A Review on Managing Agroecosystems for Improved Water Use Efficiency in the Face of Changing Climate in Tanzania by Jerome Kimaro

“…Agroecosystems are important for food production and conservation of biodiversity while continuing to provide several ecosystem services within the landscape. Despite their economic and ecological benefits, most agroecosystems in Tanzania are degraded at alarming rates. …”
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Prevalence, correlates and explanatory models of cognitive deficits in patients with schizophrenia—A cross sectional study by Chithra Uppinkudru, Rajesh Gopalakrishnan, Joseph Noel, Anju Kuruvilla

“…Background: Schizophrenia may cause significant impairment in social and economic aspects of a patient’s life. Current evidence suggests that cognitive deficits may affect the functioning of a person with schizophrenia more than positive or negative symptoms. …”
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Cultures of Display: The Mirror of Imperialism by John M. MacKenzie

“…Most significantly, British domestic history was largely taught without any reference to its imperial dimension, except in a few restricted economic areas. When the revolution in the writing and teaching of history began to take place in the 1960s, the emphasis changed into aspects of resistance, notably the rise of nationalism and the study of instances of revolt within the empire. …”
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Performance Evaluation of Small-Scale Irrigation Scheme: A Case Study of Temsa Small Scale Irrigation Scheme of Goma District, Jimma Zone, South West Ethiopia by Etefa Tilahun, Minda Tadesse, Hewan Tadesse, Addisu Asefa

“…The internal indicator efficiencies such as conveyance, application, storage, distribution uniformity, and deep percolation ratio and the external indicators such as agricultural output, water supply, water delivery capacity, physical, and economic and financial indicators were evaluated. The result reveals that, the average conveyance efficiency of the main, secondary, and tertiary canals were 79.6%, 85.6%, and 84.7%, respectively. …”
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Quality of Life and Healthcare Seeking Behavior among Internal Migrant Laborers in Coimbatore, India: A Community-based Analytical Cross-sectional Study by P Aparnavi, M Malarkodi, Sivagami Ramanathan, Madhavi Sambandan, Jeevithan Shanmugam, Mohan Kumar, Shanmuga Priya, Seetharaman Narayanan, Ramesh Rathinamoorthy

“…Females, married people, those currently living with their family, those working in the organized sector, and those in higher socio-economic status had better QoL than their counterparts. …”
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Evaluating Innovation Efficiency in EU Countries: the DEA Approach

“…Innovation, science and technology, which are among the most important tools for achieving economic growth, prosperity and competitiveness in the local and global business environments, are increasingly gaining attention. …”
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A superhydrophobic anti-flaming coating with anti-corrosion function for paper-based triboelectric nanogenerator by Yanfang Meng, Junqing Zhao, Wenming He

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La «catena calda»: un’etnografia dell’allattamento a partire dai margini by Martina Riina

“…The testimonies of the research participants show, on the other hand, that what really influences choices, beyond good intentions, is the social context, economic and working conditions, access to resources and services, gender relations, and educational and cultural background: all elements that determine forms of care that constantly need support and attention in multiple forms: a “warm chain” of relations, sharing and support. …”
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Health promotion and tobacco control: a transatlantic perspective between Brazil and Portugal by Francisco Lucas de Lima Fontes, Ermelinda do Carmo Valente Caldeira

“… Health promotion, a concept based on the Ottawa Charter, recognizes that health is influenced by economic, social and environmental factors, as well as individual practices. …”
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Utilization of geocoding for mapping infrastructure impacts and mobility due to floods in indonesia based on twitter analytics by Muhammad Imam Taufiq, Abba Suganda Girsang

“…Flooding, a frequent natural disaster in Indonesia, is caused by several factors such as high-intensity rainfall, climate change, inadequate drainage and urban infrastructure challenges, impacting communities, infrastructure and economic activities. The lack of accurate and centralized data hinders government efforts to identify affected areas and respond effectively. …”
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Concept and Significance of Criminalistics Classification of Crimes Related to Proxy Battle by O. M. Luhovyi

“…This has resulted in the lack of the unity among scholars – national and international experts specialized in criminalistics, criminology, criminal and other branches of law within the stated issue, as well as among representatives of economic science, although they offered certain approaches to the classification of raidership manifestations. …”
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A two-sex model for the influence of heavy alcohol consumption on the spread of HIV/AIDS by Gigi Thomas, Edward M. Lungu

“…., can be different for men and women, the primaryobjective of our present paper is to construct a two-sex model aimedat shedding light on how both sexes, with varying heavy alcoholconsumption trends, contribute differently to the HIV/AIDS spread.Based on numerical simulations, supported by the UNAIDSepidemiological software SPECTRUM and using the available data, ourstudy identifies heavy drinking among men and women to be a majordriving force for HIV/AIDS in Botswana and sub-Sahara Africa andquantifies its hazardous outcomes in terms of increased number ofactive TB cases and economic burden caused by increased need forAntiRetroviral Therapy (ART). …”
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Public Diplomacy in Slovakia: Past and Present by A. N. Marchukov

“…In academic discourse, public diplomacy is often regarded as an instrument of foreign policy most suitable for small states, which enables them to compensate for the lack of military and economic capabilities. Paradoxically enough, studies on public diplomacy usually focus on the activities of the leading actors of world politics. …”
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THE ROLE OF CITY AUTHORITIES IN CONTRIBUTING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN SLUMS IN GHANA by R.S King, O. Amponsah

“…Despite the prospects of urbanisation in economic growth and socio-political advancement, it has the tendency to generate unprecedented cultural, political, social and environmental challenges which limit the effectiveness of urban planning. …”
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE LEVEL OF DIGITAL COMPETENCES OF FUTURE TEACHERS IN POLAND AND UKRAINE by Ewelina Rzońca

“…It is important to constantly supplement the study programs with content corresponding to technological, economic and socio-cultural development. …”
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Geography of Sand and Gravel Mining in the Lower Mekong River by Jean-Paul Bravard, Marc Goichot, Stéphane Gaillot

“…Over the past 30 years, this phenomenon has spread due to the economic development of countries such as China, India and other fast-growing economies of South-East Asia. …”
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Geopolitics of Connectivity: The EU in Central Asia by Sergey V. Mazanik, Tatiana A. Romanova

“…The study found that, in the EU’s official discourse, connectivity, which is characterized by both normativity and securitization, is a tool for achieving resilience for the EU and its partners in Central Asia, a means of protecting them from third countries’ attempts to politically and economically weaponize interdependence, a way of preserving the so-called rules-based order as a resource of the EU’s global normative influence, and a way of achieving strategic autonomy that the EU is willing to export as a model. …”
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STUDI KOMPARATIF TAHAPAN PERENCANAAN PEMBANGUNAN PERDESAAN DI INDONESIA DAN MALAYSIA by AHLUNNAZA PANDU RAHARJO, NIA KURNIASARI

“…The strategic issues of rural development in Indonesia and Malaysia are poverty, unemployment, and economic vulnerability of rural communities; limited availability of public services and the minimum basic service, low empowerment of rural communities, not optimal village governance and institutional role of the village in the planning and development of the village, not optimal spatial arrangement of rural areas, natural resource management and environmental environment, the limited availability of infrastructure in the open isolation of rural areas and encourage linkages Rural- Urban. …”
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Solvent solutions: comparing extraction methods for edible oils and proteins in a changing regulatory landscape. Part 2: Hazards control☆ by Carré Patrick, dev Borah Chandra, Piofczyk Thomas, Gärtner Maike, Bothe Sarah, Hadjiali Sara

“…In an holistic approach, the possible improvements in safety brought by these solvent must be balanced by their impacts on other criteria like energy consumption, products quality, and economic affordability.…”
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De novo transcriptome assembly and discovery of drought-responsive genes in white spruce (Picea glauca). by Zoé Ribeyre, Claire Depardieu, Julien Prunier, Gervais Pelletier, Geneviève J Parent, John Mackay, Arnaud Droit, Jean Bousquet, Philippe Nolet, Christian Messier

“…To address this challenge, it is crucial to understand how widely distributed species of economic or ecological importance may respond to drought stress. …”
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