Pitfalls of PTOs in land ownership and control: Rethinking access for rural development in South Africa by Chitja Twala, Hope Luke Vhiga

“…The African National Congress (ANC) government has ruled over SA for the past 30 years but has been unsuccessful in dealing with the country’s racialised land inequalities. …”
Get full text

Photographie et écologie aux États-Unis: l’image à contre-emploi by François Brunet

“…This contribution proposes a short history of this question through three successive stages: a) the creation of Yellowstone National Park (1872), which, according to a persistent historiographical legend, allegedly resulted from the timely distribution to Congress members of pictures by survey photographer William H. …”
Get full text

L’insécurité foncière dans et autour des Aires Protégées de Madagascar : un obstacle à surmonter pour la conservation de la biodiversité et le développement rural by Sigrid Aubert, Saholy Rambintsaotra, Jules Razafiarijaona

“…Nevertheless, following the 5th World Parks’ Congress held in Durban, 2003, close to 20% of national land was assigned temporary protection status, prohibiting exploitation of all forest resources, even if essential to the local population’s survival. …”
Get full text

Cooling down AI regulation controversies: Three closure processes in the Chilean legislative arena by Mónica Humeres, Dusan Cotoras, Renato Moretti, Iñaki Oyarzún-Merino, Teresa Correa, Claudia López

“…Drawing on the framework of sociotechnical controversies, we analyze the de-escalation of contentious discussions observed in the AI legislative process by Chile's National Congress. Utilizing a qualitative approach, we tracked the deliberations hosted by the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of Chile across 51 sessions between 2023 and 2024. …”
Get full text

Leadless Pacing: Current Status and Ongoing Developments by Richard G. Trohman

Get full text

An Investigation of Current Endodontic Practice in Turkey by R. F. Kaptan, F. Haznedaroglu, M. B. Kayahan, F. B. Basturk

“…Questionnaires were given to 1400 dentists who attended the 16th National Congress organized by the Turkish Dental Association. …”
Get full text

BEYOND ONE PARTY STATE DOMINANCE: A REVIEW OF RECURRENT ISSUES IN NIGERIA’S FOURTH REPUBLIC by IDREES MAHMUD GANA

“… This study investigates the recurring concerns connected with party dominance in Nigeria's Fourth Republic, focusing on the obstacles given by the de facto two-party system dominated by the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the All-Progressives Congress (APC). While Nigeria restored multiparty democracy in the 1990s, genuine democratic consolidation has been hampered by entrenched power dynamics, patronage networks, and a lack of political variety. …”
Get full text

Crimes et châtiments dans le monde de la finance pendant les années Bush by Régine Hollander

“…Bush’s first presidential term was shaken by a series of scandals in the corporate and financial world. Congress and regulatory authorities responded by enacting a wave of reforms. …”
Get full text

The impacts of the discontinuation of dual nomenclature of pleomorphic fungi: the trivial facts, problems, and strategies by U. Braun

“…The symposium “One fungus = Which name” held in Amsterdam 12–13 April 2012, addressed the drastic changes in the naming of pleomorphic fungi adopted by the 18th International Botanical Congress in Melbourne in 2011. Possible solutions and ways to face resulting problems were suggested. …”
Get full text

Twenty-Five Battalion, The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Changing the Decorum in the South African Parliament, 2014 to 2018 by Mohau Soldaat

“…Since the twilight of apartheid, the African National Congress (ANC) has dominated the politics of South Africa. …”
Get full text

Forming a Definition of a Town. Poland in the Context of Universal History by Marek Słoń

“…Boundary situations included primarily early Piast townships with different functions, followed by agglomerations consisting of more than one urban commune in 1600 and, finally, so-called ‘urban settlements’ in the Congress Kingdom in 1900. The article also determines the number of towns in a given area at the indicated point in time. …”
Get full text

Intragovernmental governance in South Africa - An analysis of recent jurisprudence by Andreas SJ Karsten, Marjoné van der Bank

“…This article builds on the legal insight provided in the case of the Premier, Gauteng and Others v Democratic Alliance and Others; All Tshwane Councillors who are Members of the Economic Freedom Fighters and Another v Democratic Alliance and Others; African National Congress v Democratic Alliance and Others [2021] ZACC 34. …”
Get full text

Basal Cell Carcinoma of the Female Breast Masquerading as Invasive Primary Breast Carcinoma: An Uncommon Presentation Site by Mark B. Ulanja, Mohamed E. Taha, Arshad A. Al-Mashhadani, Marwah Muaad Al-Tekreeti, Christie Elliot, Santhosh Ambika

Get full text

MOANA: Multi-objective ant nesting algorithm for optimization problems by Noor A. Rashed, Yossra H. Ali, Tarik A. Rashid, Seyedali Mirjalili

“…The algorithm is evaluated on standard benchmark datasets, including ZDT functions and the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2019 multi-modal benchmarks. …”
Get full text

AMERICAN POLONIA’S RESOURCES OF IFLUENCE AND US FOREIGN POLICY by I. D. Loshkariov

“…In addition, the Polish diaspora possesses an organizational resource: its institutions are in close cooperation and are coordinated by the Polish American Congress. Secondly, the Polish diaspora in the US is a significant group of the population, especially in the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Connecticut, New York and Illinois. …”
Get full text

South Africa: A Growing Embrace of Feminist Foreign Policy? by Jo-Ansie van Wyk

“…Instead, under the leadership of the African National Congress (ANC) since 1994, South Africa has diplomatically capitalised on its liberation struggle and human rights credentials; the latter which, to some extent, have for some time superseded a more focused emphasis on women’s rights. …”
Get full text

Centra, zázemí a periferie hospodářského života raně novověké společnosti v zemích České koruny. O smyslu hospodářských dějin raného novověku by Václav Ledvinka

“… The paper evaluates the representation of early modern economic history at the 12th congress of Czech historians in Ústí nad Labem in September 2022 and responds to opinions about the current decline of the discipline of economic history and its replacement by the “new” cultural history. …”
Get full text

RUSSIA’S INTERESTS AND ROLE IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS: THE DYNASTIC UNION WITH THE HOUSE OF ORANGE AS AN INSTRUMENT OF FOREIGN POLICY UNDER ALEXANDER I... by Y. V. Bavykin

“…By using archival documents, including Dutch ones, the author’s purpose is to show that due largely to consistent policy of Alexander I towards restoring independence of the Netherlands, in full accordance with Russia’s national interests, to the Emperor Alexander’s personal participation at the Congress of Vienna, a new state was formed in 1815 – the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. …”
Get full text

The Amsterdam Declaration on Fungal Nomenclature by D.L. Hawksworth, P.W. Crous, S.A. Redhead, D.R. Reynolds, R.A. Samson, K.A. Seifert, J.W. Taylor, M.J. Wingfield

“…The issue is urgent as mycologists currently follow different practices, and no consensus was achieved by a Special Committee appointed in 2005 by the International Botanical Congress to advise on the problem. The Declaration recognizes the need for an orderly transitition to a single-name nomenclatural system for all fungi, and to provide mechanisms to protect names that otherwise then become endangered. …”
Get full text