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Institutional Design of Collaborative Water Governance: The River Chief System in China

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Collaborative governance has been increasingly applied in the field of water governance. However, this approach is often criticized for overlooking the political nature of water governance and the necessity of collaboration across multiple dimensions.
Xiaomeng Zhou, Yanliu Lin, Pieter Hooimeijer, Jochen Monstadt   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial assessment of the community‐based dental education program at the Indiana University School of Dentistry

Journal of Dental Education, Volume 86, Issue 12, Page 1581-1590, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Background There is a gap in access to oral health services for millions of Americans residing in health professional shortage areas. The community‐based dental education program at the Indiana University School of Dentistry is an innovative model that aims to improve access to oral health services in rural underserved Indiana.
Anubhuti Shukla, Bhavya Vaishnavi Amrutham, Laura Romito, Andres Alfredo Mantilla Rodriguez, E. Angeles Martinez Mier   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

STAF: Sinusoidal Trainable Activation Functions for Implicit Neural Representation [PDF]

arXiv
Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have emerged as a powerful framework for modeling continuous signals. The spectral bias of ReLU-based networks is a well-established limitation, restricting their ability to capture fine-grained details in target signals.
arxiv  

Circulating growth differentiation factor‐15 levels are associated with early echocardiographic signs of diastolic function impairment in the STANISLAS cohort: A 20‐year follow‐up study

European Journal of Heart Failure, EarlyView.
Summary of the study design and key findings. The (+) and (−) signs mean that the variable has a positive or a negative association with growth differentiation factor‐15 (GDF‐15) levels in the fully adjusted model (age, gender, current smoker, body mass index, total cholesterol, systolic blood pressure and N‐terminal pro‐B‐type natriuretic peptide ...
Luca Monzo, Constance Xhaard, João Pedro Ferreira, Guillaume Baudry, Zohra Lamiral, Kevin Duarte, Erwan Bozec, Jean‐Marc Boivin, Olivier Huttin, Patrick Rossignol, Faiez Zannad, Nicolas Girerd   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Employee substitutability as a tool to improve the robustness in personnel scheduling [PDF]

, 2017
Ingels, Jonas, Maenhout, Broos
core   +2 more sources

Improving equity in the provision of primary health care: lessons from decentralized planning and management in Namibia

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2002
This paper draws lessons from a review of primary health care services in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia, undertaken by a regional health management team.
Bell Ruth, Ithindi Taathi, Low Anne
doaj  

Optimizing a complex multi-objective personnel scheduling problem jointly complying with requests from customers and staff

, 2022
Renata Mansini, Marina Zanella, Roberto Zanotti   +2 more
openalex   +1 more source

Expert opinions on pediatric EEG training for non‐epilepsy specialists in sub‐Saharan Africa

Epileptic Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Ideally, pediatric electroencephalograms (EEGs) should be performed by accredited neurophysiology technologists and interpreted by specialists trained in epileptology However, low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) lack such specialists.
Veena Kander, Kette D. Valente, Jaime Carrizosa, Jorge Vidaurre, Archana A. Patel, Chahnez Charfi Triki, Ghaieb Aljandeel, Gagandeep Singh, Mitsuhiro Kato, Lala Seck, Zeinab Kone, Sándor Beniczky, Melody T. Asukile, Gretchen L. Birbeck, Kevin Jones, Geraldine Boylan, Joanne Hardman, Jo M. Wilmshurst   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimization on Electric Construction Machinery Considering Time‐of‐Use Electricity Price Based on the Improved Crested Porcupine Optimizer Algorithm

Energy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
Flowchart of the methodology used for this study ABSTRACT Optimization scheduling plays a pivotal role in construction projects, significantly influencing both the overall project schedule and its efficiency. This study focuses on optimizing the scheduling of electric highway engineering projects within roadbed construction.
Dawei Wang, Bo Gao, Lei Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental Scanning: A Look to the Future

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental scanning was originally conceived as a continuous evaluation methodology that identified internal and external trends that might impact an organization's success in the present and future. Best approached holistically and inductively, environmental scanning draws upon internal and external sources of information to determine the ...
Benjamin Harris, Jennifer Brooker
wiley   +1 more source