Performance Assessment System to Wastewater Utilities Strategic Planning by Maria do Céu Almeida, Rita Salgado Brito, Catarina Jorge, Maria Adriana Cardoso

“…Urban water utilities face growing challenges in compliance with increasingly demanding legislation, tightening budgets, ageing personnel, decreasing infrastructure reliability, increasing operational costs, regulatory pressure, and climate change. …”
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Optimizing Hospital Waste Management through Fly Trap Technology: A Cost and Potential Problem Analysis by Agistya Rizza Subagyo, Vionna Chantika Salsabilla, Irma Juliana Samantha, Muhammad Faisal Irham, Muhammad Rapika, Mega Mutiara Sari, I Wayan Koko Suryawan

“…This study consisted of three stages: budgeting, calculating the Kepner-Tregoe Situation Appraisal (KTSA), and the Kepner-Tregoe Potential Problem Analysis (KTPPA). …”
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The Ratio and Predictor Factors of Inappropriate and Unnecessary Use of Emergency Department Services by Mohamad Kasnavieh, Mahsa Mahmoudinejad, Mohamad Veisy, Shadi Mousavi, Ali Tahmasebi

“… Introduction: Provision of unnecessary medical services is one of the problems that have driven up health care budgets. The condition of Emergency department and sometimes patients 'unreasonable expectations may lead to ED staff burnout and increase the provision of unnecessary services. …”
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Systematic Evaluation of Different Fresh Cow Monitoring Procedures by Felix König, Andrew Hancock, Christian Wunderlich, Marcus Klawitter, Thomas Breuer, Anne Simoni, Karina Weimar, Marc Drillich, Michael Iwersen

“…This study provides information that can be used as a basis for the development of time-efficient strategies, and to minimize the impact on cows’ time budgets.…”
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Analysis of the military-economic potential of some countries of the world by Микола Ткач, Іван Ткач

“…In the context of increasing tension in relations between the states, of the world there is an increase in their defense budgets and the increase in the number of new weapons and military equipment systems and their evolutionary development. …”
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Breast Cancer and the Other Non-Coding RNAs by Dana Dvorská, Dušan Braný, Marcela Ňachajová, Erika Halašová, Zuzana Danková

“…While its impact on human lives and national health budgets is still rising in almost all global areas, many molecular mechanisms affecting its onset and development remain unclear. …”
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Interlayer Investigations of GaN Heterostructures Integrated into Silicon Substrates by Surface Activated Bonding by Shi Zhou, Shun Wan, Bo Zou, Yanping Yang, Huarui Sun, Yan Zhou, Jianbo Liang

“…Thinning the buffer layer thickness between the GaN epilayer and Si substrate without introducing large residual stress is persistently desired for GaN-on-Si devices to promote their thermal budgets and low-cost, multifunctional applications. …”
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Higher Education in Light of Covid-19 Pandemic: The Role of Educational Technology by Mohammed Mispah Said Omar, Abdelghani Echchabi, Abdullah Mohammed Ayedh, Salim AlHajri

“…Moreover, HEIs are highly advised to re-think about their budgets allocations and re-adjust them based on the experience and outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic.…”
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ANALISIS BIOPOLITIK DAN KONTROL POPULASI PENDUDUK MELALUI PROGRAM KELUARGA BERENCANA DI KOTA SAMARINDA by Muhammad Najeri Al Syahrin, Mochamad Dziqie Aulia Al Farauqi, Sri Wahyuni Jamal

“…In Samarinda, the government has synergized policies and budgets at all level of government, in the form of activities and programs for the establishment of Keluarga Berencana village, decreased the fertility rate, increased number of contraceptive prevalence rate, cooperation and coordination with the Provincial BKKBN and the ministry of health, as well as increasing the quality and quantity of PLKB/PKB, involving Babinsa Koramil and providing free Keluarga Berencana program activities. …”
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Long-Term Programs as Instruments for the Effective Management of Public Finances: Fact or Myth? by Marta Postuła, Anna Kawarska

“…The sudden importance of long-term financial planning (budgeting) occurred in Poland along with its accession to the European Union. …”
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Incentive Mechanism Based on Multi-constrained Worker Selection in Mobile Crowdsourcing by FU Yan-ming, ZHU Jie-fu, JIANG Kan, HUANG Bao-hua, MENG Qing-wen, ZHOU Xing

“…With the rapid development of mobile crowdsourcing,crowdsourcing programs in the market have sprung up.They distribute tasks and use the power of the crowd to perform the tasks for collecting data and an effective incentive mechanism in mobile crowdsourcing becomes very important.However,the existing incentive mechanisms nowadays partially consider the reputation value,location and execution time of workers,which makes it difficult for crowdsourcing platform to select high-quality workers and assign multiple tasks on limited budgets or other constraints.To solve the above problems,this paper proposes an incentive mechanism on the basis of the multi-constrained worker selection (MSIM),which relies on two related algorithms.One is the algorithm of worker selection based on improved reverse auction model,which comprehensively considers many important limitations to select great workers to perform the tasks,such as worker reputation,geographical location,task completion degree and result quality.The other is the algorithm of reward and punishment by evaluation,which contains the evaluation of task-perceiving results and workers' reputation.The experimental results showed that not only can MSIM select excellent workers,but also it improved the credibility of the task results and the reputation of workers.It is proved within this paper that the MSIM is an effective incentive mechanism.…”
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Automated Water Quality Survey and Evaluation Using an IoT Platform with Mobile Sensor Nodes by Teng Li, Min Xia, Jiahong Chen, Yuanjie Zhao, Clarence de Silva

“…A survey planner is proposed to distribute the Sampling Locations of Interest (SLoIs) over the study area and generate paths for MSNs to visit the SLoIs, given the limited energy and time budgets. The SLoIs are chosen based on a cellular decomposition that is composed of uniform hexagonal cells. …”
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High methane emissions from an anoxic fjord driven by mixing and oxygenation by Stefano Bonaglia, Tobias Rütting, Mikhail Kononets, Anders Stigebrandt, Isaac R. Santos, Per O. J. Hall

“…Abstract Oceanic methane (CH4) budgets lack data from high‐latitude fjords that often behave as intermittently anoxic ecosystems with potentially high methane emissions. …”
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Contribution of water-limited ecoregions to their own supply of rainfall by Diego G Miralles, Raquel Nieto, Nathan G McDowell, Wouter A Dorigo, Niko EC Verhoest, Yi Y Liu, Adriaan J Teuling, A Johannes Dolman, Stephen P Good, Luis Gimeno

“…This limits the predictability of global carbon and water budgets, and hinders the regional management of natural resources. …”
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Carbon dioxide reduction by photosynthesis undetectable even during phytoplankton blooms in two lakes by Karla Münzner, Silke Langenheder, Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer, Bianka Csitári, Eva S. Lindström

“…These results advance our understanding of carbon cycling in lakes and highlight the importance of detailed lake studies for more precise estimates of local, regional and global carbon budgets.…”
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Low probability of intercept‐based cooperative node selection and transmit resource allocation for multi‐target tracking in multiple radars architecture by Lintao Ding, Chenguang Shi, Fei Wang, Jianjiang Zhou

“…The key idea of the proposed CNS‐TRA strategy is to coordinate the radar node selection and the transmit resource that is, dwell time, transmit power, and effective bandwidth allocation to improve the LPI performance, under the constraints of predefined target tracking accuracy requirement and several resource budgets. By incorporating the above controllable parameters, the Bayesian Cramér‐Rao lower bound is calculated and used as the accuracy metric for target tracking. …”
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Potential strategies for supporting mental health and mitigating the risk of burnout among healthcare professionals: insights from the COVID-19 pandemic by George Collett, Ania Korszun, Ajay K. Gupta

“…Summary: Healthcare professionals (HCPs) experienced prolonged stressful conditions during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, and the global situation (particularly in the United Kingdom) meant that they continue to sustain mental stress related to the subsequent cost-of-living and healthcare budgeting crises. The psychological toll on HCPs may lead to increased staff attrition, adversely impacting the quality of patient care and work security. …”
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Using Stable Isotope Analyses to Assess the Trophic Ecology of Scleractinian Corals by Michael P. Lesser, Marc Slattery, Keir J. Macartney

“…These approaches have provided critical insights into the trophic sources and sinks that are essential to understanding larger-scale carbon and nitrogen budgets on coral reefs. While stable isotopes have identified most shallow water (<30 m) corals as mixotrophic, with variable dependencies on autotrophic versus heterotrophic resources, corals in the mesophotic zone (~30–150 m) transition to heterotrophy with increasing depth because of decreased photosynthetic productivity. …”
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Deep Learning Model Transposition for Network Intrusion Detection Systems by João Figueiredo, Carlos Serrão, Ana Maria de Almeida

“…This often results in a wider attack surface that may be exposed to exploitation from adversaries. As budgets are thin, one of the most popular security solutions CISOs choose to invest in is Network-based Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS). …”
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Differential Privacy Based Fingerprinting Obfuscation Mechanism Towards NetworkReconnaissance Deception by HE Yuan, XING Chang-you, ZHANG Guo-min, SONG Li-hua, YU Hang

“…Network fingerprinting detection is an important network reconnaissance method,which can be used by attackers to obtain the fingerprinting characteristics of the target network,and then provide support for subsequent targeted attacks.Fingerprinting obfuscation technology enables attackers to form fake fingerprinting views by actively modifying the fingerprinting features in response packets.However,existing obfuscation methods are still insufficient in dealing with attackers’ strategic detection and analysis.To this end,a differential privacy based fingerprinting obfuscation mechanism(DPOF) towards network reconnaissance deception is proposed.Taking the idea of data privacy protection as a reference,DPOF first establishes a utility-driven differential privacy fingerprinting obfuscation model,and calculates the obfuscation probability of fake fingerprints with different utilities through the differential privacy exponential mechanism.On this basis,a fingerprinting obfuscation decision method under resource constraint is further designed,and an obfuscation strategy solving algorithm based on particle swarm optimization is implemented.Simulation results show that compared with the existing typical fingerprinting obfuscation methods,DPOF has better fingerprinting obfuscation effect with different problem scales and budgets,and can obtain a better approximate optimal strategy at a faster speed.…”
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