Uncertainty quantification and reduction in the characterization of subsurface stratigraphy using limited geotechnical investigation data by Xiangrong Wang

“…However, in practice it is impossible to identify the stratigraphy of a subsurface geological domain with absolute certainty, due to the limitations imposed by geotechnical investigation techniques and project budgets. This paper presents a subsurface stratigraphic modeling and uncertainty quantification approach, which is established based on an improved and extended geological modeling technique previously established by the author and others, for simulating the stratigraphy of both two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) cases with more complex geological features. …”
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Understanding Megaproject Success beyond the Project Close-Out Stage by Johan Fahri, Christopher Biesenthal, Julien Pollack, Shankar Sankaran

“…This is of particular concern in megaprojects as they often attract a high level of public attention and political interest, and have both direct and indirect impacts on the community, environment, and national budgets. In this paper the authors review success factors and criteria that are applicable to projects in general and megaprojects in particular. …”
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Narratives of Social Mobility in the Post-Industrial Working Class and the Use of Credit in Chilean Households by Alejandro Marambio-Tapia

“…It has become a valuable asset for achieving the goal of providing a « decent life » and is at the core of the lower-income groups’ purchasing and budgeting practices. I will argue that this empirical method shows how the financialisation of household economies is more than a unidirectional process and that household arrangements, particularly moral ones, influence the use of credit and everyday economic behaviour. …”
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Multicriterial Hierarchy Methods Applied in Consumption Demand Analysis. The Case of Romania by Constantin Bob

“…The source for data we used in the present paper is an statistical investigation organized by the National Institute of Statistics, "Family budgets survey" that allows to collect information regarding the households composition, income, expenditure, consumption and other aspects of population living standard. …”
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The Need for F/LOSS (Governance) Operations by Andrew Back

“…The game has changed and innovation is no longer the reserve of software vendors with large development budgets. Software development is now enabled by open licenses that afford great freedoms and, in doing so, facilitate widespread collaboration. …”
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Konstruksi Berita Layanan Publik Dalam Program "Sumut Dalam Berita" TVRI Sumatera Utara by Feby Grace Adriany

“…TVRI also receive funds from local budgets for operations activities, (2) each level of the influence of media content starting from individual level to ideological level contributes to public service news production in ‘Sumut Dalam Berita.’ …”
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Ensuring Cash-Intensive Efficiency in The Village: Meta Frontier Analysis by Amanah Abdulkadir, Wendra Afriana, Harry Azis

“…This study found three factors that significantly affected inefficiency: the variable number of villages that had not budgeted for CFW ≥30%, the number of villages that had not reported CFW, and the CFW process status ≥ 30%. …”
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Determinants of Poverty in East Java Metropolitan Area in 2010-2016 by Nur Sakinah, Hary Pudjianto

“…We recommend to increase employment opportunities by promoting investment in regency and city around the area, increasing attention to the education problems like reducing the number of children dropped out from school, optimizing education budgets, promote education scholarships as well as improving the quality of health services, and establishing synergies between regency and city. …”
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Managing relationships between libraries and publishers for greater impact by Ann Rossiter

“…It also presents evidence for the impact of long-term trends in library spending, budgets and staffing to demonstrate why it is that university libraries, and their institutions, cannot afford to continue to pay above-inflation increases for ’big deal’ subscriptions, nor to pay twice for the same content in the form of hybrid journals. …”
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Eastern Indonesia Incorporated Policy Strategy in Eastern Indonesia by Teguh Narutomo

“…The main issues are grouped into three major groups of major issues, namely: Comprehensive Planning and Budgeting, Data and Information Effectiveness, and Professionalism of Civil State Apparatus. …”
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Enhancing The Role of A Managerial Accountant Through The Infusion of Islamic Values by Saerah Petra, Khairul Hidayatullah Basir

“…The know-how on processing costing analyses, budgeting, forecasting, production methods, or business risk management is processed to create value for business sustainability, performance, and organisational stakeholders. …”
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The fate of nitrogen of ammonium phosphate fertilizers: A blind spot by Andrew J. Margenot, Jeonggu Lee

“…The magnitude and fate of N co‐applied with P in ammonium phosphate fertilizers is a blind spot in agroecosystem N budgets and environmental footprints that necessitates quantification.…”
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Achieving Smart Energy Planning Objectives. The Approach of the Transform Project by Ilaria Delponte

“…In the first case their attempts at integrated plans are often unsuccessful in integrating vision, goals and instruments of all stakeholders so that waste, water, energy cycles, urban planning and budgets proceed with no connection to each other.  …”
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Academicians’ Views on the Contribution of International Academic Mobility for Professional Development (The USA Sample) by Aydin BALYER, Kenan OZCAN

“…It was determined that academicians expect project budgets to increase, strengthen workshops and develop laboratory infrastructures, and access to library databases. …”
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College 101: Strategies for First Year Success – A Program for High School Seniors by Brian Raison

“…Topics cover: Choosing Classes, Test Strategies, Social Scene Changes, Budgeting, Roommates, Safety, Talking with Professors, Time Management, and more. …”
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Evaluating grassland feed resource utilization by extensive livestock farming systems by Leif Jarle Asheim, Torbjørn Haukås, Synnøve Rivedal, Odd-Jarle Øvreås

“…The analysis followed an approach with sim­ple budgets and case studies. Low costs of concentrate feed and high meat prices favored intensive beef production, whereas the area and grazing premi­ums favored extensive steer and sheep systems, utilizing outlying and farmland pastures. …”
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Economic Efficiency and Distortions to Incentives in Production of Cotton and Rice Crops in Punjab by ABDUL SALAM, SADIA TUFAIL

“… The study based on crop budgets, for 2010-12 crops, was, inter alia, designed to examine economic efficiency and distortions in incentives to production of cotton and basmati rice, long grain aromatic rice, crops in Punjab. …”
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Pentaho Business Analytics: a Business Intelligence Open Source Alternative by Diana TÂRNĂVEANU

“…An Open Source Business Intelligence solution can be an option due to time-sensitive, sprawling requirements and tightening budgets. This paper presents a practical solution implemented in a suite of Open Source Business Intelligence products called Pentaho Business Analytics, which provides data integration, OLAP services, reporting, dashboarding, data mining and ETL capabilities. …”
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Ground-based FTIR measurements of CO from the Jungfraujoch: characterisation and comparison with in situ surface and MOPITT data by B. Barret, M. De Mazière, E. Mahieu

“…The characterisation of these profiles has been established by an information content analysis and an estimation of the error budgets. A partial validation of the profiles has been performed through comparisons with correlative measurements. …”
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Supported Decision-Making for People with Cognitive Impairments: An Australian Perspective? by Terry Carney

“…However, as comparatively routine social security or other government services become increasingly complex to navigate, and as self-managed or personalised budgets better recognise self-agency, any “off the shelf” measures become more difficult to craft and difficult to resource. …”
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