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As a city that has lost more than 1/3 of its population over the past 6 decades, some Baltimore neighborhoods suffer from a disproportionate number of vacant and abandoned properties, mired in issues of unclear ownership and “under-water” lien burdens ...
Amanda M Davies +3 more
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Key energy indicators for sustainable development goals in Ukraine [PDF]
Transforming the energy sector to provide universal access to reliable and modern energy services is an essential task for Ukraine, one of the Eastern Partnership countries with heavy energy dependence.
Svitlana Naumenkova +2 more
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The role of enabling actors in ecosystem service accounting [PDF]
When accounting for ecosystem services, it is important to distinguish between the flow of services and the flow of benefits (which can be part of economic accounts or not) generated by those services.
Alessandra La Notte, Alexandra Marques
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Recently a prescription to compute the superconformal index for all theories of class S was proposed. In this paper we discuss some of the physical information which can be extracted from this index. We derive a simple criterion for the given theory of class S to have a decoupled free component and for it to have enhanced flavor symmetry.
Gaiotto, Davide, Razamat, Shlomo S.
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A critical review of social sciences and humanities R&D expenditure in South Africa, 2005–2014
Expenditure on research and experimental development in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in South Africa has almost doubled over the past decade. However, fine-grained analysis of patterns of R&D expenditure in SSH research fields over the period
Neo Molotja, Gerard Ralphs
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Should the indications for therapies differ from one nation to the next? What are the reasons behind controversial therapeutic variations? What roles do cultural history and authoritarian conflict among clinicians play in the adoption of therapies? When I worked at a rural hospital in Kenya, a woman experiencing obstructed labor made me ponder many ...
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Scrutinizing the Smart City Index: a multivariate statistical approach [PDF]
The smart city represents a frequently elaborated concept which however comes short in delivering a consistent definition. Nevertheless, almost every description has always been oriented to its technological component, sustainable ...
Olga Bogdanov +3 more
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We analysed the timing of pesticide treatments for eventual analysis of temporal environmental risks associated with pesticide use in field vegetable crops.
Kati Räsänen +3 more
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Second generation governance indicators [PDF]
This paper summarizes progress made in a DfID-funded World Bank initiative to test and develop policy-relevant, politically acceptable, quantitative indicators of governance. There are two major components involved in the process of generating indicators
Kohls, Niko +3 more
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Advancing practical applications of resilience in Aotearoa-New Zealand
Resilience is increasingly used to inform natural hazard risk management. From global to national to local levels of governance and decision making, resilience concepts are becoming institutionalized and operationalized in both public and private domains.
David Wither +3 more
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