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Climate Risk Assessment and Adaptation Considerations for Municipal Governance
Published 2023-03-01“…Climate risk and adaptation need to be integrated into municipal plans, infrastructure maintenance, capital budgets and asset management to strengthen local resilience. …”
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Fog interception by Ball moss (<i>Tillandsia recurvata</i>)
Published 2011-08-01“…Fog interception is disregarded in water budgets of semiarid regions, but for some plant communities, it could be a mechanism offsetting evaporation losses. …”
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The Effects of Two Organic Soil Amendments, Biochar and Insect Frass Fertilizer, on Shoot Growth of Cereal Seedlings
Published 2023-02-01“…Based on our results, biochar appears to have less potential as a plant growth promoting product, but could be used as a tool for lowering whole-farm carbon budgets by providing a simplistic means of storing carbon in farm soils.…”
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Retracted: Comparing Throughfall and Litterfall Nutrient Fluxes in a Rubber (Hevea brasiliensis willd. muell-arg) Plantation Agro-ecosystem at Ikenne, South-west Nigeria
Published 2014-06-01“…Comparison of total annual litterfall nutrient budgets show that the 15-year-old rubber stand was cycling more Mg2+, N, Na+, K+ , P, and Ca2+ in litterfall than the 40- and 5-year-old rubber stands. …”
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Engineering properties of low to medium overconsolidation ratio offshore clays
Published 2019-09-01“…This is particularly the case for preliminary design at early stages of projects where little information is known about soil properties, for small projects with limited site characterization budgets, and international projects at locations where advanced laboratory tests performed to international standards are not available. …”
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Geological Mapping Optimisation Using Satellite Gravity, Satellite Imagery, and Seismic Shear Velocity (Vs30) to Monitor Lithological Condition in Geothermal Area of Mount Salak, W...
Published 2024-01-01“…This research aims to optimise geological mapping activity in the Mount Salak geothermal area from ineffective area coverage mapping and inefficient budgeting allocation. Integration of rock density from satellite gravity, lithological distribution from satellite imagery, and seismic shear wave velocity from Vs30 are giving more detailed lithological units interpretation with specific physical conditions. …”
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Economic analysis of the performance of Russian manufacturers of equipment for the dairy industry
Published 2023-12-01“…The short-term nature of the forecast compiled by the authors is related to the fact that budgets for the next year are formed at the end of the calendar year, and the analysis did not take into account the current conditions of Russian-Ukrainian relations.…”
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Evaluation of satellite land surface albedo products over China using ground-measurements
Published 2021-11-01“…It has been used in the fields of energy budgets, climate dynamics, and land surface processes. …”
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Power Efficient and Ultra Dense Open-RAN Vehicular Networks With Non-Linear Processing
Published 2024-01-01“…Additionally, our findings show substantial connectivity gains, exceeding 400%, in terms of concurrently transmitting vehicles compared to traditional processing approaches, without significantly affecting the access point power consumption budgets, thereby catalyzing the evolution towards more intelligent, fully autonomous, and sustainable transportation systems.…”
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Impact of the cost-of-living crisis on the nature of attempts to stop smoking and to reduce alcohol consumption in Great Britain: A representative population survey, 2021-2022.
Published 2023-01-01“…<h4>Background</h4>Smoking and excessive drinking place a strain on household budgets. We aimed to examine the impact of the cost-of-living crisis in Great Britain on the nature of smoking cessation and alcohol reduction attempts, and explore changes in health professionals offering support.…”
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Improving investment in chronic disease care in Sub-Saharan Africa is crucial for the achievement of SDG 3.4: application of the chronic care model
Published 2023-09-01“…At the health systems level of the CCM, we propose that countries in SSA should increase the proportion of their annual budgets allocated to health in line with the Abuja Declaration of 2001. …”
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A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm-Based Fuzzy Markovian Model for the Deterioration Modeling of Healthcare Facilities
Published 2020-08-01“…Healthcare facilities are constantly deteriorating due to tight budgets allocated to the upkeep of building assets. …”
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The influence of US international military campaigns on the adoption of Goldwater-Nichols act and its consequences
Published 2017-08-01“…The Chairman was assigned new responsibilities in the areas of strategic planning, logistics, net assessments, joint doctrine, and joint programs and budgets. A Vice Chairman position, outranking the other chiefs was created to assist the Chairman and act as the Chairman in his or her absence. …”
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The Barriers to Implementation of New Public Management Strategies in Iran’s Primary Health Care: A Qualitative Study
Published 2018-01-01“…RESULTS: Lack of authority, executive bureaucracy, traditional budgeting system, poor payment systems, inadequate resources were considered to be the most common managerial barriers to the implementation of NPM. …”
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Dew benefits on alpine grasslands are cancelled out by combined heatwave and drought stress
Published 2023-05-01“…Increasing frequencies of heatwaves combined with simultaneous drought stress in Europe threaten the ecosystem water and carbon budgets of alpine grasslands. Dew as an additional water source can promote ecosystem carbon assimilation. …”
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The Black-White achievement gap: Do state policies matter?
Published 2006-03-01“…Our findings are consistent with the following recommendations: states' reform efforts should be built on broad-based support and buffered as much as possible from changes in budgets and politics; states should employ the full set of policy levers at their disposal; and policies should directly support local reform efforts with proven effectiveness in addressing the experiences of students of different races attending the same schools.…”
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A diverse influence of dissolved natural organic matter on light irradiance measurements in lakes
Published 2023-08-01“…Light penetration plays a vital role in lakes and drinking water reservoirs, influencing fundamental processes such as primary production and thermal budgets. The Secchi depth (ZSD) and the compensation depth (ZCD) are commonly used measurements in this context. …”
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The Development of Key Positions in Crises on the Example of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Published 2021-09-01“…The biggest restrictions affected training budgets, foreign trips and postgraduate/MBA studies. …”
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Tourist Services of the Western Region of Ukraine: Rating and Analysis
Published 2022-06-01“…At the same time, forming a significant share of state, regional, and local budgets and being a necessary “plane” of market circulation, problems in regulating tourism in the regions are the focus of research while forming further and important competing principles. …”
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Hospitals during economic crisis: a systematic review based on resilience system capacities framework
Published 2022-07-01“…Abstract Background Hospitals are the biggest users of the health system budgets. Policymakers are interested in improving hospital efficiency while maintaining their performance during the economic crisis. …”
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