Detractors say the incentives amount to welfare for businesses.
Opponents protested that the cost estimates were wrong, that the incentives amounted to corporate welfare and that companies did not need government incentives to invest.
On Friday, Mr. Bush called for a package of tax rebates and investment incentives amounting to about $145 billion — or 1percentt of the nation's economic output — to be rolled out as soon as possible.
The project will be eligible for a package of tax breaks, grants and other incentives amounting to $660,000 for each of the 1,000 permanent jobs it is expected to create.
But the same judge, Paul A. Crotty of Federal District Court in Manhattan, rejected that proposal too, writing in a 2009 opinion that the incentives amounted to "a de facto mandate" and thus fell under the same legal issues.
Among females, a prior HIV test was also associated with higher incentive amounts.
Similarly, among males, lower required incentive amounts were observed among those with recent symptoms potentially related to HIV.
Moreover, nonlinear and piecewise linear formulae to calculate the incentive amounts are shown to improve both the performance and robustness across different projects.
Larger WTA estimates, analogous to higher incentive amounts required to entice individuals to test, were observed for females who had completed secondary education.
Second, there was a pronounced effect of incentive magnitude on RT, and by extension, on hit rates because the distribution of target durations for each task run was not varied across incentive amounts.
