Havering had the highest proportion of first-choice allocations with 77%, while rising demand for places in Newham caused a fall in the percentage of first choices being filled from 70%to65%5%.
Outside the big cities, many local authorities could boast of first-choice allocations above 90%, including Devon, Cumbria, Somerset and the East Riding of Yorkshire, where the councils reported that 94% of families had received their first preference.
SSC grades awarded to students allocated to staff-designed SSC were compared according to preference (first-, second-, third-, and other choice allocations).
Resources for research are insufficient to cover all unanswered questions, and therefore difficult choices about allocation must be made.
Efforts to change library services during the allied occupation of Japan (1945 1952) provide a starting point for asking what "American librarianship" (compared with, say, Soviet or Japanese librarianship) could mean — and why and how information access matters — and, more generally, relationships between technology choices, resource allocation, and cultural differences.
"In the event there is more demand than supply and we have to make choices on allocation, the timing we are looking at is early 2014.
By analyzing data on household division of labor and divorce, we show that a politically and institutionally mediated bargaining model better explains choices over allocation of work than does Becker's economic model, which assumes a single family utility function.
Furthermore, since the intervention's effectiveness depends on the subjects' active participation and on their choices, random allocation may lessen its effect, and a clinical trial would in fact be inappropriate [ 25, 26].
It will also be crucial to include a quality of life measure such as the CHU9D that can be used to elicit QALY outcomes for an economic analysis to inform decision makers' choices regarding allocation of healthcare resources.
Interpreting choices of allocation in this case is more complicated because dividing the available funds equally means treating 200 patients with the common disease and 50 patients with the rare disease rather than equal numbers of patients, an outcome that would occur if 80% of funds were devoted to the rare disease.
