MICROFINANCE AND INCOME LEVEL IN NIGERIA by Sheriff Akanji IBRAHIM

“…It recommends that microfinance banks should seek to mobilize deposits from the underserved demography of the economy to help the economically active but underserved segment of Nigerian society raise their standard of living. …”
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Air pollution monitoring system based on wireless sensor networks by Natalja Osintsev

“…Due to increase in number of industries and urbanization increases air pollutants concentrations in many areas because of this different changes are been happening in human life like health issues and as well as other living organisms. We have some pollutant emission monitoring systems, like Opsis, Codel, Urac and TAS-Air metrics which are expensive. …”
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Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation of Happiness Index of Nine Cities in Pearl River Delta Based on AHP by Aili Xie, Lianhua Liu, Longyi Qin

“…With the development of China’s economy and the improvement of national income level, people’s living demands have shifted from food and clothing to happiness, so happiness has become an important indicator to measure the performance of government performance. …”
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Seeking information, seeking connections, seeking meaning: genealogists and family historians. Genealogy, Family history, Information seeking, Archives, Personal information manage... by Elizabeth Yakel

“…Family history is also an activity without a clear end goal; after the ancestry chart is filled out the search continues for more information about the lives of one's forebears. Thus, family history should be viewed as an ongoing process of seeking meaning. …”
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La déviance sociale à Londres vue par une enquêtrice socialiste française : Flora Tristan et les Promenades dans Londres (1840) by Stéphane Michaud

“…They focused on social contrasts and on the miserable living and working conditions of the proletariat. …”
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Wpływ powstania styczniowego na losy rodziny Morgiewiczów z Hanelek w powiecie lidzkim guberni wileńskiej by Dariusz Tarasiuk

“…The research method – case study – was used, in order to present the phenomena occurring at that time on the example of a selected Morgiewicz family living in Hanelki farmstead in Lida district of Vilnius governorate. …”
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L’histoire et « l’avenir possible » : Laroui, Djaït et la modernité du Maghreb dans les années 1970 by Idriss Jebari

“…On the one hand, these essays took on special meaning for these intellectuals whose lives would be marked by disillusionment and alienation resulting from the confrontation of their idealist convictions upon completing their studies in France and the stark realities of the Maghreb of the early sixties. …”
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Islam and Scholarship Tradition: Historical Trajectories and Future Challenges of Modernity by Mohammad Fadel

“…Various forms of modernity that appear in phenomena of secularism, capitalism, and democracy have been penetrating Muslim lives. These social, economic, and political phenomena not only bring opportunities for a human betterment but also challenges to Islamic tradition and community. …”
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Les processus de conservation différentielle du squelette des individus immatures by Silvia Bello, Michel Signoli, Emma Rabino Massa, Olivier Dutour

“…Bone remains in osteological collections are not a reflection of a living population, only a sample of the original population. …”
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Huuneh : incantation maya (lacandon) contre « la flèche de Kisin » by Didier Boremanse

“…According to Lacandon beliefs, each person’s soul has a double which lives in the forest of the underworld in the shape of a spider-monkey. …”
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“O açaí nosso de cada dia”: formas de consumo de frequentadores de uma feira amazônica (Pará, Brasil) 1 by Flavio Henrique Souza Lobato, Voyner Ravena-Cañete

“…The results obtained allowed a understanding that the açaí in this city transpasses the sine qua non role of food for the human living, comprising, in fact, a cultural element of the daily life of the inhabitants of that city. …”
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Human Falling Recognition Based on Movement Energy Expenditure Feature by Daohua Pan, Hongwei Liu

“…In order not to affect the normal life behavior of the elderly, to make full use of the functions provided by the smartphone, to reduce the inconvenience caused by wearing sensor devices, and to reduce the cost of monitoring systems, the accelerometer and gyroscope integrated inside the smartphone are employed to collect the behavioral data of the elderly in their daily lives, and the threshold analysis method is used to study the human falling behavior recognition. …”
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Das konzeptuelle Potenzial des deutschen Konfixes bio-. Eine korpusbasierte Netzwerkanalyse by Elżbieta Pawlikowska-Asendrych

“…At the same time, organic science has also emerged, in the context of which many essential questions concerning the healthy and natural development of living beings are discussed. The confix bio-, used in various contexts, has become a polysemous lexeme under these circumstances. …”
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L’arbre au cœur du paysage urbain : symbole ou action militante ? by Frédéric Bœuf, Florence Robert

“…Our position as actors makes it possible for us to reveal the different levers for action, and to address the question of time, which is fundamental in the living world.…”
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Social Factors Affecting Educational Success of Military Cadets by E. N. Karlova, V. E. Talynev

“…It was found that the greatest success is demonstrated by cadets for whom training in a higher military educational organization serves as a channel for intergenerational mobility and the continuation of the military professional development trajectory.It is revealed that the largest socio-professional group, which is a main supplier to the system of training future officers, is constituted by the representatives of the power unit, and the main factors of the educational success of cadets are 1) a developed military-professional orientation, 2) a high level of school performance, 3) living in large cities, 4) relatively high level of cultural capital and life experience.…”
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Can the human body cope with extreme heat in a changing climate? by Pieter Vancamp

“…The scorching summer of 2022 left a devastating trail of 61,000 lives lost across Europe,* illustrating the human body's vulnerability to extreme heat. …”
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Experiences, characteristics, and features of developing new towns between 1898 and 1970 by Mazdak Irani

“…In different areas, new towns were built to address the emerging social, economic, and environmental problems by supporting better living, enabling urban activities, and supporting industrial expansion. …”
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Improvement on The Adequacy of The Water Supply System in Kagongi Sub-County, Mbarara District. by Ainembabazi Immmaculate

“…Water is an essential element in life that improves people's health and standard of living, it is very important to provide safe water to people. …”
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Qualitative application of the diffusion of innovation theory to maternity waiting homes in rural Zambia by Jeanette L. Kaiser, Rachel M. Fiorillo, Taryn Vian, Thandiwe Ngoma, Kayla J. Kuhfeldt, Michelle L. Munro-Kramer, Davidson H. Hamer, Misheck Bwalya, Viviane R. Sakanga, Jody R. Lori, Eden Ahmed Mdluli, Peter C. Rockers, Godfrey Biemba, Nancy A. Scott

“…Methods We conducted 158 in-depth interviews (IDIs) with randomly selected rural-living women who had delivered a baby in the prior 12 months. …”
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Pilot study of a ketogenic diet in bipolar disorder: a process evaluation by Benjamin P. Rigby, Nicole Needham, Helen Grossi, Ivana Kamenska, Iain H. Campbell, Ben Meadowcroft, Frances Creasy, Cheryl Fisher, Pankaj Bahuguna, John Norrie, Gerard Thompson, Melissa C. Gibbs, Maja Mitchell-Grigorjeva, Ailsa McLellan, Tessa Moses, Karl Burgess, Rachel Brown, Michael J. Thrippleton, Harry Campbell, Daniel J. Smith, Sharon A. Simpson

“…Conclusion We provide novel insight into the experiences of people living with bipolar disorder initiating and following a ketogenic diet, as well as those of research clinicians who support the intervention. …”
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