SWAMI: A SWARM-INTELLIGENT OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUE FOR VOLTAGE COLLAPSE MITIGATION by OSEGI EMMANUEL NDIDI, WOKOMA BIOBELE ALEXANDER, OJUKA OTONYE, BRUCE-ALLISON SA, CHUJOR CORNELIUS CHICHI

“… In this paper, a voltage collapse optimization system based on comparative studies of swarm-intelligent techniques is proposed for voltage collapse mitigation in power system network. The approach draws inspiration from the idea of utilizing the intelligent behavior of swarm-based artificial machine intelligence technique coined SWAMI for voltage collapse minimization or prevention through dynamic shunt compensation of overloaded power network buses. …”
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Janusza Korczaka językowa gra z odbiorcą w racje i emocje – spotkanie dwóch perspektyw by Małgorzata Dagiel

“…The reading of his texts draws attention of the recipient to the ways in which he characterises children and calls for the necessity of treating them rightly by adults. …”
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Passing the Baton by Mary E. Guy, Brian N. Williams

“…Articles published in the first two volumes range from racial healing to invisible disabilities, from Medicaid expansion to school resegregation, from white supremacy to the equity challenges that confront Tribal communities, from critical race theory to policing, from gender equity to equity in death, from retirement funds to equitable budgeting, from voting to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and many more. JSEPA draws attention to the social equity pillar in public administration and joins the many journals dedicated to the other pillars of the field. …”
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Business Model Canvas and Entrepreneurs: Dilemmas in Managerial Practice by Humberto Elias Garcia Lopes, Vívian Cândido Rodrigues, Ramon Silva Leite, Marlusa Gosling

“…In more dynamic markets, they preferred to draw on their practical experience. These results highlight that entrepreneurs' perception of their firm's competitive environment is decisive in defining their attitude toward using business models as viable managerial tools.…”
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Relationship Between Performance of the FUNDEB Municipal Board and Active and Passive Waste by Nálbia de Araujo Santos, Luana Aparecida Pereira, Daniele Silva Rodrigues

“…The sample is composed of 173 municipalities supervised by the auditors of the CGU, drawn in the 38th, 39th and 40th public draws. The methodological strategies used were the content analysis and the regression for count-data, based on the negative binomial model by maximum likelihood. …”
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Confronting the cataracts of whiteness to see the invisible: reflections on the transmission and reception of the Bible in post-apartheid South Africa by J. Kok

“… The goal of this article is to draw on some of the latest insights in biblical studies on the challenges posed to the reflection, transmission, and reception of the Bible with relevance to a post-apartheid South African context. …”
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On new spider species of the genus Episinus (Araneae, Theridiidae) from China and proposal of five species groups by Yun Liang, Jinnan Liu, Haiqiang Yin, Xiang Xu

“…Detailed descriptions, photographs, hand drawings, DNA barcodes and a distribution map of the three new species are provided.…”
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The South African Traditional Communities and Women for Rural Democracy and Land Rights by Wandile Brian Zondo

“…I also draw from my experiences working as a Researcher for Natural Justice, Southern Africa Hub (NJ), and previously at the Land and Accountability Research Centre (LARC), within and with the traditional communities of South Africa. …”
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Critical race theory and the question of safety in dialogues on race by M. S. Conradie

“…Thereafter, the precepts of CRT are matched with insights from scholars in theology regarding the continued need to glean more precisely nuanced understandings of how race plays out in South African society. Finally, the article draws from Leonardo and Porter (2010:140-142) and Sue’s (2013:666-669) suggestions. …”
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MARITIME MILITIA AND CHINA’S SOVEREIGNTY: WHAT LESSONS FOR NIGERIA’S CIVILIAN JOINT TASK FORCE by KUKWEN ANDETSIBA JOSEPH, UDEAGBALA LAWRENCE OKECHUKWU

“…The work argues that the civilian joint task force in its present form cannot effectively pursue its objective of ending Boko Haram insurgency and upholding the sovereignty of Nigeria and the call for community policing will only create more problems except it draws from the experiences of china’s maritime militia. …”
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FEASIBILITY TEST OF ENGLISH INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR SECRETARIES THROUGH MOODLE by Didik Hariyadi Raharjo

“…Quantitative data were analyzed based on eligibility categories while qualitative data were analyzed to draw conclusions. The feasibility of the product of this research was examined by two experts in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and instructional materials. …”
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De Revolutionibus by Franz Josef Brüseke

“…This moderate party had strong affinities with the syndicalism, allying itself with some intellectuals, who challenged the "Marxist" rhetoric of the social democratic party with reformist and revisionists' ideas. We draw attention to this constellation of ideological conflict within the German "Left" more than one hundred years ago, because it provides the matrix of the disputes and struggles within and between "left" parties during almost the entire twentieth century. …”
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New media in the education of children with and without disabilities from the perspective of the knowledge and actions of their parents by Justyna Siemionow

“…The aim of the text is to draw attention to the need to undertake planned and targeted preventive actions in the family environment as well as to domesticate effectively the so-called new technologies that are already present in our social reality, in the process of the education of pupils, with special attention paid to children with disability degree certificates. …”
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Neither “Platformization” Nor “Infrastructuralization”: Government as a Platform in China by Jingyan Elaine Yuan, Yuchao Zhao

“…Through a case study of “the digital reform” in Zhejiang Province, and the affiliated smart city project—City Brain—in Hangzhou, the municipal capital, this study draws on data from participatory observations and interviews to (1) provide a historical context, in which “platformization” in urban governance is aimed to serve market-oriented socio-economic reforms; (2) argue that such “platformization” is shaped by the long-standing structural tension between centralization and localism, which has been renewed by digital data flows; and (3) understand the shifting public–private demarcation in social interactions and arrangements to deflect continual frictions between the state, local agents, and platforms in the domain of digital governance.…”
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INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT AND EMERGING TREND OF RURAL-RURAL MIGRATION IN NIGERIA: A STUDY OF TIV ETHNIC ENCLAVES IN NIGER STATE by SUNDAY ORINYA

“…It submits that pro-active measures that draw from the provisions of the Constitution of Nigeria need to be put in place in order to bring about necessary mitigation. …”
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ACTS: INTEGRATING THEORY AND PRAXIS IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY by C. Stenschke

“…Theoretical reflection followed, in order to understand what had happened and to draw out the implications for non-Jews and Jews. …”
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The Influences of Institutional Logics Dynamics on Organizational History: the Case of Veiling Holambra Cooperative by Maisa Gomide Teixeira, Karina De Dea Roglio

“…We arg ue that these organizations are hybrids and, as such, report to institutional complexity ad opting practices and beliefs consistent with characteristics of more than one institutional logi c. In this sense, we draw upon an empirical study, based on a qualitative case study and oral h istory at Veiling Holambra Cooperative. …”
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Viabilità relazionale: una prospettiva im/mobile delle relazioni nel Gambia transnazionale by Paolo Gaibazzi

“… While anthropologists have long studied how mobility and immobility shape social relationships, this article describes relatedness itself as a form of im/mobility. It draws on ethnographic research among Soninke speakers in the Gambia and in the diaspora who express their relationship to others through images of what could be characterized as “viability”. …”
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Shipwreck Architecture by Simon Weir, Sara Rich

“…Shipwreck Architecture draws a connection between cosmotechnics, surrealism, and object-oriented ontology using an architectural design framework as a departure point. …”
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The Cultural Economy Moment? by Flew Terry

“…While work undertaken in cultural studies has contributed to these developments, the development of neo-liberalism as a meta-concept in critical theory constitutes a substantive barrier to more sustained engagement between cultural studies and economics, as it rests upon a caricature of economic discourse. The paper draws upon Michel Foucault’s lectures on neo-liberalism to indicate that there are significant problems with the neo-Marxist account hat became hegemonic over the 2000s. …”
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