Meteorological situations in 2007 and their implications for the cycling of selected chemical elements in a Central Bohemian forested catchment by Petra Kubínová, Petr Drahota, Jaroslav Fišák, Petr Skřivan, Jan Rohovec

“…The unusually low output of the elements distinctly affected their budgets in the catchment changing towards more positive mass balance values. …”
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Arte pixelado, nostalgia y géneros perdidos: “Resonance” o el resurgir de la aventura gráfica clásica = Pixel art, nostalgia and lost types: “Resonance” or the reemerge of a classi... by Antonio José Planells de la Maza

“…Abstract Graphic adventure games, once one of the most important genres of the video game industry, seem to have no place in an era of big budgets and cuttingedge technology. Action games, online RPG products and multiplayer games have taken the place of a type of game more focused on narrative, dialogues and individual play. …”
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ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF MACROECONOMIC RISKS AND THREATS ON THE FINANCIAL SITUATION OF THE REGIONS OF THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC by Dmitry L. Kondratovich

“…Tax revenues of consolidated regional budgets may significantly decrease. It is concluded that a change in the macroeconomic situation can significantly affect the position of the regions of the Russian Arctic in terms of financial potential.…”

THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 EXPANSION ON THE ECONOMY OF COUNTRIES AND ACTIVITIES OF SMALL BUSINESS ENTERPRISES by Tetyana Gogol, Vadym Kolotok

“…In order to improve the economic situation of small business entities, the authors of the research have considered the following measures for the quarantine period and after the restrictions expire: to provide a quota for public procurement for small business; not to prohibit the functioning of markets provided that they comply with anti-epidemic sanitary norms; reimbursement of expenses incurred for the purchase of anti-epidemic means of protection; introduce additional subventions from the state to local budgets; compensation for the cost of renting premises, etc. …”
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The introduction of new technologies and financial support for the innovational pharmaceutical industry in the veterinary medicine sector based on the development of priority areas... by I. V. Bushuieva, N. M. Borysenko

“….); to evaluate the financial support of medium-term priorities of the innovative activities by local budgets with the provision of veterinary medicines at the regional level; to evaluate the effectiveness of innovation activities for created, acquired and transmitted new technologies in the pharmaceutical sector of veterinary medicine; to compare the obtained indicators with the previous periods, to track their dynamics and the tendency of development of medium-term priority directions of innovation activity at the regional level; to use the results of monitoring in the formation of the list of medium-term priority directions of innovation activity at the regional level up to 2021 in the form of directing funds for struggling with animal diseases and, thus, creating safe conditions for human health. …”
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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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Factors Affecting Photovoltaic Technology Application in Decentralized Electricity Production in Iran: a Conceptual Framework by Masoud Rezaei, Alireza Boushehri, Naser Bagheri Moghaddam

“…They include policy factors, institutional factors, finance and budgeting factors, system economy factors, macroeconomic factors, socio-cultural factors, human resource factors, factors influencing capabilities of industries, technological and related infrastructural factors, geographical, climatic and environmental factors, and foreign political factors. …”
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An Adaptive Cognitive Sensor Node for ECG Monitoring in the Internet of Medical Things by Matteo A. Scrugli, Daniela Loi, Luigi Raffo, Paolo Meloni

“…To reach these objectives, designers, and programmers of IoMT nodes, have to face challenging optimization tasks, in order to execute fairly complex computing tasks on low-power wearable and portable processing systems, with tight power and battery lifetime budgets. In this work, we explore the implementation of a cognitive data analysis algorithm, based on a convolutional neural network trained to classify ECG waveforms, on a resource-constrained microcontroller-based computing platform. …”
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An Exploration into the Municipal Capacity to Finance Capital Infrastructure by Almos T. Tassony, Brian W. Conger

“…Through an examination of municipal budgeting and the revenue-generating means at municipalities’ disposal, this paper argues that fiscal policy reform is essential, if municipalities are to serve Canadians to the best of their abilities.…”
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Cost-effectiveness of the top 100 drugs by public spending in Canada, 2015–2021: a repeated cross-sectional study by Mina Tadrous, Étienne Gaudette, Shirin Rizzardo, Yvonne Zhang, Kevin R Pothier

“…As a share of spending on top-100 drugs with an assessment, spending on cost-effective drugs was mostly stable at 40%–46% from 2015 to 2021, while spending on cost-ineffective drugs increased from 30% to 45%.Conclusion A large and growing share of public drug spending has been allocated to cost-ineffective drugs in Canada. Dedicating large budgets to such treatments prevents spending with greater health impact elsewhere in the healthcare system and could restrain the capacity to pay for groundbreaking pharmaceutical innovation in the future.…”
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Unlocking nature's hidden treasure: Unveiling forest status, biomass and carbon wealth in the Binsar Wildlife Sanctuary, Uttarakhand for climate change mitigation by Vinod Chandra Joshi, R.C. Sundriyal, Naveen Chandra, Dhani Arya

“…In the context of present climate change concerns, the quantification of forest biomass and the comprehension of carbon stock distribution within protected areas are of paramount importance for exact carbon budgeting and the development of effective forest management strategies. …”
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Climate Risk Assessment and Adaptation Considerations for Municipal Governance by Mary-Ellen Tyler

“…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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Operational challenges and considerations for COVID-19 research in humanitarian settings: A qualitative study of a project in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sud... by Jennifer Majer, Kelechi Udoh, Arsene Beleke, Dugisye Ahmed, Deepak Kumar, Aimee Summers, Mija Ververs, IMC-CDC COVID-19 Research Team, Iris Bollemeijer, Shannon Doocy

“…Future studies could plan mitigation measures that include flexibility in staffing and budgets, strategies to expand testing, and early partnerships with local organizations and health authorities.…”
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Sustainability and Resilience of Engineering Assets by Nuno Marques de Almeida, Adolfo Crespo

“…Organizations dealing with engineering assets, both public and private, must, therefore, integrate sustainability and resilience concerns into everyday operations, using budgets that are often restricted, while also meeting demanding performance requirements in risky and uncertain environments. …”
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DEVELOPING A THEORETICAL ASSESSMENT METHOD FOR AN ASSISTED DIRECT GEOREFERENCING APPROACH TO IMPROVE ACCURACY WHEN MAPPING OVER WATER: THE CONCEPT, POTENTIAL AND LIMITATIONS by B. Essel, M. Bolger, J. McDonald, C. Cahalane

“…The findings from this theoretical assessment provide valuable insights into the achievable accuracy, error budgets, and limitations of the proposed model.…”
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Land cover and land use changes in the oil and gas regions of Northwestern Siberia under changing climatic conditions by Qin Yu, Howard E Epstein, Ryan Engstrom, Nikolay Shiklomanov, Dmitry Strelestskiy

“…While these impacts are rather localized they persist for decades despite partial recovery of vegetation after the initial disturbance and can have significant implications for changes in permafrost dynamics and surface energy budgets at landscape and regional scales.…”
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Machine Learning Models for Approximating Downward Short-Wave Radiation Flux over the Ocean from All-Sky Optical Imagery Based on DASIO Dataset by Mikhail Krinitskiy, Vasilisa Koshkina, Mikhail Borisov, Nikita Anikin, Sergey Gulev, Maria Artemeva

“…The estimates of downward SW radiation flux using all-sky imagery may be of particular use in case of the need for the fast radiative budgets assessment of a site.…”
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272 Engaging Michigan’s Rural, Upper Peninsula Community in Translational Science to Advance Community Engagement Among Nonprofits by Karen Calhoun, Tricia Piechowski, David Cordova, Barbara Israel, Sarah Bailey, Polly Y. Gipson Allen

“…Key themes that emerged included participatory budgeting, collaborative governance, communications, and community planning. …”
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Gait Phase Detection for Lower-Limb Exoskeletons using Foot Motion Data from a Single Inertial Measurement Unit in Hemiparetic Individuals by Miguel D. Sánchez Manchola, María J. Pinto Bernal, Marcela Munera, Carlos A. Cifuentes

“…In addition, highly functional, low-cost recovery devices are needed in developing countries, since limited budgets are allocated specifically for biomedical advances. …”
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Criteria for Drug Reimbursement Decision-Making: An Emerging Public Health Challenge in Bulgaria by Georgi Iskrov, Rumen Stefanov

“…Our pilot research focused on one particular component of this process – the criteria used – because of the critical role that criteria are known to have in setting budgets and priorities in the field of public health. …”
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