Causes of Undergraduate Students’ Underachievement in a Gulf Cooperation Council Country (GCC) University by Chithira Johnson, Rizwan Gitay, Khalifa Al Hazaa, Abdel-Salam G. Abdel-Salam, Radwa Ismail Mohamed, Ahmed BenSaid, Rusol Adil Naji Al-Tameemi, Michael H. Romanowski

“…UNESCO reports enrollment in higher education in the Arab and Gulf Cooperation Council region doubled from 5.1 million in 2000 to 10.7 million in 2015. Despite significant budgets and the world’s lowest teacher-to-student ratio, higher education in this region is plagued by student underachievement. …”
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Post COVID-19 world and potential compensatory tax instruments in the context of the digital economy by Ladislav Hrabčák, Adrián Popovič, Jozef Sabo

“…It is therefore clear that this situation will also affect public budgets, both in terms of revenue and expenditure (e.g. the state incurs higher expenditures to compensate for the adverse effects of the pandemic on the private sector). …”
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Challenges facing the early childhood development sector in South Africa by Eric Atmore

“…The number of children in Grade R has trebled since 2001, government education and social development budgets have increased substantially and 58% of children at ECD centres nationally are now subsidised. …”
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PROVISIONS CONCERNING THE ORGANIZATION OF EVENTS FOR THE PROMOTION OF PRODUCTS ON PHARMACEUTICAL MARKET IN ROMANIA by Alina Natalia IOSIF, Elena GURGU

“…Having knowledges about how important is the marketing part of pharmaceutical market, taking in consideration the huge budgets that medical and pharmaceutical companies spend on the events organized in this domain, we consider that a company which is able to have a new approach and a new vision for the organization of events and sharing medical education to doctors and medical information to patients will have a big success.…”
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Security Countermeasures Selection Using the Meta Attack Language and Probabilistic Attack Graphs by Wojciech Widel, Preetam Mukherjee, Mathias Ekstedt

“…The formalization makes it possible to deal with an arbitrary number of budgets, expressing available resources of both monetary and time-like nature, and to model numerous dependencies between countermeasures, including order dependencies, mutual exclusivity, and interdependent implementation costs. …”
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A Survey on the Impact of Accounting Information System on Tasks Efficiency: Evidence from Malaysian Public Sector Agencies by Wan Zuriati Wan Zakaria, Norazlina Ilias, Norlidawahi Wahab

“…The findings led to the conclusion that the current accounting information system used has significant impact on their tasks efficiency on the typical processes related to budgeting, financial reporting, auditing and financial controlling in the agencies. …”
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One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: The Role of Civil Society Organizations in Reversed Integration Processes among Refugees in Norway by Benedicte Nessa

“…Such an interest is fueled by the proliferation of neoliberal reforms in European welfare states and restrictive budgets, leading to increased recognition of CSOs as resolutions to social issues. …”
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THE SPHERE OF HIGHER EDUCATION AS A COMPONENT OF THE RECOVERY PLAN OF UKRAINE by Юрій Вітренко, Вікторія Ворона, Марія Дебич

“…The main priorities for determining the scope of training of higher education specialists in higher education institutions of Ukraine with payment for production and provision of services in the field of higher education at the expense of the state and regional budgets of Ukraine are recommended, which should be taken into account when making up the Recovery Plan of Ukraine in “Education and Science” direction. …”
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Matrix transformation of lunar regolith and its use as a feedstock for additive manufacturing by Nicholas I. Cool, Saul Perez-Beltran, Jingxiang Cheng, Natalia Rivera-Gonzalez, Daniel Bronner, Anita, Elbert Wang, Umme Zakira, Mehdi Farahbakhsh, Kai-Wei Liu, Jia-Lin Hsu, Bjorn Birgisson, Sarbajit Banerjee

“…Various crosslinking frameworks and sintering methods have been proposed as a means of consolidating lunar regolith into load-bearing structures but each have challenges related to incomplete understanding of reaction chemistry, excessive thermal budgets, and lack of universal applicability to different mineral components of regolith. …”
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Human-Centric AI Adoption and Its Influence on Worker Productivity: An Empirical Investigation by Shchepkina Natalia, Ramnarayan, Dhaliwal Navdeep, K Ravikiran, Nangia Richa

“…Significant cost reductions of up to 40% of budgets were also realized by departments, resulting in significant economic benefits. …”
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DIVERSIFICATION OF THE ECONOMY OF SINGLE-INDUSTRY TOWNS AS A WAY OUT OF THE CRISIS by A. B. Korzhuk, T. V. Frolova, T. P. Dorofeeva

“…A set of proposed actions may diversify the economy of these cities, to replenish the local budgets with taxes and create new jobs.…”
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South-hemispheric marine aerosol Hg and S isotope compositions reveal different oxidation pathways by AuYang David, Chen Jiubin, Zheng Wang, Zhang Yanxu, Shi Guitao, Sonke Jeroen E., Cartigny Pierre, Cai Hongming, Yuan Wei, Liu Liangzhi, Gai Pengxue, Liu Congqiang

“…Our results open a new window to better quantify the present-day atmospheric Hg, S and N budgets and to evaluate the influences of aerosols on climate and ecosystems once the isotopic fractionations associated with each process have been determined.…”
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Paul Lazarsfeld's Contributions to the History of Empirical Social Research by Hynek Jeřábek

“…Building on his belief that quantification does not need numbers, he showed that Hermann Conring, with his “classificatory statistics,” had predated Frédéric Le Play and his “ family budgets” and Adolphe Quételet and his “probability statistics” by almost two centuries. …”
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Problematic in The Civil Decision Execution Process in Indonesia in Order to Realize Court Excellence by Ahyar Ari Gayo

“…This study found that the main causes of delays in the execution of court decisions that already have permanent legal force include limited executors, limited budgets, opposition by other people or third parties, and judicial review of court decisions. …”
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The Reality of Media Education in The Palestinian Universities in light of the Implementation of the Comprehensive Assessment. applied on the media departments in the Palestinian u... by Ahmed abo alsaid

“…In addition to the obstacles that face the media education in Palestine represented in the lack of a system to control the assessment in the Palestinian universities, the lack of budgets for media departments and the unavailability of a clear policy for admission. …”
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LOCAL POLISH SELF-GOVERNMENTS AGAINST THE CHALLENGES CREATED BY THE RISK OF NON-FINANCIAL FACTORS (ESG) by Magdalena Zioło, Katarzyna Wójtowicz

“…Attention was paid to the adjustment mechanism and actions taken by the local government in Poland to reduce the negative impact of ESG risk on the activity of local government units and the stability of their budgets. The issues of the impact of EU regulations relating to “low-emission” and affecting public transport were presented, as well as the problems related to activities for the energy transformation or the fight against smog. …”
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Reporting gaps in immunization costing studies: Recommendations for improving the practice by Kelsey Vaughan, Annette Ozaltin, Flavia Moi, Ulla Kou Griffiths, Michaela Mallow, Logan Brenzel

“…Reporting that adheres to this checklist will improve the comprehension and interpretability of evidence, increasing the likelihood that costing studies are understood and can be used for resource mobilization and allocation, planning and budgeting, and policy decisions.…”
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AHP-Systems Thinking Analyses for Kaizen Costing Implementation in the Construction Industry by Temitope Omotayo, Bankole Awuzie, Temitope Egbelakin, Lovelin Obi, Mercy Ogunnusi

“…Seven (7) archetypes leading to final causal loop diagram identified the incorporation of the plan–do–check–act approach to project and cost planning, the budgeting system of the construction companies, overhead cost reduction during construction and the overall procurement process. …”
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Continuing Medical Education in the Post COVID-19 Pandemic Era by Debra Blomberg, Christopher Stephenson, Teresa Atkinson, Anissa Blanshan, Daniel Cabrera, John T Ratelle, Arya B Mohabbat

“…Recommendations regarding various aspects of CME development are covered, including competitive assessment, marketing, budgeting, property sourcing, program development, and speaker and topic selection. …”
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Advances in Land–Ocean Heat Fluxes Using Remote Sensing by Yunjun Yao, Xiaotong Zhang, Gad Levy, Kun Jia, Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

“…This Special Issue intends to help scientists involved in global change research and practices better comprehend the strengths and disadvantages of the application of remote sensing for monitoring surface energy, water, and carbon budgets. The studies published in this Special Issue can be applied by natural resource management communities to enhance the characterization and assessment of land–ocean biophysical variables, as well as for more accurately partitioning heat flux into soil and vegetation based on the existing and forthcoming remote sensing data.…”
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