Preferences for Updates on General Research Results: A Survey of Participants in Genomic Research from Two Institutions by Casey Overby Taylor, Natalie Flaks Manov, Katherine D. Crew, Chunhua Weng, John J. Connolly, Christopher G. Chute, Daniel E. Ford, Harold Lehmann, Alanna Kulchak Rahm, Iftikhar J. Kullo, Pedro J. Caraballo, Ingrid A. Holm, Debra Mathews

“…Very few participants in the largest profile were comfortable with budgeting less money for research activities so that researchers have money to set up services to send research result updates to study participants. …”
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The stability of soil organic carbon across topographies in a tropical rainforest by Yamin Jiang, Huai Yang, Qiu Yang, Wenjie Liu, Zhaolei Li, Wei Mao, Xu Wang, Zhenghong Tan

“…Topography cannot be neglected in considering SOC stability and future C budgets.…”
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Rainfall Determines Shallow Soil Seepage in a Piedmont Summer Pasture of Alpine Meadow on the Northeastern Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau by Hongqin Li, Yongsheng Yang, Fawei Zhang, Xiaowei Guo, Yikang Li, Li Lin, Yingnian Li, Guangmin Cao, Huakun Zhou

“…These findings will be helpful for improving predictions of the water budgets of piedmont alpine meadows.…”
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A SO2 flux study of the Etna volcano 2020–2021 paroxysmal sequences by Alessandro Aiuppa, Giovanni Lo Bue Trisciuzzi, Salvatore Alparone, Marcello Bitetto, Mauro Coltelli, Dario Delle Donne, Gaetana Ganci, Emilio Pecora

“…The non-stationary nature of magma flow and volcanic degassing we identify highlights the need for sustained surveillance to characterize long-term atmospheric budgets of volcanic volatiles.…”
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ESMValTool (v1.0) – a community diagnostic and performance metrics tool for routine evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP by V. Eyring, M. Righi, A. Lauer, M. Evaldsson, S. Wenzel, C. Jones, A. Anav, O. Andrews, I. Cionni, E. L. Davin, C. Deser, C. Ehbrecht, P. Friedlingstein, P. Gleckler, K.-D. Gottschaldt, S. Hagemann, M. Juckes, S. Kindermann, J. Krasting, D. Kunert, R. Levine, A. Loew, J. Mäkelä, G. Martin, E. Mason, A. S. Phillips, S. Read, C. Rio, R. Roehrig, D. Senftleben, A. Sterl, L. H. van Ulft, J. Walton, S. Wang, K. D. Williams

“…The priority of the effort so far has been to target specific scientific themes focusing on selected essential climate variables (ECVs), a range of known systematic biases common to ESMs, such as coupled tropical climate variability, monsoons, Southern Ocean processes, continental dry biases, and soil hydrology–climate interactions, as well as atmospheric CO₂ budgets, tropospheric and stratospheric ozone, and tropospheric aerosols. …”
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The cost of human papillomavirus vaccination delivery at the administrative and health facility levels in the Philippines by Josephine G. Aldaba, Cecilia L. Llave, Ma. Esterlita V. Uy, Kim Patrick Tejano, Ma. Romina C. Aquino, Migel Antonio P. Catalig, Alvin Duke R. Sy, Haidee A. Valverde, Jessica Mooney, Rose Slavkovsky

“…Costing studies can help identify cost drivers with local operational context to help inform policymakers and program managers in budgeting and planning interventions to improve program implementation.…”
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Long-term radon-222 (222Rn) and hydroclimatic dataset for a coastal estuary, Corpus Christi Bay, Texas by William W. Wolfe, Dorina Murgulet, Bimal Gyawali, Blair Sterba-Boatwright

“…The tools and data presented herein afford prospects to 1) forecast 222Rn inventories in areas with significant data voids using only publicly accessible hydroclimatic parameters, and 2) refine SGD estimations affected by wind, thereby offering valuable insights for the planning of field expeditions and the development of management strategies for coastal water and solute budgets.…”
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Total OH Reactivity Changes Over the Amazon Rainforest During an El Niño Event by Eva Y. Pfannerstill, Anke C. Nölscher, Ana M. Yáñez-Serrano, Efstratios Bourtsoukidis, Stephan Keßel, Ruud H. H. Janssen, Anywhere Tsokankunku, Stefan Wolff, Matthias Sörgel, Marta O. Sá, Alessandro Araújo, David Walter, Jošt Lavrič, Cléo Q. Dias-Júnior, Jürgen Kesselmeier, Jonathan Williams

“…The diverse VOCs emitted can be significant for plants' carbon budgets, influence ozone and particle production, and through their reactivity impact OH concentrations. …”
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Towards validation of ammonia (NH₃) measurements from the IASI satellite by M. Van Damme, L. Clarisse, E. Dammers, X. Liu, J. B. Nowak, C. Clerbaux, C. R. Flechard, C. Galy-Lacaux, W. Xu, J. A. Neuman, Y. S. Tang, M. A. Sutton, J. W. Erisman, P. F. Coheur

“…It prevents a full understanding of the atmospheric processes in which this trace gas is involved and therefore impedes determining its related budgets. Since the end of 2007, the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) satellite has been observing NH₃ from space at a high spatio-temporal resolution. …”
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Transferability Assessment of OBD-Related Calibration and Validation Activities from the Vehicle to HiL Applications by Frank Dorscheidt, Stefan Pischinger, Peter Bailly, Marc Timur Düzgün, Sascha Krysmon, Christoph Lisse, Martin Nijs, Michael Görgen

“…With concurrent shorter development times and significant reductions in budgets allocated to conventional powertrain development, challenges in the field of OBD calibration and verification are already rising sharply. …”
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IMPACT OF OZONE CONCENTRATION ON OCEAN COLOUR RETRIEVALS FOR OCM-2 by I. V. G. Bhavani, T. D. V. P. Rao, A. Das, S. B. Choudhury, P. V. Nagamani, K. V. S. R. Prasad, S. K. Sasmal

“…We could observe maximum relative error percentage about 12 % from Climatology to NRT in Ozone concentration and 0.28 %, 0.66 % and 0.72 % of maximum mean relative error in ozone transmittance at 512 nm, 557 nm and 620 nm. We calculated error budgets induced by ozone in remote sensing reflectance(/sr) where in we could observe mean relative error percentage of 0.52 % in 491 nm, 1.12 % in 512 nm and 4.28 % 557 nm a bands respectively.…”
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Impella Versus VA-ECMO for Patients with Cardiogenic Shock: Comprehensive Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analyses by Vittoria Ardito, Lilit Sarucanian, Carla Rognoni, Marina Pieri, Anna Mara Scandroglio, Rosanna Tarricone

“…The study highlighted areas where further data collection is needed to clarify the value of complex, new technologies in the treatment of CS that will enable comparative assessments focusing both on the health impact on patient outcomes and on the financial burden for government budgets. Future studies need to fill the gap to comply with recent regulatory updates at the European and national levels.…”
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Analysis of Large-Scale Groundwater-Driven Cooling Zones in Rivers Using Thermal Infrared Imagery and Radon Measurements by Milad Fakhari, Jasmin Raymond, Richard Martel, Jean-Philippe Drolet, Stephen J. Dugdale, Normand Bergeron

“…Moreover, the effect of GW contributions to river thermal budgets is critical in natural rivers considering that water temperature plays a vital role in fish survival during extreme heat events. …”
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The European climate under a 2 °C global warming by Robert Vautard, Andreas Gobiet, Stefan Sobolowski, Erik Kjellström, Annemiek Stegehuis, Paul Watkiss, Thomas Mendlik, Oskar Landgren, Grigory Nikulin, Claas Teichmann, Daniela Jacob

“…Robust changes in mean and extreme temperature, precipitation, winds and surface energy budgets are found based on the ensemble of simulations. …”
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Mobile Edge Computing in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks: Architectures, Key Technologies and Challenges by Yuan Qiu, Jianwei Niu, Xinzhong Zhu, Kuntuo Zhu, Yiming Yao, Beibei Ren, Tao Ren

“…However, for mobile devices with limited computation capability and energy budgets, it is still a serious challenge to meet the stringent delay and energy requirements of computation-intensive ubiquitous mobile applications. …”
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Estimation of Net Ecosystem Productivity on the Tibetan Plateau Grassland from 1982 to 2018 Based on Random Forest Model by Jiahe Zheng, Yangjian Zhang, Xuhui Wang, Juntao Zhu, Guang Zhao, Zhoutao Zheng, Jian Tao, Yu Zhang, Ji Li

“…The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is one of the most important areas for the study of the carbon budgets of terrestrial ecosystems. However, the estimation of the net ecosystem productivity (NEP) remains uncertain in this region due to its complex topographic properties and climatic conditions. …”
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Dimensional Stability of 3D Printed Objects Made from Plastic Waste Using FDM: Potential Construction Applications by Essam Zaneldin, Waleed Ahmed, Aya Mansour, Amged El Hassan

“…Construction projects are often challenged by tight budgets and limited time and resources. Contractors are, therefore, looking for ways to become competitive by improving efficiency and using cost-effective materials. …”
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Overcoming gender inequality in Ukraine: political, legal, social and educational dimensions by Onishchyk Yuriy, Pozhydaieva Oksana, Semigina Tetyana

“…Such mechanisms could include: legal expertise, gender quotas, gender budgeting, work with local communities and social service providers, ensuring gender sensitivity of services, including social ones, formation of gender-based competence, implementation of promotional work, introduction of gender approaches in educational institutions.…”
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Optimal <i>N</i> Application Rates on Switchgrass for Producers and a Biorefinery by Keven Alan Robertson, Burton C. English, Christopher D. Clark, Jada M. Thompson, Kimberly L. Jensen, Robert Jamey Menard, Nicole Labbé

“…To obtain optimal nitrogen (<i>N</i>) application rates for the switchgrass producers and the biorefinery, a two-part analysis is employed. First, a partial budgeting profitability analysis is conducted for this cropping enterprise at the farm-gate level without considering downstream implications of biomass quality, i.e., ash content. …”
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Transforming adult social care systems? A systematic review of the costs and outcomes of local area coordination in England and Wales by Harriet Thiery, Joanne Cook, Jon Burchell, Mark Wilberforce, Maureen Twiddy, Silviya Nikolova, Adam Martin, Claire Hulme

“…Adult Social Care (ASC) in England faces an ‘existential crisis’, caught between increased demand for services and continued cuts to social care and local government budgets. Increasingly, it is argued that this crisis cannot be solved without reforming our ASC systems and services, with policy shifts in the UK moving towards preventative interventions in order to reduce costs and improve the experience of service users. …”
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