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Kazakhstan : Public Expenditure Review, Volume 1. Summary Report

open access: yes, 2000
The report is the public expenditure review for Kazakhstan, and builds upon previous work on the country's transition experience to a market-oriented economy, and of recent public sector reforms. It comprises
World Bank
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Learning‐Based Soft Robotic Grasping: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review analyzes learning‐based soft robotic grasping from a pipeline‐oriented perspective, encompassing soft gripper design, multimodal sensing, and learning‐based planning and control. It surveys key neural network architectures and benchmark datasets and identifies critical challenges such as sim‐to‐real transfer, generalization, and continual ...
Arnab Majumder   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nigeria - Lagos Rolling First Public Expenditure Review

open access: yes, 2010
This review provides an analysis of the fiscal performance and sustainability of the State of Lagos, performance of the budgeting system and of the public procurement system. It is the first in a planned rolling
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Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human development and decentralization: The importance of public health expenditure

open access: yesAnnals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2022
Ronald Miranda-Lescano   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Addis Ababa City : Public Expenditure Review

open access: yes, 2010
This study on Addis Ababa is part of the national Public Expenditure Review (PFR-2010) study and the report is one of the four regional PER-2010 reports. The objective of the study is to review the institutional
World Bank
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Adipocyte‐Derived Leptolin Enhances Energy Expenditure and Prevents Obesity

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
We identified a novel adipokine, which we named leptolin. In humans, leptolin levels in white adipose tissue were positively correlated with exercise and negatively associated with body mass index. We observed elevated leptolin in serum from athletes and lower leptolin in serum from obese individuals.
Jiarui Liu   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE PROGNOSIS OF TOTAL PUBLIC EXPENDITURES AND TYPES OF EXPENDITURES IN ROMANIA [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of the University of Petrosani: Economics, 2012
The purpose of the paper is to provide a prognosis of total public expenditure and types of expenditures, starting from the evolution in time of total public expenditure and spending on public services, defense, public order and safety, economic affairs, environmental protection, housing and community amenities, health, recreation, culture and religion,
Ana-Petrina Stanciu, Petre Brezeanu
openaire   +1 more source

Malawi - Public Expenditures : Issues and Options

open access: yes, 2001
This report argues that public expenditure outcomes in Malawi, can be improved in the next few years, provided 1) additional spending on priority items is balanced by expenditure cut-backs in low priority areas,
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A Brain‐Wide Atlas of Astrocytic Oxytocin Receptors Reveals a Glial Basis for Nucleus Accumbens Modulation of Affiliative Behavior

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
The cellular actors of oxytocin signaling are under intense scrutiny. A brain‐wide anatomical and functional analysis in mice and rats reveals widespread expression of oxytocin receptors in astrocytes. These receptors are functionally active and, in the nucleus accumbens, selectively regulate male social affiliation.
Clémence Denis   +32 more
wiley   +1 more source

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