Effectiveness and Efficiency of Seawater Evaporation Using Traditional Methods and the Innovative Flow Down System in Salt Production by Azi Wibisono Raihan, Ika Nuzula Nike, Giri D. Kartika Ary, Efendy Makhfud, Sri W. Pratiwi Wiwit

“…National salt demand increases every year along with the growth in demand and consumption. …”
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What does good care look like to people living with congenital heart disease in the 21st century? Qualitative online, asynchronous discussion forums by Christina Pagel, Jo Wray, Sonya Crowe, Louise Coats, Fiona Kennedy, Adrian H Chester

“…Although examples of excellent care were provided it is evident that, from the perspective of patients and parents/carers, some National Health Service Standards for people with CHD were not being met.…”
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The Psych Behind Psychedelics: Exploring Hallucinogen Use as a Marker for Untreated Mental Health Disorders by Liyana Ahmed, Sanjana Konda, Latha Ganti

“…# Design, setting, participants Data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), collected by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) database was queried for correlations with hallucinogen use. …”
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INNOVATIVNESS IN BOSNIAN SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES by Zijad Džafić, Admir Omerbasic

“…This paper uses the Global Innovation Index Reports, followed by the World Bank Report on Business Ease, which measures the degree of national competitiveness and innovation of the economy, as well as the results of primary research on a sample of 200 manufacturing SMEs in BiH. …”
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A vida como projeto: a pedagogia do homo economicus e as iniciativas de fomento ao “espírito do capitalismo” via educação pública by Miqueli Michetti

“…The concentration of economic, political, social, and symbolic capital of economic elites allows them to transform initiatives based on their visions and beliefs in national scope public policies. They seek, therefore, to construct certain economic dispositions through public education and, as they attribute “success” to the rationally executed will, they neglect the social conditions of the breeding of such dispositions. …”
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The impact of economic burden of disease on poverty among young migrant workers: evidence from China by Yiyan Chen, Yueping Yan, Lijun Chen

“…IntroductionThe treatment cost expenditure for family members with illness is a significant factor exacerbating poverty. Using nationally representative data concerning the migrant population, this study analyzes the impact of the economic burden from family members’ illness on poverty among young migrant workers.MethodsFirstly, we construct a multidimensional poverty index system based on five dimensions: income, education, employment, health, and livelihood,and used the A-F method for calculation. …”
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A glance at the Ethiopian higher education from the developmental state perspective by Ayenachew Assefa Woldegiyorgi

“…Strong state control, central admission process, focus on certain priority areas, massive expansion, emphasis on technology transfer and using higher education to serve non-economic national agendas are typically observable in the Ethiopian higher education system. …”
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Food Supply Chain: Possible Impact and Consequence Analysis of Reducing Working Hours of Food Retailers by Aija Pilvere, Irina Pilvere, Liga Proskina, Sallija Cerina, Aleksejs Nipers

“…The research found that if the working hours of the four leading food supermarkets (Maxima, Rimi, Lidl, Sky) in Latvia were reduced, their turnover, market shares, and taxes paid to the national government, as well as the hours worked by their employees, would decrease, thereby leading to some redundancies causing some negative socio-economic consequences. …”
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The Role of Traditional Environmental Knowledge in Taytnapam Toponyms by Eugene S. Hunn, Richard H. McClure Jr.

“…A majority of descendants are now citizens of the Yakama Nation and the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. The linguist Melville Jacobs published a detailed inventory of Taytnapam place names dictated to him in 1927 by two elderly consultants in the local Ichishkíin (Sahaptin) dialect. …”
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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

“…**Conclusion:** These findings suggest that factors such as physician preference, clinical practice guidelines, and cryopreservation protocols of ART units might explain the national variation in uptake of IVF.…”
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Latinoamérica y la CPI: afrontar la impunidad en Colombia by Bárbara Direito

“…But the real test of commitment will come when there is an investigation of (and even judicial proceedings against) Latin American nationals, or of and against a situation occurring in a Latin American country. …”
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Balancing on carbon storage and ecological security in urban areas: The case of Dongguan city, China by Xinyi Wang, Fenzhen Su, Fengqin Yan, Vincent Lyne, Yikun Cui, Bin He, Rong Fan

“…Land-use changes from rapid coastal urban expansion fragments ecosystems and reduces carbon storage. Current and future national urban policies must therefore enhance carbon sink functions of ecosystems while maintaining spatial ecological structure networks. …”
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FIRM CHARACTERISTICS AND DISCRETIONARY CASH FLOW IN LISTED OIL AND GAS FIRMS IN NIGERIA by Christopher Akinwale Da-Silva, Alexander Tunde OGUNTUASE, Chris Chigo Uchehara, Godwin Emmanuel Oyedokun, Jayeola OLABISI

“…The study therefore recommended that companies listed on the Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX) should abide by the governance reforms already in place in the nation, such as sufficient assessment, investigation, and scrutiny of the company's financial statement and sufficient protocols for the early identification of earnings management practices. …”
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INNOVATIVNESS IN BOSNIAN SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES by Zijad Džafić, Admir Omerbasic

“…This paper uses the Global Innovation Index Reports, followed by the World Bank Report on Business Ease, which measures the degree of national competitiveness and innovation of the economy, as well as the results of primary research on a sample of 200 manufacturing SMEs in BiH. …”
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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 was underpinned on the National System of Innovation (NSI) and the News Framing theory, and adopted the mixed research method using historical and content analysis. …”
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Elderly Self-Help Groups: A Community-Based Education and Peer Support Program for Hypertension Control, Supporting SDG 3 on Health and Well-being by Heni Kusumawardani Lita, Hasra Azera, Triyanto Endang, Iskandar Asep

“…This pressing global health issue aligns with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly Goal 3, which seeks to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. …”
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Zmiany modelu poznawczego uczniów w kontekście prac nad e-podręcznikiem by Jolanta Dyrda

“…MEN / The Polish Ministry of National Education / have – in their attempt to meet pupils’ expectations, and thus make the school a more attractive and modern institution – started work on an e-textbook. …”
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Starting then stopping: a nationwide register-based study on the magnitude, predictors, and urban-rural patterns of under-vaccination variation across health centers in The Gambia by Alieu Sowe, Fredinah Namatovu, Bai Cham, Per E. Gustafsson

“…Methods We used data from 61,839 children from The Gambia national routine vaccination register. We cross tabulated under-vaccination status across study variables and fitted two-level random intercept multilevel logistic regression models to measure variance, contribution to the variance, and factors associated with the variance and under-vaccination. …”
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Nature deficit and technology overuse in childhood. A correlational study by gender of its influence on sustainable identity construction in childhood by Sara Serrate González, Judit Alonso del Casar, Carmen Patino Alonso, José Manuel Muñoz Rodríguez

“…The target population comprised students enrolled in years 5 and 6 of primary school, with a sample of 2586 respondents at a national level. The statistical analysis involved calculating descriptive measures such as means, standard deviations, medians, and interquartile ranges (IR). …”
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STRENGTHENING THE RESEARCH OF KEY ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR NEW INNOVATIONS by Sanja Tišma, Karolina Horvatinčić, Iva Tolić, Anamarija Farkaš

“…The biggest Croatian stren-gth in KET are open economy and relatively high-level of internationalisation of national companies, as well as the access to a pool of high-skilled workers and good quality infra-structures with substantial investments in the fields of transportation, telecommunications and energy. …”
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