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Varieties of social investment policies on two sides of the Baltic Sea: Explaining routes to endurance
Published 2017“…The analysis revealed that two out of the six countries – Denmark and Lithuania – managed to increase or preserve the share of investment expenditures in their total welfare budgets. Stable economic growth and low government debt turned out to be necessary conditions regardless of the generosity of the welfare state. …”
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20602
Process evaluation of a research workshop and follow-up support to help practitioners from 13 weight management projects to carry out evaluations
Published 1999“…Aims: To help the projects develop focused and relevant research questions for their evaluations; to encourage the use of appropriate methods to answer these research questions; and to help the projects set realistic timetables and budgets. A 2-day seminar was held in Oxford and follow up support was available from the seminar tutors. …”
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20603
A study of behavioural responses of non-human primates to air transport and re-housing.
Published 2004“…Data were collected on individual time budgets using focal animal sampling and on hierarchy using a feeding trial. …”
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20604
Nickel isotopes in iron meteorites-nucleosynthetic anomalies in sulphides with no effects in metals and no trace of Fe-60
Published 2006“…Iron-60 decays to 60Ni with a half-life of 1.49 Myrs such that Ni isotopic studies of iron meteorites have the potential to provide powerful new constraints on the energy budgets and time-scales of planetesimal melting, differentiation and core formation. …”
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20605
The radiation hardness of specific multi-mode and single-mode optical fibres at -25°C beyond a full SLHC dose to a dose of 500 kGy(Si)
Published 2010“…Two SM fibres have been found whose total calculated RIAs were much lower than the budgeted 1 dB, despite the high dose rates used in the experiment. …”
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20606
Paying over the odds at the end of the fiscal year. Evidence from Ukraine
Published 2022“…<p>Governments are the largest buyers in most countries and they tend to operate budgets that expire at the end of the fiscal year. …”
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20607
Health and environmental co-benefits and conflicts of actions to meet UK carbon targets
Published 2015“…This article presents the first quantitative review of the wider impacts on health and the environment likely to arise from action to meet the UK's legally-binding carbon budgets. Impacts were assessed for climate measures directed at power generation, energy use in buildings, and industry, transport, and agriculture. …”
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20608
Project delivery performance: insights from English roads major schemes
Published 2024“…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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20609
Modeling the Biogeography of Fossil Baboons
Published 2012“…The model is based on the way climate affects the baboons' time budgets, and focuses on intersite variability in behavior rather than on species-typical patterns of behavior, as most previous approaches have done. …”
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Halogens in igneous processes and their fluxes to the atmosphere and oceans from volcanic activity: a review
Published 2009“…Arc-related volcanic emissions of halogens dominates the global halogen degassing budgets. Our current best estimates of halogen degassing fluxes from arc volcanoes are 4.3 (±1) Tg/a (HCl), 0.5 (±0.2) Tg/a (HF), 5 – 15 Gg/a (HBr) and 0.5 – 2 Gg/a (HI).…”
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Bringing morality back in: accounting as moral interlocutor in reflective equilibrium processes
Published 2024“…Traditional accounting practices, such as budgets and performance measurement systems, have been widely regarded as ‘crowding out morality’ by objectifying the people affected by a firm’s actions. …”
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20612
The theory-practice gap of project appraisals
Published 2008“…This paper is intended to examine the capital budgeting practices of listed companies in Malaysia. …”
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20613
Hybrid spacecraft attitude control systems
Published 2006“…An approach would be to enhance the capabilities of each existing sub-system without altering the overall mass and volume budgets as in the same level today. Recent technology advances have triggered an appreciable enthusiasm towards off-the-shelf spacecraft subsystem concepts. …”
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20614
Financial analysis of layer industry in Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
Published 2018“…The data is acquired by finding the costing analysis and capital budgeting analysis and run manually using Microsoft Excel. …”
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20615
Analyses of key management techniques for secure patient monitoring in wireless sensor network environment
Published 2010“…With an upward trend of population growth, especially elderly people and in view of expenditure budgets and limited staff, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) bring a number of significant improvements to healthcare application. …”
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20616
Construction risk management
Published 2000“…The main causes of the failure to achieve the budgeted cost, planned completion date and desired quality is due to uncertainties arise in the entire project life cycle. …”
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20617
Efektivitas Kinerja Klinik Pratama Badan Narkotika Nasional Provinsi Sumatera Utara dalam Merehabilitasi Rawat Jalan Pecandu Narkotika
Published 2019-01-01“…The existing barriers in the form of skimpy budgets, a lack of medical personnel and the lack of infrastructure repair facility.…”
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Identifying Green Infrastructure as a Basis for an Incentive Mechanism at the Municipality Level in Biscay (Basque Country)
Published 2018-01-01“…Local governments can play a crucial role in the conservation of GI, and a formal recognition of this role in budgeting systems would foster the inclusion of GI in their agenda. …”
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The greenway for bridge column rehabilitation: a comparison between different techniques based on multi-criteria decision analysis
Published 2022-11-01“…In fact, in Europe only 50% of concrete structures restorations are estimated to be successful, even though rehabilitation costs account for about half of the yearly construction budgets. This research aims at investigating a potential green approach to the sustainability of rehabilitation solutions for infrastructures. …”
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Prototyping in practice – Paths and partners for testing novel industrial product and service ideas
Published 2023-12-01“…Taken together, our results suggest that practitioner attention in prototyping may focus on latter development phases and demonstrate less iteration than what literature might suggest, with opportunities for prototyping highly dependent on personal networks in the high-technology context in the absence of flexible prototyping budgets. …”
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