BIM-Based Machine Learning Application for Parametric Assessment of Building Energy Performance by Panagiotis Tsikas, Athanasios Chassiakos, Vasileios Papadimitropoulos, Antonios Papamanolis

“…The energy performance of buildings has become a main concern globally in response to increased energy demand, the environmental impacts of energy production, and the reality of energy poverty. To improve energy efficiency, proper building design should be secured at the early design phase. …”
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Russian Orthodox Church and Covid-19 Pandemic: New Challenges and New Opportunities by Viktoriia Demydova

“…This article problematizes position of ROC that faced a dilemma whether to close churches and put some of them onto the brink of poverty, or to perform religion’s main function and support citizens morally and spiritually. …”
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Revenue policy features as an important direction of social policy by M. A. Biganova

“…Thus, the broader is such a policy, the greater is the completeness of the covered areas, both explicit (the fight against poverty, social protection, etc.) and implicit (relations between social groups, motivation in society, etc.), the more effective is the overall functioning of the state as a whole.…”
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Immagini migranti, immagini in-discriminanti Latenze e valenze nell’uso di foto e filmati in ambito migratorio by Alberto Baldi

“…They were a mean to better define their new status of citizens of the world, who freed themselves from the poverty of the rural and southern contexts they left. …”
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Interrogating the Role of Language in Clergy Sexual Abuse of Women and Girls in Zimbabwe by Nhlanhla Landan, Sindiso Zhou, Baba Tshotsho

“…Further, due to the burden of poverty, unemployment, and the worsening economic environment in Zimbabwe, women remain at the risk of falling prey to the deceptive language of the sexually abusive clergy. …”
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Prediction of the Impact of Bank Failure Risk on Micro-Credit in Iran: An Artificial Intelligence Approach by Reza Taheri Haftasiabi, Yusef Mohammadzadeh, Ameneh Naderi

“…Given the importance of microcredit in creating employment and reducing poverty and inequality, it is necessary to investigate the factors affecting access to these loans due to increased bank default risk. …”
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Evolving Roles for International Social Work in Addressing Climate Change by Julie L. Nagoshi, Vijayan K. Pillai, Mashooq A. Salehin

“…Global warming and ozone layer depletion signal the onset of climate change, a “slow-onset” disaster exacerbating poverty and social inequality. Addressing this requires global cooperation, as exemplified by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 13, which focuses on climate action. …”
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF KIDNAPPING ON THE COMMUNITY: A CASE STUDY OF ZURMI, ZAMFARA STATE by FAISAL MUHAMMAD

“…The data revealed majority of the respondents believe that the consequences of kidnapping on Zurmi community are enormous including: emotional depression, anxiety, psychological trauma, and an experience of economic hardship, joblessness after victims’ release, abject poverty, anxiety, depression and trauma. The research adopted the Rational Choice Theory (RCT) as its theoretical frame of reference to explain the menace of kidnapping and its consequences on the community. …”
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Climate-smart agricultural practices and its implication in Ethiopia: a systematic review by Getasew Daru Tariku, Sinkie Alemu Kebede

“…The result also shows that applying CSA practices has an indispensable role on increasing productivity, food security, income, building resilient livelihoods, minimizing production risk and alleviating poverty. This concluded CSA practice has a multidimensional role in the livelihood of agrarian population like Ethiopia, yet its adoption was constrained by several factors. …”
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Challenges in the Implementation of Fiscal Decentralization and It’s Effects on the Health Sector in Uganda by George Stanley, Kinyata, Siraje, Kaaya

“…The study was conducted to assess the impact of Fiscal decentralization process on social economic development in Uganda and it focused on challenges affecting health sector and why such policy has failed to reduce poverty and inequality of the people of Uganda. The Study was based on the resource dependency theory by Ram Mudambi (2010), which posits that power is based on control of resources that are considered strategic within the organization and is often expressed in terms of budget and resource allocation. …”
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Critical Role and Place of the Church as a Response to Environmental Crisis. by Rugyendo, Medard

“…Our problem, it was assumed, was poverty and economic exploitation; the environmental issue was a “luxury” of the industrialized countries (Abraham, 1995). …”
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Integration of Child Protection and Social Protection for Child Victims of Violence in Indonesia by Anna Sakreti Nawangsari, Dessy Susanty, Yoel Setiawan, Fentiny Nugroho

“…This paper recommends the integration of social protection and social protection programs by including violence against children as part of the poverty indicators.…”
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Are the human rights providing empowerment possibilities for social work with vulnerable groups in Republic of Srpska? by Šućur-Janjetović Vesna, Rakanović-Radonjić Andrea, Gajić Draško

“…Vulnerable groups represent special categories that are in a higher risk of being socially excluded, vulnerable and sensitive to spectrum of risks, including poverty. Disabled persons, children, youngsters, women, elders, victims/survivors of violence, illiterate people, people living in rural areas, members of certain minority groups, refugees and displaced persons, members of LGBTIQ+ communities etc, are considered to be vulnerable. …”
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Clinically meaningful classes of financial toxicity for patients with diabetes by Minal R. Patel, Jonathan P. Troost, Michele Heisler, Noelle E. Carlozzi

“…Multiple indicators of financial stress, maladaptive cost-coping behaviors, more comorbidities, more prescribed medications, more diabetes distress, more depressive symptoms, closer to the federal poverty level, female, having lower educational attainment and being single were all significant predictors of high financial toxicity class membership. …”
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Reflective thinking meets artificial intelligence: Synthesizing sustainability transition knowledge in left-behind mountain regions by Andrej Ficko, Simo Sarkki, Yasar Selman Gultekin, Antonia Egli, Juha Hiedanpää

“…Investment in infrastructure, education, and resilient socio-ecological systems emerged as priority sectors to combat poor infrastructure, geographic isolation, climate change, poverty, depopulation, unemployment, low education levels, and inadequate social services. …”
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The importance of SC UN Resolution 1325 for improving the state of human security by Janković Brankica, Bošković Milica

“…The challenges societies and countries are facing both at the national and global level at modern times, show, more than ever, the significant impact for the implementation of the concept of human security. Poverty, unequal access to education and employment, violation of human rights and settlement among people and social groups, destabilize states, and therefore the pillars of national security. …”
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Suspected Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Is Not Associated with Vitamin D Status in Adolescents after Adjustment for Obesity by Karin Katz, Preneet Cheema Brar, Niyati Parekh, Ying-Hua Liu, Michael Weitzman

“…Data regarding age, sex, race, BMI, and poverty level were also analyzed in bivariate and multivariate analyses using SAS and SUDAAN software. …”
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Evolution on Ecological Carrying Capacity of Dualistic Water in County Scale Based on Matter Element Analysis Model by ZUO Taian, ZHANG Fengtai, YU Shijie, YANG Qing

“…The water ecological carrying capacity contains the water resource carrying capacity and the water environment carrying capacity.As one of the basic studies for integrated management of the water ecological system,this capacity connects socioeconomic development and the water ecological system.Hence its dynamic evolution reflects the dynamic equilibrium between the water ecological system and socioeconomic system.By taking the poverty-stricken Weining County in karst regions as an example,based on matter element analysis model,this paper sets up an evaluation indicator system for the ecological carrying capacity of dualistic water in county scale,and simulates the evolution of the ecological carrying capacity of dualistic water in Weining County between 2006 and 2017.The study shows that:The ecological carrying capacity of dualistic water in Weining County followed the tendency of turning for the better between 2006 and 2017.The technological advances and growing concern to the water ecological environment are two major causes of continual increases in its ecological carrying capacity of water.The ecological carrying capacity of dualistic water of Weining County between 2006 and 2017 was a tolerable level.However,the level shifted to weakly tolerable level in 2006 and 2011,meaning that the capacity was unstable and subject to extreme climatic changes.So,efforts should be made to consolidate existing achievements.Hence attention should be paid by Weining County to the dynamic changes in the reservoir filling,grade of water quality in lakes and rivers,recycle rate of industrial water,water resources per capita,water consumption per capita,and the rate of water-served population.The study will provide references for the water resource safety,ecological safety,and environmental construction in karst regions.…”
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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN THE PAST AND THE 21ST CENTURY AFRICAN SOCIETY IN THE CONTEXT OFÌWÒRÌTÚRÚPỌ̀NIN IFÁ DIVINATION by SAMUEL KÁYỌ̀DÉ OLÁLẸ́YẸ, OLÚWÁTÓYÌN ADÉBÓ̩LÁ GBÀDÀMÓ̩S̩Í

“…The study revealed that empowerment is not new to African and the agitation thus, has foreign hands, and product of intellectual poverty considering the fact that the structure of African society is an organised one based on gender roles. …”
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Dialogue as a tool of nutrition literacy in an agricultural intervention programme in Odisha, India by Rama Narayanan, Akshaya Kumar Panda, D. J. Nithya, R. V. Bhavani

“…Through discussion they explored the reasons behind the lack of diversity in their daily diets and identified the social, economic and cultural barriers to food intake in the context of their own poverty. They undertook collective exercises in nutrition sensitive agricultural planning. …”
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