Resource allocation is typically described in terms of limited energetic resources allocated to alternative processes [ 10– 12], but in plants it can also be modeled in terms of alternative meristem fates [ 13].
The government has allocated them alternative land, he says, but it is poor, lacking decent soil or water for cultivation, and without the sea to fish in.
A recent prospectus for a Getty bond offering noted that the trust's investment policy called for about 48percentt of its portfolio to be allocated to alternative investments, raising the question of whether the trust had been pushing the boundaries of its rules.
An estimated 20% of the investment into industrial projects is allocated to alternative sources of electricity supply[3].
We follow Gross (1996) and Gross and Repka (1997, 1998) in using the term life-history tactics to refer to outcomes of life-history strategies, or decision rules, that determine how somatic and reproductive effort is allocated among alternative phenotypes.
In developing countries including Uganda where 60% 80% of the population goes to traditional healers (2), hardly any resources are allocated to alternative providers of mental health care and there are yet no outcome studies.
In order to test whether baseline risk had an effect on the acceptance of this intervention presented in terms of RRR, respondents were allocated to alternative versions of a case scenario in which baseline numeric risk information was either present or not.
Decision-making often involves, among other things, generating alternatives, setting priorities, choosing a best alternative, allocating resources, determining requirements, predicting outcomes, designing systems, optimizing performance, insuring the stability of a system, planning, and resolving conflicts.
By 2015, it will have 20% of its assets allocated to alternatives – up from 5% in 2003, and 10% in 2012.
The OCBA method minimizes the number of samples (simulation replications) required to evaluate a particular alternative by allocating computing resources to potentially critical alternative.
