IMPACT OF GOVERNANCE AND ECONOMIC FACTORS ON INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT IN WEST AFRICA by Oluwaseun Isiaka Adekoya, Musa Ilias Biala

“…Using panel dataset collected on 16 West African countries for the period of 2010-2020, the study estimated the fixed and random effects regressions of the model. …”
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Orality in War Novels: Different Aspects of Swear Words in Henri Barbusse’s and Ahmadou Kourouma’s works by Joanna Kotowska-Miziniak

“…Leaving aside its linguistic, geographical or historical particularities, the language of combatants from different countries crosses borders and acquires a universal dimension, as the bearer of the collective memory of the tumultuous twentieth century. …”
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Autonomous Bus Fleet Control Using Multiagent Reinforcement Learning by Sung-Jung Wang, S. K. Jason Chang

“…Autonomous buses are becoming increasingly popular and have been widely developed in many countries. However, autonomous buses must learn to navigate the city efficiently to be integrated into public transport systems. …”
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Regional Variation in Rates of IVF Treatment across Australia: A Population-based Study by Louise Rawlings, Pauline Ding, Stephen J. Robson

“…**Background:** There is variation in uptake of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) between countries, and Australia has high incidence rates of IVF due to universal public funding. …”
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Bibliometric Analysis of Optimal Scheme Selection for Water Conservancy Projects by ZHANG Boyang

“…The results show that the fuzzy multi-attribute decision making,projection pursuit,entropy weight method,fuzzy analysis,technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS),and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) are widely used in the optimal scheme selection for water conservancy projects and are also research hotspots in this field.In comparison with other disciplines,the field witnesses little research progress in other countries.This paper focuses on the main methodological advances in the field and provides an outlook on its future trends in hope of promoting further development of the theory and application regarding optimal scheme selection for water conservancy projects.…”
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Social goals under a neoliberal agenda: measures to promote equality in European higher education read through a Foucauldian lens by Elena-Loreni Baciu, Theofild-Andrei Lazăr, Raluca Iunia Totan

“…Using a qualitative case study design, we selected 17 public universities situated in 13 European countries, from which we collected information about (1) the way these institutions problematize inequality in reference to participation in higher education, by labeling and categorizing vulnerable students and (2) the modes of governing and power tools (designed as support measures) they employ to address inequality. …”
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RAPID AND SPESIFIC DETECTION OF MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS USING POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION by Anita Kurniati, Desak Nyoman Surya Suameitra Dewi, Ni Nyoman Purwani

“…Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the major causes of health burden worldwide, especially in lower middle-income countries. TB is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and characterized by severe condition incuding coughing and fever. …”
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Asset Management Business Model for Design, Realization, and Maintenance of Fibre Reinforced Polymer Bridges by Rizal Sebastian

“…Research on new business models is supported by the insight into the market and regulatory frameworks in different EU countries. This is based on field surveys across the EU that have been carried out as a part of the Trans-IND and PANTURA collaborative research projects.…”
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Digital Transformation: A Case Study of a Legal Firm in Sri Lanka and Its Impact by Dulanjani Dissanayake, Kajini Pasadika Hapuarachchi Hapuarachchige, Yogesh Jindal

“…Presently, there is a critical gap in the operational efficiency of law firms in Sri Lanka compared to those in developed countries. This study is with special reference to D.L&F. …”
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Libya in transition: governance challenges and civil society’s prospects in political and economic reforms by Noureddine Selmi

“…Additionally, it provides recommendations for creating an enabling environment for transition in Libya and countries facing similar conditions, such as those during the Arab Spring.…”
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Ethics on Compulsion of Vaccinations in the Age of COVID-19 by Tsuriel Rashi

“…In December 2020, several pharmaceutical companies announced that they had succeeded in producing effective vaccines and after approval by the various regulatory bodies, countries started to vaccinate their citizens. With the start of the global campaign to vaccinate the world’s population against COVID-19, there was a strong renewal of the debate about the possibility of enforcing vaccination, either directly or indirectly, in particular on account of the rapid spread of the pandemic. …”
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Ethnicity/caste and child anthropometric outcomes in India using the National Family Heath Survey 2015-16 and 2019-21. by Sakshi Pandey, Dil Bahadur Rahut, Tetsuya Araki

“…Socioeconomic inequalities are known to negatively impact anthropometric outcomes among children, particularly in developing countries. This study, therefore, assesses the gap in anthropometric outcomes of children 6-59 months along the ethnicity-based social groups in India using the National Family Heath Survey 2015-16 and 2019-21. …”
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Accorder des droits à la nature : des retours d’expérience qui invitent à la prudence by Juliette Rouleau, Loraine Roy, Benoit Boutaud

“…This radical proposition was first suggested in the 1970s and its feasibility has been tested in some countries since the 2000s. This article offers an analysis of the benefits and the limits of that proposition in the context of environmental damages restoration, by reviewing several court cases internationally. …”
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Advances in nucleic acid-based cancer vaccines by Hung-Chun Liao, Shih-Jen Liu

“…Although the use of a COVID-19 DNA vaccine has been limited to India, the inherent stability at room temperature and cost-effectiveness of DNA vaccines present a viable option that could benefit developing countries. These advantages may help DNA vaccines address some of the challenges associated with mRNA vaccines. …”
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THE NEW WORLD INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION ORDER DEBATE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN NIGERIA by BECKY ADE ALIEGBA

“…The study concluded that NWICO in Nigeria is a work in progress as the gap between the developed countries and the developing is far from being bridged. …”
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(Im)mobile phones by Alette Schoon, Larry Strelitz

“…While research on mobile phones in developed countries suggest these devices facilitate the creation of a society free from the confines of local geography and community, where the user can craft an individualised networked sociability, this may not be the reality in the global south. …”
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Modeling and Research on Human Capital Accumulation Complex System of High-Tech Enterprises Based on Big Data by Yanan Shen

“…The current development of high-tech industries in various countries in the world is of great significance to improving social productivity and overall national strength. …”
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q-Rung Orthopair Fuzzy Matroids with Application to Human Trafficking by Muhammad Asif, Doha A. Kattan, Dragan Pamučar, Ghous Ali

“…We provide an algorithm to solve the numerical problems related to human flow between particular regions to ensure the increased government response action against frequently used path (heavy path) for the countries involved via directed q-rung orthopair fuzzy graph (q-ROFG). …”
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Smart Battery Storage Integration in An IoT-Based Solar-Powered Waste Management System by Olatunbosun A Ajibola, Omolola A Ogbolumani

“…As daily per capita waste ranges from 0.11 to 4.54 kilograms, low-income countries face a tripling of waste production by 2050. …”
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Influence of Fly Ash, Bottom Ash, and Light Expanded Clay Aggregate on Concrete by S. Sivakumar, B. Kameshwari

“…Invention of new methods in strengthening concrete is under work for decades. Developing countries like India use the extensive reinforced construction works materials such as fly ash and bottom ash and other ingredients in RCC construction. …”
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