Inclusion of ecosystem services in the management of municipal natural open space systems by Nadia Wessels, Nadia Sitas, Patrick O'Farrell, Karen J. Esler

“…The study contributes to understanding the opportunities and challenges for the future governance of natural open space in the Global South, which require explicit consideration in municipal planning, management and budgeting processes. Policy and management implications identified include prioritisation of the regulating functions provided by natural open space systems, pivotal to the urban resilience agenda; building on the inherent appreciation of nature features as city assets, while achieving socio‐economic upliftment; improved (on‐site) collaborative management of natural open spaces; and involvement of local government officials in the preparation and updating of environmental policies and decision‐support documents, to ensure skills and knowledge transfer and interest are entrenched in local government departments. …”
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Can air temperature be used to project influences of climate change on stream temperature? by Ivan Arismendi, Mohammad Safeeq, Jason B Dunham, Sherri L Johnson

“…The limited ability of regression-based statistical models to accurately project stream temperatures over time likely stems from the fact that underlying processes at play, namely the heat budgets of air and water, are distinctive in each medium and vary among localities and through time.…”
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Risk Factors That Lead to Time and Cost Overruns of Building Projects in Saudi Arabia by Saad Alshihri, Khalid Al-Gahtani, Abdulmohsen Almohsen

“…In addition, change orders during construction and contracts awarded to the lowest bidder are the most significant risks factors of exceeding budgets. Based on the results, it is concluded that for achieving sustainable development, client, contractor, and labour-related risks must be effectively managed.…”
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Cytotoxic-Ag-Modified Eggshell Membrane Nanocomposites as Bactericides in Concrete Mortar by Samuel Tomi Aina, Hilda Dinah Kyomuhimbo, Barend Du Plessis, Vuyo Mjimba, Nils Haneklaus, Hendrik Gideon Brink

“…Against the backdrop of escalating infrastructure budgets worldwide, a notable portion—up to 45%—is allocated to maintenance endeavors rather than innovative infrastructure development. …”
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Renewable Energies: Economic and Energy Impact in the Context of Increasing the Share of Electric Cars in EU by Andreea-Ileana Zamfir, Elena Oana Croitoru, Cristina Burlacioiu, Cosmin Dobrin

“…In addition, we also calculate in this study the impact on the public budgets of the European Union member states, as a result of the reduction of excise duties for fuels, following the reduction of their consumption. …”
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Integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Big Data in China: Recent Application and Future Perspective by Wenfeng Xia, Yuhong Zheng, Lele Huang, Zhen Liu

“…The integrated application of building information modeling (BIM) and big data (BD) has received widespread attention, and has been involved in smart construction sites, construction project management, and construction project budgeting. Nevertheless, research on the integrated implementation of BIM and BD in China mainly concentrates on a project stage or profession, the exploration of technology integration mostly focuses on the theoretical level, and the research distribution is scattered. …”
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General practitioners’ views on using a prescribing substitution application (ScriptSwitch®) by Carly Hire, Bruno Rushforth

“…<p><strong>Background</strong> General practitioners (GPs) are increasingly pressured to prescribe cost-effectively, due to rising prescribing expenditure and limited budgets. A computerised prescribing substitution application (ScriptSwitch®) provides ‘pop-ups’ of cost-saving drug switches at the point of prescribing. …”
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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 by Sarah E. Jackson, Sharon Cox, Lion Shahab, Jamie Brown

“…<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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Funding and financial sustainability of pharmacovigilance: suggested models for funding pharmacovigilance in resource-limited African countries by Ambrose O. Isah, Abimbola O. Opadeyi, Henry Tumwijukye, Frank Cobelens, Diede Smith, Margareth Ndomondo-Sigonda, Linda Harmark, Paul Tanui, Edine Tiemersma, Blandina T. Mmbaga, Gugu Mahlangu, Stephen A. Ayinbuomwan, Rachida Soulaymani, Jayesh M. Pandit

“…Critical points for consideration included the sources of funds, revenue pool, the disbursement of funds, budgeting and expenditure profile and the legal framework. …”
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Development of Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Public Administration: From The “Iron Cage” Bureaucracy to Digital Governance and Client-Centeredness by A. A. Lyalikov

“…New Public Management emphasizes market principles, such as results-based budgeting, decentralization and competition, and aims to improve efficiency, effectiveness. …”
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Efficient Scopeformer: Toward Scalable and Rich Feature Extraction for Intracranial Hemorrhage Detection by Yassine Barhoumi, Nidhal Carla Bouaynaya, Ghulam Rasool

“…Using multiple strategies, including diversifying the pre-training paradigms for CNNs, different pre-training datasets, and style transfer techniques, we demonstrate an overall improvement in the model performance at various computational budgets. Later, we propose smaller compute-efficient Scopeformer versions with three different types of input and output ViT configurations. …”
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Mothership-Cubesat Radioscience for Phobos Geodesy and Autonomous Navigation by Hongru Chen, Nicolas Rambaux, Valéry Lainey, Daniel Hestroffer

“…A feasible mothership-CubeSat mission is proposed in this study with following purposes, (1) performing inter-sat Doppler measurements, (2) improving the understanding of Phobos as well as the dynamic model, (3) securing the mothership as well as the primary mission, and (4) supporting autonomous navigation, given the long distance between the Earth and Mars. This study analyzes budgets of volume, mass, power, deployment <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mo>Δ</mo><mi>v</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, and link, and the Doppler measurement noise of the system, and gives a feasible design for the CubeSat. …”
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Directions for Resumption of Marketing Activities and for Transforming Consumer Behavior Patterns in the Post-War Period: The Issues of Considering the Regional Aspect by Grynevych Liudmyla V., Bielikova Nadiia V.

“…The basic principles of resumption of marketing activities of enterprises in a situation of war and post-war recovery are generalized, such as finding ways to attract additional financial assistance from international donors, governments of other countries and non-governmental organizations; participation of enterprises in the economic recovery projects at the level of individual territorial communities; establishing a mechanism for reimbursement of costs (at least part of them) for business recovery and launching new business initiatives on the basis of both the State and the local budgets; search for new methods of promoting goods and services that more fully meet the needs of consumers changing under the influence of war; intensification of the use of non-classical types of marketing, implying lower costs with a sufficiently significant return; adaptation of marketers to reduce and reorient demand, as well as the transformation of traditional models of consumer behavior. …”
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A Quantitative Positive Energy District Definition with Contextual Targets by Simon Schneider, Thomas Zelger, David Sengl, José Baptista

“…Three examples of such context factors, each corresponding to the balance target of one of the previously defined system boundaries, operation, mobility, and embodied emissions, are presented: density (as a context for operation), sectoral energy balances and location (as a context for mobility), and an outlook on personal emission budgets (as a context for embodied emissions). Finally, the proposed definition framework is applied to seven distinct district typologies in Austria and discussed in terms of its design goals.…”
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Improvement of organizational and financial performance of a modern enterprise in the context of process management by Olga Borisovna Dronova

“…The introduction of business processes matrix will help characterize planning and finance performance of the enterprise and set the budgets of the departments involved. Forecasting results of the research show this can increase the efficiency indicators of APZ ROTOR, JSC, its organizational and financial performance and improve the enterprise’s management systems on the whole. …”
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Modeling tree radial growth in a warming climate: where, when, and how much do potential evapotranspiration models matter? by Matthew P Dannenberg

“…Since soil moisture observations are unavailable at appropriate spatial and temporal scales, these models generally rely on simple water budgets driven in part by temperature-based potential evapotranspiration (PET) estimates, but the choice of PET model could have large effects on simulated soil moisture, moisture stress, and radial growth. …”
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COMPLEX OF MODELS OF FINANCIAL DECENTRALISATION ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT by S. I. Chernov, L. S. Guryanova, O. V. Dymchenko, S. V. Labunska

“…There is a gap between the growth rates of income and expenditure powers of budgets of different levels and the GDP growth rates in countries with a high level of competitiveness and socio-economic development, that reduces the level of fiscal and debt security. …”
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Institutional and Organizational Features of the Cross-Border Freight Traffic in the Conditions of Integration among Former Soviet States. Part 2 by Valery Anatolevich Tsvetkov, Kobilzhon Khodzhievich Zoidov, Alexey Anatolevich Medkov, Valentina Nikolaevna Ionicheva

“…The findings of the study suggest that the development of cross-border transportation of goods and the transport and transit potential implementation in Eurasian Economic Union countries — can and should provide income for business entities, the budgets of all levels and the public, as well as become the locomotive of industrial and technological modernization as well as institutional and organizational evolution of economic systems and integration associations…”
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Closure of a local public hospital in Korea: focusing on the organizational life cycle by Yeo YH, Lee KH, Kim HJ

“…They are also controlled by the government in terms of their prices, management, budgets, and operations. As they pursue public interest by fulfilling the government&rsquo;s order such as providing free or lower-priced care to the vulnerable population, they tend to provide a lower quality of care and suffer a financial burden. …”
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Institutional and Organizational Features of the Cross-Border Freight Traffic in the Conditions of Integration Among Former Soviet States. Part 1 by Valery Anatolevich Tsvetkov, Kobilzhon Khodzhievich Zoidov, Alexey Anatolevich Medkov, Valentina Nikolaevna Ionicheva

“…The findings of the study suggest that the development of cross-border transportation of goods and the transport and transit potential implementation in Eurasian Economic Union countries — can and should provide income for business entities, the budgets of all levels and the public, as well as to become the locomotive of industrial and technological modernization and institutional — organizational evolution of economic systems and integration associations.…”
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