given. Several cases were investigated and results were magnified in order to conclude with the applicability and combination of GIS- Game Theory- Water Resources Management. It is concluded that the game theory is used relatively in limited studies of water management fields such as cost/benefit allocation among users, water allocation among trans-boundary users in water resources, water quality management, groundwater management, analysis of water policies, fair allocation of water resources development cost and some other narrow fields. Also, Decision-making in environmental projects requires consideration of trade-offs between socio-political, environmental, and economic impacts and is often complicated by various stakeholder views. Most of the literature on water allocation and conflict problems uses traditional optimization models to identify the most efficient scheme while the Game Theory, as an optimization method, combined GIS are beneficial platforms for agent based models to be used in solving Water Resources Management problems in the further studies.
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Qin, Jianan, Xiang Fu, Shaoming Peng, Yuni Xu, Jie Huang, and Sha Huang. "Asymmetric Bargaining Model for Water Resource Allocation over Transboundary Rivers." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 10 (May 16, 2019): 1733. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16101733.

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Sustainable transboundary water governance is often challenged by conflicts between agents, which necessitates the design of cooperative and self-enforcing alternatives to facilitate equitable water distribution. The Nash bargaining approach, which originated from game theory, could offer a good mathematical framework to simulate strategic interactions among involved agents by considering individual rational benefits. Given that river-sharing problems often involve multiple self-interested agents, the asymmetric Nash bargaining solution (ANBS) could be used to describe agents’ powers, as determined by disparate social, economic, and political as well as military status, and ensure win–win strategies based on individual rationality. This paper proposed an asymmetric bargaining model by combining multi-criteria decision making, bankruptcy theory, and the ANBS for water distribution in the transboundary river context. The Euphrates River Basin (ERB) with three littoral states was used as a case study. Turkey has the highest bargaining power in ERB negotiation since it dominates in terms of economic strength, political influence, and military capacity, whereas in the two downstream countries these aspects are limited due to their internal political fragmentation and weaker military status. The water satisfaction percentages of Turkey, Syria, and Iraq under the best alternative are 96.30%, 84.23%, and 40.88%, respectively. The findings highlight the necessity for synthetically considering the agent’s disagreement utility and asymmetrical power when negotiating over water allocation.
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Shaibu, Sheila, Rachel Wangari Kimani, Constance Shumba, Rose Maina, Eunice Ndirangu, and Isabel Kambo. "Duty versus distributive justice during the COVID-19 pandemic." Nursing Ethics 28, no. 6 (March 15, 2021): 1073–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969733021996038.

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The COVID-19 pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in inadequately prioritized healthcare systems in low- and middle-income countries such as Kenya. In this prolonged pandemic, nurses and midwives working at the frontline face multiple ethical problems, including their obligation to care for their patients and the risk for infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. Despite the frequency of emergencies in Africa, there is a paucity of literature on ethical issues during epidemics. Furthermore, nursing regulatory bodies in African countries such as Kenya have primarily adopted a Western code of ethics that may not reflect the realities of the healthcare systems and cultural context in which nurses and midwives care for patients. In this article, we discuss the tension between nurses’ and midwives’ duty of care and resource allocation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. There is an urgent need to clarify nurses’ and midwives’ rights and responsibilities, especially in the current political setting, limited resources, and ambiguous professional codes of ethics that guide their practice.
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Yevjevich, Vujica. "Effects of area and time horizons in comprehensive and integrated water resources management." Water Science and Technology 31, no. 8 (April 1, 1995): 19–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.1995.0253.

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Four concepts are defined for water resources systems: comprehensive management, integrated management, area horizons and time horizons. Five phases in development of water resources are: initial phase of modest demand (water transferred only in space), intense developmental phase (water transferred in both space and time), water transfer among the adjacent areas, water re-allocation phase, and the phase of developmental maturity. The comprehensive management incorporates the external social, economic, environmental, financial and political influences by specifying the goals to be attained. The concept of water resources supersystem, as a set of dependent systems, is introduced. The integrating management means incorporating a set of purposes as the internal aspects of resource management. They are realized by economic, social, environmental and other optimizations of the well defined objective functions. Objectives are fulfilled by matching supply and demand. Thus a triad of goals-purposes-objectives is defined. Three basic area horizons for a system are: the main system area, the adjacent physically-interacting area, and the surrounding areas interacting through water or power demand. Five time horizons of effects on systems are: period of economic life, period of physical life, horizon of obsolescence, period of full allocation of available water, and period during which significant climatic changes have occurred.
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Ilyashenko, V. V. "Financial and economic aspects of corporate social responsibility." SHS Web of Conferences 89 (2020): 07002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20208907002.

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The article shows the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in ensuring sustainable development of the country. The types of CSR and its features in various states are considered. The author describes the economy of the Russian Federation and its impact on the system of corporate social responsibility in the country. The high profitability of resource-extractive industries and their use of the country’s national wealth defines their special role in CSR not only towards their employees through wages and the allocation of social benefits from profit, but also to the society. It is shown that the established country’s political system significantly influences the possibility of implementing a system of corporate social responsibility. The author characterizes the significant regulatory and stimulating role of the state in social development through taxation and the structure of government spending. When assessing the financial conditions of CSR, the author analyses the impact of capital outflow on its development. Corporate social responsibility also includes the responsibility of organizations to the environment. The author provides a rating assessment of Russian oil and gas, mining and metallurgical companies openness in terms of environmental responsibility.
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Weis, Lael K. "Resources and the Property Rights Curse." Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 28, no. 1 (January 2015): 209–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cjlj.2015.23.

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This paper offers a critical appraisal of the growing body of philosophical work on questions of justice in the exploitation of natural resources. It argues that failure to treat property as a distinct set of considerations from those of distributive justice has led to an impoverished philosophical analysis. Moreover, it demonstrates how a property-based approach contributes to a more complete view of the interests at stake in resource exploitation by drawing attention to aspects of human relationships with the physical environment that cannot be captured through the allocation of wealth, such as environmental and cultural integrity. The reason that philosophers have not, by and large, appreciated this contribution rests on mistaken views about the function of property rules that could be rectified through legal understanding. In pursuing this line of argument, the paper considers a recent proposal that seems promising on this front: Leif Wenar’s analysis of the resource curse. Wenar’s proposal is unique in suggesting that questions of resource justice be analysed and resolved through settled principles of property law, rather than through a theory of distributive justice. However, he makes several key tactical errors. Examining where the proposal goes wrong and why provides important insights into the use of legal concepts to analyse intractable questions of justice in political philosophy, and into the place of property in particular—methodological issues that have not received adequate attention, despite the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of scholarship in this area.
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Harris, William T., and Lydia Harris. "The Political Economy of Metrology." Humanity & Society 20, no. 4 (November 1996): 70–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016059769602000406.

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This paper is an attempt to discuss some economic aspects of metrology, the field of study dealing with measurements. The first part of the paper deals with what might be called the economics of precision; the second discusses the public goods nature of a system of measurement, and the third economic aspect of metrology concerns occupational entry barriers. Even though a market demand and supply in the usual sense do not exist, a system of weights and measures does have many traditional economic characteristics. For example, the measures themselves came about in response to emerging needs to measure with varying degrees of accuracy the commodities that were traded in society. Just as technology has affected the supply of traded goods, so too has it affected the supply of tools of measurement and their precision. The first two sections of the paper will describe our system of weights and measures as an evolutionary process much like how traditional commodity markets work. Individuals and governments have promoted the standardization of units and their accuracy when it served to facilitate a more efficient allocation of resources. The public goods nature of a standardized system of weights and measures will be discussed with emphasis on government involvement. The third section of the paper will discuss some instances in which our system of weights and measures fails to promote economic efficiency. Specifically, we will discuss the rent-seeking behavior by some to implement nonstandard measures as a means of erecting occupational entry barriers.
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Al-dhamari, Redhwan, and Ku Nor Izah Ku Ismail. "Cash holdings, political connections, and earnings quality." International Journal of Managerial Finance 11, no. 2 (April 7, 2015): 215–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmf-02-2014-0016.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of cash holding, political connection and their interaction effect on earnings quality in the Malaysian environment, where political influence plays a vital role in many aspects of business dealings and resources allocation is seriously affected by politics. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses ordinary least square and seemingly unrelated regressions upon a sample of the Malaysian top 100 listed firms. Findings – This paper finds that earnings of firms with excess cash reserves are of high quality. Consistent with previous research, the study finds that investors perceive earnings numbers of politically connected firms as being of low quality. However, this research fails to support an expectation that the adverse consequences of holding a large amount of cash to earnings quality would be more pronounced when political extraction is high. The findings of this study suggest that policy makers should encourage or mandate firms to disclose information in relation to their connections with government, political party, or politicians so that investors and all interested parties can use the information to better assess the firms’ earnings quality. Originality/value – This research is considered as the first attempt to examine the relationships between cash holdings, political connections, and earnings quality in a developing country such as Malaysia.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Political aspects of Resource allocation"

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Ferreira, Pena Do Amaral J. A. "Aspects of optimal sequential resource allocation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.370266.

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Slattery, M. "Demographic aspects of resource allocation to Health Services." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.374235.

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Wadho, Waqar ahmed. "Essays on the economics of corruption." Thesis, Aix-Marseille 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011AIX24005/document.

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Cette thèse est composée de trois essais; dans le premier essai je traite les questions de la détermination, de la variance et des répercussions de la corruption. J’ai montré que la corruption est déterminée par la part des travailleurs non qualifiés sur la population. Si cette part est large alors il existe une corruption, si elle est faible la corruption est inexistante, et pour des niveaux intermédiaires, il existe une multiplicité d’équilibres. La corruption augmente les inégalités salariales entre travailleurs qualifiés et non qualifiés, et une perte de bien-être. Dans le deuxième essai je traite la question de lutte contre la corruption à travers l’incitation salariale. Avec une technologie de contrôle endogène, je montre que le gouvernement peut mieux accepter la corruption lorsqu’il est coûteux de contrôler. Lorsqu’il est optimal de combattre alors le gouvernement peut le faire soit à travers des salaires d’efficience ou soit par le contrôle. Néanmoins le rôle des salaires d’efficience dans la lutte contre la corruption est moindre dans les sociétés avec un niveau de malhonnêteté élevé. Le troisième essai traite la malédiction des ressources naturelles. Je montre que l'éducation et la corruption sont déterminées conjointement ; les ressources naturelles affectent l’incitation à investir en éducation et en ‘rent-seeking’ ce qui en retour affecte la croissance. En outre, la relation entre une abondance et la malédiction des ressources naturelles n’est pas monotone. Pour un niveau d’inégalité d’accès à l’éducation faible et un coût élevé de participation dans la vie politique, un niveau de croissance élevé et la trappe à la pauvreté coexistent
This dissertation consists of three essays. The topics cover determination, variance and repercussions of corruption (essay one), corruption deterrence through wage incentives (essay two), and natural resource curse (essay three). In the first essay, I show that for a larger population of unskilled labor, there is a widespread corruption and for a smaller population there is no corruption. For the intermediate levels there are multiple equilibria. On its consequences, corruption increases wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers, and results in output and welfare losses. In the second essay, I argue that deterring corruption through efficiency wage may become prohibitively expensive. With endogenous monitoring technology that allows capturing the dual role of auditing, as a complement with and as a substitute for wage incentives, I find that the government is better-off accepting corruption when it is costly to monitor. When it is optimal to deter bribery, the government can do it either through efficiency wages or monitoring. The role of efficiency wages decreases in societies with higher level of dishonesty. In the third essay, I build a theory explaining a resource curse. In contrast to the existing literature which generally considers low education, corruption and natural resources separately, I combine three strands of literature. Natural resources affect incentives to invest in education and rent seeking that in turn affects growth. Second, the relationship between resource-abundance and resource-curse is non-monotonic. For low inequality in access to education and high cost of political participation, high-growth and poverty-trap equilibria co-exist
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Yuan, Di, Jingon Joung, Ho Chin Keong, and Sumei Sun. "On Tractability Aspects of Optimal Resource Allocation in OFDMA Systems." Linköpings universitet, Kommunikations- och transportsystem, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-93408.

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Joint channel and rate allocation with power minimization in orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) has attracted extensive attention. Most of the research has dealt with the development of suboptimal but low-complexity algorithms. In this paper, the contributions comprise new insights from revisiting tractability aspects of computing the optimum solution. Previous complexity analyses have been limited by assumptions of fixed power on each subcarrier or power-rate functions that locally grow arbitrarily fast. The analysis under the former assumption does not generalize to problem tractability with variable power, whereas the latter assumption prohibits the result from being applicable to well-behaved power-rate functions. As the first contribution, we overcome the previous limitations by rigorously proving the problem's NP-hardness for the representative logarithmic rate function. Next, we extend the proof to reach a much stronger result, namely, that the problem remains NP-hard, even if the channels allocated to each user are restricted to be a consecutive block with given size. We also prove that, under these restrictions, there is a special case with polynomial-time tractability. Then, we treat the problem class where the channels can be partitioned into an arbitrarily large but constant number of groups, each having uniform gain for every individual user. For this problem class, we present a polynomial-time algorithm and provide its optimality guarantee. In addition, we prove that the recognition of this class is polynomial-time solvable.

Funding Agencies|Swedish Research Council||Linkoping-Lund Excellence Center in Information Technology||Center for Industrial Information Technology of Linkoping University||

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Moraiz, Francisco. "Political economy models of conflict." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2000. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/843899/.

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We present a study of conflict from an economic perspective. We start by reviewing the approach to conflict in the economic sciences. We model conflict as a process of allocation of resources into two main technologies, production and appropriation. Then we complement this framework by allowing participants to negotiate. We introduce models of bargaining with complete and incomplete information. We incorporate the cost of conflict and this ensures that negotiated settlements always produce a more efficient outcome. The possibility of conflict arises as a result of incomplete information, which takes the form of informational asymmetry about the cost of conflict. We find endogenous war equilibrium outcomes and compare the outcome of optimal resource equilibria with arbitrary non-equilibria allocations. We also present some empirical evidence in the literature supporting the choice of utility models of conflict and present new results showing support for our propositions.
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Berry, Anthony John Richard. "Northampton : a study of town expansion, political structures and processes." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/7494.

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This study is concerned with an aspect of public sector resource allocation, specifically the mechanisms whereby United Kingdom central government public expenditure within the New Towns budget heading was utilised for the planned expansion of the town of Northampton from 1965 to 1985. The distinctive feature of the town expansion process associated with Northampton was that, for the first time in the history of the New Town programme, such expansion involved a designated area which contained within it the whole of a County Borough. The consequences of this were that the central government and its agent, the development corporation, found themselves involved in establishing a pattern of allocative, decision making relationships which included a major role for the County Borough. A partnership was established and codified between central government and the County Borough of Northampton that involved institutional, functional and process arrangements of a unique kind, that have not, in total, been replicated elsewhere in the New Town programme. This unique partnership between central government and the County Borough of Northampton provided a focal point for the wider consideration of the role of 'policy communities' in central-local relations. The detailed consideration of the policy community associated with Northampton's town expansion has been based on the model devised by R A W Rhodes. The use of the model in this way has both tested it as a methodological tool and provided an opportunity for indicating possible further areas for development. In addition, its specific application to the Northampton experience has raised issues and indicated possible policy options that are of significance for other centrally funded urban development schemes such as the regeneration of the United Kingdom's inner city areas.
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Gregory, Harold Melvin. "Local organizations, local races : an examination of county party resource allocation on county-level office contests." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1296593375.

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Salazar, Domínguez Julián G. "The political determinants of resource allocation in Mexican municipalities : the fund for municipal social infrastructure." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/6306/.

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This research explores the political factors that affect the allocation of antipoverty funds in Mexican municipalities. Specifically, it analyses whether the adoption of FAISM, a decentralised fiscal fund intended to reduce poverty, did, in fact, help provide better services for the poor or if it was capture by political influence. In this sense, my work addresses a classic question of when and how political institutions can effectively improve the allocation of antipoverty funds. In the last decade, an ambitious decentralisation process was promoted in Mexico as a way to strengthen local governance and hence improve basic service provision. The idea was to limit politician‟s influence on resource allocation and return decision making to the people. By looking at more than 57,000 FAISM projects carried out in 122 municipalities of Estado de Mexico between 1998 and 2006 my work argues that political influence could not be circumvented and clientelism remained as a common political practice to allocate antipoverty funds. My findings demonstrate that the three major political parties relied on FAISM to obtain political benefits through the allocation of private goods. Regarding the effects of democratic institutions, my work demonstrates that greater party competition increases the probability that FAISM was used for public benefit. Similarly, there is a propensity towards greater spending on clientelism during elections. Although these factors influence the allocation of municipal funds, my work does not find concluding evidence to test the impact of fund allocation and poverty reduction. My dissertation makes three important contributions to the literature. Substantively, it qualifies the premise that clientelistic linkages between voters and politicians prevail and shows the conditions under which local politicians strategically allocate antipoverty funds for political gain. A second, methodological, contribution is the use of a more refined measure of social spending at the municipal level by looking at the split between public and private goods. Finally, this dissertation seeks to inform the longstanding debate about the ways in which democratic politics can contribute to effective poverty reduction.
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Vassilacopoulos, George. "Aspects of information management and resource allocation in hospitals with special reference to Accident and Emergency." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1985. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/25499417-0afb-49ea-b48d-8d21ff56e843/1/.

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The management and control process in an Accident and Emergency (A/E) department of a District General Hospital is investigated and the functional relationship between the A/E department and the inpatient hospital service is discussed. Attention is focused on resource allocation and methods are proposed towards reconciling levels of service and resource utilisation. Within the framework of control problems inside the A/E department, a computerised patient record system has been designed and implemented, on an experimental basis, to allow easy access to patient-related information for performance evaluation. Established statistical techniques are employed to demonstrate how such information can be utilised in medium-term management activities in the A/E department and to provide a sound basis for defining areas where specific problems arise. A method is developed, which uses patient data to the extent that they are routinely available through the patient record system, for allocating physicians to weekly shifts in a way which takes account of the fixed number of physician hours per week; of physician preferences with regard to shifts; and of the patient assessment of the service provided. With regard to the role of the A/E department as an essential link between the community at large and the hospital service, a simulation model is developed for determining the number of beds in hospital inpatient departments on the basis of expected demand and according to a pre-specified set of measures of hospital efficiency. The measures used are the rapid admission of emergency patients; high occupancy rates; and short lengths of waiting lists. A further study on bed capacity planning concerns the contemplated development of an observation ward in the A/E department. Owing to the increased uncertainty in planning for prospective units, approximation is accepted for the sake of procedural simplicity and an analytic infinite server queueing model is employed to evaluate various numbers of beds for the unit interms of the average occupancy rates and of hourly and daily service levels.
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Teslyuk, Nataliya. "Natural resources: a curse or a blessing? Political incentives in the resource allocation (example of gazprom)." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2007. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/13105.

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In my presentation I will reflect on whether politicians (in particular Russian ones) tend to over-extract the natural resources, because of the boundaries to their short-term power and the willingness to satisfy the needs of the population during the period when they are in control; this strategy can contradict effective path in the medium, and long run. There is a model developed to answer to this questions by the scientists of Norwegian University of Science and Technology, James A. Robinson, Ragnar Torvik, and Thierry Verdier which can be applied to Russia as well, but interestingly there are major differences, and it seems to be that Russia’s situation is distinct, what does not surprise much taking into account its position on the market. When you are citing the document, use the following link http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/13105
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Books on the topic "Political aspects of Resource allocation"

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Alexander, John M. Capabilities and social justice: The political philosophy of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate Pub. Ltd., 2007.

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Peter, Newell, and Wheeler J, eds. Rights, resources and the politics of accountability. London: Zed Books, 2006.

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Haddad, Lawrence James. Intrahousehold resource allocation: An overview. Washington, DC (1818 H St., NW, Washington 20433): World Bank, 1994.

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1948-, Langholtz Harvey J., ed. Resource-allocation behavior. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.

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Doern, G. Bruce. Political accountability and efficiency. [Kingston, Ont.]: Government and Competitiveness School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, 1993.

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Mays, Nicholas B. Resource allocation in the health service: A review of the methods of the Resource Allocation Working Party (RAWP). London: Bedford Square / NCVO, 1987.

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Board, NHS Management. Review of the Resource Allocation Working Party formula. (London): Department of Health and Social Security, 1988.

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Chambers, Jay G. Measuring resources in education: From accounting to the resource cost model approach. [Washington, DC]: U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Center for Education Statistics, 1999.

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Office, General Accounting. International trade: Intensifying free trade negotiating agenda calls for better allocation of staff and resources : report to congressional requesters. Washington, D.C. (441 G St., NW, Room LM, Washington 20548): GAO, [2004], 2004.

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Bevan, Gwyn. Resource allocation within Health Authorities: Lessons from total purchasing pilots. London: King's Fund Publishing, 1998.

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Book chapters on the topic "Political aspects of Resource allocation"

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Smith, Melanie S. "Nursing Aspects of Inappropriate Patient Care." In ICU Resource Allocation in the New Millennium, 293–95. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3866-3_36.

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Carlsson, Mats, Per Kreuger, and Emil Åtröm. "Constraint-Based Resource Allocation and Scheduling in Steel Manufacturing." In Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, 335–49. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49201-1_23.

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Lochmiller, Chad R. "Political Perspectives on Resource Allocation in Rural School Districts." In Quandaries of the Small-District Superintendency, 131–51. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137363251_9.

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Li, Jun, Dongsheng Cheng, Lining Xing, and Xu Tan. "Information Security Resource Allocation Using Evolutionary Game." In Proceeding of 2021 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Applications, 419–25. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2456-9_43.

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AbstractBased on the discussion of related concepts and technical theories, the information security resource allocation influencing factors index system is constructed from four aspects: resources, threat sources, vulnerabilities and security measures. With the further analysis of information security factors and their affecting mechanisms, the basic theoretical framework of information security resource allocation is established based on the evolutionary game. Under this framework, the subject relationship in various situations is analyzed. This research work can conduct a reasonable allocation of resources related to information security.
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Mohan, John. "Spatial Resource Allocation: Local Difficulties, Technical Adjustments and Political Solutions." In A National Health Service?, 73–100. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23897-2_4.

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Adami, Davide, Christian Callegari, Stefano Giordano, and Michele Pagano. "MRA3D: A New Algorithm for Resource Allocation in a Network-Aware Grid." In Remote Instrumentation for eScience and Related Aspects, 177–93. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0508-5_12.

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Just, Richard E., Sinaia Netanyahu, and John K. Horowitz. "The Political Economy of Domestic Water Allocation: The Cases of Israel and Jordan." In Decentralization and Coordination of Water Resource Management, 89–113. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6117-0_8.

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van Dijk, Frans. "Respect for Judicial Independence." In Perceptions of the Independence of Judges in Europe, 65–75. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63143-7_5.

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AbstractThis Chapter examines whether judges feel that their independence is respected. Three categories of actors are distinguished: the court users, the political system and the internal decision makers of the judiciary. Judges feel in the mean most respected by the internal leadership, to a lesser extent by the court users and least by the political system. In some countries judges do not feel respected by the political system at all. In the opinion of the judges, respect by the different actors has different features. Perceived respect shown by litigants has to do with absence of bribery and other forms of corruption, and inappropriate pressure. Respect by government and parliament is about the implementation of judgments by government and the case load of the judiciary. Case load depends on the resources that politicians make available. Respect by court management concerns absence of pressure on judges to adjudicate cases timely, case load and promotion of judges based on merit. Caseload is a recurring determinant of perceived respect for independence. This suggests that independence is highly affected by resource allocation.
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Kölbl, Marko, and Fritz Trümpi. "Ambivalences in Music and Democracy: Introductory Remarks." In Music and Democracy, 7–16. Vienna, Austria / Bielefeld, Germany: mdwPress / transcript Verlag, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839456576-001.

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Music and Democracy - Participatory Approaches explores music as a resource for societal transformation processes. It provides recent insights into how individuals and groups used and still use music to achieve social, cultural and political participation and bring about social change. The book gathers outstanding perspectives on the topic: From the promise and myth of democratization through music technology to the use of music in imposing authoritarian, neoliberal or even fascist political ideas in the past and present up to music's impact on political systems, governmental representation, and socio-political realities. It further features approaches in the fields of gender, migration, disability, and digitalization. Music and Democracy introduces a diversity of musical styles and political settings in various times and adds rarely discussed aspects to the topic.
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"Resource allocation." In Legal and Ethical Aspects of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine, 181–90. Cambridge University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511545580.013.

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Conference papers on the topic "Political aspects of Resource allocation"

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Zhang, Xuejun. "Resource Allocation Mechanism of Students' Political Education in Major Universities in China." In 2018 International Conference on Management and Education, Humanities and Social Sciences (MEHSS 2018). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/mehss-18.2018.26.

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Min Zhang, Sheng Zhang, and Wen Zhang. "Political relationship and the efficiency of credit resource allocation: Evidence from China." In 2010 International Conference on Future Information Technology and Management Engineering (FITME). IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/fitme.2010.5654917.

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Uchida, Masato. "Information Theoretic Aspects of Fairness Criteria in Network Resource Allocation Problems." In 2nd International ICST Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools. ICST, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/gamecomm.2007.2039.

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Daoud, Alaa. "Multi-agent Approach to Resource Allocation in Autonomous Vehicle Fleets." In Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-21}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/671.

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The development of autonomous vehicles, capable of peer-to-peer communication, as well as the interest in on-demand solutions, are the primary motivations for this study. In the absence of central control, we are interested in forming a fleet of autonomous vehicles capable of responding to city-scale travel demands. Typically, this problem is solved centrally; this implies that the vehicles have continuous access to a dispatching portal. However, such access to such a global switching infrastructure (for data collection and order delivery) is costly and represents a critical bottleneck. The idea is to use low-cost vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication technologies to coordinate vehicles without a global communication infrastructure. We propose to model the different aspects of decision and optimization problems related to this more general problem. After modeling these problems, the question arises as to the choice of centralized and decentralized solution methods. Methodologically, we explore the directions and compare the performance of distributed constraint optimization techniques (DCOP), self-organized multi-agent techniques, market-based approaches, and centralized operations research solutions.
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Peyghaleh, Elnaz, and Tarek Alkhrdaji. "Resource Allocation Model Toward Seismic Water Pipeline Risk Mitigation Measures." In ASME 2019 Pressure Vessels & Piping Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2019-93057.

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Abstract History of earthquake’s damages have illustrated the high vulnerability and risks associated with failure of water transfer and distribution systems. Adequate mitigation plans to reduce such seismic risks are required for sustainable development. The first step in developing a mitigation plan is prioritizing the limited available budget to address the most critical mitigation measures. This paper presents an optimization model that can be utilized for financial resource allocation towards earthquake risk mitigation measures for water pipelines. It presents a framework that can be used by decision-makers (authorities, stockholders, owners and contractors) to structure budget allocation strategy for seismic risk mitigation measures such as repair, retrofit, and/or replacement of steel and concrete pipelines. A stochastic model is presented to establish optimal mitigation measures based on minimizing repair and retrofit costs, post-earthquake replacement costs, and especially earthquake-induced large losses. To consider the earthquake induced loss on pipelines, the indirect loss due to water shortage and business interruption in the industries which needs water is also considered. The model is applied to a pilot area to demonstrate the practical application aspects of the proposed model. Pipeline exposure database, built environment occupancy type, pipeline vulnerability functions, and regional seismic hazard characteristics are used to calculate a probabilistic seismic risk for the pilot area. The Global Earthquake Model’s (GEM) OpenQuake software is used to run various seismic risk analysis. Event-based seismic hazard and risk analyses are used to develop the hazard curves and maps in terms of peak ground velocity (PGV) for the study area. The results of this study show the variation of seismic losses and mitigation costs for pipelines located within the study area based on their location and the types of repair. Performing seismic risk analysis analyses using the proposed model provides a valuable tool for determining the risk associated with a network of pipelines in a region, and the costs of repair based on acceptable risk level. It can be used for decision making and to establish type and budgets for most critical repairs for a specific region.
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Kaptsov, A. V., and E. I. Kolesnikova. "Regulatory aspects of the stages of formation of subjectivity of university students." In INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL ONLINE CONFERENCE. Знание-М, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.38006/907345-50-8.2020.116.128.

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The article considers the role of the universal system of conscious self-regulation as a meta-resource in the system of stages of formation of subjectivity (ontological model). The concepts of hierarchical levels of formation of self-regulation are considered: maintaining the level of human adaptation; level of difficulty; the degree of concreteness of achieving life goals (universal (meta-) and special regulatory resources). The stages of the formation of subjectivity are considered in the ontological continuum “subject of spontaneous activity — subject of arbitrary action”, this model is not tied to a specific activity, and is also universal. For the first time, a study was conducted of the relationship of self-regulation profiles with the structure of the stages of formation of subjectivity in relation to the achievement of the goal in systemforming activities (by the example of student learning actions). Using a correlation analysis, intersystemic relationships were established between indicators of conscious self-regulation (planning, modeling, programming, evaluation), regulatory qualities (flexibility, independence) and the general level of self-regulation with the severity of the stages of formation of subjectivity, their integrity and connectedness. The process of formation of subjective qualities is considered depending on the typology with the allocation of three profiles of the empirical structure of self-regulation for two samples (88 people in total). Samples of university students are compared in the direction of preparation (the first is engineering, the second is computer technology, the most involved in digitalization). For each of the samples, specific interrelation results were obtained. The results obtained are relevant in the scientific and applied terms for the development of individual educational routes.
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Yoshikawa, Hidekazu. "A Proposal on Ultimate Safety Disposal of High Level Radioactive Wastes." In 2013 21st International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone21-15117.

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The ultimate disposal of high-level radioactive waste (HLW) becomes a hard issue for sustainable nuclear energy in Japan especially after Fukushima Daiichi accident. In this paper, the difficulty of realizing underground HLW disposal in Japanese islands is first discussed from socio-political aspects. Then, revival of old idea of deep seabed disposal of HLW in Pacific Ocean is proposed as an alternative way of HLW disposal. Although this had been abandoned in the past for the reason that it will violate London Convention which prohibits dumping radioactive wastes in public sea, the author will stress the merit of seabed disposal of HLW deep in Pacific Ocean not only from the view point of more safe and ultimate way of disposing HLWs (both vitrified and spent fuel) than by underground disposal, but also the emergence of new marine project by synergetic collaboration of rare-earth resource exploration from the deep sea floor in Pacific Ocean.
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Manjunatha, Hemanth, Jida Huang, Binbin Zhang, and Rahul Rai. "A Sequential Sampling Algorithm for Multi-Stage Static Coverage Problems." In ASME 2016 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2016-60305.

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It is critical in many system-engineering problems (such as surveillance, environmental monitoring, and cooperative task performance) to optimally allocate resources in the presence of limited resources. Static coverage problem is an important class of the resource allocation problems that focuses on covering an area of interest so that the activities in the area of interest can be detected/monitored with higher probability. In many practical settings (primarily due to financial constraints) a system designer has to allocate resources in multiple stages. In each stage, the system designer can assign a fixed number of resources (agents). In the multi-stage formulation, the agents locations for the next stage are dependent on all the agents location in the previous stages. Such multi-stage static coverage problems are non-trivial to solve. In this paper, we propose a robust and efficient sequential sampling algorithm to solve the multi-stage static coverage problem in the presence of probabilistic resource intensity allocation maps (RIAMs). The agents locations are determined by formulating this problem as an optimization problem in the successive stage . Three different objective functions are compared and discussed from the aspects of decreasing L2 difference and Sequential Minimum Energy Design (SMED). It is shown that utilizing SMED objective function leads to a better approximation of the RIAMs. Two heuristic algorithms, i.e. cuckoo search, and pattern search, are used as optimization algorithms. Numerical functions and real-life applications are provided to demonstrate the robustness and efficiency of the proposed approach.
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McClelland, Paul, Frank Dennis, and Mark Liddiard. "Practical Implementation of National Clearance Levels at Dounreay." In ASME 2003 9th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2003-4629.

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Clearance is a very important part of any effective waste management strategy for both operating and decommissioning nuclear facilities. Radioactive waste disposal capacity is becoming an increasingly valuable resource and costs for disposal of radioactive wastes continue to dramatically rise. Considerable cost savings may be realised by efficient segregation of essentially non-radioactive material from radioactive wastes. The release of these materials from licensed nuclear sites for disposal, reuse or recycle without further regulatory controls is commonly referred to by the nuclear industry as “clearance”. Although much effort has been directed at establishing national clearance levels, below which, materials may be released without further regulatory controls, there is little practical guidance regarding implementation into local waste management programmes. Compliance with regulatory clearance limits is a relatively straightforward technical exercise involving appropriate management control and monitoring of the material. Whilst this is sufficient to avoid prosecution for breach of regulatory requirements, it is not sufficient to avoid a myriad of political and public relations land mines. When material is unconditionally released, unless additional attention is given to management of its future destination off-site, it may end up anywhere. The worst nightmare for a waste manager at a nuclear site is headlines in local and national newspapers such as, “RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSED IN LOCAL MUNICIPAL LANDFILL,” or, “RADIOACTIVE WASTE USED AS CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL FOR CHILDRENS PLAYGROUND,” etc. Even if the material were released legally, the cost of recovering from such a situation is potentially very large, and such public relations disasters could threaten to end the clearance programme at the given site, if not nationally. This paper describes how national regulatory clearance levels have been implemented for the decommissioning of the Dounreay nuclear site in the far north of Scotland. It specifically focuses on the management of public relations aspects of clearance in order to limit the exposure to non-regulatory pressures and liabilities associated with clearance programmes from nuclear sites. The issues are put into context for uncontaminated wastes, trace contaminated wastes and management of contaminated land.
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Nair, Hariharan, Vijay Kulkarni, and Makrand Joshi. "ERGONOMICAL REDESIGNING OF THE PROCESS FLOW AND HUMAN RESOURCES TO IMPROVE CLIENTELE SATISFACTION AT EX-SERVICEMEN CONTRIBUTORY HEALTH SCHEME(ECHS) POLYCLINICS." In The Global Conference on Research in Human Factors and Ergonomics. R&R Knowledge Solutions, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56790/02.01.102.111222.

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Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme(ECHS) is similar to the Central Government Health Scheme(CGHS), meant for meeting the medical requirements of the retired uniformed Defence personnel from the Army, Navy, and Air Force. The scheme covers 67 Lakhs of the retired people as of now. The management of the scheme is controlled by Central Organization (Cent Org) at the apex, Regional Centres (RCs), and the Polyclinics as the service providers. The medical cover is provided by the Services medical facilities, empaneled civil facilities, and the Polyclinics. The study is to research the ergonomics in Human Resource Management in the functioning of Polyclinics, which has a direct bearing on cliental satisfaction. The Cent Org and RCs are to be managed by an active Defence population, an in-service arrangement, and the Polyclinics by the contractual employees. The allocation of vacancies for different types of Polyclinics, categorized based on the registered beneficiaries in the demarcated geographical area of responsibility, was done on an ad-hoc basis in the year 2003 when this was formed. It is felt that the delay in the revision of cadre vacancies of the ECHS is badly affecting the performance, especially in the level of satisfaction of the clientele. The need for support staff is also very essential. The study is planned to be carried out by way of conducting surveys. It will be a mixed method of research. The expected results are an improved satisfaction of the whole ambit of the treatment protocol in the ECHS Polyclinics; by augmenting certain critical staff, especially the non-medical category, at various departments. In addition, some of the HRM aspects in the total management of the scheme will also be studied. By augmenting the Human Resources at key places and by introducing certain good HRM practices, the satisfaction level of the clientele in Polyclinic can be enhanced. Keywords: Ex-servicemen, Polyclinic, treatment, Defense, Medical
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Reports on the topic "Political aspects of Resource allocation"

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Aizenman, Joshua, and Peter Isard. Resource Allocation During the Transition to a Market Economy: Political Implications of Supply Bottlenecks and Adjustment Costs. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, May 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w4366.

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Khan, Amir Ullah. Islam and Good Governance: A Political Economy Perspective. IIIT, October 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47816/01.004.20.

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It is readily apparent to everyone that there are multiple and serious concerns that face Muslim societies today. Terrorism, civil strife, poverty, illiteracy, factionalism, gender injustices and poor healthcare are just a few of the challenges to governance across the Muslim world. These are core issues for governance and public administration in any form of government. However, before we can engage with good governance within the context of Islam, we need to be clear what mean by good governance itself. A simple definition of good governance is that of an institutionalised competency of administration and institution leading to efficient resource allocation and management[1]. Another way of looking at it is as a system which is defined by the existence of efficient and accountable institutions[2]. Civil society now tends to look at good governance by way of impact measurement and how a certain set of processes result in a set of measurable and desirable outcomes.
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Zilberman, David, and Eithan Hochman. Price Evaluation and Allocation of Water under Alternative Water Rights System - Part II. United States Department of Agriculture, July 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/1995.7573067.bard.

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This project is a continuation of US 2081-91. Together they develop a conceptual and empirical framework to analyze alternative forms of water reform that lead to efficient pricing of water. Our analysis demonstrates that the transition from water rights systems to water trading may lead to improved resource allocation even when overall availability of water resources declines. We introduce two systems of water trading, passive markets and active markets, and show that passive markets lead to efficient resource allocation with lower transaction costs. We demonstrate that both methods of trading are superior to block pricing. We identify the political economic situations that would lead to each type of water resource allocation. Examples from Israel and California are used to demonstrate the conceptual results.
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Bano, Masooda. International Push for SBMCs and the Problem of Isomorphic Mimicry: Evidence from Nigeria. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), July 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-rise-wp_2022/102.

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Establishing School-Based Management Committees (SBMCs) is one of the most widely adopted and widely studied interventions aimed at addressing the learning crisis faced in many developing countries: giving parents and communities a certain degree of control over aspects of school management is assumed to increase school accountability and contribute to improvements in learning. Examining the case of Nigeria, which in 2005 adopted a national policy to establish SBMCs in state schools, this paper reviews the evidence available on SBMCs’ ability to mobilise communities, and the potential for this increased community participation to translate into improved learning. The paper shows that while local community participation can help improve school performance, the donor and state supported SBMCs struggle to stay active and have positive impact on school performance. Yet for ministries of education in many developing countries establishing SBMCs remains a priority intervention among the many initiatives aimed at improving education quality. The paper thus asks what makes the establishment of SBMCs a priority intervention for the Nigerian government. By presenting an analysis of the SBMC-related policy documents in Nigeria, the paper demonstrates that an intervention aimed at involving local communities and developing bottom-up approaches to identifying and designing education policies is itself entirely a product of top-down policy making, envisioned, developed, and funded almost entirely by the international development community. The entire process is reflective of isomorphic mimicry—a process whereby organisations attempt to mimic good behaviour to gain legitimacy, instead of fixing real challenges. Adopting the policy to establish SBMCs, which is heavily promoted by the international development community and does not require actual reform of the underlying political-economy challenges hindering investment in education, enables education ministries to mimic commitment to education reforms and attain the endorsement of the international community without addressing the real challenges. Like all cases of isomorphic mimicry, such policy adoption and implementation has costs: national ministries, as well as state- and district-level education authorities, end up devoting time, resources, and energy to planning, designing, and implementing an intervention for which neither the need nor the evidence of success is established. Additionally, such top-down measures prevent state agencies from identifying local opportunities for delivering the same goals more effectively and perhaps at a lower cost. The paper illustrates this with the case of the state of Kano: there is a rich indigenous culture of supporting community schools, yet, rather than learning why local communities support certain kinds of school but not state schools, and trying to replicate the lessons in state schools, the SBMC model introduced is designed by development agencies at the national level and is administratively complicated and resource-intensive. The opportunity for local learning has not been realised; instead, both the agenda and the implementation framework have been entirely shaped by international aid agencies. The paper thus demonstrates how apparently positive policy interventions resulting from pressure exerted by the international community could be having unintended consequences, given the national-level political-economy dynamics.
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