Disaster Preparedness and Safety School as a Conceptual Framework of Comprehensive School Safety by Evi Widowati, Herry Koesyanto, Wahyudi Istiono, Adi Heru Sutomo, Sugiharto

“…This study identified 23 key indicators, namely: commitment, policy and regulation, planning, budgeting, risk assessment, teamwork, coordination, standard operating procedure, technical guideline, monitoring and evaluation, resource mobilization, infrastructures, information system, assembly points, safe zones, sister schools, curriculum integration, integration to learning activities, simulation training programs, trained teachers, dissemination of information, student cadres, and safety competition. …”
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Primary health care in China: A decade of development after the 2009 health care reform by You Wu, Zeyu Zhang, Ning Zhao, Yue Yan, Lina Zhao, Qi Song, Rong Ma, Changfeng Li, Jinyi Li, Suibin Liu, Xinran Bi, Zongjiu Zhang

“…The main results include: the solid national policy foundation, increasing number of PHC institutions and workforce, better training of PHC professionals, major achievements in primary health indicators, government financial support to PHC institutions, improved PHC budgeting and insurance coverage, and the advancement of supporting technologies. …”
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Biophysical permafrost map indicates ecosystem processes dominate permafrost stability in the Northern Hemisphere by Youhua Ran, M Torre Jorgenson, Xin Li, Huijun Jin, Tonghua Wu, Ren Li, Guodong Cheng

“…The stability of permafrost is of fundamental importance to socio-economic well-being and ecological services, involving broad impacts to hydrological cycling, global budgets of greenhouse gases and infrastructure safety. …”
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A buyers’ club to improve access to hepatitis C treatment for vulnerable populations by Nathalie Vernaz, Alexandra Calmy, Samia Hurst, Yves Jackson, Francesco Negro, Arnaud Perrier, Hans Wolff

“…However, due to the high cost of DAAs, this recommendation has put significant pressure on the budgets of countries with mandatory health insurance, such as Switzerland. …”
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Global distribution of surface soil organic carbon in urban greenspaces by Hongbo Guo, Enzai Du, César Terrer, Robert B. Jackson

“…The global distribution and stock of soil organic carbon (SOC) in urban greenspaces remain largely undescribed and missing in global carbon (C) budgets. Here, we synthesize data of 420 observations from 257 cities in 52 countries to evaluate the global pattern of surface SOC density (0–20 cm depth) in urban greenspaces. …”
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Hexagonal Convolutional Neural Networks for Hexagonal Grids by Junren Luo, Wanpeng Zhang, Jiongming Su, Fengtao Xiang

“…The experimental results verify the practical applicability of the HexagonNet given some fixed parameter budgets.…”
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Assessing Risk Factors Affecting the Accuracy of Conceptual Cost Estimation in the Middle East by Mohamed Abdel-Monem, Kareem Tarek Alshaer, Karim El-Dash

“…This usually causes the late completion of projects, surpassing their estimated budgets even without achieving the desired quality and operational requirements. …”
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Eighteen years of upland grassland carbon flux data: reference datasets, processing, and gap-filling procedure by Bruna R. Winck, Juliette M. G. Bloor, Katja Klumpp

“…Abstract Plant-atmosphere exchange fluxes of CO2 measured with the Eddy covariance method are used extensively for the assessment of ecosystem carbon budgets worldwide. The present paper describes eddy flux measurements for a managed upland grassland in Central France studied over two decades (2003–2021). …”
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Economic Impact of Investment Scenarios in the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System by Furkan Oztanriseven, Heather Nachtmann, Samareh Moradpour

“…The McClellan–Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System (MKARNS) is challenged by an aging infrastructure and by limited maintenance budgets, all of which cause transportation delays. …”
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Knowledge Management in the Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities in Brazil by Ricardo Bastos Smith, Tereza Cristina Salvetti, Ana Paula Gimenes Tessaro, Júlio Takehiro Marumo, Roberto Vicente

“…Because of a number of interests, including financial and/or budgeting situations at the institutions, decades have passed without any further action, and the people who withold information and knowledge about these facilities have already moved away from the area or are in the process of. …”
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Restorative Practices in Institutional Settings: The Challenges of Contractualised Support within the Managed Community of Supported Housing by Jonathan Hobson, Brian Payne, Kenneth Lynch, Darren Hyde

“…Supported housing services provide help to some of the most vulnerable in society, yet across the world face increasing pressures from residualisation in the form of service reduction and stretched budgets. In response to these challenges, providers of supported housing and other similar community-focused services have sought alternative and innovative methods of engagement. …”
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Designing a computarized mathematical model corrosion costs by Matilde de Romero, Bertila Aponte, Silagdy Arias, Francisca de Garcíal, Oladis de Rincón, Oswaldo Larreal

“…The need therefore arises for segregating these costs so as to be able to determine not only how much industry invests with respect to this problem but also how it impacts its budgets and the losses sustained as a function of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). …”
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Increasing the Utilization of Transmission Lines Capacity by Quasi-Dynamic Thermal Ratings by Fan Song, Yanling Wang, Hongbo Yan, Xiaofeng Zhou, Zhiqiang Niu

“…The power grid is under pressure to maintain a reliable supply because of constrained budgets and environmental policies. In order to effectively make use of existing transmission lines, it is important to accurately evaluate the line capacity. …”
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Sequential capital investment decision making under extreme cash fl ow situations: evidence using Monte Carlo simulation by Wenqing Zhang, Prasad Padmanabhan, Chia-Hsing Huang

“…This paper presents a Monte Carlo simulation based model to provide policy insights on how to incorporate extreme cash flows and manager irrationality scenarios into the capital budgeting process. This paper presents evidence that firms with irrational managers and experiencing extremely negative cash flows may, under certain conditions, reap long term rewards associated with the acceptance of negative Net Present Value projects in the short term. …”
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Energy-Neutral Operation Based on Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer for Wireless Powered Sensor Networks by Hyun-Ho Choi, Jung-Ryun Lee

“…In this hierarchical wireless powered sensor network (WPSN), sensor nodes with high harvesting energies and good link budgets have energy remaining after sending their data to the cluster head (CH), whereas the CH suffers from energy scarcity. …”
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Valorization of recycled wastes in pavement preventive maintenance: A review on reclaimed asphalt pavement and recycled waste tire by Xia Chen, Qiuping Li, Taiwo Sesay, Qinglong You, Ekeoma Bridget Chineche

“…However, it imposes significant costs in annual road infrastructure budgets because it requires high-quality and natural material resources. …”
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Involvement and Design of Strengthening Policy Actors in Tsunami Disaster Risk Governance in Padang City by Zikri Alhadi, Ory Riandini, Karjuni Dt. Maani

“…Local governments are involved in strengthening budgeting, coordination, and partnerships as the leading sector in disaster governance. …”
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Introducing a data-driven approach to predict site-specific leading-edge erosion from mesoscale weather simulations by J. Visbech, T. Göçmen, C. B. Hasager, H. Shkalov, M. Handberg, K. P. Nielsen

“…The model output fits directly into the damage terminology used by industry and can therefore support site-specific planning and scheduling of repairs as well as budgeting of operation and maintenance costs.</p>…”
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Uso de técnicas alternativas para captação, infiltração e reuso de águas: estudo de caso em Cajazeiras (PB) by Luanda Maria Sousa da Silva, Nataely Pereira da Silva, Tássia dos Anjos Tenório de Melo, Katharine Taveira de Brito Medeiros

“…Researchers may carry out future studies on the topic with the purpose of assessing and budgeting the suggested techniques.…”
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Representing nighttime and minimum conductance in CLM4.5: global hydrology and carbon sensitivity analysis using observational constraints by D. L. Lombardozzi, M. J. B. Zeppel, R. A. Fisher, A. Tawfik

“…Here, we test the sensitivity of carbon and water budgets in a global land-surface model, the Community Land Model (CLM) version 4.5, to three different methods of incorporating observed nighttime stomatal conductance values. …”
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