Previous scandals, involving allocation of the mobile phone spectrum and the shoddy planning for the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, have landed several senior politicians in jail awaiting criminal trials.
Results indicate that the methodology is suitable to solve a wide range of engineering design problems involving allocation of redundancies and maintenance resources.
Cox et al. [15] used this approach to analyse competition involving allocation of rights to use station and time-slot routes by price bids in a combinatorial auction with competition involving allocation of rights to regional monopolies by fare-structure bids for supplying a pre-specified minimum schedule.
If, as Harold Lasswell claimed, politics is all about "who gets what, when, how" (Lasswell 1936), then distributive politics, which involves allocations of government goods and services, lies at the heart of politics.
The clinical component of teaching in this course involves allocation by roster of students to clinical placements in five metropolitan teaching hospitals and also a rural clinical school.
A gene involved in allocation of K from root to shoot was repressed (SKOR).
However, we could reject the hypothesis that these developmental differences involved strict allocation of meristems to vegetative growth in lieu of reproduction.
In Germany special physicians and nurses involved in allocation of sickness funds have the legal mandate to evaluate the need of nursing care according to criteria determined by law.
In May 2003, a trial was initiated which involved the allocation of 2 groups of sheep, each of 20 ewes with their lambs (8 ewes with twins; 12 ewes with single lambs), to 2 adjacent paddocks (approx. 2 ha) of newly established improved pasture, which had not been previously grazed.
There is no doubt that useful scientific inferences can be generated in such settings, but the obvious route to new knowledge would involve well-designed experiments: carefully controlled experiments in the laboratory setting, or studies involving randomised allocation of intervention as in a conventional clinical trial.
