The anti-missile defence programme assumes an American president rejecting nuclear blackmail from a newly armed opponent secure in the knowledge that US cities are under a defensive umbrella.
His programme assumes federal fiscal surpluses of double the amount calculated by Mr Martin, a prudent finance minister who promises not to allow Canada to slip back into deficit financing.This platform may not stand up to close scrutiny.
Similarly the modelled programme assumes 100% of GPs participate, all eligible patients are screened at the first opportunity and no patients are screened more than once.
These were used to derive a gender and age-group specific 'arrival profile', after adjusting for long-term trends in migration, giving the probability of being screened in each year of a 10 year screening programme, assuming that the probability of registering with a new GP was independent from year to year.
On the basis of our model projections, the introduction of a routine childhood influenza vaccination programme assuming 50%% coverage and use of LAIV could lead to a significant decrease in influenza infections resulting in decreased morbidity and mortality across all age groups, reduced hospitalisation rates and antibiotic use as well as less sickness-related absence from work.
As Naveen Narayanan, global head of talent at HCL technologies, says, "sometimes we skew programmes assuming only women need them, whereas men need them equally".
Migration programmes assume that well-managed migration is beneficial for all stakeholders, these being the migrant-sending countries, the migrant-receiving countries and the migrants themselves.
Quantifying the amount of plastic in the ocean has been facilitated by surveys of accumulated plastic on beaches, but existing monitoring programmes assume the proportion of plastic detected during beach surveys is constant across time and space.
These programmes assume that once health professionals are aware of the need for cultural competence, they will also feel a responsibility to adapt their behaviour.
Early Head Start programmes assume one of three models — home-based care (HBC), center-based care, or a combination of home and center-based ("mixed model") care.
