Questions and Answers about the National Flood Insurance Program by Thomas Ruppert

“… Established by Congress in 1968 because the private market stopped offering flood insurance, the NFIP provides federally backed flood insurance to property owners in participating communities. This 11-page fact sheet covers topics such as: why buy flood insurance, recent changes, flood zones and insurance rate maps, ways to reduce premiums, rate increases for pre-1974 structures, and actions communities can take to lower citizen premiums related to climate change and sea-level rise. …”
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The Effects of Job Stress on Employee Productivity: A Case of Kafunjo-Mirama Town Council of Ntungamo District Uganda. by Ndyowawe, Leticia

“…Kafunjo-Mirama Town Council employees are charged with delivering quality services to the public efficiently, completing tasks on time, monitoring and implementing Government programs, addressing the needs of the local people, making accountability reports on public funds, and ensuring the sanitation of the local communities. However, the town council employees have not performed in mobilizing the communities for government projects, making transparent accountability of public funds. …”
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Late Pennsylvanian vegetation dynamics of the Donets Basin, Ukraine by Nataliya Boyarina

“…The dynamics of the Late Pennsylvanian vegetation cover of the Donets Basin is represented by a succession of formations of new plant communities (phytocoenogenesis) of a wetland forest and woodland biome and a seasonally dry woodland biome because of the changing landscape and climate conditions resulting from the glacio-eustatic changes during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age. …”
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Biodiversity and integration of ecological characteristics of species in spatial pattern analysis by Z. Mohebi, H. Mirzaei

“…Therefore, this empirical study was conducted to explore the role of diversity of species in the spatial patterning of tow shrub herbaceous communities.  METHODS: First, the biodiversity analysis was performed by Past3 software to compare the relationship between the two communities. …”
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Cities and urban consumption in transition towards sustainability by Mauro ROMANELLI

“…Cities are in transition to achieving urban sustainability, meeting the needs of communities without compromising the wealth of future generations. …”
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Lékaři, lazebníci a porodní báby z řad moravských novokřtěnců v 16.–17. století by Andrea Loukotová

“…In consequence of their long­term absence in the Anabaptist communities, caused by the travels to the noble patients, the physicians and barber­surgeons were predisposed to be independent and reluctant to submit to the order prevailing in the Anabaptist communities. …”
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Engaging the Mechanisms of Faith? by Selina Palm, Carola Eyber

“…There is renewed global recognition of the role of religions in legitimating or challenging harmful attitudes and practices, and this highlights the relevance and influence of faith communities in child protection. Faith communities may also have a unique role to play by engaging spiritual capital and faith mechanisms for positive change. …”
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Empowering church leaders for service in Africa: Situational Holistic Pastoral Ministry paradigm by Rabson Hove

“…It posits that empowering church leaders is essential for addressing the myriad challenges confronting churches and communities in sub-Saharan Africa.…”
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In the search of intra and inter-specific balance by Cristina Acasuso-Rivero

“…Challenging cultural anthropocentrism and non-human animal property by understanding the inter-specific balance can be achieved by a better understanding of such human communities.…”
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Scientometrics Approach to Advance Public Policy Within the Framework of Indigenous Peoples by Sujianto Sujianto, Habibie Dedi Kusuma, Putri Risky Arya, Adianto Adianto, As’ari Hasim, Putri Atika Ulfa, Gendroyono Gendroyono

“…This study aims to analyze the application of scientometric approaches within the context of public policy and the rights of Indigenous peoples, highlighting the potential of this method to identify, measure, and evaluate policy studies concerning Indigenous communities. A literature review utilizing the scientometric approach enables researchers to analyze scientific studies, identify emerging research trends, and evaluate public policies affecting Indigenous communities. …”
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THE NEED FOR REVITALIZING ZAKAH REGULATION TOWARD PRODUCTIVE ZAKAH by M. Zidny Nafi' Hasbi

“…The government also needs to re-regulate zakah from Muslim communities, such as zakah of professions, agriculture, plantations, gold, silver, and the like. …”
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The Mosquito by Jorge R. Rey

“…Although they can be annoying and some are serious health threats, they can play an important role in natural communities, particularly as filter feeders in aquatic communities, and as a food source in both aquatic and terrestrial food chains. …”
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Florida's Geological History by Ginger M. Allen, Martin B. Main

“…These geological factors influence Florida's plant communities, which support animal communities. Geological history, therefore, has influenced Florida's  environment and ecology in the past, during the present, and will continue to have effects in the future. …”
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Florida's Geological History by Ginger M. Allen, Martin B. Main

“…These geological factors influence Florida's plant communities, which support animal communities. Geological history, therefore, has influenced Florida's  environment and ecology in the past, during the present, and will continue to have effects in the future. …”
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The Mosquito by Jorge R. Rey

“…Although they can be annoying and some are serious health threats, they can play an important role in natural communities, particularly as filter feeders in aquatic communities, and as a food source in both aquatic and terrestrial food chains. …”
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Business Retention and Expansion (BRE) Programs: Why Existing Businesses Are Important by Henry M. Cothran

“…This fact sheets summarizes the results from several studies over the last decade showing how existing businesses are responsible for more job growth in local communities than industry attraction efforts and lists several other benefits existing businesses provide to communities. …”
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Business Retention and Expansion (BRE) Programs: Why Existing Businesses Are Important by Henry M. Cothran

“…This fact sheets summarizes the results from several studies over the last decade showing how existing businesses are responsible for more job growth in local communities than industry attraction efforts and lists several other benefits existing businesses provide to communities. …”
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Designing host-associated microbiomes using the consumer/resource model by Germán Plata, Karthik Srinivasan, Madan Krishnamurthy, Lukas Herron, Purushottam Dixit

“…ABSTRACT A key step toward rational microbiome engineering is in silico sampling of realistic microbial communities that correspond to desired host phenotypes, and vice versa. …”
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The use of genre analysis in the design of electronic meeting systems by Pedro Antunes, Carlos J. Costa, José A. Pino

“…The primary goal of genre analysis is to understand how virtual communities use digital communication to collaborate. …”
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Řeholní kongregace v Čechách na přelomu 19. a 20. století v kontextu proměn náboženského milieu by Miroslav Novotný

“…It views complex situation in Czech lands in a wider context of transformations and creation of the modern European industrial society in the second half of the 19th century, which also strongly mirrored in the activity of individual Churches and led, among others, to the “religious renaissance” and to the search for new or renewed forms of religious activities, as well as spiritual life and also to the formation of new regular communities (men and especially women congregations) together with lay confraternities (Marian communities, in the first place). …”
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