Human trafficking in the Andean region: Socio-spatial dynamics in the Peruvian borders by Manuel Dammert Guardia, Lucia Dammert, Katherine Sarmiento

“…This article explores the socio-spatial dynamics of human trafficking on the national borders of Peru, as a contribution to the study of the complex relationships that exist between criminal activity and territory. …”
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Application of Taiwan’s Human Rights-Themed Cultural Assets and Spatial Information by Shuhui Lin

“…This article uses the National Cultural Assets Network to query Taiwan’s human rights-themed cultural assets, and I apply the spatial information technology of the DocuSky digital humanities academic research platform to draw the maps with GIS and visualization tools. …”
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Constructing a Coalition to Break the Frozen Landscape: The Achievements and Limits of Healthcare Reform in Uruguay (2005-2014) by Freigedo, Martín, Fuentes, Guillermo, Rodríguez Araújo, Martín

“…The Broad Front Left Coalition came to power in 2005 with the promise of building a National Integrated Healthcare System in the context of a broader institutional environment that was quite resistant to the proposed reforms. …”
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The Demographic Database — History of Technical and Methodological Achievements by Pär Vikström, Maria Larsson, Elisabeth Engberg, Sören Edvinsson

“…The databases were built to serve as national research infrastructures, useful for addressing an indefinite number of research questions within a broad range of scientific fields, and open to all academic researchers who wanted to use the data. …”
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Recent advances in organic fluorophores as anti-counterfeit agents: an up-to-date review by N Akshaya, Annette Thomas, Glanish Jude Martis, Santosh L. Gaonkar

“…Abstract The problems of counterfeiting and duplicating valuable products such as confidential papers, banknotes, passports, nationality cards, and other vital documents have been increased exponentially. …”
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Using citizen science Raspberry Shake seismometers to enhance earthquake location and characterization: a case study from Wellington, New Zealand by Bethany Hughes, Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, Eleanor Mestel, John Townend, Chantujan Chandrakumar, Raj Prasanna

“…We explore the integration of Raspberry Shake citizen seismometers with the national GeoNet seismic network to improve the precision of earthquake locations in Wellington, New Zealand. …”
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Adopting Best Practices from Team Science in a Healthcare Improvement Research Network: The Impact on Dissemination and Implementation by Frank Puga, Kathleen R. Stevens, Darpan I. Patel

“…Key components of the research network infrastructure were mapped to a team science framework and evaluated in terms of their effectiveness and impact on a national study of nursing operations. Results from this study revealed an effective integration of the team science principles which facilitated the rapid collection of a large dataset. …”
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Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeping Myth Legitimises Warfare by Nicole Wegner by Abdul Wasay Khan Mandokhail

“…Focusing primarily on Canada, the book explores how peacekeeping aligns with national identity and state-building, reinforcing a martial ideology that extends to military and police institutions. …”
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Ontological and intercultural anthropology of health among the shuar peoples of Zamora-Chinchipe by Christian Tym

“…It is concluded that an interculturality is required that does not mean the ethnicization of public policies, but rather their localization and adaptation to the preferences of people in every distinct zone within national territories.…”
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Does Chinese policy banks' overseas lending favor Belt Road Initiative countries? by Xin Chen, Heyang Fang, Yun Liu, Yifei Zhang

“…Overall, our study highlights the supportive role played by Chinese policy banks in implementing a national globalization strategy.…”
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TRAINING OF PERSONNEL FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: TRADITION AND DIGITAL FUTURE by M. Yu. Zakharov

“…To this end, the author considers two main historically established systems in the field of traditional management that have been used in order to complete the national task of selecting, training, retraining, educating of public officials: recommendation and control system and system of specialized educational institutions. …”
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Notes on the Nests and Prey of Six Species of Pison in Australia (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) by Howard E. Evans, Robert W. Matthews, Allan Hook

“…Voucher specimens have been deposited in the Australian National Insect Collections, Canberra, and at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. …”
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Cross-Border Cooperation and the European Administrative Space – Prospects from the Principle of Mutual Recognition by Joachim Beck

“…Representing at the same time a specific transnational pattern of the European Administrative Space (EAS), however, its practical functioning is still hindered by various factors amongst which the diverging national legal and administrative framework conditions of the participating actors represent the major obstacle with regards to the development of effective cross-border governance regimes. …”
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Development of End Plug Welding Technique for SFR Fuel Rod Fabrication by Jung Won Lee, Jong Hwan Kim, Ki Hwan Kim, Jeong Yong Park, Sung Ho Kim

“…In Korea, R&D on a sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) was begun in 1997, as one of the national long-term nuclear R&D programs. As one fuel option for a prototype SFR, a metallic fuel, U-Zr alloy fuel, was selected and is currently being developed. …”
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The law of the single price within one country: the example of Benin by N.C.C. Vikou

“…The checking of the hypothesis was carried out empirically and is based on unit root tests for panel data on consumer prices at the national level of Benin. Special attention is paid to the review of the most relevant unit root tests used for the analysis of the Panel data. …”
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State-Granted Practice Authority: Do Nurse Practitioners Vote with Their Feet? by John J. Perry

“…Using data from the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses and a dataset of state-level nurse practitioner prescribing authority, a multivariate estimation is performed analysing the impact of greater practice authority on the probability of a nurse practitioner moving from a state. …”
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COVID-19 and APOL-1 High-Risk Genotype-Associated Collapsing Glomerulonephritis by Sasmit Roy, Srikanth Kunaparaju, Narayana Murty Koduri, Vikram Sangani, Mytri Pokal, Venu Madhav Konala, Mamtha Balla, Sreedhar Adapa

“…The ongoing global pandemic has created healthcare and economic crisis for almost every nation of the world. Though primarily affecting the lungs, it has also affected the kidney in various ways including acute kidney injury (AKI), proteinuria, and hematuria. …”
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Hybrid governance structure between public company and private partners: the case of Infraero in the Brazilian airline sector by Paulo Burnier da Silveira

“…Abstract A public-private partnership (PPP) model has been adopted in Brazil for the modernization of its main national airports. Until 2017, the institutional setup imposed the public company Infraero to participate with 49% in the joint venture for the management of the airports subject to PPP. …”
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Export of Higher Education: Innovations in Physical Education Practice by M. G. Minin, E. O. Frantcuzskaia, A. S. Minich, K. A. Smyshlyaev, A. V. Smyshlyaev

“…The research centered in the following Tomsk universities: Siberian State Medical University, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, and Tomsk State Pedagogical University. …”
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SİYASAL-SOSYAL GÖRÜŞLERİ VE DİNİ YÖNÜYLE AFGANİ1 (Son Bir Umut: İslam Birliği) by Muammer Esen

“…As a religious scholar, al-Afghani, who is the most prominent Pan-Islamist figure of the modern history of Islam with a robust anti-imperialistic stance, has been a subject of controversy in terms of his life, personality, nationality and school of thought to which he belonged. …”
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