Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gambling Behavior in Mainland Chinese Gamblers in Macau: Cross-Sectional Survey Study by Jinquan Zhou, Hong-Wai Ho, ChiBiu Chan

“…A considerable number of participants opted for web-based platforms over traditional land-based casinos, resulting in reduced budgets, less time spent on gambling, and decreased participation in social gambling. …”
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Perspectives of national industrial enterprises modernization by I.I.Novakivskyi, N.S. Lushchak, V.Z. Borbulevych

“…This situation contributes to the development and production of flexible organizational structures with minimal budgets that would be able to maintain effective global horizontal industrial, economic and branching commercial relations. …”
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Four decades of glacier variations at Muztagh Ata (eastern Pamir): a multi-sensor study including Hexagon KH-9 and Pléiades data by N. Holzer, S. Vijay, T. Yao, B. Xu, M. Buchroithner, T. Bolch

“…Average mass changes in the range of −0.03 ± 0.33 m w.e. a⁻¹ (1973–2009) to −0.01 ± 0.30 m w.e. a⁻¹ (1973–2013) reveal nearly balanced budgets for the last 40 years. Indications of slightly positive rates after 1999 (+0.04 ± 0.27 m w.e. a⁻¹) are not significant, but confirmed by measurements in the field.…”
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Impacts of an extreme cyclone event on landscape-scale savanna fire, productivity and greenhouse gas emissions by L B Hutley, B J Evans, J Beringer, G D Cook, S W Maier, E Razon

“…Accordingly, understanding processes that govern carbon, water and energy exchange within this biome is critical to global carbon and water budgeting. Climate and disturbances drive ecosystem carbon dynamics. …”
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Assessing regional scale predictions of aerosols, marine stratocumulus, and their interactions during VOCALS-REx using WRF-Chem by Q. Yang, W. I. Gustafson Jr., J. D. Fast, H. Wang, R. C. Easter, H. Morrison, Y.-N. Lee, E. G. Chapman, S. N. Spak, M. A. Mena-Carrasco

“…In addition to accounting for the aerosol direct and semi-direct effects, these improvements feed back to the simulation of boundary-layer characteristics and energy budgets. Particularly, inclusion of interactive aerosols in AERO strengthens the temperature and humidity gradients within the capping inversion layer and lowers the marine boundary layer (MBL) depth by 130 m from that of the MET simulation. …”
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Lessons in Linkage: Combining Administrative Data Using Deterministic Linkage for Surveillance of Sports and Recreation Injuries in Florida, United States by Charlotte Baker, Quinton Nottingham, Jonathan Holloway

“…If we expect to move health surveillance forward as budgets for it become even more limited, we must develop and improve methods to do it with fewer resources, including using data that has great limitations. …”
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Competition for labor resources: losses of the Amur region by A. V. Vasilyeva

“…The decrease in demand influences tax reduction and non-tax revenues in budgets of various levels, reduction of employment of labor resources, increase in unemployment, increase in cost of products and rendered services, reduction of the gross regional product, growth of social tension in the society.Under conditions of the competition between regions for labor resources, other things being equal, the outflow of labor resources occurs from regions with a rather low level of compensation to regions with a rather high level of the salary. …”
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An Open Distributed Architecture for Sensor Networks for Risk Management by Ralf Denzer, J. Fernando Esteban, Gerald Schimak, Thomas Usländer, John Douglas

“…The benefit of this philosophy is that it is expected tofavor the emergence of an operational market for risk management services in Europe, iteliminates the need to replace or radically alter the hundreds of already operational ITsystems in Europe (drastically lowering costs for users), and it allows users and stakeholdersto achieve interoperability while using the system most adequate to their needs, budgets,culture etc. (i.e. it has flexibility).…”
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Ukraine in International Systems for Measuring Gender Inequality by K. V. Krasnikova, M. M. Skoryk

“…The structure of each of the five global complex and eight  global sectoral gender indices from among those covering Ukraine was analyzed: Gender-related Development Index, GDI; Gender Gap Index, GGI; Social Institutions and Gender Index, SIGI; Gender Inequality Index, GII; The SDG Gender Index, SDGGI; Women, Business and the Law Index, WBLI; Women’s Economic Opportunity Index, WEO; Gender Budgeting Indicator, GBI; Women, Peace, and Security Index, WPSI; Gender Social Norms Index, GSNI; Women’s Power Index, WPI; The Female Opportunity Index 2021, FOI2021; Gender Parity Index, GPI. …”
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The Fiscal, Social and Economic Dividends of Feeling Better and Living Longer by J.C. Herbert Emery, Ken Fyie, Ludovic Brunel, Daniel J. Dutton

“…The annual health-care bill for a Canadian in poor health is estimated to be more than $10,000 higher than for someone in good health, meaning that keeping people in good health can be an important means for controlling public health-care budgets, and can free up scarce acutecare hospital resources. …”
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29043 Using Milestones to Judge the Progress of Clinical Informatics Fellows Compared with their Personal Goals by Douglas S. Bell, Kevin Baldwin, Eric Cheng, Michael Pfeffer

“…The greatest shortfalls were in Resource Utilization (creating job descriptions, budgeting etc.) and in Communication with Patients and Families. …”
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Study protocol of an economic evaluation embedded in the Midwives and Obstetricians Helping Mothers to Quit Smoking (MOHMQuit) trial by Alison Pearce, Joanne Scarfe, Matthew Jones, Aaron Cashmore, Andrew Milat, Larisa Barnes, Megan E. Passey

“…Discussion There is increasing demand for information on the cost-effectiveness of implementing healthcare interventions to provide policy makers with critical information for the best value for money within finite budgets. Economic evaluation of the MOHMQuit trial will provide essential, policy-relevant information for decision makers on the value of evidence-based implementation of support for healthcare providers delivering services for pregnant women. …”
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Priority National Projects as a Tool of Social, Economic and Political Modernization of Old Industrial Regions of the South of Russia by Inna V. Mitrofanova, Olga A. Chernova, Olga Yu. Patrakeeva

“…The study shows that the degree of involvement of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in implementing program activities of national projects is determined by the volumes of regional budgets, as well as the priorities facing a region. …”
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Recharge and Geochemical Evolution of Groundwater in Fractured Basement Aquifers (NW India): Insights from Environmental Isotopes (δ¹⁸O, δ²H, and ³... by Rudra Mohan Pradhan, Ajit Kumar Behera, Sudhir Kumar, Pankaj Kumar, Tapas Kumar Biswal

“…The findings of this study will prove vital for the decision-makers or policymakers to take appropriate measures to design water budgets as well as water management plans more sustainably.…”
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The seasonal evolution of albedo across glaciers and the surrounding landscape of Taylor Valley, Antarctica by A. Bergstrom, M. N. Gooseff, M. Myers, P. T. Doran, J. M. Cross

“…This new understanding of landscape albedo can constrain landscape energy budgets, better predict meltwater generation on from MDV glaciers, and how these ecosystems will respond to changing climate at the landscape scale.…”
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The state and prospects of TB control service in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic by O. B. Nechaeva

“…The negative effects of the pandemic are partially offset by a sharp reduction in contacts, an increase in lung computed tomography, regular supply of anti-tuberculosis and antiretroviral drugs purchased by the state budgets of different levels, improved patients’ adherence to treatment, and the expansion of hospital-replacing technologies in specialized medical organizations.Facilities, resources and personnel of medical TB control services make it possible to expand their functions to fulfill the goals and objectives of the RF Healthcare Development Strategy for the period up to 2025 for socially significant infectious diseases that pose a biological threat to the population (tuberculosis, HIV infections, and parenteral viral hepatitis).…”
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Interactions between nitrogen deposition, land cover conversion, and climate change determine the contemporary carbon balance of Europe by G. Churkina, S. Zaehle, J. Hughes, N. Viovy, Y. Chen, M. Jung, B. W. Heumann, N. Ramankutty, M. Heimann, C. Jones

“…The models suggest that European ecosystems sequester carbon at a rate of 56 TgC yr<sup>−1</sup> (mean of four models for 1951–2000) with strong interannual variability (±88 TgC yr<sup>−1</sup>, average across models) and substantial inter-model uncertainty (±39 TgC yr<sup>−1</sup>). Decadal budgets suggest that there has been a continuous increase in the mean net carbon storage of ecosystems from 85 TgC yr<sup>−1</sup> in 1980s to 108 TgC yr<sup>−1</sup> in 1990s, and to 114 TgC yr<sup>−1</sup> in 2000–2007. …”
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The Effect of Behind-The-Scenes Encounters and Interactive Presentations on the Welfare of Captive Servals (<i>Leptailurus serval</i>) by Lydia K. Acaralp-Rehnberg, Grahame J. Coleman, Michael J. L. Magrath, Vicky Melfi, Kerry V. Fanson, Ian M. Bland

“…Weekly blocks of four different treatments were imposed three times on each animal over 12 weeks, and the treatments involved (1) Presentations (serval undertaking a routine training session in a designated presentation space, typically attracting high visitor numbers), (2) Behind-the-scenes (BTS, a close encounter allowing a small group of visitors to interact closely with the cat in its enclosure), (3) Presentations and BTS combined, and (4) No visitor interaction. Serval activity budgets as well as behavioural diversity were created from behaviours observed from Close Circuit Television (CCTV) footage during four daily recording sessions per animal over three consecutive days per treatment, using instantaneous scan sampling every 60 s. …”
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Substantial N2O emissions from peat decomposition and N fertilization in an oil palm plantation exacerbated by hotspots by Satria Oktarita, Kristell Hergoualc’h, Syaiful Anwar, Louis V Verchot

“…Our results emphasize the importance to integrate N _2 O emissions in greenhouse gas budgets of plantations on peat, despite the predominance of CO _2 in total emissions.…”
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The Tax Policy Dominants in the European Union Member States by Kaneva Tetiana V., Kryvonos Dmytro A.

“…These taxes are the basis for filling local budgets with their own revenues, the relevant revenues are quite stable and predictable. …”
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