What does RA stand for?

If Mary Harney's decision to set up a socalled 'expert group on resource allocation in the health sector' did not come against the backdrop of a health system in meltdown, it would be almost funny.

But although enforcement is key to the planning function, it does not have high priority in resource allocation at local level, while at regional and national level it barely exists, the meeting concluded.

Increased productivity in the laboratory is a function of intelligent resource allocation.

Decisions you make on resource allocations are important to a lot of people.

The instruction provides detailed information on OSHA's inspection scheduling, resource allocation, inspection resources and procedures.

Japanese psychologists, sociologists, and contributors from other disciplines examine the phenomenon from such perspectives as procedural justification in egalitarian resource allocation, stress management in organizations, and public participation in environmental planning.

It meets the training needs of a wide range of government and private-sector security partners involved in implementing infrastructure protection programs and provides an overview of many of the key concepts of the NIPP, including the risk-management framework, the partnership model designed to facilitate coordination and cooperation between infrastructure owners/operators and the government, the networked approach to information sharing, and the new risk-based approach to resource allocation.

A COASEAN SOLUTION If "diminishing marginal returns" can be deferred through science's aid, If we can internalize externalities, (An insight revealed in the Bhagvad Gita as well) If risk and uncertainty, the Siamese twins, can be dealt with as fleeting, stochastic, If time and technology, like mind and matter, can replenish and enhance resources, If extraction can be curtailed to a fraction, If pollution from corporate collusion can find a resolution, If resource allocation is grounded in Pareto's vision, Then, perhaps, through a Coasean bargaining solution, We can put a stop to market intervention, And help ensure optimal resource allocation.