Objective: This article models the cost-effectiveness, from a societal viewpoint, of a dental caries prevention program using salt fluoridation for children 12 years of age, compared with non-intervention (or status quo) ...

Existing transmission planning models consider basic aspects of the problem. In practice, a transmissionutility needs to model other important details such as operation cost of the power system. In this article, a least ...

This report assesses the costs of publishing scientific, technical and medica! (STM) research articles. In particular it looks at the cost implications of the two business models which are currently in use, characterized ...

In Chile, the use of costing systems in the public sector is limited. The Ministry of Health requires hospitals to manage themselves with the aim of decentralizing health care services and increasing their quality. However, ...

When the area to be irrigated has a high slope gradient in the manifold line direction, an option is to use a tapered pipeline to economize on pipe costs and to keep the pressure head variations within desired limits. The ...

When the area to be irrigated has a high slope gradient in the manifold line direction, an option is to use a tapered pipeline to economize on pipe costs and to keep the pressure head variations within desired limits. The ...