Automated mapping of cultural heritage in Norway from airborne lidar data using faster R-CNN by Øivind Due Trier, Jarle Hamar Reksten, Kristian Løseth

“…The goal of this research was to develop automated tools for improving the cultural heritage mapping in Norway, thus enabling detailed mapping of large areas within realistic budgets and time frames. The focus was on three types of cultural heritage that occur frequently in many types of Norwegian landscape: grave mounds, pitfall traps in deer hunting systems and charcoal kilns.A recent development in deep neural networks for object detection in natural images is the region-proposing convolutional neural network (R-CNN), which may also be used for cultural heritage detection in local relief model (LRM) visualizations of airborne laser scanning (ALS) data. …”
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Method and application of carbon emission calculation for ultra-high voltage (UHV) project construction by CHEN Xiaohong, FU Yipeng, HUANG Chengdong, WANG Yangjie

“…The method provides a theoretical support for establishing carbon cost budgets for UHV projects in China, improving carbon emission management capabilities during the project construction phase, and assisting project carbon emission reductions. …”
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A downward CO₂ flux seems to have nowhere to go by J. Ma, R. Liu, L.-S. Tang, Z.-D. Lan, Y. Li

“…Recent studies have suggested that deserts, which are a long-neglected region in global carbon budgeting, have strong downward CO₂ fluxes and might be a significant carbon sink. …”
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Addressing cancer care inequities in sub-Saharan Africa: current challenges and proposed solutions by Olabode Omotoso, John Oluwafemi Teibo, Festus Adebayo Atiba, Tolulope Oladimeji, Oluwatomiwa Kehinde Paimo, Farid S. Ataya, Gaber El-Saber Batiha, Athanasios Alexiou

“…Our recommendations are divided into national-level initiatives and capacity-based initiatives, including cancer health promotion and awareness by healthcare professionals during every hospital visit, encouraging screening and vaccine uptake, ensuring operational regional and national cancer registries, improving healthcare budgeting for staff, equipment, and facilities, building expertise through specialty training, funding for cancer research, providing insurance coverage for cancer care, and implementing mobile health technology for telemedicine diagnosis. …”
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Tree variability limits the detection of nutrient treatment effects on sap flux density in a northern hardwood forest by Alexandrea M. Rice, Mariann T. Garrison-Johnston, Arianna J. Libenson, Ruth D. Yanai

“…The influence of nutrient availability on transpiration is not well understood, in spite of the importance of transpiration to forest water budgets. Soil nutrients have the potential to affect tree water use through indirect effects on leaf area or stomatal conductance. …”
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How does the phytoplankton–light feedback affect the marine N₂O inventory? by S. Berthet, J. Jouanno, R. Séférian, M. Gehlen, W. Llovel

“…Our results, based on a global ocean–biogeochemical model at CMIP6 state-of-the-art level, shed light on current uncertainties in modelled marine nitrous oxide budgets in climate models.</p>…”
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On the Kalman Smoother Interpolation Error Distribution in Collocation Comparison of Atmospheric Profiles by Alessandro Fassò, Hannes Keernik, Kalev Rannat

“…Since instruments and/or measures are not perfectly collocated, miss-collocation uncertainty must be considered in related intercomparison uncertainty budgets. This paper is motivated by the comparison of GNSS-RO, the Global Navigation Satellite System Radio Occultation, with ERA5, the version 5 Reanalysis of the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts. …”
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A study on a political system for the advance in green hydrogen technology: a South Korea case study by Minyoung Yun, Wooseok Jang, Jongyeon Lim, Bitnari Yun

“…Results The analysis shows that budgeting for R&D projects has had a significant impact on scientific breakthroughs, advancements, and product development in the field of green hydrogen in South Korea. …”
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How the extreme 2019–2020 Australian wildfires affected global circulation and adjustments by F. Senf, B. Heinold, A. Kubin, J. Müller, R. Schrödner, I. Tegen

“…In general, it appears that the radiative effects of smoke from single extreme wildfire events can lead to global impacts that affect the interplay of tropospheric and stratospheric budgets in complex ways. This emphasizes that future changes in extreme wildfires need to be included in projections of aerosol radiative forcing.…”
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Disease-specific health spending by age, sex, and type of care in Norway: a national health registry study by Jonas Minet Kinge, Joseph L. Dieleman, Øystein Karlstad, Ann Kristin Knudsen, Søren Toksvig Klitkou, Simon I. Hay, Theo Vos, Christopher J. L. Murray, Stein Emil Vollset

“…This study estimates Norwegian health expenditures by health condition, age, and sex, and compares it with disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs). Methods Government budgets, reimbursement databases, patient registries, and prescription databases were combined to estimate spending for 144 health conditions, 38 age and sex groups, and eight types of care (GPs; physiotherapists & chiropractors; specialized outpatient; day patient; inpatient; prescription drugs; home-based care; and nursing homes) totaling 174,157,766 encounters. …”
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The multi-scale aerosol-climate model PNNL-MMF: model description and evaluation by M. Wang, S. Ghan, R. Easter, M. Ovchinnikov, X. Liu, E. Kassianov, Y. Qian, W. I. Gustafson Jr., V. E. Larson, D. P. Schanen, M. Khairoutdinov, H. Morrison

“…&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Simulated aerosol budgets in this new model are in the ranges of other model studies. …”
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An International Comparison of Tax Assistance for Research and Development: Estimates and Policy Implication by John Lester, Jacek Warda

“…This paper draws attention to the possibility of providing too much of a good thing, a warning that governments in Canada should keep in mind when preparing next year’s budgets.…”
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Editorial: Will the positive development in transport have a negative effect on the economy? by Karel Pospíšil

“…Consumption taxes generate a significant part of the revenue of the state budgets of a significant majority of all countries. …”
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Quantifying Drivers of Methane Hydrobiogeochemistry in a Tidal River Floodplain System by Z. Jason Hou, Nicholas D. Ward, Allison N. Myers-Pigg, Xinming Lin, Scott R. Waichler, Cora Wiese Moore, Matthew J. Norwood, Peter Regier, Steven B. Yabusaki

“…The influence of coastal ecosystems on global greenhouse gas (GHG) budgets and their response to increasing inundation and salinization remains poorly constrained. …”
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Reproductive behavior drives female space use in a sedentary Neotropical frog by Marie-Therese Fischer, Max Ringler, Eva Ringler, Andrius Pašukonis

“…Studying fine-scale movement with conventional capture-mark-recapture techniques is difficult in inconspicuous amphibians: individuals are hard to find, repeated captures might affect their behavior and the number of data points is too low to allow a detailed interpretation of individual space use and time budgeting. In this study, we overcame these limitations by equipping females of the Brilliant-Thighed Poison Frog (Allobates femoralis) with a tag allowing frequent monitoring of their location and behavior. …”
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Understanding out-of-pocket spending and financial hardship among patients who succumb to cancer and their caregivers by Aviad Tur-Sinai, Damien Urban, Daniel Azoulay, Gil Bar-Sela, Netta Bentur

“…Finally, it is important to sustain the annual increase in budgeting for technologies and pharmaceuticals in Israel and to allocate a significant proportion of those funds to the addition new cancer treatments to the benefits package; this can alleviate the financial burden on patients who need such treatments and their families.…”
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Path Loss Prediction in Tropical Regions using Machine Learning Techniques: A Case Study by Oluwole John Famoriji, Thokozani Shongwe

“…In optimization of wireless networks, path loss prediction is of great importance for adequate planning and budgeting in wireless communications. For efficient and reliable communications in the tropics, determination or estimation of channel parameters becomes important. …”
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WORLD EXPERIENCE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION LAND USE AND PROTECTIONTAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE REQUIREMENTS OF ECOLOGICAL SAFETY by l. Sviridova

“…For the improvement of the economic levers offer: 1) to work out mechanisms refund agrarian agricultural land ownership and land use using innovative technologies for the conservation and protection of soil; 2) simplify the subsidies, grants, benefits for land users at the expense of local budgets (from the land tax and compensation of losses of agricultural and forestry production); 3) Improve mechanisms to stimulate rational land use. …”
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Modelling and simulation of extreme wave heights around agatti island of lakshadweep, west coast of India by Shyamala Varthini Dinakaran, Kiran Raju Alluri, K Jossia Joseph, M V Ramana Murthy, Ramasamy Venkatesan

“…Understanding wave energy will help in identifying suitable locations for coastal structures, wave energy devices and sediment budgeting. Assessment of extreme wave climate around the islands play a crucial role in the design and survival of coastal infrastructure for any developmental activities in islands. …”
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Modeling spatial access to cervical cancer screening services in Ondo State, Nigeria by Kathleen Stewart, Moying Li, Zhiyue Xia, Stephen Ayodele Adewole, Olusegun Adeyemo, Clement Adebamowo

“…The model used inputs that included the distance between service locations and population centers, local population density, quantity of healthcare infrastructures, modes of transportation, and the travel time budgets of clients. Two different travel modes, taxi and mini bus, represented common modes of transit. …”
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