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Unprincipled Principals in the Accountability Chain: Autonomy and Political Control Within Tax Administration in a Developing Country Context

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT SDG 16 emphasizes the need for accountable institutions, often based on the assumption that public officials are accountable to politicians, who in turn are accountable to citizens. However, in many developing countries, neopatrimonial governance can weaken this accountability chain, as politicians themselves may act as “unprincipled ...
Edidiong Bassey, Emer Mulligan
wiley   +1 more source

Harnessing an endophytic Bacillus strain closely related to Bacillus velezensis for biocontrol of twig blight in bayberry caused by Pestalotiopsis versicolor. [PDF]

BMC Plant Biol
Ibrahim E, Nasser R, Kafsheer DA, Zhu H, Alzunaidy NA, Allemailem KS, Al-Megrin WAI, Wang D, Lin H.   +8 more
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Can Coercive Vertical Consolidation Improve the Financial Condition of Local Authorities?

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vertical consolidation of small local authorities providing neighborhood services and large authorities providing strategic services into unitary authorities is assumed to improve financial condition by creating new economies of scale and scope.
Rhys Andrews, Dennis De Widt
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial-aware lightweight network for real-time tea disease detection: A coordinate attention-enhanced YOLOv8n approach with path-decoupling strategy. [PDF]

PLoS One
Lyu X, Yu Y, Song C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Inter‐disciplinary perspectives on sustainability in machinery manufacturing

International Journal of Management Reviews, EarlyView.
Abstract Perspectives on economic, social and environmental sustainability in machinery manufacturing are changing. These are predominantly driven by increased consumer, firm and public knowledge on the importance of sustainability and the role that machinery manufacturers can play to achieve sustainability outcomes.
Oluwaseun E. Olabode, Eleni Zantidou, Olaide F. Olabode, Afolakemi A. Jedidiah, Simon Fletcher, Andrew Longstaff   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anisotropic boundary-aware detection for cotton leaf diseases with boundary-decoupled regression and lightweight feature adaptation. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci
Cao B, Yang Z, Chen W, Wang W, Yang Y, Kan M, Wang Y, Zhou P.   +7 more
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Conceptualising post‐growth to advance corporate sustainability research: A comparative literature review

International Journal of Management Reviews, EarlyView.
Abstract This comparative literature review explores how an expanding body of interdisciplinary post‐growth literature aligns, extends or challenges ecocentric Corporate Sustainability (eCS) research in management (i.e., rooted in systems thinking, emphasising planetary boundaries, ecological limits and embeddedness).
Gianluigi Narciso, Yanfei Hu
wiley   +1 more source

A Horse Race of Machine‐Learning Methods to Predict Banking Crises

International Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To examine if one machine‐learning model can consistently elucidate financial vulnerabilities, both over time and across levels of development, this paper applies 13 machine‐learning algorithms to evaluate comparative forecasting performance across several banking crises.
Emile du Plessis
wiley   +1 more source

Deep learning techniques for early detection and classification of leaf diseases in crops. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci
Srinivasu PN, Anirudh V, Kamali DL, Lalitha Kumari S, Chidirala SR, Ijaz MF.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Optimization of Cultivation Parameters for Scale-Up Production of <i>Streptomyces recifensis</i> SN1E1. [PDF]

J Microbiol Biotechnol
Lee SI, Kwak YS.
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