Three representative UK moorland soils show differences in decadal release of dissolved organic carbon in response to environmental change by M. I. Stutter, D. G. Lumsdon, A. P. Rowland

“…Soil properties need representation in process-models to understand and predict the role of soils in catchment to global C budgets. Catchment hydrological (i.e. transport) controls may, at present, be governing the more ubiquitous rises in river DOC concentration trends, but soil (i.e. source) controls provide the key to prediction of future C loss to waters and the atmosphere.…”
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Unravelling the Role of Vegetation Dynamics in the Execution of ArcSWAT Hydrological Modeling for Cumulative Streamflow of a Tibetan Watershed by Samreen Abdul Hakeem, Tiesong Hu, Muhammad Yasir

“…The leaf area index (LAI) describes water consumption in hydrologic processes and is an important vegetation variable for water budgeting in catchments. As part of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), LAI is a significant parameter, which links vegetation dynamics with the hydrological cycle. …”
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READINESS ASSESSMENT ON E-GOVERNMENT IMPLEMENTATION IN THE GOVERNMENT OF MANGGARAI REGENCY OF INDONESIA by Randang D.M., Djani W., Rani L.P.S.

“…The location of the study was in Manggarai Regency, especially in the Information and Communication Agency (leading sector), Development Planning and Research Agency (e-Planning), and Finance Agency (e-Budgeting). Data came from primary and secondary sources. …”

Public policy on the prevention of subsequent adolescent pregnancy: what type of policy prevails? by Fátima Estrada, Irma Romero-Pérez, Lourdes Campero, Celia Hubert, Aremis Villalobos

“…The research team was then divided into triads to discuss and to classify each reference under one of the following categories: (a) a symbolic statement, that is, an intention not implying a specific action but rather presenting a vision for the future; (b) a substantive-material statement concerning an action intended to solve a problem; and (c) a procedural-material statement indicating specific actions, processes, budgets, and actors. We analyzed a total of 135 public-policy documents: 102 in Mexico and 33 internationally. …”
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Evaluating net community benefits of integrating nature within cities by Peter Daniels, Omniya El Baghdadi, C. Desha, T. Matthews

“…Conclusions We conclude with an emphasis upon the importance of ensuring structure and methodological rigour in budgets and performance evaluation requirements. This paper has immediate implications for policy makers and regulatory authorities, providing the basis for consistent and transparent evaluation of biophilic urbanism initiatives. …”
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Strengthening Reclamation Obligation through Mining Law Reform: Indonesian Experience by Nurul Listiyani, M. Yasir Said, Afif Khalid

“…Second, for the company to comply with placing reclamation and post-mining funds, it is crucial to implement a mandatory condition, whereby the placing of a reclamation guarantees fund is a requirement for approval of the mining plans and budgets (the RKAB), and Clean and Clear (CnC) Certification. …”
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Modified Area-based System in Czech Republic by Sandra Papavasilevská

“…On the other hand, the overall taxation of investment housing could contribute to increasing revenues of municipal budgets without changing the budgetary allocation of taxes. …”
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Luxury Tourism Industry in Africa: History, Development, Challenges and Prospects after the COVID-19 Pandemic by L. Ya. Prokopenko

“…Luxury tourism industry provides the lion’s share of foreign exchange earnings to state budgets, so the governments of a number of countries pay special attention to its development. …”
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Modelling of growing season methane fluxes in a high-Arctic wet tundra ecosystem 1997–2010 using in situ and high-resolution satellite data by Torbern Tagesson, Mikhail Mastepanov, Meelis Mölder, Mikkel P. Tamstorf, Lars Eklundh, Benjamin Smith, Charlotte Sigsgaard, Magnus Lund, Anna Ekberg, Julie M. Falk, Thomas Friborg, Torben R. Christensen, Lena Ström

“…There were no trends in modelled CH4 flux budgets between 1997 and 2010. Hence, during this period there were no trends in the soil temperature at 10 cm depth and NDWI.…”
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Implementasi activity based costing pada perusahaan manufaktur, jasa, dan umkm : Sebuah studi literatur by Firda Fitria Nasution, Tri Joko Prasetyo, Agrianti Komalasari

“…Activity-Based Costing can produce more accurate cost information and avoid cost distortions to help control operations, control costs, and provide information for the budgeting process. This literature study examines the implementation and benefits of using Activity Based Costing and analyzes comparatively based on activity categories in manufacturing companies, service companies, and SMEs. …”
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Spatial injustice in the formation of land use territories in united communities by Popova O. L.

“…The land decentralization as a transfer of relevant powers to UTC local governments will be finally completed, according to the Decree of the President of Ukraine “On some measures to accelerate reforms in the field of land relations” № 449 from 15.10.2020, which will contribute to orderliness in this area and filling local budgets. It is also advisable within the UTCs to give internal communities the right to dispose of their economic territory’s land resources in these communities’ interests. …”
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A Systematic Assessment of W-Doped CoFeB Single Free Layers for Low Power STT-MRAM Applications by Siddharth Rao, Sebastien Couet, Simon Van Beek, Shreya Kundu, Shamin Houshmand Sharifi, Nico Jossart, Gouri Sankar Kar

“…The addition of W results favours a delayed crystallization process, in turn enabling higher thermal budgets up to 180 min at 400 °C. The presence of tungsten reduces the total FL magnetization (<i>M_s</i>) but simultaneously increasing its temperature dependence, thus, enabling a dynamic write current reduction of ~15% at 2 ns pulse widths. …”
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Diaspora Hasidic communities as actors of influence on ethno-political processes in modern Ukraine by Igor Turov

“…It is also a result of corruption problems, since the municipal authorities enter only a small part of the funds obtained from the pilgrims into the local budgets. The second trend is determined by the interest of local residents in earning money related to the service of pilgrims and tolerance, which is spreading more and more in society. …”
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Recovery units under the Endangered Species Act should be used more widely by Michael J. Evans, Michael J. Evans, Jacob W. Malcom

“…In the face of limited conservation budgets, diverse tools are needed to efficiently recover species. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Local Differential Privacy Schemes in Healthcare Datasets by Andres Hernandez-Matamoros, Hiroaki Kikuchi

“…In summary, our proposed approach consistently outperforms the LOPUB and LOCOP algorithms, particularly when operating under smaller privacy budgets and with datasets characterized by lower average correlation attributes. …”
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Seeing It All: Evaluating Supervised Machine Learning Methods for the Classification of Diverse Otariid Behaviours. by Monique A Ladds, Adam P Thompson, David J Slip, David P Hocking, Robert G Harcourt

“…Constructing activity budgets for marine animals when they are at sea and cannot be directly observed is challenging, but recent advances in bio-logging technology offer solutions to this problem. …”
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PV Benefits Assessment for PV-Powered Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles by Youssef Krim, Manuela Sechilariu, Fabrice Locment

“…During the second phase, the total cost of the PVCS is adjusted according to the users’ budgets and needs. The third phase presents a detailed qualitative analysis of the user-defined configuration. …”
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The Role of Management Accounting in Improving Management Control System in Public Sector by Hossein Salmanzadeh, Gholamreza Kordestani, Hossein Kazemi

“…The findings of this study showed that a management control system, if it has the necessary tools, can play a key role in preventing corruption, increasing transparency and accountability, performance-based budgeting, and performance-based auditing. The existence of a management control system is necessary for any organization; such a system will help identify resource flow, help management in decision making, motivate employees, make decisions related to outsourcing and contracting, reduce service delivery time, and many other issues in organizations, and it will ultimately lead to optimally allocate resources, prevent corruption, and increase legitimacy, transparency and accountability, Therefore, the optimal use of management accounting in the management control system, improves the achievement of organizational goals and the effectiveness of programs…”
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Into the mire: A closer look at fossil fuel subsidies by Radoslaw (Radek) Stefanski

“…Any government looking to ease strained budgets and make a significant (and cheap) contribution to the fight against climate change must consider slashing fossil fuel subsidies. …”
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Exploratory study: Financial behaviour of qualified financial professionals during South Africa’s lockdown by Danielle van Wyk, Arthur Bishop

“…Main findings: Survey results showed that most respondents do not track actual expenditure against budgets; however, this tendency changes with an increase in age. …”
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