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Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Challenges in Latin America for the Next Decade [PDF]

, 2011
A decade after a 1999 World Bank-sponsored meeting of Latin American water and sanitation experts, there has been progress in rural sanitation in that region.
Glenn Pearce-Oroz
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An unusual titanosaur axis from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil and its significance for sauropod anatomy and systematics

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The Upper Cretaceous São José do Rio Preto Formation (Bauru Group, southeastern Brazil) has yielded a fragmentary but taxonomically diverse record of titanosaur sauropods, although elements from cervical series remain scarce. Here, we describe a nearly complete sauropod axis from the Vila Ventura Paleontological Area, representing an uncommon ...
Bruno A. Navarro, Jeffrey A. Wilson Mantilla, Jhonata H. A. Martins, Fabiano V. Iori, Leonardo S. Paschoa, Alberto B. Carvalho, Joseli M. Piranha, Hussam Zaher   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the Perceived Fairness of a Property Tax by a Taxpayer Survey: The Case of Residential Arnona Tax in Israel

Real Estate Management and Valuation
Understanding taxpayer perceptions of a property tax system is essential for developing equitable and transparent fiscal policies that foster public trust.
Mintz Mordekhay, Portnov Boris A.
doaj   +1 more source

Spatial Diversity of Municipal Capital Companies in Poland

Studia Ekonomiczne i Regionalne, 2017
Subject and purpose of work: This article aims to identify the spatial diversity of Polish municipal services companies operating pursuant to the Commercial Companies Code.
Satoła Łukasz
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Economic Effects of Municipal Government Institutions [PDF]

This paper presents an analysis of employment and compensation practices under alternative institutions of municipal government which demonstrates that institutional variations have significant, important, and predictable effects upon outcomes in ...
Jeffrey S. Zax
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Unraveling ovarian histology: The key morphological aspects that spur the development of the Fossa ovarii in equine

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The equine ovary exhibits unique structural and developmental features that distinguish it from those of other domestic species, including the presence of an ovulation fossa and an inversion of cortical and medullary layers. This study aimed to investigate the morphostructural development of the equine fetal ovary, with particular emphasis on ...
Laura Ver Goltz, Silvio Pires Gomes, Bruno Cesar Schimming, Fabio Cesar Magioli Abdala, Maria Angélica Miglino, Tais Harumi de Castro Sasahara   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spondyloarthritis Preceding and Following Inflammatory Bowel Disease Diagnosis and Risk Factors: A Temporal Trends Analysis in a Population‐Based Cohort

Arthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.
Objective Spondyloarthritides (SpA) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are immune‐mediated diseases with overlap in clinical and immunologic features. However, temporal correlation of SpA and IBD in individual patients and risk factors are not well characterized.
Manasi Agrawal, Christian N. Sørensen, Gry J. Poulsen, Bahar Moghaddam, Percio S. Gulko, Jean‐Frederic Colombel, Tine Jess   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shadow Budgets, Fiscal Illusion and Municipal Spending: The Case of Germany [PDF]

The paper investigates the existence of fiscal illusion in German municipalities with special focus on the revenues from local public enterprises. These shadow budgets tend to increase the misperception of municipal tax prices and seem to have been ...
Peter Haug
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Annotating aspects in text and image: A new task and dataset for multimodal aspect‐based sentiment analysis

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Aspect‐Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) has evolved from textual analysis to a multimodal paradigm, integrating visual information to capture nuanced sentiments. Despite advancements, existing Multimodal ABSA (MABSA) research remains limited in granularity, which focuses on either coarse‐level categories or named entities, neglecting fine ...
Li Yang, Jia Yang, Jin‐Cheon Na, Jianfei Yu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Talking Trash: Valuing Household Preferences for Garbage and Recycling Services Bundles Using a Discrete Choice Experiment [PDF]

Facing increasing costs for tipping fees and worker salaries, many smaller municipalities have begun to explore ways to adopt mechanized pay-as-you throw container garbage collection and changes to the basket of currently provided services, such as the ...
Boyer, Tracy A.
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