We found that, contrary to the general perception that home births are cheaper, direct expenditure was not substantially less than that of delivering at a public hospital.
Another cheap capital-expenditures opportunity?
A recent study of resting metabolic rate in unloaded barnacle geese found that when compared to standing, sitting is 25% cheaper in terms of energy expenditure, potentially due to a reduction in the cost of breathing when the sternum is immobile during sitting (Tickle et al., 2012).
Such energy expenditure does not come cheap: desks cost upwards of £1,000.
Schellnhuber also said that the world's energy system could be transformed to a cleaner and cheaper renewable model for the same expenditure already paid out in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.
Germany, another country with a great football heritage, has taken the admirable step of keeping football open to all areas of society with cheap pricing but that then limits expenditure.
Generic medicines provide an opportunity for savings on medicine expenditure due to their cheaper price [ 2, 3].
A number of people outlined the ways in which they cut back on their expenditure, such as, buying cheaper brands of food, economising on other household bills, reducing social and leisure activities.
Second, under the NHIA policy to control the growth of drug expenditure, physicians may prefer to prescribe cheaper drugs.
As intravenous epoprostenol sodium therapy may result in high medical costs, the introduction of cheaper generic drugs may help to reduce medical expenditure for treating PAH.
And as previously mentioned, acoustic signals are likely to be energetically cheaper than chemical signals, which require considerable energy expenditure for the synthesis of the signal itself as well as its cognate receptor.
