Benefit

Benefit or Benefits may refer to:

  • Benefit concert, any activity performed for a charitable purpose
  • Benefit (album), a 1970 album by Jethro Tull
  • "Benefits" (How I Met Your Mother), a 2009 episode of the show How I Met Your Mother
  • Benefit (sports), a match or season of activities granted by a sporting body to a loyal sportsman to boost their income before retirement
  • Economic benefit, the positive contribution to national product (or other measure of value) from an economic activity or project: see Cost-benefit analysis or Benefits realisation management
  • Employee benefit, a non-monetary employment compensation
  • Health benefit (disambiguation)
  • Legal benefit, an element of the benefit-detriment theory of consideration
  • Money, goods or services provided by a social welfare program, including:
    • Federal benefits, as provided by the United States federal government to its citizens
    • United Kingdom pensions and benefits
  • The Benefit Company, a financial company linking Bahrain's local banks together, as well as neighboring countries.

Other articles related to "benefit, benefits":

Benefit-cost Ratio
... A benefit-cost ratio (BCR) is an indicator, used in the formal discipline of cost-benefit analysis, that attempts to summarize the overall value for money of a ... A BCR is the ratio of the benefits of a project or proposal, expressed in monetary terms, relative to its costs, also expressed in monetary terms ... All benefits and costs should be expressed in discounted present values ...
Hiper Dispatch - Benefit
... HiperDispatch offers very little CPU savings benefit on machines configured with a relatively small number of CPUs ... The other benefit of HiperDispatch - "parking" logical CPUs so that the number of CPUs on which z/OS dispatches work more closely matches the LPAR's weight - is applicable to ... (The benefit of this is the reduction of the "short engine" effect, making system performance more responsive ...
Hyperacidity - Treatment - H. Pylori Connection
... has been controversial, with several trials finding a benefit and others finding no benefit a 2003 Cochrane Collaboration review found that treating H ... recently, "Helicobacter pylori eradication provided significant benefits to primary care patients with functional dyspepsia." according to a randomized controlled trial ... In this trial, the relative benefit ratio of Helicobacter pylori eradication for 50% reduction in symptoms at 12 months was 1.3 and, the relative benefit increase was 34.3% ...
Mutual Organizations
... A mutual is therefore owned by, and run for the benefit of, its members - it has no external shareholders to pay in the form of dividends, and as such does not usually seek to maximize and make ... Mutuals exist for the members to benefit from the services they provide and often do not pay income tax ... Profits made will usually be re-invested in the mutual for the benefit of the members, although some profit may also be necessary in the case of mutuals for internal ...
Health Management System
... Nicholas Humphrey in which actuarial assessment of fitness and economic-type cost-benefit analysis determines the body’s regulation of its physiology and health ... This incorporation of cost-benefit calculations into body regulation provides a science grounded approach to mind-body phenomena such as placebos that are otherwise not explainable by low ... The deployment of self-treatments have costs as well as benefits with the result that evolution has selected management processes in the brain such that self-treatments are used ...

Famous quotes containing the word benefit:

    “Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.”
    —Beverly Jones (b. 1927)

    “Often they benefit who suffer wrong.”
    —Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

    “The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)