Rethinking the 'Spetctrum of Luxury': Roman jewellery from the Bay of Naples by Courtney A. Ward

“…Undoubtedly there was a market for comparable forms of jewellery for women from different socio-economic backgrounds to display similar aspects of their identities but within their own budgets (e.g., young, (presumably) married mothers-to-be). …”
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Public Communication and the Barriers to Participation: The Case of Rome from an Open Government Perspective by Emiliana De Blasio, Cecilia Colasanti, Donatella Selva

“…Particular refe-rence is made to three case studies: the Forum of Innovation, participatory budgeting and the Punti Roma Facile (distri-buted internet points). …”
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A Home for Life? A Critical Perspective on Housing Choice for “Downsizers” in the UK by Park Adam, Ziegler Friederike

“…This outlook also highlights the economic benefits of downsizing to “age-appropriate” housing, particularly in relation to potential savings for health and social care budgets. Drawing upon participatory research with older people in the city of Sheffield, UK, this paper critiques current practices and discourses around the commissioning, design, and management of purpose-built retirement housing. …”
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PUBLIC WAGE BILL, DEBT CONSTRAINTS, AND SERVICE DELIVERY COMPETITION FOR LIMITED PUBLIC FUNDS: SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT by Xolani Thusi, Nokukhanya N. Jili

“…The National Treasury, together with the Provincial Treasurers, are the custodians of public finances and they are responsible for budgeting for the national and provincial government departments. …”
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Branching <i>Lithophyllum</i> Coralline Algae: Dominant Reef Builders on Herbivory-Depressed Tropical Reefs after High Coral Mortality by Tom Schils

“…The ecological impacts of coral reef transitions towards increased coralline cover are unclear. Whereas carbonate budgets and reef growth could remain positive in the long term, the downstream effect of changes in structural complexity, (micro)habitat diversity, and benthic community composition on ecological processes and reef-associated faunal assemblages is unknown.…”
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Riding High in the Saddle: African American Subversion in the 1930s Western by Susan Savage Lee

“…It was also cheap to produce, a boon for screenwriters and directors like Williams with limited budgets. By adopting a popular genre like the western, Williams brought minority perspectives to the silver screen during a period when these perspectives were often met with hostility or completely ignored within mainstream culture. …”
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Using Cascaded and Interlocking Generic System Archetypes to Communicate Policy Insights—The Case for Justifying Integrated Health Care Systems in Terms of Reducing Hospital Conges... by Eric Frank Wolstenholme

“…The premise of this paper is that the benefits to health of assisting Social Care could also reduce a number of serious indirect costs and provide wide-ranging benefits to hospital patients, staff and budgets. This is accomplished by reducing the congestion arising from the use of many painful internal coping strategies and unintended consequences, which hospitals have to resort to when constrained by a lack of discharge solutions. …”
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Cost of nosocomial pneumonia: the example of vancomycin versus linezolid—shorter stay or fewer complications? by Jordi Rello, Cao Bin

“…However, where hospital reimbursement is based on closed budgets, the paradox is that treating more patients due to reductions in length of stay may not be attractive to administrators, because the cost of discharging patients earlier is not compensated by the increase in severity in replacing stays of newer patient admissions. …”
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Tax abuse—The potential for the Sustainable Development Goals by Bernadette A. M. O’Hare, Marisol J. Lopez, Bernadetta Mazimbe, Stuart Murray, Nicholas Spencer, Chris Torrie, Stephen Hall

“…However, governments in low and lower-middle-income countries have small budgets, and tax abuse (avoidance and evasion) contributes to revenue leaks. …”
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Factors and Areas of PgMO Supporting the Success of the Program Management in the Construction Sector by Mateusz Trzeciak

“…Furthermore, statistical analysis revealed five areas where PgMO can support program success: maintaining program governance, program initiation, program planning and budgeting, stakeholder and relationship management, and requirements and knowledge management resulting from program implementation. …”
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Comparative experience of social support for the population in the context of the EAEU during the global pandemic by N. S. Sabyr, N. A. Abilkaiyr

“…The need to provide support measures for the population for a long time, due to the general situation with coronavirus in the world, puts significant pressure on the state budgets of countries and can lead to an increase in public debt and aggravation of general economic problems.…”
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Theoretical and Methodological Approaches of Studying the Image of China of 1931-1949 in USA Historiography by S. O. Buranok

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Le Québec élève-modèle du Canada dans le dossier des émissions de gaz à effet de serre : concours de circonstances ou l’exemple à suivre? by Sebastian Weissenberger

“…In the forthcoming Canadian plan for the implementation of the Kyoto objectives, Quebec should be credited for its lesser emissions and their increase rate and be compelled to follow a less steep emission reduction curve than other provinces with less advantageous GHG budgets.…”
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Project delivery performance: Insights from English roads major schemes by Paul Chapman

“…Typical cost performance was a 2.4% overrun with 42% of projects delivered on or under budgeted cost. The overall value of cost overruns was compensated for by the value of underruns so the net cumulative balance was below zero. …”
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Kelvin and Rossby Wave Contributions to the Mechanisms of the Madden–Julian Oscillation by Patrick Haertel

“…The contribution of each wave type to moisture and moist enthalpy budgets is assessed. While the vertical advection of moisture by the Kelvin wave accounts for most of the MJO’s precipitation, this wave also exports a large amount of dry static energy, so that in total, it reduces the column integrated moist enthalpy during periods of heavy precipitation. …”
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State Aid to the EU Economy before and after the Pandemic by Kondratieva, N.B.

“…The types of assistance are described, as well as the conditions under which it can be provided from state budgets according to the Temporary Anti-Crisis Program of the EU, put into effect in March 2022 in connection with Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine and allowing additional state subsidies. …”
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Conscience on Atomic Jobs: The Manufacturers of Nuclear War by Lucie Genay

“…Los Alamos and Pantex were both born in war and funded by the federal government on astronomical budgets; they have equally attracted the admiration and gratitude of nuclear deterrence supporters as the ire of peace advocates and antinuclear activists. …”
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Evaluation of the effect of using fiber reinforcement in tunnel linings for metro projects by Mücahit Namli

“…Metro projects require huge amounts of budgets to be built. Putting these projects into service in targeted time is of great importance. …”
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Opportunities in Jet-Impingement Cooling for Gas-Turbine Engines by Sandip Dutta, Prashant Singh

“…Any attempt to streamline the hole shape indicated a drop in the Nusselt number, thus giving the designer some control over thermal budgeting of a component. Reduction in crossflow has been attempted with channel modifications. …”
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BIM Management Measure for an Effective Green Building Project by Reuven Maskil-Leitan, Ury Gurevich, Iris Reychav

“…Comparing the BIM management measure results with social benefit assessments, and the effectiveness of BIM in nine case-studies enables to understand project outcomes in terms of schedules, budgets, and quality. The paper demonstrates the index applicability, pointing to possible significant economic improvements through the implementation of BIM social capabilities. …”
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