Equity of Incentives: Agent-Based Explorations of How Social Networks Influence the Efficacy of Programs to Promote Solar Adoption by Heike I. Brugger, Adam Douglas Henry

“…Due to network segregation, programs that target relatively affluent agents can generate rapid increases in overall adoption levels but at the cost of increasing disparities in access to solar technology between rich and poor communities. These dynamics are explored through theoretical agent-based models of solar adoption within hypothetical social systems. …”
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE OF PREHISTORIC CAVES IN BA THUOC DISTRICT, THANH HOA PROVINCE: PRESERVATION AND PROMOTION by Khac Su Nguyen

“…In Ba Thuoc district, human communities were in continuous residence from 30,000 to 7,000 years BP and developed the Dieu stone craft industry. …”
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Mathematical Modelling of Tuberculosis and Hepatitis C Coinfection Dynamics with No Intervention by Mohammed Kizito, Hasifa Nampala, Pius Ariho

“…We recommend that health education campaigns to communities aimed at reducing the transmission rates of TB and HCV be conducted. …”
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Land use change impacts and its cope with water management to conservation type in highland-plateau area development by Kristiyanto

“…This makes it necessary to manage water and the land in a friendly and conservative manner. Involving communities in land conservation is essential for long-term sustainability, especially in rural areas with steep to plateau (forest) terrain that should include catchment areas and efficient and compassionate ecological functions.…”
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Age and Sequence of Permanent Teeth Eruption in Lebanese Children by Nahla Nassif, Elia Sfeir

“…A cross-sectional study is conducted, and the clinical emergence data are collected for a sample of 2317 Lebanese children aged between 5.5 years and 13 years (1129 girls and 1188 boys) from different socioeconomic groups in rural and urban communities spread over different regions in Lebanon. …”
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Affects of Resistance: Candomblé Rituals in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction by Parvathi M. S.

“…The proposed paper situates the candomblé rituals in Crooked Plow (2023), a contemporary Brazilian novel, within the socio-cultural and political matrices of the plantation communities of the twentieth century. The novel is set in a colonial plantation in Bahai, a Northeastern province in Brazil, where plantations owned by Portuguese colonisers operationalized tenant farming, installing slaves brought in from Africa during the Transatlantic trade as bonded labourers. …”
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THE PUBLIC DIPLOMACY RESOURCES OF THE UNION STATE OF RUSSIA AND BELARUS by K. P. Borishpolets

“…Two mutually complementary vectors in its development can be distinguished, the first one related to the actions of officials and leaders of partner countries, and the second one – to the practice of non-state actors in the form of public organizations, business communities, academics, and the media. The state institutions along with the special social structures are actively involved in different projects boosting the international public image of USRB and play a critical part in creating a positive image of the Russian-Belarus cooperation. …”
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Towards a global knowledge for environmentally sustainable development agenda in 21 st century southern Africa by Stanford Garikayi Mukasa

“…The, article will, by way of addressing these questions, propose an information, communication and knowledge networking strategy that will accommodate in a systematic way the varied and ever-changing information and communication needs of grassroots communities. The paper will map out a strategic vision for the information agenda for southern Africa, with a focus on the development of a new cadre of information agents drawn from a cross section of society, and suggest practical down-ta-earth strategies that can be implemented to successfully. and causally relate information, communication and knowledge to development on a sustained basiS. …”
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Empowering Aid Personnel That Respond to Disasters by Vedat Işıkhan

“…Accordingly, the literature on the effects of natural or man-made disasters on victims and communities is abundant. Our findings from the disaster mental health literature indicate that the rescue team that performs the first responders has a risk for negative psychological consequences as they are directly and continuously exposed to traumatic experiences after intervening in disasters. …”
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Appraising the Effects of Social Media Information during the Electioneering Period in Nigeria by Chieme Azubuike, Nnennaya Grace Nwaubeta

“…The researchers purposefully selected two communities each from local government areas that make up the Owerri metropolis. …”
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Russian Black Sea Trade in Early 19^th Century by E. P. Kudryavtseva

“…Relations with the highland communities proved difficult, as they frequently captured Russian ship crews and demanded ransoms. …”
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Étudier les biens communs par les changements institutionnels : régimes de propriété autour des races animales face à l’innovation génomique by Julie Labatut, Franck Aggeri, Gilles Allaire

“…Animal genetic resources, and more specifically ruminant breeds (cattle and sheep), are common resources (belonging to farmers communities). They have been much less privatized than plant genetic resources (where varieties belong to firms). …”
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The Public Transport Crisis in South Africa: Through the Eyes of the Four Revolutions by Mondli Hlatshwayo

“…The article then submits that these transport problems may be solved by mobilisation and advocacy led by working-class and poor communities negatively affected by the crisis. …”
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African indigenous knowledge (AIK) for environmental management and sustainable development: the role of Yoruba epistemology by Olawale R. Olaopa

“…Anthropological expeditions across traditional communities in Africa acknowledged human practices evolved over several years. …”
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‘Savages’ and Spiritual Engines: Feeling the Machine in H. G. Wells’s Time Machine and ‘Lord of the Dynamos’ by Tamara Ketabgian

“…Seeking, above all, to feel the machine, these two works portray communities of intense spiritual affect, supported through sound, sight, and touch. …”
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Characterization of Meteorological Drought Using Monte Carlo Feature Selection and Steady-State Probabilities by Rizwan Niaz, Fahad Tanveer, Mohammed M. A. Almazah, Ijaz Hussain, Soliman Alkhatib, A.Y. Al-Razami

“…The impacts of drought occurrences can affect communities and environments worldwide in several ways. …”
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Orígenes, evolución y retos de la etnobiología boliviana by Victoria Reyes-García, Mónica Moraes R., Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

“…Ethnobiology can contribute to the resolution of contemporary environmental issues, but this potential cannot be realized without a greater inclusion of Indigenous Peoples and local communities.…”
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The Development of Wheeled Transportation in Osun Division of Southwestern Nigeria, 1900-1960 by AbiodunAjayi

“… Wheeled transportation constituted a single factor that facilitated the incorporation of various African communities into the Europeans’ mercantile economy. …”
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Resource- Based Conflict and Rural Poverty in Benue State by W. Yio Benjamin

“…Consequently, the struggle over some of these resources in the region especially agricultural land and water resources between Farmers and Pastoralists in the last two decades has led to a sustained violent conflict in the area leading to a large displacement of farmers, damage to infrastructure, institutions, production and brake up of communities and social networks therefore exacerbating poverty in the region. …”
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Hospitalité publique et altérité tsigane : du modèle d’intégration au paradigme assimilationniste by Caroline Trouillet

“…This article deals with the relation between our french Nation-State and identities of communities settled inside its borders through time. …”
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