Evaluation of Organic (Cow Dung) and Inorganic (NPK) Fertilizers for the Increase of Yields in Cabbages (Brassica Oleracea Var.Capitata). by Nabireeba, Cosma

“…The study specifically sought to determine the effects of using different organic and inorganic fertilizers on the growth parameters of cabbages, to determine the yield of cabbages using different organic and inorganic fertilizers, and to determine the economic profitability of cabbages using organic and inorganic fertilizers. …”
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The Influence of Students’ family background on Academic Performance in Secondary Schools in Kamuganguzi Sub-County, Kabale District by Franco Jack, Tumuhimbise

“…The study recommended that in order to solve the recurrent issue of poor academic performance in secondary schools, government and corporate institutions should help increase incomes of parents in line with economic conditions and provide educational materials to enable parents meet the educational needs of their children and promote income generating projects for poor parents. …”
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Stochastic Modelling of the Dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 Epidemic: An Africa Perspective by Rasaki, Olawale Olanrewaju, Nafiu, Lukman Abiodun, Abdisalam, Hassan Muse, Thierno, Souleymane Barry

“…Africa in its totality has been enforcing containment measures to prevent, curb, reduce and contain the widespread of the virus via social-distancing, curfews, economic lockdown in phases. In this paper, we modelled the course of action of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Africa and its five regions at approximately a year (as at 23/02/2021) of the pandemic via a five transitional compartments SIERD (Susceptible → Exposed→ Infected →Recovery → Dead) model. …”
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Statistical Analysis of Informal Settlements and Environmental Management in Mbale Municipality, Uganda by Mustafe, Hassan Abdi, Nafiu, Lukman Abiodun, George Stanley, Kinyata

“…There is also need to provide economic incentives to the poor in urban community. …”
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GNSS spoofing in conflict zones disrupts wildlife tracking and hampers research and conservation efforts by Frédéric Jiguet, Asaf Mayrose, Markus Piha, Ron Efrat, Tuomas Seimola, Nir Sapir, Sami Timonen, Yohay Wasserlauf, Aurélien Besnard, Pierrick Bocher, Andrea Kölzsch, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Anne-Christine Monnet, Petr Procházka, Yoav Perlman

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Quantitative Influence Analysis of the Development Scale of Market Economy on the Level of Music Innovation by Yang Li, Qiuyi Zhang, Tianzhuo Gong

“…Neural networks with LSTM layers have lower errors in predicting market economic correlates than neural network methods without LSTM layers. …”
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BANDITRY AND GENDER-BASED VOLIENCE IN NORTH-WEST NIGERIA by Simon Nankap KUMS, Cornelius Ishaya KWEDE

“…The paper hence recommends, among others, that  the Nigerian government should come up with working poverty alleviation programme(s) and should be directed towards addressing the high incidence of poverty among women and children who are a vulnerable segment of the population mostly attacked and trapped by banditry activities vis-à-vis empowerment programmes or employment opportunities, targeting youths who are primarily involved in abductions and kidnappings out of economic frustration, such as unemployment; and also establish a special force and intelligence unit that will be trained and equipped to fight against human trafficking, banditry, kidnapping and terrorism, as this will help in curtailing if not eliminating criminal activities in our society. …”
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Financiarisation et classes sociales : introduction au dossier by Benjamin Lemoine, Quentin Ravelli

“…If class analysis was unavoidable in social sciences for a time, it then withered. However, since the economic crisis, the question of debt – its commodification by financial capital, as well as the forms of upward mobility, or popular over-indebtedness, that it makes possible – revives the old problem of the definition of social classes and makes it possible to understand how the relations between classes have evolved under the action of financial capital. …”
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POSSIBLE TRAJECTORIES OF INSTITUTIONAL POLICY FOR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT by Elvira Martini, Maria Carmela Serluca

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Technology for Improving Distribution Network Disaster-Prevention Capabilities for Intercurrent Natural Disasters Areas Under Extreme Weather： Review and Prospect by CHEN Bin, LIAO Jinlin

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ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN EXPERIENCE OF INTRODUCTION OF THE SCHOOL DRESS CODE by O, I, Denisova

“…These requirements affect many important aspects and the principles of functioning of an educational system and all society in general: the observance of the constitutional rights of a child, including freedom of expression on grounds of gender; tolerance policy of intra school and state policy in the light of migration processes; problems of leveling of social and economic stratification of children, etc. The advantages and disadvantages of existing approaches to the development requirements in the countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America are analysed.Scientific novelty. …”
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Pandemic mitigation: Bringing it home by Tom Reichert

“…The general decline in the baseline of age-specific excess mortality in economically developed countries is characterized and its importance assessed.   …”
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IMPLEMENTING RUSSIAN ARCTIC LNG PROJECTS IN A NEW GEOPOLITICAL LANDSCAPE: KEY CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS by Mikhail V. Ulchenko

Review on security risks of key components in industrial control system by Shijie TANG, Fang YUAN, Jun LI, Yong DING, Huiyong WANG

“…With the rapid development of modern information technology and communication technology, industrial control system has become an important part of national key infrastructure, whose security is related to national strategic security and social stability.The close connection between modern industrial control system and Internet promotes the rapid progress of industrial control technology, meanwhile it brings serious security risks.Since the“Stuxnet” virus incident, attacks on industrial control systems have occurred frequently, which causes huge economic losses to global production enterprises.Besides, it also poses significant impact on the social stability and security to many countries and regions, which has aroused people’s great concern about the security of industrial control systems.Due to the wide variety of automation equipment and proprietary protocols, complex data flow and rapid development in modern industrial control system, it is very difficult to summarize the safety of key components of industrial control.There are few literatures related to this area, and most of them are old and incomplete.To solve the above problems, the mainstream architecture and related components of the current industrial control system were introduced.Then the security vulnerabilities and potential threats in the key industrial control components were analyzed.The attack methods of SCADA control center, programmable logic controller and field equipment were summarized.Furthermore, the preconditions, objects, steps and hazards of the attack in the literature in recent years were also analyzed.The attacks against industrial control network were classified from the perspective of integrity and confidentiality.Finally, the possible development trend of industrial control system attack was given.…”
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Licenciamento ambiental federal no Brasil: perspectiva histórica, poder e tomada de decisão em um campo em tensão by Aline Borges do Carmo, Alessandro Soares da Silva

“…The analysis attempts to understand the technical issues of the federal environmental licensing in Brazil, throughout the environmental issue history and the emergence of the main related legal instruments and finally approaches the public policies concerned with Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) regarding the social, economical, and political contexts. Thus, the analytical axis of this paper is the decision making processes, which is related to the production of political subjects and education for the power. …”
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La Inserción internacional de Suramérica: la apuesta por la Unasur by Carlos Alberto Chaves García

“…De igual manera la nueva experiencia de cohesión regional, responde a la proyección de los intereses geoestratégicos de Argentina, Brasil y Venezuela, como expresión de la competencia por el liderazgo de dicho esquema de cooperación e integración regional.AbstractSouth American space is currently undergoing a series of transformations that are political, ideological, economic, and social in nature, which point to the development of greater levels of regional autonomy in terms of international insertion. …”
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Teaching Academic English Corpus Trough Word-formation by Irina B. Korotkina

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“They Threw Her in with the Prostitutes!”: Negotiating Respectability between the Space of Prison and the Place of Woman in Egypt (1943–1959) by Hannah Elsisi

“…The memoirs of political prisoners generally articulate the struggle of dissident individuals and political groups to attain a set of basic and often recurrent goals: freedom of expression and affiliation, social and economic security, humane treatment and the right to have a say in the management of state and society.1 This applies to both men's and women’s memoirs. …”
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Les islamistes à l’épreuve du printemps arabe et des urnes : une perspective critique by Haoues Seniguer

“…The Arab world’s social revolts that began in Tunisia in December 2010 were a clear indicator not only of the socio-economic frustrations and democratic expectations of Arab peoples, most of whom were in favor of the fall of authoritarian regimes, but also of ambivalent, even contradictory positions in political Islamist movements vis-à-vis these regimes. …”
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Mathematical modelling and forecasting of the Lithuanian export by Virmantas Kvedaras, Rimantas Rudzkis

“… Economic activities and indicators of a small open country are crucially influenced by the dynamics of export volume. …”
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