Objectives and Methods. MuniServices UUT Program, described below, will provide a broad range of compliance, administrative and protective services (including the legal services of the City’s outside counsel, Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, A Professional Law Corporation (“Law Firm”), that will allow the City to preserve, protect and enhance their UUT revenues focusing on three areas: • Compliance • Administrative • Revenue Protection and Enhancement
Objectives and Methods. CONSULTANT’s Local Occupancy Tax Program Audit service is intended to assist the CITY in maximizing lodging tax revenue it is entitled to through an on-site examination of records and education of the lodging providers to ensure the appropriate collection and remittance of the lodging tax. The Administration service offers a turnkey approach to ensure appropriate collection, deposit, recording, delinquency follow up and reporting of the local lodging tax. This service includes all correspondence, forms and other such services to ensure appropriate and timely remittance of the tax.
Objectives and Methods. MuniServices’ Sales Tax Compliance Review is designed to assist City with economic forecasting and in preserving and enhancing its sales and use tax revenues by detecting, documenting, and correcting sales tax misallocations thereby producing previously unrealized revenue for City while giving the City a more accurate sales tax base upon which to forecast its revenue.
Objectives and Methods. The specific objectives of this task and report were to (1) evaluate the volumes and current treatment routes of WEEE, ELV and CDW plastics in Europe, (2) assess the attractiveness of the current recycling routes and, most importantly, (3) identify the plastic waste streams currently not recycled or otherwise potential for the NONTOX concept. To evaluate the current volumes and routes of WEEE-, ELV-, and CDW plastics in Europe, existing literature, previous EU studies (EU projects, other research) and European statistics were analyzed. Also interviews were carried out with industrial partners handling especially the WEEE waste fractions. Specific goal was to identify the volumes and current routes regarding the targeted waste streams from the following perspectives: - reuse - recycling (sorts of plastics, means of recycling) - energy recovery - landfill disposal
Objectives and Methods. Our LTC service is designed to assist the City in locating tax revenue that the City may not be receiving from its local tax registry MuniServices provides detection, documentation and correction of errors and omissions causing deficiencies thereby producing new revenue that would not otherwise have been realized by the City. Moreover, our team works in full and collaborative partnership with City revenue staff to supplement the operations and procedures currently in place. The LTC service also aims to reduce future errors by informing the businesses that are identified as having errors or omissions about the proper methods of compliance informing business owners of the requirements of the ordinance helps to prevent future mistakes by businesses making future enforcement efforts by the City less burdensome for the City.
Objectives and Methods. In collaboration with UPSTREAM Biosciences Inc., an electronic version (the SN model) of human macrophages will be constructed, and the model will integrate the available knowledge on cell signaling, metabolic and gene regulatory networks. The construction of the e-macrophage will address an important scientific hypothesis, which suggests that bacteria attack essential components in a host cell such as a human macrophage in a way that the cell cannot recover the normal cellular defense through alternative pathways. The model will be used to capture the "intelligence" of bacterial invasions, analyze the host response and identify therapeutic strategies against bacterial attacks. To conduct this investigation, the following objectives will be achieved:
Objectives and Methods. The general objective of the FOCUS-BALKANS project is to improve competencies and understanding in the field of consumer food science in the WBC. Specifically in this work package (WP5) objectives are as follows: • To elaborate a state of the art regarding the consumption of fresh and processed fruits in the Balkans on the basis of WP 1 general results (see also section 4.1) and draw conclusions concerning the execution of this WP 5. • To explore, analyze and understand motivations related to the purchase and consumption of fruits and processed fruit products in different situations or consumption moments. • To identify the role and barriers to fruit consumption and consumer characteristics in relation to nutrition • To identify the position of fruit and processed fruit in a well–balanced diet from Balkan consumers perspective. • To give an insight of the Balkan producing fruit industry and their market expectations • To provide inputs for WPs 9, 10 and 11.
Objectives and Methods. Contribution to knowledge on traditional food products Scientific publications on traditional foods are mainly coming from rural sociology rather than agricultural economics and agro-food marketing academic fields (Tregear et al., 2007; Xxx Xxxxxxxx et al., 2003; Jordana, 2000). Some publications are also coming from human geography and more recently from nutrition (Xxxxxxxxxxxx et al., 2007; Xxxxxxxx Xxxx, 2006). Most of articles are based on qualitative data analysis and few are measuring or modelling consumers’ behaviour through quantitative data. Self consumption of locally grown or processed food products might be an issue when estimating traditional food consumption in the WBC, or screening scientific literature on that purpose. This fully justifies the attempt of quantitative survey in the WBC with respect to traditional foods that is planned into WP8 of FOCUS-BALKANS. The first stage might be the screening of WBC publications database for a better identification of articles clearly related to traditional food consumption. WP8 intends to clarify whether traditional food products are processed products based on ancient cuisine and old recipes rather than raw foodstuffs. WP8 will also better document the relevance of traditional food products in WBC based on local sourcing or cultural rooting, or are eaten for daily food versus festive one. A key section of WP8 issues will be devoted to important debate on local names protection versus free market, ie PDO-PGI regulation or free branding allegations. Another section will explore the upcoming debate on health versus culture, nutrition or pleasure, which is crucial for future of traditional food products, not only in the WBC. Contribution to know-how on consumer survey analysis FOCUS-BALKANS will take the opportunity of WP8 to implement the transfer of results from qualitative survey to quantitative one by using results from Focus Groups discussion when designing the Conjoint Analysis experimental protocol. WP8 will be also a chance for practical training on cluster analysis by testing segmentation methods such as k-means analysis or decision tree modelling. Within the hypothesis of asymmetry of information, WP8 will focus on consumers decision making process used for choosing or not traditional food products. The MODE model, Motivations and Opportunities as DEterminant of behaviour (Xxxxx and Xxxxxx-Xxxxxx, 1999; Xxxxx, 2001) will be tested as a possible implementation of theoretical framework identifie...
Objectives and Methods. The objectives to be pursued and the methods to be used under this Addendum in connection with expansion to new areas as described in Part II will be the same as those developed in connection with the Bayambang, Cebu, and Bukidnon projects. The emphasis continues to be on nutrition programmes organized through the elementary schools, but with more attention to be paid to reaching the homes through coordination with other agencies and frequent home visitation by elementary school teachers to advise on home food production and child feeding.
