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Charging for Local Social Services: the Case of Estonia
Eesti Majanduspoliitilised Väitlused, 2012 Increasing fiscal pressure has forced local governments to seek new sources of autonomous revenues for financing public services. Charging users of social services has been modest, but with an aging society and growing social costs, this option needs to ...
Katrin Pihor, Kadi Timpmann
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The Administrative Costs of Local Government Property-Based User Charges and Their Regressivity
Central European Public Administration Review, 2011 The paper measures the administrative costs (assessment and collection costs) of immovable property user charges in local governments in Croatia. This study represents a small scale survey comprising mostly small local governments.
Helena Blažić +2 more
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User Perspectives of Diet-Tracking Apps: Reviews Content Analysis and Topic Modeling
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2021 BackgroundThe availability and use of mobile apps in health and nutrition management are increasing. Ease of access and user friendliness make diet-tracking apps an important ally in their users’ efforts to lose and manage weight.
Zečević, Mila +4 more
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Renewable Electricity Pricing Mechanism Formation Mechanism Model Prediction
Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2016 This paper mainly peak and valley electric charges price periods division and peak and valley electric charges determine optimized research established model peak and valley electric charges valley periods division and user response.
Q. Cai, L. Le
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Maintaining quality of health services after abolition of user fees: A Uganda case study
BMC Health Services Research, 2008 Background It has been argued that quality improvements that result from user charges reduce their negative impact on utilization especially of the poor.
Okuonzi Sam A +5 more
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Medium voltage consumers’ cost evaluation connected to a micro-grid PV system
Energy Reports, 2022 The increase in the deployment of photovoltaic systems has brought a change to the national grid and directly influences the energy charges applied by the utilities. Different types of tariffs are applied to consumers for electrical energy. These tariffs
Boitumelo Mokoena +2 more
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IoT Integrated Dynamic Wireless Charging System for Electric Vehicle with Authentication and Billing [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThe Dynamic Wireless Charging System with Customized Billing (DWCS) revolutionizes electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. Integrating wireless power- transmitting coils and IoT control, it offers two payment options: Option 1 charges 100 rupees ...
Bezawada Pangedaiah +3 more
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EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2023 Electric charge service and management is an important part of electric power work. The effective recovery of the electric charge relates to the smooth development of daily work and continuous improvement of the operation and management of power supply ...
Guangcai Wu, Yinglong Zheng
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Next-Generation Payment System for Device-to-Device Content and Processing Sharing
Sensors, 2022 Recent developments in telecommunication world have allowed customers to share the storage and processing capabilities of their devices by providing services through fast and reliable connections.
Fatih Kihtir +3 more
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IATSS Research, 2003 This paper describes the design and implementation of a field trial of a GPS-based road-user charging system held in Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. Employees from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne were recruited to participate in experiments of both point-
Neil THORPE
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