Reusing Dredged Material through Stabilization with So-Called Bio-Enzyme Products by Saeed Rabbanifar, Thi Thuy Minh Nguyen, Qin Qian, Nicholas A. Brake, Kyle Kibodeaux, Harold E. Crochet, Soheil Oruji, Remington L. Whitt, Joshua S. Farrow, Brandon G. Belaire, Paul Bernazzani, Mien Jao

“…Exorbitant amounts of money are budgeted for the removal of dredged material (DM) and its disposal in landfills. …”
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Estimates of the Global Burden of COVID-19 and the Value of Broad and Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccines by Eleanor Bell, Simon Brassel, Edward Oliver, Hannah Schirrmacher, Sofie Arnetorp, Katja Berg, Duncan Darroch-Thompson, Paula Pohja-Hutchison, Bruce Mungall, Stuart Carroll, Maarten Postma, Lotte Steuten

“…Low-income countries allocated more than 30% of their healthcare budgets to COVID-19, compared to 8% in high-income countries. …”
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High-resolution airborne observations of sea-ice pressure ridge sail height by K. Duncan, S. L. Farrell, L. N. Connor, J. Richter-Menge, J. K. Hutchings, R. Dominguez

“…Pressure ridges impact the mass, energy and momentum budgets of the sea-ice cover and present an obstacle to transportation through ice-infested waters. …”
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Impact of urbanization on US surface climate by Lahouari Bounoua, Ping Zhang, Georgy Mostovoy, Kurtis Thome, Jeffrey Masek, Marc Imhoff, Marshall Shepherd, Dale Quattrochi, Joseph Santanello, Julie Silva, Robert Wolfe, Ally Mounirou Toure

“…With a small areal extent, urbanization has significant effects on surface energy, water and carbon budgets and reveals an uneven impact on surface climate that should inform upon policy options for improving urban growth including heat mitigation and carbon sequestration.…”
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Applications of Fuzzy Logic to Reconfigure Human Resource Management Practices for Promoting Product Innovation in Formal and Non-Formal R&D Firms by Tieng Kimseng, Amna Javed, Chawalit Jeenanunta, Youji Kohda

“…This leads us to investigate the configurations of internal HRM practices and supply chain collaborations that help firms to achieve high levels of product innovation or cause firms to achieve low levels of product innovation in formal R&D firms—firms which have actively engaged in systematic innovation, have established an R&D department, and/or have allocated budgets for R&D intention—and non-formal R&D firms. …”
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Query-efficient model extraction for text classification model in a hard label setting by Hao Peng, Shixin Guo, Dandan Zhao, Yiming Wu, Jianming Han, Zhe Wang, Shouling Ji, Ming Zhong

“…We apply our method to extract deep classifiers with identical and mismatched architectures as the substitute model under tight and moderate query budgets. Furthermore, we evaluate the transferability of adversarial examples constructed with the help of the models extracted by our method. …”
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Sea–air coupling leads to a decrease in precipitation in East Asia under present day conditions that is partially alleviated in future simulations by Jing Peng, Kai Li, Li Dan, Xiba Tang, Zhongfeng Xu, Liwei Zou, Hui Zheng, Taotao Zhang

“…This is because the atmospheric feedback from the sea offshore East Asia directly impacts and modifies precipitation patterns by influencing the seasonal cycles of the surface energy and water budgets. We used a regional climate model incorporating sea–air coupling to investigate and better understand these climate feedback mechanisms in East Asia. …”
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Type 2 diabetes prevalence, awareness, and risk factors in rural Mali: a cross-sectional study by Abdoulaye Diawara, Djibril Mamadou Coulibaly, Talib Yusuf Abbas Hussain, Cheickna Cisse, Jian Li, Mamadou Wele, Mahamadou Diakite, Kassim Traore, Seydou O. Doumbia, Jeffrey G. Shaffer

“…Abstract Diabetes is currently a crisis in sub-Saharan West Africa (SSWA) with dramatic implications for public health and national budgets prioritizing infectious diseases. There is limited recent literature about the prevalence, awareness, and risk factors for type 2 diabetes (T2D) in rural parts of SSWA. …”
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The need for accurate measurements of thermal velocity distribution functions in the solar wind by Lynn B. Wilson, Katherine A. Goodrich, Drew L. Turner, Ian J. Cohen, Phyllis L. Whittlesey, Steven J. Schwartz

“…This destroys our ability to properly examine energy budgets across transient, discontinuous phenomena (e.g., shock waves) and the evolution of the velocity distribution functions. …”
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Radial Growth Response of Siberian Pines to Climate Warming in the Sayan Mountains, Southern Siberia, Russian Federation by Feiyu Yang, Yuqi Yan, Hanxue Liang, Minhuang Wang, Jian Kang, Shaowei Jiang, Peng Zhou, Zhou Wang, Vladimir V. Shishov, Yaling Zhang, Jianguo Huang

“…Climate warming and subsequent drought are predicted to alter local forest production and carbon budgets, the sensitivity of which may be site- and species-specific. …”
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A qualitative study on the impacts of COVID-19 on the delivery of randomised controlled trials evaluating lay-delivered psychological interventions in five countries by Alessandro Massazza, Bayard Roberts, Daniela C. Fuhr, Aniek Woodward, A-La Park, Egbert Sondorp, David McDaid

“…These impacts were considered to influence the external and internal scientific validity of these trials, as well as some aspects of trial administration such as budgeting and the workforce. Various mitigation strategies to adapt to constraints imposed by pandemic responses were described by researchers, such as shifting to a remote intervention delivery and evaluation or adding COVID-19 measures to better understand the impacts of COVID-19 on outcome data. …”
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ANALISIS IMPLEMENTASI PP NO. 12 TAHUN 2012 TENTANG INSENTIF PERLINDUNGAN LAHAN PERTANIAN PANGAN BERKELANJUTAN DI KAWASAN DANAU DUSUN BESAR KOTA BENGKULU by Alimansyah Alimansyah, Yenny Sariasih, Yulianti Yulianti

“…Therefore, intensive provision for sustainable food future land owners should be budgeted and city government programs through agencies or institutions concerned. …”
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Hangprinter for large scale additive manufacturing using fused particle fabrication with recycled plastic and continuous feeding by Ravneet S. Rattan, Nathan Nauta, Alessia Romani, Joshua M. Pearce

“…If these trends continue, carbon emissions from plastic wastes would reach 15 % of global carbon budgets by 2050. An approach to reducing plastic waste is to use distributed recycling for additive manufacturing (DRAM) where virgin plastic products are replaced by locally manufactured recycled plastic products that have no transportation-related carbon emissions. …”
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Fully Implantable Low-Power High Frequency Range Optoelectronic Devices for Dual-Channel Modulation in the Brain by Woo Seok Kim, Minju Jeong, Sungcheol Hong, Byungkook Lim, Sung Il Park

“…With the efficient dual-coil transmission antenna, the proposed platform leads to more advantageous power budgets that offer improved volumetric and angular coverage in a cage while minimizing the secondary effects associated with a corresponding increase in transmitted power.…”
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Indefinite Admittance Matrix Based Modelling of PSIJ in Nano-Scale CMOS I/O Drivers by Vijender Kumar Sharma, Jai Narayan Tripathi, Hitesh Shrimali

“…In nanoscale devices based high-speed systems, the budgeting of jitter due to supply fluctuations is one of the major performance bottlenecks while designing integrated circuits (ICs). …”
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Audiologists’ Perceptions of Hearing Healthcare Resources and Services in South Africa’s Public Healthcare System by Aaqilah Bhamjee, Talita le Roux, Kurt Schlemmer, Marien Alet Graham, Faheema Mahomed-Asmail

“…Conclusion: Efforts should be made to upsurge hearing healthcare resources, including increasing the financial budgets allocated to audiology resources so that increased diagnostic and screening audiology equipment and hearing devices can be procured where required, and additional audiologists can be employed within the South African public sector hospitals where needed.…”
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Marketing Communications in the Era of Digital Transformation by Volodymyr Nesterenko, Radoslaw Miskiewicz, Rafis Abazov

“…The practical significance of this research lies in its potential to guide marketers in optimizing their marketing budgets, identifying the most impactful communication channels, and discerning statistically significant variations in consumer responses to diverse marketing communication tools. …”
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Scientific Outputs of Faculty Members of Sari University in Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Based on Hirsh Index up to 2016 by Soghra Darzi Kholardi, Ali Asghar Razavi

“…In conclusion, to raise the h index, faculty members must be encouraged and supported to present articles in credible citation databases, research budgets must be increased, training courses must be conducted for writing ISI articles,  validated databases and scientific journals, and high impact coefficients for improving science production must be introduced.…”
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Deuterated SiNx: a low-loss, back-end CMOS-compatible platform for nonlinear integrated optics by Chia Xavier X., Tan Dawn T. H.

“…However, current fabrication methods result in users having to choose between low thermal budgets and low losses, which are suboptimal given that both are necessary to facilitate a wide range of applications. …”
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Type 2 Diabetes mellitus alters the cargo of (poly)phenol metabolome and the oxidative status in circulating lipoproteins by Ana Reis, Sara Rocha, Irundika HK. Dias, Raquel Costa, Raquel Soares, José Luis Sánchez-Quesada, Antonio Perez, Victor de Freitas

“…While drug-based therapies are valuable strategies to treat and ease the socio-economic burden of diabetes, nutritional strategies offer valuable alternatives to prevent and manage diabetes onset and contribute to the sustainability of health budgets. Whilst, intervention studies have shown that (poly)phenol-rich diets improve fasting glucose levels and other blood parameters, very little is known about the distribution of ingested polyphenols in circulation and the impact of diabetes on its cargo.In this study we investigate the impact of type 2 diabetes on the cargo of plasma (poly)phenols. …”
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