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FISCAL DECENTRALISATION AND POLITICAL ECONOMY OF POVERTY REDUCTION: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM PAKISTAN [PDF]
, 2013 This thesis explores the relationship between fiscal decentralisation and poverty. The thesis consists of four parts. First part reviews the related literature addressing different aspects of fiscal decentralisation and poverty and highlighting the ...
AHMED, MANZOOR
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Decentralisation in South African local government : a critical evaluation [PDF]
, 2011 Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 231-245).The South African local government model is considered to be decentralised in character, incorporating various constitutional, policy and statutory instruments to enable local ...
Siddle, Andrew McCalman
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Functional Fibers in Soft Robotics: Advances in Material, Structural, and Systemic Tactics
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Fiber‐form robotic systems offer a scalable pathway toward embodied intelligence in soft robotics. This review surveys functional fibers as material, structural, and systemic elements, highlighting advances in responsive materials, architectural programing, and fabrication strategies.
Joonhee Won +5 more
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Revue Internationale des Économistes de Langue FrançaiseObjectif : Évaluer les effets de la décentralisation fiscale sur la croissance économique au Sénégal de 2011 à 2021. Conception/méthodologie/approche : Les indices de décentralisation fiscale des recettes et des dépenses ont été calculés.
Samba Diakhite, Aliou Niang Fall
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Nonreciprocal Swarmalators With Reconfigurable and Controllable Formations for Robot Collectives
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Nonreciprocal swarmalator interactions are enabled through control barrier functions to transform self‐organizing robot collectives into reconfigurable, constraint‐aware systems. Complex two‐ and three‐dimensional shapes, continuous morphing, obstacle‐aware navigation, collective splitting, and object transport emerge from modulating agent‐level ...
Kush Patel +3 more
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Can the economic impact of political decentralisation be measured? [PDF]
This paper examines whether, given the increasing salience of subnational governments, political decentralisation has an impact on overall economic performance.
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Roberto Ezcurra
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Current prostate cancer detection methods remain limited in non‐invasiveness and specificity, prompting interest in urinary biomarkers such as sarcosine. Here, we report a urine‐powered wearable platform for non‐invasive sarcosine detection as a proof‐of‐concept for decentralized early warning.
Jing Xu +10 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Multidimensional laser‐induced graphene (LIG) spanning from 0D to 3D architectures is comprehensively reviewed for multifunctional biomedical platforms, including biosensing, theranostics, and bioactive interface applications, which highlights its potentials for point‐of‐care diagnostics, wearable health monitoring, smart drug delivery, and tissue ...
Li Zhang +3 more
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Decentralisation of pharmaceutical assistance in Brazil: Impacts on access to medicines [PDF]
, 2013 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel UniversityThis thesis explores how decentralisation of basic pharmaceutical assistance was introduced in Brazil.
Nazareno, Regina Céli Scorpione
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Asymmetric single‐atom metal‐nitrogen‐carbon catalysts modulate the non‐radical pathway during peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation. A fundamental contrast was revealed between diffusible singlet oxygen (1O2) and non‐diffusible electron‐transfer pathways (ETP) in antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) degradation.
Chen Gao +6 more
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