Issues at the Rural-Urban Fringe: Will Florida Be Prepared for 2030? by Rodney L. Clouser

“…Clouser, identifies some of the policy issues which are most important for the state to address, and encourages policy-makers to start addressing those issues now before they become more troublesome and the solutions become more limited. …”
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The Other Side of the Story: Greenhouse and Nursery Producers’ Perceptions about Neonicotinoid Insecticides and Pollinator Friendly Labeling by Hayk Khachatryan, Xuan Wei, Alicia Rihn

“… The purpose of this report is to summarize ornamental plant producers’ perceptions about neonicotinoid labeling and anticipated changes in production practices due to neonicotinoids labeling policy intervention. The target audience is industry, state agency, and public stakeholders involved in decisions and policy making related to the use of neonicotinoid insecticides in the U.S. ornamental plants industry. …”
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Exploring offshore wind’s potential to enhance energy security in nations with limited land and fuel resources by Kenji Shiraishi, Umed Paliwal, Nikit Abhyankar, Daniel M Kammen, Amol Phadke, Won Young Park

“…Then, using the ‘SWITCH-Japan’ model developed in our previous study, four key policy scenarios (‘pathways’) were analyzed. Each scenario incorporated three technology cost sensitivities and was assessed on multiple criteria including affordability, energy security, and land-use change. …”
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Records Keeping and Financial Performance in Local Government: A Case Study of Rubanda District Local Government. by Birungi, Edinah

“…More respondents identified lack of records management policy as the major challenge, lack of adequate professionally trained record managers. …”
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Study of Regulatory and Institutional Framework for the Relocation of the National Capital in Indonesia by Arif Hidayat, Laga Sugiarto, Dewi Sulistianingsih, Bintang Rafli Ananta, Muhammad Abid A Syakur

“…Previous studies have often been opinion-based and lacked scientific rigor, especially in addressing the complexities of policy implementation. This research aims to fill this gap by providing a detailed analysis of the policy from regulatory and institutional perspectives. …”
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Financial Institutions and Agricultural development in Rwanda. A Case Study of Rwanda Development Bank. by Boniface, Kabahizi

“…On the basis of customers’ perception about RDB lending policy, it has been realized from the study that clients prefer RDB because of its attractive lending policy, it has been realized from the study that clients prefer RDB because of its attractive lending policy including reasonable interest rate and repayment patterns. …”
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Optimal Joint Defense and Monitoring for Networks Security under Uncertainty: A POMDP-Based Approach by Armita Kazeminajafabadi, Mahdi Imani

“…This paper develops two security policies based on the optimal stationary defense policy for the underlying POMDP state process (i.e., a network with known compromises): the estimation-based policy that performs the defense actions corresponding to the optimal minimum mean square error state estimation and the distribution-based policy that utilizes the posterior distribution of network compromises to make defense decisions. …”
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Customization of health insurance premiums using machine learning and explainable AI by Manohar Kapse, Vinod Sharma, Rutuj Vidhale, Varun Vellanki

“…Using a dataset from consumer surveys, coupled with multiple Machine Learning models, the study analyzed and predicted features of importance for premiums paid across various age groups, gender, health conditions, policy duration, and the number of members included in the policy. …”
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The Other Side of the Story: Greenhouse and Nursery Producers’ Perceptions about Neonicotinoid Insecticides and Pollinator Friendly Labeling by Hayk Khachatryan, Xuan Wei, Alicia Rihn

“… The purpose of this report is to summarize ornamental plant producers’ perceptions about neonicotinoid labeling and anticipated changes in production practices due to neonicotinoids labeling policy intervention. The target audience is industry, state agency, and public stakeholders involved in decisions and policy making related to the use of neonicotinoid insecticides in the U.S. ornamental plants industry. …”
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IGJR issue 1/2018 by IF and FRFG

“…The topic of the 2/2017 and 1/2018 double issue will be: “Measuring Intergenerational Justice for Public Policy” We welcome submissions to the issue 1/2018 that address ways of measuring and empirically evaluating intergenerational justice, primarily in the field of public policy. …”
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Assessing potential reductions of agricultural GHG in countries with different land productivities: Long-term integrated efficiency in DEA hybrid meta-frontier model. by Bazyli Czyżewski, Łukasz Kryszak

“…A realistic efficiency model orientation, considering agricultural policy objectives in a given region of the world, is a crucial premise for finding the optimal path for achieving global targets of emission reduction. …”
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Empowering pastoralist women through social innovations in Somali and Afar regions of Ethiopia by Tafesse Matewos, Melisew Dejene, Semeredin Yimer

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Digital transformation and the fluid workforce: skill development and capacity building for railway workers by Xiaoxu Yang, Yuming Liu, Jiachen Ji, Kai Liu, Wenjie Li

“…The investigation reveals the critical role of digitally-oriented training programs, evolving policy frameworks, and advanced work environments in meeting the sector’s demands. …”
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Multi-dimensional evidence from the UK Biobank shows the impact of diet and macronutrient intake on aging by Chen Zhu, Youfa Wang, Xiaosong Yang, Qiran Zhao, Wenyan Xu, Xiaolu Wang, Yanjun Liang, Qihui Chen, Shenggen Fan

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„Lex Clodia de Cypro et exsulibus Byzantinis” — rzymski imperializm na styku prawa i polityki by Dominik Pieniądz

“…Lex Clodia de Cypro et exsulibus Byzantinis is analysed as a case study of late Republican imperialism, primarily in terms of political and constitutional disputes over the decisive voice in foreign policy and organizational form of the Imperium Populi Romani.…”
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LazyAct: Lazy actor with dynamic state skip based on constrained MDP. by Hongjie Zhang, Zhenyu Chen, Hourui Deng, Chaosheng Feng

“…However, the high computational cost of policies based on deep neural networks restricts their practical application. …”
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Entrepreneurship education: Exploring the missing piece in Ethiopian primary and secondary education pogrammes by Adane Tessera Biru, Reda Darge Negassi

“…Entrepreneurship, job creation and enterprise development are currently at the front in the Ethiopian policy agenda. Job creation and enterprise development skills have become more crucial concerns of policy makers, the public and individual citizens more than ever. …”
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