Quantifying episodic erosion and transient storage on the western margin of the Tibetan Plateau, upper Indus River by Jonell, T, Owen, L, Carter, A, Schwenninger, J, Clift, P

“…Transient storage and erosion of valley fills, or sediment buffering, is a fundamental but poorly quantified process that may significantly bias fluvial sediment budgets and marine archives used for paleoclimatic and tectonic reconstructions. …”

Innovative models of pension fund governance in the context of the global financial crisis. by Clark, G, Urwin, R

“…It is noted that the nature and scope of institutional response to a changing environment depends, in part, upon funds’ governance budgets, including time, expertise and common commitment. …”

Synchrony as an adaptive mechanism for large-scale human social bonding by Launay, J, Tarr, B, Dunbar, R

“…Given large group sizes and time budgeting constraints, grooming is not viable as the primary social bonding mechanism in humans. …”

Outsourcing in global software development: effects of temporal location and methodologies by Looi, M, Szepan, M

“…Development methodology appears to only influence higher costs and is not a significant determinant of success in outsourced software development, while structured methodologies can be more effective at keeping costs aligned to budgets. Thus, managers should have tempered expectations about the broad applicability of Agile methods to outsourced farshore projects, since Agile requires intense synchronous communication. …”

Road work ahead: the emerging revolution in the road construction industry by Stern, S, Flyvbjerg, B, Kirchherr, J, Budzier, A, Valtuena-Ramos, G, Agard, K, Reitz, F

“…<p>Road networks, on which governments around the world spend significant shares of their civil engineering budgets, are rightly considered the lifeline for modern and successful economies. …”

Committed emissions from existing and planned power plants and asset stranding required to meet the Paris Agreement by Pfeiffer, A, Hepburn, C, Vogt-Schilb, A, Caldecott, B

“…Here, we analyze the historic development of emission commitments from power plants and compare the emissions committed by current and planned plants with remaining carbon budgets. Based on this comparison we derive the likely amount of stranded assets that would be required to meet the 1.5 ◦C–2 ◦C global warming goal. …”

Estimating comparable English healthcare costs for multiple diseases and unrelated future costs for use in health and public health economic modelling by Briggs, A, Scarborough, P, Wolstenholme, J

“…</p><p> Methods: We use routine national datasets including programme budgeting data and cost curves from NHS England to estimate annual per person costs for diseases included in the PRIMEtime model as well as age and sex specific costs due to unrelated diseases.…”

Policies and new reforms to address the of the National Health Service and adult social care in England by Redding, SJ, Hobbs, FDR, Nicodemo, C, Siciliani, L, Wittenberg, R

“…</p> <p><strong>Findings:</strong> The NHS and ASC system have experienced tightening budgets and serious financial pressure, with historically low real-terms growth in health funding from central government and local authorities. …”

The rise of science in low-carbon energy technologies by Hötte, K, Pichler, A, Lafond, F

“…Successfully combating climate change will require substantial technological improvements in Low-Carbon Energy Technologies (LCETs), but designing efficient allocation of R&D budgets requires a better understanding of how LCETs rely on scientific knowledge. …”

Improving emergency department overcrowding in Malaysian government hospital by Wan Malissa Wan Mohd Aminuddin, Wan Rosmanira Ismail

“…We also present a novel mathematical equation for generating resources allocation alternatives based on the hospital budgets. The new configuration number of ED resources constructed in this study improved the system bottlenecks. …”
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MCDM for engineering education: literature review and research issues by Syed Hassan, Syed Ahmad Helmi, Shy, Ching Tan, Mohd. Yusof, Khairiyah

“…The purpose of this paper is to review the literature which focused in seven majors engineering education decision problems: resources allocation, performance measurement, budgeting, scheduling, planning, obtaining resources, and evaluation. …”

Building information model for drilling and blasting for tropically weathered rock by Bhatawdekar, R. M., Edy, M. T., Danial, J. A.

“…There are various computational techniques such as artificial neural network (ANN) where various drilling and blasting (KPI) can be predicted accurately for year-wise budgeting and during operation stage of mine. Tropically weathered rock is classified as fresh, slightly weathered, moderately weathered, highly weathered and completely weathered.…”

Trends and patterns of federal government spending in Malaysia by M. Mithani, Dawood, Hassan, Sallahuddin, Chik, Abdul Razak

“…The expenditure pattern and policy of the Malaysian government reveals its real concern for the social sector development and eradication of poverty, besides sound fiscal fundamentals contained in surplus budgets in recent years. Our study, however, suggests that economizing in government spending is more important than budgetary curtailment. …”
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The knowledge competency of civil engineers in construction industry by J., Izwan, I., Md Sayuti, Noram Irwan, Ramli

“…The weak management will cause problem at site such as the delay, over budgeting and so on. As a civil engineer that involve direct with the site activities, they need to master this knowledge to manage the project. …”
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Efficient Attention Mechanism for Dynamic Convolution in Lightweight Neural Network by Enjie Ding, Yuhao Cheng, Chengcheng Xiao, Zhongyu Liu, Wanli Yu

“…Light-weight convolutional neural networks (CNNs) suffer limited feature representation capabilities due to low computational budgets, resulting in degradation in performance. …”
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There are alternatives. Models for sustainable employment structures in the German system of higher education by Mathias Kuhnt, Peter Müßig, Tilman Reitz

“…By quantitative comparison with the current employment situation, our model calculation demonstrates that plannable career decisions can be enabled at an early stage without changing budgets or teaching duties. We also show that the counter argument of a “congestion” of positions is not substantiated, and that young scholars will still have the opportunity to start a career in the reformed system, while the total number of employees can be kept nearly constant.…”
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Photogrammetry, from the Land to the Sea and Beyond: A Unifying Approach to Study Terrestrial and Marine Environments by Torcuato Pulido Mantas, Camilla Roveta, Barbara Calcinai, Cristina Gioia di Camillo, Chiara Gambardella, Chiara Gregorin, Martina Coppari, Teo Marrocco, Stefania Puce, Agnese Riccardi, Carlo Cerrano

“…Only recently, thanks to the emergence of low-cost versatile imaging systems, have airborne and underwater photogrammetry became approachable to a wide range of research budgets, resulting in a popular cost-effective solution for many disciplines. …”
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The Project Manager’s Core Competencies in Smart Building Project Management by Alexsandro M. Rodrigues, Olubimbola Oladimeji, André L. A. Guedes, Christine K. Chinelli, Assed N. Haddad, Carlos A. P. Soares

“…They also showed that the most relevant competencies for managing smart buildings projects are technical competencies, leadership, communication, budgeting, attitudes toward risk, strategic management, organization, and specifying real requirements. …”
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What are the determinants of food security among regional and remote Western Australian children? by Stephanie L. Godrich, Christina R. Davies, Jill Darby, Amanda Devine

“…Food utilisation recommendations include prioritising food literacy programs focusing on quick, healthy food preparation and budgeting skills. Implications for public health: Policymakers should invest in local food supply options, equitable social support services and experiential food literacy programs. …”
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Time-dependent Photoionization Modeling of Warm Absorbers in Active Galactic Nuclei by Dev R Sadaula, Manuel A Bautista, Javier A García, Timothy R Kallman

“…Thus, the warm absorber mass and energy budgets are of great interest. Estimates for these properties depend on models that connect the observed strengths of the absorption features with the density, composition, and ionization state of the absorbing gas. …”
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