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Fiscal Decentralization in Centralized States : The Case of Central Asia [PDF]

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The resource-based Central Asian countries Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan constitute a special case for fiscal decentralization. Political and administrative centralization is accompanied by the centralized administration of resource rents and ...
Manuela Troschke, Natalie Leschenko
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Multiobjective Environmental Cleanup with Autonomous Surface Vehicle Fleets Using Multitask Multiagent Deep Reinforcement Learning

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study presents a multitask strategy for plastic cleanup with autonomous surface vehicles, combining exploration and cleaning phases. A two‐headed Deep Q‐Network shared by all agents is traineded via multiobjective reinforcement learning, producing a Pareto front of trade‐offs.
Dame Seck   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health impact assessment of decentralization of Emergency Medical Services: a case study in Chonburi Province, Thailand. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
Jaidee PH   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Roadmap on Artificial Intelligence‐Augmented Additive Manufacturing

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This Roadmap outlines the transformative role of artificial intelligence‐augmented additive manufacturing, highlighting advances in design, monitoring, and product development. By integrating tools such as generative design, computer vision, digital twins, and closed‐loop control, it presents pathways toward smart, scalable, and autonomous additive ...
Ali Zolfagharian   +37 more
wiley   +1 more source

Peer Interest-based Discovery for Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Systems

open access: green, 2010
Andreea Visan   +4 more
openalex   +2 more sources

Hierarchical Language Models for Semantic Navigation and Manipulation in an Aerial‐Ground Robotic System

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A hierarchical multimodal framework coupling a large language model for task decomposition and semantic mapping with a fine‐tuned vision‐language model for semantic perception, enhanced by GridMask, is presented. An aerial‐ground robot team exploits the semantic map for global and local planning.
Haokun Liu   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the measurement and impact of fiscal decentralization [PDF]

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The typical post-Bretton Woods era development approach that emphasized central government-led development efforts has changed dramatically, and local governments have clearly emerged as players in development policy. The thinking about what is important
Ebel, Robert D., Yilmaz, Serdar
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