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22101
The influence of change in business environment on change in the adoption and use of management control system : a study of Libyan small and medium size privatized firms pre and po...
Published 2013“…The findings revealed that there was a change in the adoption and use of MCS, pre and post-privatization, and the highest rate of adoption and use of MCS postprivatization was in the financial and planning sub-system, suggesting that traditional financial accounting and budgeting have a strong position in small and medium-size firms . …”
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22102
The effects of energetic expenditure tactics and life-history variability on European badger (Meles meles) ecology
Published 2021“…<p>Wild animals have evolved a diverse range of energy-budgeting tactics to cope in situ with rapid environmental change. …”
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22103
Carry-Over Effects on the Annual Cycle of a Migratory Seabird: an Experimental Study
Published 2016“…We tracked the adults with geolocators over the subsequent year and combined migration route data with at-sea activity budgets obtained from high-resolution saltwater-immersion data. …”
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22104
Conducting health survey research in a deep rural South African community: challenges and adaptive strategies.
Published 2013“…</p> <h4>Conclusions:</h4> <p>We argue that in order to maintain high scientific standards of research and manage to 'get the job done' on the ground, it is necessary to respond to fieldwork challenges that arise as a cohesive team, with timely, locally-relevant, and often creative, solutions. Budgeting sufficient time and project resources for capacity building and community buy-in processes is also essential when working in remote communities unaccustomed to research. …”
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22105
Differential in-hospital mortality and intensive care treatment over time: informing hospital pathways for modelling COVID-19 in South Africa
Published 2023“…It is crucial for modelling health systems strain and budgets to consider how input parameters related to hospitalisation change during and between waves, especially in settings with severely constrained resources.…”
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22106
Evaluating the dissemination and scale-up of two evidence-based parenting interventions to reduce violence against children: Study protocol
Published 2020“…Primary data collection, focused on three case study projects, will include interviews and focus groups with program facilitators, coordinators, funders, and other stakeholders, and a summary of key organizational characteristics. Program reports and budgets will be reviewed as part of relevant contextual information. …”
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22107
Solving product-mix markets and learning agents’ preferences
Published 2021“…</p> <p>In the related 'arctic product-mix market', originally designed for the Icelandic government by Klemperer, buyers use a conceptually similar bidding language to express preferences across multiple divisible goods in conjunction with monetary budgets. In this setting we present a new coincidence of the solution concepts of competitive equilibrium and optimal revenue: market-clearing prices are unique, and these prices maximise not only social welfare but also revenue. …”
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22108
Poverty and risk factors for non-communicable diseases in developing countries: a systematic review
Published 2016“…Governments seeking to meet Sustainable Development Goal 3.4—reducing premature mortality from non-communicable diseases by a third by 2030—should leverage their development budgets to address the poverty–health nexus in these settings. …”
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22109
Parenting, mental health and economic pathways to prevention of violence against children in South Africa
Published 2020“…Intervention sites (n = 20) received the 14-session parenting program delivered by local community members, including modules on family budgeting and savings. Control sites (n = 20) received a brief informational workshop. …”
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22110
Derivative-free algorithms for nonlinear optimisation problems
Published 2019“…It can also make progress under very small evaluation budgets, with a low runtime cost.</p>…”
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22111
Strategic Flexible Working Arrangement: The Realignment between Human Resource and Management Accounting
Published 2020“…To ensure the efficiency of FWA, HR critically needs MA information such as budgeting, return on investment, variance analysis and, cost monitoring of FWA implementation/enhancement. …”
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22112
The use of management accounting practices in Malaysian SMEs
Published 2012“…Use of the costing system, budgeting system and performance evaluation system are significantly higher than for the decision support system and strategic management accounting, which indicates that the uptake of traditional MAPs is greater than for sophisticated MAPs. …”
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22113
Export of dissolved and undissolved nutrients from forested catchments in Peninsular Malaysia
Published 2006“…This highlights the need to re-evaluate results of nutrient input-output budgets derived solely from dissolved loadings, especially when the net gains are small. …”
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22114
Theoretical model for damage and vibration response in concrete bridges
Published 2009“…Monitoring of the dynamic response of structures makes it possible to get very quick knowledge of the actual conditions and helps in planning of rehabilitation budgets. One of the promising developments in structural vibration monitoring is the ambient vibration testing which does not require a controlled excitation of the structure. …”
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22115
Consumers’ Perceptions Towards Cell Phone Brand Preference: The Case of Bangladesh
Published 2024“…The study also identified a range of preferred budgets for a new cell phone. Eventually, a new measurement model for cell phone brand preference factors among Bangladeshi consumers was excavated by the study. …”
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22116
Evaluating critical element that influence technology transfer success: A study on electric and electronic in manufacturing in Malaysia
Published 2010“…Reasons for this are increasing global economic competition, decreasing national budgets for space research and activities, and increasing concern from the public to justify government space expenditures.Furthermore technology transfer is identified as a process to get the highest possible value out of the government funding. …”
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22117
Development of Machine Learning Models to Predict Compressed Sward Height in Walloon Pastures Based on Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Meteorological Data Using Multiple Data Transforma...
Published 2021-01-01“…The results obtained in this study were more accurate than those found in the literature concerning pasture budgeting and grassland biomass evaluation. The training of the 124 models resulting from the described framework was part of the realization of a decision support system to help farmers in their daily decision making.…”
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22118
Cost of hospital services in India: a multi-site study to inform provider payment rates and Health Technology Assessment
Published 2022-11-01“…The present analysis shows that both geographical location and the scale of activity are important determinants for deriving the cost of a health service and should be accounted for in healthcare decision making from budgeting to economic evaluation and price-setting.…”
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22119
Limited effects of crop foliar Si fertilization on a marginal soil under a future climate scenario
Published 2024-01-01“…Using the high-capacity monitoring of the ecotron, we estimated C, water, and N budgets of every macrocosm. Additionally, we measured crop yield, the biomass of each plant organ, and characterized bacterial communities using metabarcoding. …”
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Energetic synchrony throughout the non‐breeding season in common guillemots from four colonies
Published 2023-01-01“…We quantified non‐breeding distribution, foraging behaviour and activity budgets of 39 individuals from July to March, using geolocation–immersion loggers and time‐depth recorders, and used feather stable isotope signatures to infer diet during the post‐breeding moult. …”
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