Improving ICESat‐2‐based boreal forest height estimation by a multivariate sample quality control approach by Tianqi Zhang, Desheng Liu

“…Abstract Boreal forest heights are associated with global carbon stocks and energy budgets. The launch of the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) onboard the NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat‐2) enables canopy vertical structure measurement at a global scale. …”
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Effective Demand Forecasting in Health Supply Chains: Emerging Trend, Enablers, and Blockers by Lakshmy Subramanian

“…Forecasts are an important feeder for budgeting and logistics planning. Under this backdrop, the study examines how improved forecasting can lead to better short-term and long-term access to health commodities and outlines market-related risks. …”
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Analyzing Hospital Services Quality Using a Hybrid Approach: Evidence from Information Technology by Farshid Jahanshahee Nezhad, Ali Zamani Babgohari, Mohammadreza Taghizadeh-Yazdi

“…Statistics show that a significant portion of health budgets are allocated to hospitals. The continuous impact of information technology on hospitals’ performance has led to perfect competition. …”
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Two’s company, three species is a crowd? A webcam-based study of the behavioural effects of mixed-species groupings in the wild and in the zoo by Claire Gauquelin Des Pallieres, Paul E. Rose

“…Similarities were observed in associations between species/mixed species group compositions, and in behaviour budgets. These findings provide a preliminary evaluation of how the impact of mixed species groupings may translate from the wild to the zoo, based on the associations and behaviour across a variety of African ungulates.…”
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Competitiveness and Comparative Advantage of Rice Production in Katsina State, Nigeria by Abdullahi Sani, Hassan I. Ibrahim, Segun S. Adeola

“…Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM), Profit share analysis and farm budgeting techniques were used for data analysis. The result of the financial profitability analysis revealed that a typical rice farmer earned an average revenue and profit of ₦663,799.25/ha and ₦322,356/ha, respectively. …”
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Standardization of laparoscopic trays using an inventory optimization model to produce immediate cost savings and efficiency gains by Jay Toor, Ajay Shah, Aazad Abbas, Jin Tong Du, Erin Kennedy

“…Perioperative services comprise a large portion of hospital budgets; the procurement and processing of surgical inventories can be an area for optimization in operational inefficiency. …”
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Organic Carbon Stabilization Mechanisms in Mangrove Soils: A Review by Morimaru Kida, Nobuhide Fujitake

“…More studies are needed to constrain C budgets to explain the enigma that mangrove OC keeps accumulating despite much higher decomposition (especially by large lateral exports) than previously considered.…”
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Annual variation in the nutritional value of Stage V Calanus finmarchicus: implications for right whales and other copepod predators by CAE McKinstry, AJ Westgate, HN Koopman

“…Overall, energy content of copepods was 13% lower in 2009 than in 2006-2007, which could alter foraging patterns and activity budgets of predators such as the North Atlantic right whale and have implications for assessment of whale habitat based on models of energy requirements. …”
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Institutionalization of Minimum Service Standards (MSS) for Health Facilities in Nepal: by Ambika Thapa Pachya, Uttam Pachya, Kapil Amgain, Madan Kumar Upadhyaya

“…Furthermore, MSS gradually reported through self assessment of the health facilities with occasional monitoring by the local, provincial and federal government and gap fulfillment through routine annual work plan and budgeting is the future direction.  It is high time MoHP moves ahead with service specific quality improvement tools integrated with MSS assessment prepare them for high quality health systems that can adapt to changing health needs and health shocks. …”
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Privacy Preserving Technologies in US Education. by Amy O'Hara, Stephanie Straus

“…Our recommendations suggest topics for continued research into methods that produce disaggregate statistics to analyze equity while protecting privacy, have clear and fair privacy loss budgets, and produce open-source technology, ideally pairing scientists with education experts. …”
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The Role of Human Development in Improving Local Government Performance Through Good Government Governance by Sunardi Sunardi, Abid Djazuli, Risma Dwi Handayani, Bachtari Alam Hidayat, Herie Saksono

“…Furthermore, recommendations for local governments so that human development receives special attention to increasing competitiveness by increasing the allocation of labor budgets. …”
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Ambient sesquiterpene concentration and its link to air ion measurements by B. Bonn, A. Hirsikko, H. Hakola, T. Kurtén, L. Laakso, M. Boy, M. Dal Maso, J. M. Mäkelä, M. Kulmala

“…The findings presented are highly relevant for emission budgets too, since boreal forests are extended over large areas of the globe.…”
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A Systematic Review of the Factors Affecting Access to Finance in Entrepreneurial Activities by Amineh Zivari, Mohsen Mohammadi Khyareh, Reza Mazhari

“…Additionally, internal factors include entrepreneurial characteristics (age, gender, education, entrepreneurship and network of experience), company characteristics (life span of the company, size of the company, type of company and property, plant and equipment) and financial management practices of the company (financial information, business plan, and capital budgeting and management of working capital). This study's results enable policymakers to have effective strategies to promote access to business finance and enable entrepreneurs to recognize their strengths and limitations in accessing finance.…”
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Cervical Cancer Prophylaxis—State-of-the-Art and Perspectives by Patryk Poniewierza, Grzegorz Panek

“…Conclusions: Selected European countries have different CC prevention programs funded by national budgets. This translates into observed differences in the risk of death from CC (age-standardized rate Malta = 1.1, Poland = 5.9). …”
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Personal Loan Sales Forecasting Through Time Series Analysis by Ali İhsan ÖZEROĞLU

“…For this reason, enterprises have to make reliable and reasonable forecasts to take the right decisions.  Such forecasts might be used in budgeting, cost, and profit analysis. Forecasted scenarios might come true in the future with a great likelihood. …”
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Waste Management Reform In Regions Of The Russian Federation: Implementation Issues On The Way To Sustainable Development by Andrei M. Dregulo, Alexander M. Khodachek

“…Given the constant deficit of the consolidated budgets of most regions, the high level of poverty and the lack of state support, the prospects for waste management reform indicate the need for additional efforts on the part of the state, business and society.…”
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Protection Strategy against an Epidemic Disease on Edge-Weighted Graphs Applied to a COVID-19 Case by Ronald Manríquez, Camilo Guerrero-Nancuante, Carla Taramasco

“…We apply the protection to the network, according to the importance ranking list produced by DIL-W<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mrow></mrow><mi>α</mi></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula>, considering different protection budgets. Furthermore, we consider three different values for <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>α</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>; in this way, we compare how the protection performs according to the value of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>α</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>.…”
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Towards improved health service quality in Tanzania: An approach to increase efficiency and effectiveness of routine supportive supervision. by Sabine Renggli, Iddy Mayumana, Dominick Mboya, Christopher Charles, Justin Maeda, Christopher Mshana, Flora Kessy, Fabrizio Tediosi, Constanze Pfeiffer, Alexander Schulze, Ann Aerts, Christian Lengeler

“…It also ensured better availability of evidence for follow-up actions, including budgeting and planning, and higher stakeholder motivation and ownership of subsequent quality improvement measures. …”
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Chemical Elements Content and Distributions within Different Tissue Types of White Spruce by Cyriac S. Mvolo, Emmanuel A. Boakye, Ahmed Koubaa

“…These proportions vary within and between woody tissues, and an accurate description of these variations is critical for parameterizing forest biogeochemical budgets and models. White spruce (<i>Picea glauca</i> (Moench) Voss) spacing intensities trials in the Petawawa Research Forest, Ontario, Canada, were sampled to evaluate variations in carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and hydrogen (H) concentrations between different tissue types, i.e., bark, cambium, knots, earlywood, latewood, and wood. …”
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Open-Source Wearable Sensors for Behavioral Analysis of Sheep Undergoing Heat Stress by Barbara Roqueto dos Reis, Tien Nguyen, Sathya Sujani, Robin R. White

“…Thermal stress shifted daily animal behavior budgets, increasing total time spent standing in hot conditions (<i>p =</i> 0.036). …”
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