No detailed analysis of the fiscal and economic inequalities of local units (at the municipality and city level) in Croatia has ever been published.The Government and the Finance Ministry have endeavoured by tax sharing, allocations of current grants and personal income tax refunds to palliate the differences in the fiscal capacities of local units
Abstract Background In the active shape model framework, principal component analysis (PCA) based statistical shape models (SSMs) are widely employed to incorporate high-level a priori shape knowledge of the structure to be segmented to achieve robustness.A crucial component of building SSMs is to establish shape correspondence between all training
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the significance of the human-animal interface in the emergence of zoonotic diseases, with wildlife serving as an important source of infection.A better understanding of the specific pathogens and mechanisms involved is vital to prepare against future outbreaks, especially in Southeast Asia, a hotspot for zoon
With the development of urbanization, underground commercial buildings (UCB) are facing severe challenges in fire safety management due to their unique structure and chocolate chip cookie purse environmental characteristics.This study constructed a fire casualty risk assessment model that combines fuzzy fault tree analysis (FFTA) and Bayesian netwo