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Analyzing the Effects of Fiscal Decentralization on Interaction between Growth and Equitable Distribution of Fiscal Resources in Provinces of Iran (2001-2007) [PDF]

پژوهشهای اقتصادی, 2014
During recent decades, decentralization has been regarded in various societies as an instrument for making public sector policies more efficient, and its numerous advantages and disadvantages have been discussed.
Morteza Sameti, Shekoofeh Farahmand, maryam moosavi   +2 more
doaj  

From Ambition to Action: Barriers and Enablers for the Inclusion of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in the Kunming–Montreal Biodiversity Framework and the Role of Non‐State Bridge Organizations

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Graphical abstract illustrating the transition from global biodiversity ambition to on‐the‐ground implementation of the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework after COP16, highlighting the roles of governments, non‐state actors, scientific knowledge systems, and resource mobilization in achieving transformative biodiversity outcomes.
Susan Enechojo Ogbe, Jinfeng Zhou, Linda Wong, Jiachen Gao   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

What we talk about when we talk about decentralization? Insights from post-revolution Tunisia

L’Année du Maghreb, 2017
This article explores the language of decentralization policies in post-revolution Tunisia. It argues that international financial institutions mobilize a particular language about decentralization to create new clients and reinvent themselves in a ...
Lana Salman
doaj   +1 more source

Toward Prostate Cancer Early Warning with a Self‐Powered Wearable Biosensing Platform Integrated with Machine Learning

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, Hanxiao Chen, Qichen Yuan, Liucun Yin, Yifang Tao, Hong Wang, Yuquan Xue, Delai Fu, Huan Pang, Tie Chong, Li Xue   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fiscal Decentralization and Regional Financial Efficiency: An Empirical Analysis of Spatial Durbin Model

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2016
Based on panel data covering the period from 2003 to 2012 in China’s 281 prefecture-level cities, we use superefficiency SBM model to measure regional financial efficiency and empirically test the spatial effects of fiscal decentralization on regional ...
Jianmin Liu, Xiaomei Hu, Hongli Tang
doaj   +1 more source

D$^2$: Decentralized Training over Decentralized Data

CoRR, 2018
While training a machine learning model using multiple workers, each of which collects data from their own data sources, it would be most useful when the data collected from different workers can be {\em unique} and {\em different}. Ironically, recent analysis of decentralized parallel stochastic gradient descent (D-PSGD) relies on the assumption that ...
Hanlin Tang, Xiangru Lian, Ming Yan 0006, Ce Zhang 0001, Ji Liu 0002   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Multidimensional and Multifunctional Laser‐Induced Graphene (LIG) for Point‐of‐Care and Wearable Biosensing, Theranostics, and Bioactive Interfaces Toward Personalized Healthcare and Regenerative Medicine

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, Yurou Yuan, Xiaohong Ding, Wing Cheung Mak   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decentralized aid and democracy

INVESTIGACION & DESARROLLO, 2017
This paper uses a model of vote over public finances to show that when nongovernmental organisations deliver development aid, beneficiaries have incentives to reduce electoral support for state-led redistribution. As a result, NGOs can crowd out governmental spending, turning private aid into a negative externality for the poor who do not directly ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Interfacial Water Coordination on Ruthenium Oxide Nanoparticles Confined Within Covalent Organic Framework and Its Effect on Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
We demonstrate how oxygen‐deficient ruthenium oxide (RuOx) nanoparticles confined within covalent organic framework achieve highly efficient nitrate‐to‐ammonia conversion. Strong interaction between RuOx nanoparticles and COF results in modified interfacial hydrogen‐bond water network and adsorption of nitrogenous intermediates.
Yun Li, Xin Zhao, Arsenii S. Portniagin, Yuxuan Wu, Desui Chen, Haochen Liu, Andrey L. Rogach   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interacting Parallel Fluidic Hysterons

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The parallel coupling of fluidic hysterons is introduced, establishing advanced functionalities in inflatable soft systems. A pressure–volume framework reveals how preset volumes Δv∗${\Delta }v^*$ tune nonlinear interactions between hysterons and actuation sequences without changing architecture. Experiments validate the predictions, opening new routes
Katrien Stinissen, Franco Nicolas Piñan Basualdo, Benjamin Gorissen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source