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Modeling and parameter estimation for fractional large‐scale interconnected Hammerstein systems
Asian Journal of Control, EarlyView.Abstract This paper addresses the challenge of modeling and identifying large‐scale interconnected systems exhibiting memory effects, hereditary properties, and non‐local interactions. We propose a fractional‐order extension of the Hammerstein architecture that incorporates Grünwald–Letnikov operators to capture complex dynamics through multiple ...
Mourad Elloumi +2 more
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Local Public Finance in the Philippines: Lessons in Autonomy and Accountability [PDF]
Fifteen years into the implementation of the Local Government Code of 1991, now is an opportune time to assess how this landmark legislation has contributed to (or detracted from) the achievement of local autonomy with accountability.
Manasan, Rosario G.
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Devolution of Environmental and Natural Resource Management in the Philippines: Analytical and Policy Issues [PDF]
This paper is an assessment of the constraints and opportunities for capturing the gains from the devolution of environmental and natural resource (ENR) management and for engendering a more sustainable ENR management system in the Philippines.
Manasan, Rosario G.
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Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.Abstract Energy scarcity remains a persistent challenge in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA), where limited access to reliable, affordable, and clean energy constrains socioeconomic development. Biomass resources, including agricultural residues, forest waste, and waste from other biological sources, are widely available, but their use for modern energy ...
Joseph O. Dirisu +2 more
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DECENTRALIZATION AND EFFIENCY IN SPANISH LOCAL GOVERMENT [PDF]
This study analyzes the links between efficiency and the decentralization of competencies among Spanish local governments for years 1995 and 2000.
Emili Tortosa Ausina +2 more
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Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.Abstract One of the challenges for biomethane production in Brazil, as well as its use, is related to transportation logistics, owing to the lack of detailed studies of the entire supply chain at a national level, which includes all the stages from waste collection to transportation for its final use.
Andreza Nascimento Vaz +5 more
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Local Government Regional Management Plan - Northern Region
, 2012 Made available by the Northern Territory Library via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).'The Plan is set out in five sections. Background provides an overview of legislative requirements of Regional Management Plans.
Local Government Support Unit
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Public sector decentralization and school performance: International evidence [PDF]
Using a panel of international student test scores 1980 – 2000 (PISA and TIMSS), panel fixed effects estimates suggest that government spending decentralization is conducive to student performance. The effect does not appear to be mediated through levels
Falch, Torberg, Fischer, Justina AV
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Analisis Desentralisasi Fiskal di Kabupaten Bungo
Jurnal Perspektif Pembiayaan dan Pembangunan Daerah, 2013 The purpose of this study was to measure and analyze the degree of fiscal decentralization in Bungo district during the years 2000 to 2010 as well as analyzing the relationship of GDP to the degree of fiscal decentralization during the same period.
Supriyadi Supriyadi +2 more
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Fiscal decentralization in Spain: An asymmetric transition to democracy [PDF]
Asymmetric fiscal decentralization, by which we mean different fiscal arrangements between the central government and different groups of, or individual, lower-level governments, may be justified from an economic efficiency perspective.
Therese J. McGuire, Teresa Garcia-Milà
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