Comparing apples with apples: A proposed taxonomy for "Community Health Workers" and other front-line health workers for international comparisons. by Stephen Hodgins, Uta Lehmann, Henry Perry, Nicholas Leydon, Kerry Scott, Smisha Agarwal, Hannah Marcus, Rajani Ved, Elijah Olivas, Madeleine Ballard, Dickson Mbewe, Margaret Odera, Sherlie Petit Homme, Benard Otieno, Pasipano Wutete, Angeline Chikumba, Prossy Muyingo, John Kyakuha, Emmanuel Harcourt, Morseda Chowdhury, David Musoke, Thadee Niyoyitungira, Abimbola Olaniran, John Koku-Awoonor Williams, Lívia Milena Barbosa de Deus E Méllo, Romário Correia Dos Santos, Isabela Cardoso de Matos Pinto, Ram Shrestha, Salim Sadruddin, Melanie Morrow, Eric Sarriot, Maryse Kok, Bhanu Pratap

“…This paper proposes a taxonomy for Community Health Workers (CHWs) and others engaged in front-line community health activities, encompassing formally-employed workers extending government primary health care (PHC) service delivery as well as a range of other actors with roles at the nexus of government PHC and communities. …”
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Neuroinflammation in Autism: Plausible Role of Maternal Inflammation, Dietary Omega 3, and Microbiota by Charlotte Madore, Quentin Leyrolle, Chloé Lacabanne, Anouk Benmamar-Badel, Corinne Joffre, Agnes Nadjar, Sophie Layé

“…As both nutrition and inflammation can massively affect the microbiota, we discuss here how understanding the crosstalk between these three actors could provide a promising framework to better elucidate ASD etiology.…”
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The impact of COVID-19 on the social and cultural integration of international students: a literature review by Cristina Sin, Orlanda Tavares, Elina Apsite-Berina, Judith Borràs, Betül Bulut-Sahin, Martina Chrančoková, Karolina Czerska-Shaw, Anne Marie Devlin, Sybille Heinzmann, Suvi Jokila, Anita Kéri, Ivana Lešević, Annarita Magliacane, Anna Nicolaou, Neslihan Onder-Ozdemir, Adriana Perez-Encinas, Natassa Raikou, Maria Victoria Soule, Deimantas Valančiūnas, Ana Iolanda Voda, Merve Zayim-Kurtay

“…Conducted between January and May 2022, it analyses the responses to COVID-19 of the key actors involved in international student mobility: national/regional authorities, higher education institutions, and students. …”
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Participatory Development of Demand-Driven Curriculum for Career-Ready E-Extension Services in Nigeria by Olanike Deji, Solomon Adesoji, Banji Adisa, Abiodun Agboola, Adedayo Ajayi, Dorcas Alabi, Julius Ayinde, Olajide Filusi, Toyin Ojo, Oladimeji Oladele, Aanuoluwapo Opayinka

“…The stakeholders were grouped as follows: community leaders and policy makers; extension agencies / organisations / institutions / employers; farmers; input suppliers / marketers / agro-based traders / other value actors; and potential candidate groups. Stakeholder meetings were held separately with different groups three times, and then a combined meeting took place. …”
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Towards new modes of knowledge exchange for sustainability transformations: an exploration of multi-sited dialogue as conferencing practice by Blane Harvey, Ying-Syuan (Elaine) Huang, Bruce Goldstein, Nick Graham

“…Actors working on global climate and sustainability challenges are faced with two competing imperatives: first, there is an ever-expanding body of knowledge, networks and initiatives generating new insights that should be shared. …”
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Gender equity as a key element for agroecological transitions: Neo‐rural women as managers of agroecological initiatives by Beatriz Vizuete, Marina García‐Llorente, Irene Pérez‐Ramírez, Elisa Oteros‐Rozas

“…We propose pathways to integrate the plurality of actors and values and to promote new rural identities that fall from traditional stereotypes to enhance gender equity and move towards a true agroecological transition. …”
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PRÁCTICAS EVALUATIVAS EN LA ENSEÑANZA DE LA GEOGRAFÍA EN EDUCACIÓN SECUNDARIA by María Cristina Nin, Melina Ivana Acosta

“…Generan tensiones entre los actores de las instituciones educativas ya sea en las instancias de las evaluaciones o en las decisiones para acreditar los saberes de los/as estudiantes. …”
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Discourse Structure Analysis of Hasanak-e-Vazir’s Hanging Tale: A Study based on Van Dijk’s (2007) Socio-Cognitive Approach by Nader Abyar, Mousa Ghonchepour, Zahra Iranmanesh

“…Since this event has not been analyzed using van Dijk's approach (2007), examining it will clarify the beliefs and ideas of the participants or social actors. Additionally, this study will uncover the underlying meanings of the discourse structures employed by the actors in their interactions with others or with different groups. …”
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El ordenamiento ecológico territorial instrumento de política ambiental para la planeación del desarrollo local by Adán Guillermo Ramírez García, Artemio Cruz León, Nicolás Morales Carrillo, Alejandro Ismael Monterroso Rivas

“…Nuestra conclusión es que la aportación de este trabajo, como instrumento de planeación y desarrollo local, contempla como pilar para la construcción de las propuestas la participación de actores del sector público, privado y social, de tal forma que se conjuguen sus visiones bajo la óptica del manejo sostenible de los recursos naturales en un mismo esfuerzo para decidir el quehacer local.…”
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La agenda ambiental en el sector de Pueblo Nuevo, Buenaventura. Un proceso de planeación urbana participativa by Edwing Bueno Loaiza

“…Se concluyó que la planeación urbana participativa por medio de la IAP conlleva la construcción de propuestas de intervención urbano-ambientales más sensatas, luego que logra identificar una variedad de situaciones complejas poco visibles, con niveles de articulación confusos, y cuyas propuestas de solución al ser construidas a través de procesos de diálogos y concertación con los actores, facilitará a futuro la implementación de los proyectos estratégicos definidos en el proceso.…”
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A quantitative study of virtual energy storage for rural heat pump heating system based on vehicle-to-home technology by Xinjia Gao, Ran Li, Siqi Chen, Yalun Li

“…Buildings are undergoing a metamorphosis, emerging as pivotal actors in the realm of electricity generation and consumption, with vast untapped potential for energy storage. …”
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ECONOMIC FUTURE OF GLOBALIZATION by A. G. Oleynov

“…The author shows that the main subject of the discussion here are the changes in the understanding of international economic relations, the role of the state and non-state actors in global processes and the global governance. …”
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Scaling to new heights: methodological insights for uplifting research on grassroots digital innovation by Paolo Gerli, Fabio Neves da Rocha, Luca Mora

“…The Covid-19 pandemic has further evidenced the potential of grassroots actors as initiators of digital innovations, in the form of open-source applications, platform cooperatives, and other crowdsourced digital artifacts. …”
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Social media as dialogue platforms for citizens and authorities of the Central Federal District's entities by V. V. Zotov, A. V. Gubanov

“…But at the same time, a decrease in user involvement in the socio-network space of public communications around government accounts is observed for all regions under study.The information field of each region of the Central Federal District is unique, its actual structure depends on a number of objective factors, such as the level of penetration of various social networks into the audience of Internet users, the activity of large network actors (bloggers, media, popular public), the features of network interaction of ordinary users. …”
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LA POLÍTICA HABITACIONAL EN LA AGENDA INTERNACIONAL: EL PAPEL DE CITIES ALLIANCE EN EL CASO DE LA CIUDAD DE NEUQUÉN by Gabriela A. Pérez

“…En la primera parte de la ponencia se presentan los principales rasgos de Cities Alliance destacando: enfoque dominante, orientaciones de las estrategias o modelos de intervención de gobiernos y otros actores, políticas y programas impulsados. En la segunda parte se realizan algunos señalamientos sobre la actual política habitacional en la ciudad de Neuquén a la luz del planteo de Cities Alliance.…”
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CRIMEA AND THE POLITICS OF LEGITIMACY IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS by A. A. Vlasov, A. V. Brega

“…The blockade, first by non-state actors, and then by state structures of Ukraine in water supply, access to electricity, restriction of freedom of movement and in other areas, led to the violation of human rights in the Crimea. …”
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El manejo del área marina y costera protegida Actam Chuleb y los beneficios económicos que genera a los usuarios del municipio de San Felipe, Yucatán, México by Wilian de Jesús Aguilar Cordero, Nesmi Neredva Castro Castillo, Juana Griselda Couoh Cab

“…Los resultados mostraron que no existe un plan de manejo comunitario, sólo se cuenta con una normativa que no es cumplida a cabalidad por la comunidad y que hay una falta de conocimientos, participación y comunicación de los actores sociales para el manejo adecuado y una correcta toma de decisiones. …”
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Las elecciones presidenciales de 1970 en Colombia a través de la prensa. Un fraude nunca resuelto by Olga Yanet Acuña Rodríguez

“…El tercero serelaciona con la legitimación de los resultados electorales, las denuncias de fraudepor parte de los diversos actores sociales y las medidas del gobierno para solucionarel conflicto y garantizar la “democracia”. …”
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De la reforma electoral plurinacional a la democracia intercultural en Bolivia: el caso del pueblo mosetén by Augusto Díaz-Villanueva

“…Se discute el paradigma de la democracia intercultural y se lo operativiza mediante la noción de ensamblaje para realizar una aproximación al caso de interés a través de una caracterización y de entrevistas a actores clave. Se concluye que los mecanismos introducidos en Bolivia abren paso al reconocimiento de otras democracias no liberales, además, que es posible la inclusión de minorías étnicas históricamente excluidas. …”
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La práctica utópica como dispositivo de articulación y sostén del continuo constitucional chileno by Isabel SERRA Serra

“…Los hallazgos revelan una detallada síntesis de las prácticas utópicas, subrayando sus propósitos, actores, objetivos y características. A partir de estos, se destaca la relevancia de la espacialización, visualización y futurización como herramientas para entender y proyectar aspiraciones utópicas en el tejido sociopolítico del país. …”
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