Benford’s Law and transparency: an analysis of municipal expenditure by Ricardo Sartori Cella, Ercilio Zanolla

“…Therefore, two municipalities in the state of Goiás were selected, one with a higher and one a lower level of transparency, according to the National Transparency Ranking of the Federal Public Ministry, of 2016. …”
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Measuring Technical Efficiency in Venezuela: The Dual-Purpose Cattle System (DPCS) by Leonardo Ortega, Ronald W. Ward, Chris Andrew

“…In Venezuela, this system represents approximately 90% of total national milk production and around 60% of total milk consumption (Plasse, 1992).  …”
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Satellite remote sensing and the integration of 6G communication and remote sensing by Wenjia XU, Yixu WANG, Mugen PENG

“…Satellite remote sensing is an important means for humans to achieve high-resolution earth observation, and it has gradually become an important component supporting economic and social development as well as national defense and security.6G pursues deep integration of communication, perception, and computation, and communication and remote sensing integration has become an important feature of it.The development of satellite remote sensing at home and abroad were reviewed, the existing system architecture of satellite remote sensing systems and the integrated system architecture of communication and remote sensing in the 6G era were outlined, and the typical satellite remote sensing technologies and the latest research progress driven by artificial intelligence were elaborated on.In response to the trend of integrating satellite communication and remote sensing in the 6G era, the technical challenges and development trends of realizing the combination of “one satellite, multiple uses, multi-satellite networking, multi-network integration, and intelligent services” were discussed.…”
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Légitimité et révolution en Tunisie by Jean-Philippe Bras, Éric Gobe

“…Abstract : After Ben Ali's departure from power on January 14, 2011, under pressure from popular protest movements, the various actors involved in the Tunisian revolutionary process chose to write a new Constitution and to elect a Constituent National Assembly. In this scenario including the drafting of an electoral law, the High Authority for the Achievement of the Revolution Objectives, Political Reform and Democratic Transition (HIROR) played a fundamental role in the elaboration of the initial legal and political framework of Post-Ben Ali Tunisia. …”
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Saber do espaço e colonização regional: constituição territorial e expedições geográficas no sudoeste do Paraná by Aruanã Antônio dos Passos, Nair Sanzovo Pivatto

“…The history of these geographical expeditions reveals a new look at the process of occupation and exploitation of the natural resources of the region, while they served to construct a set of spatial knowledge disseminated through the main scientific geographic magazine of that context: the Brazilian Journal of Geography , Linked to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, a governmental body of extreme importance in the formulation of strategic planning and diagnostics focused on territorial sovereignty and proposing solutions to national problems.…”
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Tuberculous Osteomyelitis of the Scapular Spine Revealing HIV-1 Infection by Khaoula Idsaid, Malika Idalene, Khadija Danaoui, Wiam Ait Driss, Rania Elfargani, Nabila Soraa, Noura Tassi

“…Tuberculosis is no longer confined to developing nations; it persists as a significant contributor to illness and death on a global scale. …”
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Short-Term Load Forecasting Based on Wavelet Transform and Least Squares Support Vector Machine Optimized by Fruit Fly Optimization Algorithm by Wei Sun, Minquan Ye

“…Electric power is a kind of unstorable energy concerning the national welfare and the people’s livelihood, the stability of which is attracting more and more attention. …”
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An Overview of the US and Mexico Strawberry Industries by Feng Wu, Zhengfei Guan, Alicia Whidden

“… The statistics of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations indicate that world production of strawberries has exceeded 4 million metric tons since 2007. …”
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Multitarget CDK inhibitors roscovitine and UCN‑01 induce apoptosis in colorectal cancer cells by inhibiting cell cycle progression and transcription by Sonal Mohan Manohar, Kalpana Sanjay Joshi

“…Abstract Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third leading cause of cancer death in the world, and its incidence is steadily rising in developing nations. Cell cycle aberrations due to deregulation of cyclin dependent kinases (CDKs) and cyclins are common events during colorectal carcinogenesis. …”
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Language Schools of MGIMO-University by G. I. Gladkov

“…And pretty soon it became clear that proficiency in two foreign languages was the main advantage of MGIMO graduates over graduates of all other national universities. The language study at MGIMO is of applied nature: while studying languages students at the same time receive other professions - a diplomat, an economist, a lawyer, a journalist. …”
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Cutting Edge: Biomarkers for Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria by Marco Folci, Enrico Heffler, Giorgio W. Canonica, Raffaello Furlan, Enrico Brunetta

“…Moreover, CSU has a growing impact on national health systems representing a great burden due to its variable rate of response to the approved therapies. …”
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Les stratégies paysannes entre riz et soja, productions et perceptions. L’exemple de Cachoeira do Sul/RS, Brésil by Frédéric Fortunel, Márcia dos Santos Ramos Berreta, Benjamin Dias Osorio Filho

“…The municipio of Cachoeira do Sul, located at the central depression of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, is the symbol of the cereal that is part of the traditional diet. It is the national capital of rice, which nevertheless has troubles keeping its place in the rural boundaries, as over the last 50 years there has been a relative decline in rice production compared with soybean production. …”
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Happiness or Eudaimonia? A Critical Review on the Book The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being by Seyedmohsen Alavipour

“…Among others, Derek Bok’s “Politics of Happiness” is an exploration for such alternative which is based on Buhtan’s national policy towards substitution of “happiness” for “economic growth” and attempts to indicate different elements and aspects of such transformation in social policies in western states, namely the United States.…”
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Reconstituer les trajectoires paysagères par photo-interprétation semi-automatisée et télédétection : géohistoire d'un cône de déjection torrentiel en vallée de Maurienne (Savoie)... by Thérèse Hugerot, Laurent Astrade, Estelle Ployon, Christophe Gauchon

“…In this article, we explain the potentialities of an object-oriented approach using as an example a time series of areal missions taken by the National Geographic Institute of France (IGN-F©). The results of this method give a spatial and normalised comprehension over the fifty last years.…”
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Migraciones estéticas en el primer teatro modernizador argentino: Henri-René Lenormand - Roberto Arlt by Grisby Ogás Puga

“…In this way he was able to transgress the national model with selective and productive incorporation of new poetics of the avantgarde through the rich aesthetic migrations that traversed the invisible borders of his theatre.…”
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Numerical heat transfer simulation system based on Lagrangian particle mathematical model and SSPH algorithm. by Dan Fang, Conghui Xiong, Wei Yu

“…With the continuous promotion and development of national industrialization, the performance control of precision casting and mechanical structures has become increasingly important. …”
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The African Charter on Democracy, Election and Governance and Constitutionalism in Nigeria by Baba Isaac Ibrahim

“…The article therefore, submits that the ACDEG should not only be made justifiable but a mechanism for monitoring compliance among African nations be put in place like the case of African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) in the implementation of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) initiative. …”
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Public services in spatial plans: Key problems and dillemas by Živanović Zora, Popović Vladimir

“…Methodologically based on a comparative analysis of spatial plans at the national, regional, and local levels, the subject of the paper is defined as the way this segment is handled in spatial plans across different territorial levels. …”
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Simulation Study on the Optimization of Temperature Measurement Cable Layout in Rectangular Warehouse during Ventilation by CHU Feng-jiao, WANG Yuan-cheng, YANG Kai-min, DONG Xiao-qian

“…The results showed that the maximum absolute error in temperature monitoring with the national standard cable layout was 0.70 ℃, and the root mean square error was 25.83%. …”
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La résilience à l’épreuve du local : la gestion du risque redéfinie par les habitants de Barrio Luján, Costa Rica by Sofia Guevara Viquez

“…Despite its polysemy, the concept of resilience has been used in the past ten years in the risk management area, on an international and national scale. This concept has thus been incorporated in public policies regarding risk management in Costa Rica, particularly to engage the local scale of risk and reinforce inhabitant’s capabilities to face risk hazards by creating stakeholder’s emergency committees. …”
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