Rice Breeding in Vietnam: Retrospects, Challenges and Prospects by Tran Dang Khanh, Vu Xuan Duong, Phi Cong Nguyen, Tran Dang Xuan, Nguyen Thanh Trung, Khuat Huu Trung, Dong Huy Gioi, Nguyen Huy Hoang, Hoang-Dung Tran, Do Minh Trung, Bui Thi Thu Huong

“…Therefore, rice breeding in this country is faced with big challenges, including limitations of backgrounds, budgets, and even talents in basic research to compete with other rice-producing countries. …”
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Prescribed Fire in UK Heather-Dominated Blanket Bog Peatlands: A Critical Review of “Carbon Storage and Sequestration by Habitat: A Review of the Evidence (Second Edition)” by Greg... by Andreas Heinemeyer, Mark A. Ashby

“…Another concern is their misrepresentation of evidence relating to prescribed burning impacts on blanket bog ecosystems and carbon budgets. We highlight these issues by focusing on the relevant peatland sections within the review by Gregg et al. and conclude by making a series of recommendations to improve the review’s scientific robustness and, thereby, its value to academics, land managers and policymakers.…”
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Examination of the Accounting Education Expectation Gap as a Result of the Current Legal Requirements by Fatemeh Tavasoli, Mohammad Ali Bagherpour Valashani, Mohammad Javade Saee

“…It has three parts including: internal control system, operational auditing, and operational budgeting in the form of 63 propositions. Respondents’ opinion on the level of significance, meeting the needs of the profession by the university, and education periods of the mentioned parts were investigated using this questionnaire. …”
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Karstification in the Cuddapah Sedimentary Basin, Southern India: Implications for Groundwater Resources by Farooq Ahmad Dar, Jerome Perrin, Jean Riotte, Herbert Daniel Gebauer, Allu Chinna Narayana, Ahmed Shakeel

“…The karstic nature of these carbonate units need to be integrated in future research and development programmes to avoid practices that may lead to unexpected collapses, reservoir leaks, inaccurate groundwater budgeting, etc.…”
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Shoreline change rates and land to sea sediment and soil organic carbon transfer in eastern Parry Peninsula from 1965 to 2020 (Amundsen Gulf, Canada) by Rodrigue Tanguy, Dustin Whalen, Gonçalo Prates, Gonçalo Vieira

“…As the Arctic is warming, permafrost coasts are eroding faster, threatening coastal communities, habitats, and altering sediment and nutrient budgets. The western Canadian Arctic is eroding at a rapid pace; however, little is known on changes occurring in the Amundsen Gulf area. …”
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A Benefit-Cost Analysis Decision Framework for Mitigation of Disease Transmission at the Wildlife–Livestock Interface by Stephanie A. Shwiff, Steven J. Sweeney, Julie L. Elser, Ryan S. Miller, Matthew L. Farnsworth, Pauline Nol, Steven S. Shwiff, Aaron M. Anderson

“…In the fiscal landscape of increased scrutiny and shrinking budgets, resource managers seek to maximize the benefits and minimize the costs of disease mitigation efforts. …”
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Recruitment of general practices: Is a standardised approach helpful in the involvement of healthcare professionals in research? by Allan Riis, Cathrine E Jensen, Helle T Maindal, Flemming Bro, Martin B Jensen

“…This can cause recruitment difficulties and thereby prolong the study period and inflate budgets. Solberg has identified seven R-factors as determinants for successfully recruiting healthcare professionals: relationships, reputation, requirements, rewards, reciprocity, resolution, and respect. …”
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A Learning Based Framework for Enhancing Physical Layer Security in Cooperative D2D Network by Noman Ahmad, Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu, Wali Ullah Khan

“…A power optimization problem is considered under the quality of service constraints in terms of minimum rate requirements at the receivers and maximum power budgets at the transmitters. The problem is a non-convex complex optimization. …”
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Navigating the Hidden Politics of Water Resource Bureaucracies in Indonesia: Mapping Issue-Elements and Alliances by Muhammad Alif K. Sahide, Micah R. Fisher, Nurul Hasfi, Emban Ibnurusyd Mas’ud, Ahsan Yunus, Fatwa Faturachmat, Siti Halimah Larekeng, Ahmad Maryudi

“…On the other hand, The Ministry of Public Works and Housing maintains its traditional mandate for managing river basins, wielding large budgets and networks to control information and determine project-related disbursements. …”
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REFLECTIONS ON THE ADAPTATION OF THE COBB-DOUGLAS FUNCTION TO WORK IN CIRCULAR ECONOMY STARTING WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A BIODIGESTER IN SÃO JOSÉ DOS PINHAIS by Eliana L. F. Hellvig, Thais H. S. Flores-Sahagun

“…Lastly, we showed the importance of public policies for sustainable development actions in cities and the need for transparency in municipal budgets to ensure the population’s access to information. …”
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The importance of sub-meter-scale snow roughness on conductive heat flux of Arctic sea ice by David Clemens-Sewall, Chris Polashenski, Don Perovich, Melinda Anne Webster

“…The conductive heat flux through the snow and ice is a critical component of the mass and energy budgets in the Arctic sea ice system. We use high horizontal resolution (3–15 cm) measurements of snow topography to explore the impacts of sub-meter-scale snow surface roughness on heat flux as simulated by the Finite Element method. …”
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Factors Affecting the Income Distribution in Iran: a Bayesian Econometric Approach by Mohsen Mehrara, Mojtaba Mohammdian

“…In addition, renovation of budgeting process and allocation of resources with aim to reduce rent-seeking opportunities and more privileges for low-income groups must be considered by policy makers.…”
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Comparative Analysis of TMPA and IMERG Precipitation Datasets in the Arid Environment of El-Qaa Plain, Sinai by Mona Morsy, Thomas Scholten, Silas Michaelides, Erik Borg, Youssef Sherief, Peter Dietrich

“…The replenishment of aquifers depends mainly on precipitation rates, which is of vital importance for determining water budgets in arid and semi-arid regions. El-Qaa Plain in the Sinai Peninsula is a region that experiences constant population growth. …”
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Soil Management and Microclimate Effects on Ecosystem Evapotranspiration of Winter Wheat–Soybean Cropping in Northern Alabama by Maheteme Gebremedhin, Jacob Brown, Ian Ries

“…Overall, our findings suggest total and seasonal precipitation distribution were major controlling factors in the partitioning of the energy and water budgets. This study provides evidence that changes in rainfall frequency and intensity in the SE will likely alter the regional croplands hydrology with implications on water resource management decisions in rainfed agriculture.…”
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Impact of Application Characteristics on Laser Energy Fluctuation in Integrated Photonic Switching Systems by Kang Wang, Huaxi Gu, Yintang Yang, Kun Wang, Yue Wang

“…Laser energy cost is one of the primary energy budgets in integrated photonic switching systems. …”
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Economic Evaluation of the Management of Municipal Firms at the Level of Rural Local Self-Governments (Case Study) by Peter Ágh, Roman Vavrek, Marek Dvořák, Viera Papcunová

“…Revenues from business activities form an important part of the revenue of local self-government budgets. The aim of this paper was an economic evaluation of the management of municipal firms at the level of rural local self-governments in the conditions of the Slovak Republic on the basis of selected economic indicators. …”
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A stochastic approach for quantifying immigrant integration: the Spanish test case by Elena Agliari, Adriano Barra, Pierluigi Contucci, Richard Sandell, Cecilia Vernia

“…Thus, by recognizing the importance of local fluctuations around national means, this research constitutes an important tool to assess the impact of immigration phenomena on municipal budgets and to set up solid multi-ethnic plans at the municipal level as immigration pressures build.…”
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'Best buys' for surgery in South Africa by T Wilkinson, M Smith, A Kinghorn, K J Hofman

“…As the needs, health system context and available budgets in each country will be different, a critical component of effective local scale-up of surgical interventions will be to use tools and processes of health technology assessment (HTA). …”
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Risk Identification and Prioritization in Public-Private Partnership Water Transfer Projects (Case Study: Water Transfer Project to Safadasht Lands) by Yaser Goldust, Saeid Sadeghi Darvazeh, Mojtaba Salehdoost, Ali Zavareh Hesari

“…In the face of growing water demand and insufficient public budgets in developing countries, public-private partnerships play an important role in infrastructure development, such as water supply and transmission. …”
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Assessment of diphenhydramine toxicity – Is its mode of action conserved between human and zebrafish? by Angela Barreto, Joana Santos, Ana Capitão, Rodrigo Eusébio, Évila Pinheiro Damasceno, Ana Luísa Machado, Luciana S. Rocha, Vânia Calisto, Mónica J.B. Amorim, Vera L. Maria

“…Moreover, the straightforward movements decrease and the increase in the zigzag movements or movements with direction changes, shown an erratic swimming behavior. Energy budgets decreased for lipid (0.01 mg/L DPH) and carbohydrate (10 mg/L DPH) contents. …”
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