Estimating and comparing the cost-effectiveness of primary prevention policies affecting diet and physical activity in England by Briggs, A

“…Disease specific NHS England costs were derived from NHS England Programme Budgeting Data and unrelated disease costs from NHS cost curves. …”

The influence of climate change advisory bodies on political debates: evidence from the UK Committee on Climate Change by Averchenkova, A, Fankhauser, S, Finnegan, JJ

“…We find that CCC analysis is used by all major political parties, that its influence has grown over time and that it has influenced policy debates both within its statutory remit (carbon budgets) and more broadly (energy policy and flood defence spending). …”

Aid Allocation and Poverty Reduction. by Dollar, D, Collier, P

“…Reallocating aid is politically difficult, but it may be considerably less difficult than quadrupling aid budgets, which is what the authors estimate would be necessary to achieve the same impact on poverty reduction with existing aid allocations. …”

Mega-reservoir regulation: a comparative study on downstream responses of the Yangtze and Yellow rivers by Wu, X, Yue, Y, Borthwick, AGL, Slater, LJ, Syvitski, J, Bi, N, Yang, Z, Wang, H

“…The increase in channel roughness maintained or even raised flood season water levels, potentially increasing flood risk. Sediment budgets reveal that the river segments downstream of the dams switched from sediment sinks to sources due to riverbed incision. …”

The influence of power and actor relations on priority setting and resource allocation practices at the hospital level in Kenya: a case study. by Barasa, E, Cleary, S, English, M, Molyneux, S

“…We collected data by a combination of in-depth interviews of national level policy makers, hospital managers, and frontline practitioners in the case study hospitals (n = 72), review of documents such as hospital plans and budgets, minutes of meetings and accounting records, and non-participant observations in case study hospitals over a period of 7 months. …”

Greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming to 2 degrees C. by Meinshausen, M, Meinshausen, N, Hare, W, Raper, S, Frieler, K, Knutti, R, Frame, D, Allen, MR

“…Here we provide a comprehensive probabilistic analysis aimed at quantifying GHG emission budgets for the 2000-50 period that would limit warming throughout the twenty-first century to below 2 degrees C, based on a combination of published distributions of climate system properties and observational constraints. …”

Investigating links between transport disadvantage, social exclusion and well-being in Melbourne : an update on results by Currie, G, Richardson, T, Smyth, P, Vella-Brodrick, D, Hine, J, Lucas, K, Stanley, J, Morris, J, Kinnear, R, Stanley, J

“…They demonstrate sustainable choices, trading off budgets and home location to balance mobility and accessibility. …”

Factors influencing institutionalization of health technology assessment in Kenya by Mbau, R, Vassall, A, Gilson, L, Barasa, E

“…<p><strong>Conclusions</strong></p> Kenya’s Ministry of Health can facilitate institutionalization of HTA by adopting a systemic approach that involves: - (a) introducing long-term capacity-building initiatives to strengthen human and technical capacity for HTA; (b) earmarking national health budgets to ensure adequate financial resources for HTA; (c) introducing a cost database and promoting timely data collection to ensure availability of data for HTA; (d) developing context specific HTA guidelines and decision-making frameworks to facilitate HTA processes; (e) conducting deeper advocacy to strengthen HTA awareness among subnational stakeholders; and (f) managing stakeholders’ interests to minimize opposition to institutionalization of HTA.…”

Late Holocene intermediate water variability in the northeastern Atlantic as recorded by deep-sea corals by Copard, K, Colin, C, Henderson, G, Scholten, J, Douville, E, Sicre, M, Frank, N

“…Variations in the contributions of the two gyres imply changes in the heat and salt budgets at intermediate depths during the past millennia that may have contributed to changes in the properties of North Atlantic inflow into the Nordic Seas and thus deep-water formation. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.…”

Reported barriers to eating more fruit and vegetables before and after participation in a randomized controlled trial: a qualitative study. by John, J, Ziebland, S

“…The perception that fruit and vegetables were expensive was a relatively intractable barrier for those with inflexible food budgets. Some barriers, including the problem of getting fruit and vegetables when travelling or when the daily routine is disrupted such as at weekends, were not anticipated and only encountered when participants tried to make changes. …”

Experiments with a two-dimentional model of the general circulation by Haigh, J, Haigh, Joanna

“…The heat and momentum budgets of the mesosphere are studied. Eddy momentum fluxes derived from satellite observations of planetary waves are found to be significant for the circulation and transport properties of the stratosphere but incapable of producing the required distribution of angular momentum in the mesosphere. …”

Benchmarking working conditions for health and safety in the frontline healthcare industry: Perspectives from Australia and Malaysia by McLinton, Sarven Savia, Loh, May Young, Dollard, Maureen Frances, Tuckey, Michelle M.R., Idris, Mohd Awang, Morton, Sharon

“…Background: The healthcare industry is fundamental to sustaining the health of Australians, yet it is under immense pressure. Budgets are limited, demands are increasing as are workplace injuries and all of these factors compromise patient care. …”

Digitization of natural history collections: A guideline and nationwide capacity building workshop in Malaysia by Song-Quan Ong, Nurzatil Sharleeza Mat Jalaluddin, Kien Thai Yong, Su Ping Ong, Kooi Fong Lim, Suhaila Azhar

“…However, many museums do not digitize their collections because of constraints on budgets, human resources, and technologies. To encourage the digitization process, we present a guideline that offers low-cost and technical knowledge solutions yet balances the quality of the work and outcomes. …”
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Financial and economic analysis of stingless bee farming in Malaysia by Abdurofi, Ilmas

“…The data analysis applied cost benefit analysis, capital budgeting techniques and Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM). …”
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Partitioning of rainfall and flowpath processes in small oil palm catchments by James Gerusu, Geoffery

“…Radioisotope technique is a better approach for establishing time of concentration as it is able to determine the actual travelling times of both overland and channel flow in the field. The water budgets in the study catchments seem comparable with forested catchments. …”
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Frequency scaling of rain attenuation by Ahmad, Sahadah

“…Statistical frequency scaling can facilitate the calculation of link power budgets for new systems operating at higher frequencies in tropical region.…”
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Capacity determination of intermodal container frame in resisting housing load by Ong, Zhen Ling

“…The concept of recycling shipping container into residential usage can mitigate the issue of the unaffordable demand for rebuilt houses in short period of time for the homelessness due to natural disaster, like flooding in Malaysia which is currently faced by the country government in terms of supplying temporary houses in the short time and budgeted paid to the contractor. However, availability of published and research information on shipping containers utilized as inhabitable purpose is still difficult to obtain as most available publication have not included the topic of the shipping container structural strength and the corresponding structural behavior of shipping containers with other loading scenarios or modification. …”
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Comparison of essential indicators related to the personal income tax burden in the EU countries by Alexandra Ferenczi Vanova, Renáta Krajčírová, Michal Munk, Andrea Ecková, Jozef Bojňanský

“…The West EU countries implement tax and fiscal policies compared to the East EU countries, which are not subject to significant changes in the tax system and thus ensure relatively stable tax revenues to public budgets regarding total taxes and employment income, including unchanged personal income tax rates. …”
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Impact of Former Peat Extraction Field Afforestation on Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Hemiboreal Region by Valters Samariks, Andis Lazdiņš, Arta Bārdule, Santa Kalēja, Aldis Butlers, Gints Spalva, Āris Jansons

“…Therefore, it is necessary to identify suitable re-cultivation types for former peat extraction fields, because knowledge about the effect of re-cultivation on annual carbon and GHG budgets is limited. Ecosystem GHG (CO₂, CH₄, N₂O) exchange measurements, environmental parameter assessment and sampling in the study were conducted in a hemiboreal vegetation zone for 24 consecutive months in former peat extraction fields with different re-cultivation management strategies (land use types). …”
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Multi-scale observations of mangrove blue carbon ecosystem fluxes: The NASA Carbon Monitoring System BlueFlux field campaign by Benjamin Poulter, Francis M Adams-Metayer, Cibele Amaral, Abigail Barenblitt, Anthony Campbell, Sean P Charles, Rosa Maria Roman-Cuesta, Rocco D’Ascanio, Erin R Delaria, Cheryl Doughty, Temilola Fatoyinbo, Jonathan Gewirtzman, Thomas F Hanisco, Moshema Hull, S Randy Kawa, Reem Hannun, David Lagomasino, Leslie Lait, Sparkle L Malone, Paul A Newman, Peter Raymond, Judith A Rosentreter, Nathan Thomas, Derrick Vaughn, Glenn M Wolfe, Lin Xiong, Qing Ying, Zhen Zhang

“…Subsequent field campaigns will measure diurnal and seasonal changes in emissions and integrate measurements of long-term carbon burial to develop comprehensive annual and long-term GHG budgets to inform blue carbon as a climate solution.…”
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