Editorial: BRICS in an Evolving World Order by M. Yu. Apanovich, Fulufhelo Netswera

“…The authors emphasize various facets of ongoing and evolving cooperation, delineating how BRICS nations engage with climate change, development assistance and collaboration, global governance reform, and the progressive advancement of the New Development Bank (NDB).…”
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Les dessous de l’espace by Hubert Forestier

“…We will use the example of one of our fields in Indonesia the Island of Siberut in the Mentawai Archipelago and its “Flower men”, to discuss the contribution of the Archaeology to the global study of men, techniques and places as a concrete experience of time.…”
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Existence Results for Fractional Semilinear Integrodifferential Equations of Mixed Type with Delay by Xue Wang, Bo Zhu

“…Based on the theories of resolvent operators, the measure of noncompactness, and the fixed point theorems, we establish the existence and uniqueness of global mild solutions for the equations. An example is provided to illustrate the application of our main results.…”
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BIOTECHNOLOGY AS MAIN DIRECTION OF DEVELOPMENT OF PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY OF RUSSIA AND THE WORLD by D. Sheikin

“…The article analyses the global trends and prospects of development of pulp and paper industry. …”
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On the Fourier-Transformed Boltzmann Equation with Brownian Motion by Yong-Kum Cho, Eunsil Kim

“…We establish a global existence theorem, and uniqueness and stability of solutions of the Cauchy problem for the Fourier-transformed Fokker-Planck-Boltzmann equation with singular Maxwellian kernel, which may be viewed as a kinetic model for the stochastic time-evolution of characteristic functions governed by Brownian motion and collision dynamics.…”
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In pursuit of sustainability by Russell Hopfenberg

“…The evidence clearly shows that global human population growth proceeds as a function of the increasing food supply. …”
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the changing world of work and imperatives of internationalisation in higher education by Ylva Rodny-Gumede

“… We are seeing major disruptions to higher education, and the education system as a whole, not only at home but globally. One of the major contributors to such disruptions is the paradigmatic shift brought about by the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), with massive implications for the world of work, and by extension in higher education through the learner of the future. …”
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Potential of long-term satellite observations and reanalysis products for characterising soil drying: trends and drought events by M. Hirschi, P. Stradiotti, B. Crezee, B. Crezee, W. Dorigo, S. I. Seneviratne

“…</p> <p>The soil moisture trends are globally diverse and partly contradictory between products. …”
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Diethyldithiocarbamate-copper complex ignites the tumor microenvironment through NKG2D-NKG2DL axis by Daciana C. Dumut, Daciana C. Dumut, Marian Hajduch, Marian Hajduch, Amanda M. Zacharias, Qingling Duan, Qingling Duan, Ivo Frydrych, Zuzana Rozankova, Zuzana Rozankova, Miroslav Popper, Miroslav Popper, Dusan Garic, Radu Alexandru Paun, Radu Alexandru Paun, Amanda Centorame, Amanda Centorame, Juhi Shah, Martin Mistrik, Martin Mistrik, Petr Dzubak, Petr Dzubak, Juan B. De Sanctis, Juan B. De Sanctis, Danuta Radzioch, Danuta Radzioch, Danuta Radzioch, Danuta Radzioch

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Benefits of a second tandem flight phase between two successive satellite altimetry missions for assessing instrumental stability by M. Ablain, N. Lalau, B. Meyssignac, R. Fraudeau, A. Barnoud, G. Dibarboure, A. Egido, C. Donlon

“…Nevertheless, it is only feasible to detect instrumental drifts in the global mean sea level exceeding 1.0 to 1.5 mm yr<span class="inline-formula">⁻¹</span> due to the brief duration of the tandem phase (9 to 12 months). …”
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Spatiotemporal analysis of rainfall and temperature variability and trends for a mixed crop-livestock production system: its implications for developing adaptation strategies by Sintayehu Alemayehu, Daniel Olago, Opere Alfred, Tadesse Terefe Zeleke, Sintayehu W. Dejene

“…By integrating these methods with global SST data and atmospheric pressure systems, the research delivers a nuanced understanding of how global climatic factors influence local weather patterns. …”
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Identifying falsified COVID-19 vaccines by analysing vaccine vial label and excipient profiles using MALDI-ToF mass spectrometry by Benediktus Yohan Arman, Rebecca Clarke, Tehmina Bharucha, Laura Gomez Fernandez, John Walsby-Tickle, Michael Deats, Sara Mosca, Qianqi Lin, Sneha Banerjee, Shrikrishna R. Chunekar, Kundan D. Patil, Sunil Gairola, Susanna Dunachie, Hamid A. Merchant, Robert Stokes, Rutendo Kuwana, Alexandrine Maes, Jean-Philippe Charrier, Fay Probert, Céline Caillet, Pavel Matousek, James McCullagh, Paul N. Newton, Nicole Zitzmann, Bevin Gangadharan

“…In this context, matrix-assisted laser desorption ionisation-time of flight (MALDI-ToF) mass spectrometry (MS) is globally available for fast and accurate analysis of bacteria in patient samples, offering a potentially accessible solution to identify SF vaccines. …”
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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

“…In war and conflict zones, the jamming of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNNS) signals by military forces disrupts the tracking of tagged animals, and has increased in frequency following the recent escalation of conflicts in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. …”
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SUBSTANTIATION AND METHODOLOGY FOR ASSESSMENT OF HEALTHY LIFESTYLE FORMATION IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY HEART DISEASE by M. M. Potiazhenko, G. V. Nevoitt

“…World Health Organization (WHO) has developed the “Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases 2013-2020”. …”
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Ochrona środowiska przez administrację publiczną w gospodarce morskiej by Maciej Jabłoński

“…The maritime economy is a field that has a significant impact on the functioning of the entire global economy. Therefore, it is important to comply with high standards of environmental protection, which must be implemented in an effective way by public administrative bodies. …”
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Stochastic Logistic Systems with Jumps by Ruihua Wu, Ke Wang

“…Sufficient criteria for the existence of global positive solutions are obtained; then asymptotic boundedness in pth moment, stochastically ultimate boundedness, and asymptotic pathwise behavior are to be considered.…”
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Conformally symplectic structures and the Lefschetz condition by Lejmi, Mehdi, Wilson, Scott O.

“…Namely, for any compact symplectic manifold satisfying the hard Lefschetz condition in degree 1, every locally conformally symplectic structure is in fact globally conformally symplectic, whenever there is a mutually compatible almost complex structure.…”
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Convergence and Stability in Collocation Methods of Equation u′(t)=au(t)+bu([t]) by Han Yan, Shufang Ma, Yanbin Liu, Hongquan Sun

“…This paper is concerned with the convergence, global superconvergence, local superconvergence, and stability of collocation methods for u′(t)=au(t)+bu([t]). …”
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Antiperiodic Solutions to Impulsive Cohen-Grossberg Neural Networks with Delays on Time Scales by Yanqin Wang, Maoan Han

“…We use the method of coincidence degree and construct suitable Lyapunov functional to investigate the existence and global exponential stability of antiperiodic solutions of impulsive Cohen-Grossberg neural networks with delays on time scales. …”
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GLONASS AS A TOOL TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF TRANSPORTATION OF DANGEROUS GOODS by A. Ochkalova

“…The article describes the definition of dangerous goods, shows the reasons for the increased control over the transportation of such kind of goods and special security measures, gives the peculiarities of satellite navigation systems, the algorithm of implementation of the global navigation tracking system in practice, and shows a need for further measures to ensure safety transportation of dangerous goods.…”
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