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Classification of large-scale environments that drive the formation of mesoscale convective systems over southern West Africa [PDF]
Weather and Climate Dynamics, 2023 Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) are frequently observed over southern West Africa (SWA) throughout most of the year. These MCS events are the dominant rain-bearing systems, contributing over 50 % of annual rainfall over SWA.
F. Nkrumah +14 more
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Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster [PDF]
California Management Review, vol. 51, no. 2, Winter 2009, 170-193, 2013 The Economist recently reported that infrastructure spending is the largest it is ever been as a share of world GDP. With $22 trillion in projected investments over the next ten years in emerging economies alone, the magazine calls it the "biggest investment boom in history." The efficiency of infrastructure planning and execution is therefore ...
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A Simple Model of Monetary Policy under Phillips-Curve Causal Disagreements [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 I study a static textbook model of monetary policy and relax the conventional assumption that the private sector has rational expectations. Instead, the private sector forms inflation forecasts according to a misspecified subjective model that disagrees with the central bank's (true) model over the causal underpinnings of the Phillips Curve.
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Emergency Referral Transport for Maternal Complication: Lessons from the Community Based Maternal Death Audits in Unnao District, Uttar Pradesh, India [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2015 Background An effective emergency referral transport system is the link between the home of the pregnant woman and a health facility providing basic or comprehensive emergency obstetric care.
Sunil Saksena Raj +2 more
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Economic Conditions for Innovation: Private vs. Public Sector [PDF]
Evan, T. & Hol\'y, V. (2021). Economic Conditions for Innovation:
Private vs. Public Sector. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 76, 100966, 2020 The Hicks induced innovation hypothesis states that a price increase of a production factor is a spur to invention. We propose an alternative hypothesis restating that a spur to invention require not only an increase of one factor but also a decrease of at least one other factor to offset the companies' cost.
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Multimodal Locomotion: Next Generation Aerial–Terrestrial Mobile Robotics
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView., 2023 Aerial–terrestrial robots can achieve efficient energy consumption and robust environmental interaction by adding morphological features, adapting forms for locomotion transitions, and integrating multiple platforms. This next generation of mobile robots advances real‐world robotic deployment for operations with complex tasks and tackle environments ...
Jane Pauline Ramirez, Salua Hamaza
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Artificial Intelligence for the Public Sector: Opportunities and challenges of cross-sector collaboration [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2018, Volume
376, Issue 2128, 2018 Public sector organisations are increasingly interested in using data science and artificial intelligence capabilities to deliver policy and generate efficiencies in high uncertainty environments. The long-term success of data science and AI in the public sector relies on effectively embedding it into delivery solutions for policy implementation ...
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American Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 70, Issue 3-4, Page 365-378, December 2022., 2022 Abstract While implementation and dissemination of research is a rapidly growing area, critical questions remain about how, why, and under what conditions everyday people integrate and utilize research evidence. This mixed‐methods study investigates how participants of Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide (PC CARES) make ...
Lauren A. White +7 more
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Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023 Background: There is a pressing need for systematic approaches for monitoring how much tuberculosis (TB) treatment is ongoing in the public and private sectors in India, Both to shed light on the true scale of the problem and to help monitor the progress
Yogesh Shukla +3 more
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On growth-optimal tax rates and the issue of wealth inequalities [PDF]
, 2015 We introduce a highly stylized, yet non trivial model of the economy, with a public and private sector coupled through a wealth tax and a redistribution policy. The model can be fully solved analytically, and allows one to address the question of optimal taxation and of wealth inequalities.
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