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Tough Decisions and Limited Options: How Philadelphia and Other Cities Are Balancing Budgets in a Time of Recession [PDF]
, 2009 Compares the budget gaps, the budget cuts, and proposed tax increases brought on by the economic downturn in twelve cities nationwide with those of Philadelphia.
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Impact of Positive Lifestyle Behaviors on Direct Health Care Cost Savings for Low Back Pain
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective This study aimed to investigate the relationship between a previously purpose‐developed lifestyle behavior scale and health care cost savings related to low back pain (LBP). Methods This longitudinal study used data from the Australian Twin Back (AUTBACK) study. LBP and lifestyle behavior measures were collected at baseline. Physical activity
Ye Tian +8 more
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Rapid Fabrication of Self‐Propelled and Steerable Magnetic Microcatheters for Precision Medicine
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.A rapid Joule heating fabrication method for the production of self‐propelling, adaptive microcatheters, with tunable stiffness and integrated microfluidic channels is presented. Demonstrated through three microrobotic designs, including a steerable guiding catheter, an untethered wave‐crawling TubeBot, and a distal‐end propelled microcatheter, it was ...
Zhi Chen +5 more
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Energies, 2022 Studies of carbon emissions typically focus on price and tax effects or technology. We argue that the two are closely linked within an economy in disequilibrium.
David Bonilla +2 more
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Metasurface‐engineered NC‐TENG arrays integrate tactile pressure mapping, non‐contact gesture sensing, and acoustic signal readouts in one ultrathin module, and outperforms pristine PDMS in terms of electrical output and real‐time spatial mapping for next‐gen wearables.
Injamamul Arief +12 more
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British Columbia’s Harmonized Sales Tax: A Giant Leap in the Province’s Competitiveness [PDF]
The School of Public Policy Publications, 2010 British Columbia’s harmonization of its sales tax with the federal goods and services tax (GST) will result in a giant leap in the province’s competitiveness, both domestically and internationally. By 2020, the combined effect of federal and provincial
Jack M. Mintz
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Economic, political and institutional determinants of fiscal deficit [PDF]
Zbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2017 This paper seeks basic economic and political causes of instability and rising fiscal deficit. Economic factors that may cause the appearance and increase in the fiscal deficit are: growth of current public spending, launching public investments, tax ...
Vuković Marija R.
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Corporate taxes and the location of FDI in Europe: The importance of economic integration and project characteristics [PDF]
Ekonomski Anali, 2018 European countries face ever-increasing competition for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). This paper studies how corporate taxes affect the location of FDI in Europe.
Silva Tomás, Lagoa Sérgio
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Automated poultry processing lines still rely on humans to lift slippery, easily bruised carcasses onto a shackle conveyor. Deformability, anatomical variance, and hygiene rules make conventional suction and scripted motions unreliable. We present ChicGrasp, an end‐to‐end hardware‐software co‐designed imitation learning framework, to offer a ...
Amirreza Davar +8 more
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