Les dépenses de santé, qui constituent la plus grande partie des dépenses des gouvernements provinciaux, se sont accrues considérablement au cours de la dernière décennie. L'on a soutenu que l'augmentation des dépenses de santé a conduit les gouvernements à réduire les dépenses destinées à d'autres types de services gouvernementaux. En utilisant une série de données, au niveau provincial, pour la période allant de 1998/89 à 2003/04, notre étude a pu tester l'hypothèse que les dépenses de santé ont fait obstacle à d'autres types de dépenses. Les résultats indiquent que, pour la période étudiée, il n'y a aucune preuve que l'accroissement des dépenses de santé des gouvernements provinciaux ait fait baisser le niveau des dépenses destinées à d'autres catégories de produits et services fournis par les gouvernements. Health spending, the largest component of provincial government spending, has risen significantly over the past decade. It has been asserted that larger health expenditures have caused provincial governments to spend less on other types of government services. Using a panel of province-level data for the period 1988/ 89 to 2003/04, this study provides a test of the hypothesis that health spending has crowded out other types of spending. The results indicate that, for the period studied, there is no evidence that increased provincial government health expenditures resulted in lower levels of spending on other categories of government provided goods and services.
Geometric control of a spherical robot rolling on a horizontal plane with three independent inertia disc actuators is considered in this note. The dynamic model of the spherical robot in the geometric framework is used to establish the strong accessibility and small-time local controllability properties. Smooth stabilizability to an equilibrium fails for the nonholonomic spherical robot. A novel contribution of this note is a smooth, asymptotically stabilizing geometric control law for position and reduced attitude, which corresponds to an equilibrium submanifold of dimension one. From Brockett's condition, this is the best possible dimension of a smoothly stabilized equilibrium submanifold. We also present a novel smooth global tracking controller for tracking position trajectories.Index Terms-Algebraic/geometric methods, stability of NL systems, robotics, spherical robot, position and attitude stabilization.
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