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Local government financial autonomy in Nigeria: The State Joint Local Government Account

Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2010
This paper addresses the statutory financial relations and financial autonomy of local government in Nigeria, and the freedom of local government to generate revenue from its assigned sources without external interference.
Jude Okafor
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Indigenous Autonomy and Financial Decision-Making in Communities

Financial Planning Research Journal, 2018
ABSTRACT In this article, we argue that Indigenous autonomy, not increased regulation, is required to improve financial management and outcomes in Indigenous communities. We explore what may enable and constrain good financial practice and a move towards autonomous financial decision-making in Indigenous communities.
Blue, Levon, O'Faircheallaigh, Ciaran
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Multimodal Data‐Driven Microstructure Characterization

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
A self‐consistent autonomous workflow for EBSP‐based microstructure segmentation by integrating PCA, GMM clustering, and cNMF with information‐theoretic parameter selection, requiring no user input. An optimal ROI size related to characteristic grain size is identified.
Qi Zhang, Santiago Benito, Özge Özgün, Sebastian Weber, Markus Stricker   +4 more
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Semantic Modeling in Materials Science and Engineering With Platform MaterialDigital Core Ontology 3.0

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
The community‐driven Platform MaterialDigital Core Ontology (PMDco) 3.0 is introduced as a Basic Formal Ontology‐aligned semantic backbone for the processing–structure–properties paradigm in Materials Science and Engineering. Modular engineering, automated releases, and validation workflows are highlighted and key semantic patterns for materials ...
Markus Schilling, Philipp von Hartrott, Jörg Waitelonis, Thomas Hanke, Henk Birkholz, Hossein Beygi Nasrabadi, Khashayar Razghandi, Kamilla Zaripova, Felix Thonagel, Fabian Neuhaus, Martin Glauer, Lars Vogt, Harald Sack, Lutz Mädler, Bernd Bayerlein, Chris Eberl   +15 more
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Exploring the impact of financial autonomy on educational quality in higher education institutions

Social Sciences and Humanities Open
The growing need to enhance the efficiency of higher education amidst limited public resources makes financial autonomy a crucial factor in improving educational quality and fostering innovation, infrastructure modernization, and resource management ...
Mirlan Chynybaev, Burul Tashtobaeva, Rahat Bekboeva   +2 more
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Securing future flows as financing of decentralized autonomous governments

Revista Facultad de Jurisprudencia, 2018
The present research shows us that the securitization of future flows is a suitable financial tool, which is directly link to thesecurities market, regulated by the second book of the Código Orgáni-co Monetario y Financiero, Ley de Mercado de Valores ...
Francisco Xavier Jacome, Tanya Mishell Guillen Triana   +1 more
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Financial Policies of Higher Educational Institutions

Університети і лідерство, 2022
In the context of legal regulation and restrictions on public funding of higher educational institutions and competition in the search for additional resources, the efficiency of the use of funds, openness and accountability of the expenditures are ...
Наталія Шофолова
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A Novel Modified Petroresin Particle (MPRP) With Enhanced Oil–Water Selectivity for Cold Production in Heavy Oil Reservoirs

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A novel oil–water selective conformance control agent, MPRP, is prepared via hydrophilic grafting and mechanical granulation. MPRP uniformly disperses in water, cohesively expands upon aging, and readily dissolves in the oil phase. During conformance control, it selectively aggregates in water channeling pathways to form effective plugs without ...
Guang Zhao, Dongfang Lv, Chang Liu, Changxu Wu, Yifei Liu, Caili Dai, Huazhou Li   +6 more
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RBI Autonomy and the Indian Financial Sector [PDF]

Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, 1993
In the context of the worldwide trend towards greater independence for the central banks and the recent public pronouncements by the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), there is now a strong possibility of the RBI being given more autonomy. This is likely to be accompanied by several changes in the operations of the RBI including a pruning of ...
Barua, Samir K., Varma, Jayanth R.
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Polymer Substrates for Flexible Sensors: Advances and Contributions to Smart Agriculture

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes recent advances in polymer‐based flexible sensors for smart agriculture, focusing on polymer substrate design, interface engineering, and applications in soil, plant, animal, aquaculture, and post‐harvest monitoring.
Yihui Li, Zhangzheng Xiao, Zheng Yan, Adnan Raza Altaf, Qun Song, Dingding Yao, Afshan Sohail, Yixin Wang, Wenxiu Ma, Shanjun Li, Yaohui Chen, Peiwen Liu, Kai Zhang   +12 more
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