Barriers to women's participation in public procurement in Africa: Empirical evidence from Uganda. by BC, Basheka

“…Global policy agendas and declarations continue to focus on the participation of women and women-owned businesses (WOBs) in the public and private sectors. The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have compelled countries to adopt affirmative action (AA) strategies to ensure equal opportunities for women and men. …”
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Internal Control Systems and Financial Performance. A Case Study of Kabale Municipal Council, Kabale District by Bernard Kabweine, Mwesigwa

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The Weight-Inclusive versus Weight-Normative Approach to Health: Evaluating the Evidence for Prioritizing Well-Being over Weight Loss by Tracy L. Tylka, Rachel A. Annunziato, Deb Burgard, Sigrún Daníelsdóttir, Ellen Shuman, Chad Davis, Rachel M. Calogero

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Legal nature of spontaneous construction as a complex category: questions of theory and practice by V. I. Teremetskyi, S. A. Maliar

“…The article is devoted to the problems of spontaneous construction in comparing the public interest in ensuring the sustainability of civil turnover, the introduction of as much property as possible through the elimination of certain defective legal regimes, as well as private interests of landowners, developers and some other participants in civil turnover (customers, contractors, equity investors, etc.). …”
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Work intensification and occupational fatigue on nurses: a cross-sectional and correlational study by Serkan Güngör, Betül Sönmez

“…Methods The sample included 597 nurses from public, private, and university hospitals in Istanbul, selected through convenience sampling. …”
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A dinâmica da entrada de turistas estrangeiros no Rio Grande do Sul e sua relevância para o Geoparque Raízes de Pedra by Carmen Regina Dorneles Nogueira, Victor Paulo Kloeckner Pires, Fátima Regina Zan, Ângela Maria Andrade Marinho, Claudio Gabriel Soares Araújo

“…It was observed that such a proposition requires public and private investments in the diversification of the tourist offer, in infrastructure and in the qualification of the workforce, as well as in the implementation of road and tourist signage with a view to the qualified offer as a way of providing opportunities and instigating the tourist flow that only passes through the territory towards the coast, to dedicate a few days of their season to visit the Raízes de Pedra Geopark.…”
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Valoriser les produits du palmier doum pour gérer durablement le système agroforestier d’une vallée sahélienne du Niger et éviter sa désertification by Régis Peltier, Claudine Serre Duhem, Aboubacar Ichaou

“…In sylvo-pastoral areas, where the space and plants are not private property, it will be more difficult. Also, the chain organization was tested through a leaf market. …”
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A Novel 2.3 Mb Microduplication of 9q34.3 Inserted into 19q13.4 in a Patient with Learning Disabilities by Shalinder Singh, Fern Ashton, Renate Marquis-Nicholson, Jennifer M. Love, Chuan-Ching Lan, Salim Aftimos, Alice M. George, Donald R. Love

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MEDIATION AS A METHOD OF PRE-TRIAL SETTLEMENT OF PUBLIC LEGAL DISPUTES IN THE FIELD OF STATE REGISTRATION by Olena S. Lunina, Volodymyr Yu. Poplavskyi

“…It has been observed that the practice of settling conflicts between authorities and private individuals in pre-trial proceedings tends to indicate a reluctance on the part of the authorities to compromise, not only because of the legal nature of their decisions, but also because of certain, so to say, established business practices for quite some time. …”
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Citizens’ Adoption of an E-Health System During the Pandemic by Faye Lorraine P. Mina, Enrique B. Batara, Eucil P. Hussien, Rabby Q. Lavilles

“…Purposive-homogeneous sampling was used to determine the sample size from the target population who are Cagayan de Oro City based PhilHealth formal economy members employed in either private or public sector. The data from the online survey was tested for reliability using IBM SPSS Statistics (version 20), and the Cronbach’s alpha (1951) coefficient was used to assess the validity of variables. …”
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Role of informal healthcare providers in tuberculosis care in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic scoping review. by Poshan Thapa, Rohan Jayasuriya, John J Hall, Kristen Beek, Parthasarathi Mukherjee, Nachiket Gudi, Padmanesan Narasimhan

“…The importance of strengthening public-private partnership by engaging all identified providers in Tuberculosis (TB) care has long been advocated in global TB policies and strategies. …”
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Romantic pre-wedding tourism: a lucrative market for a destination’s tourism development? The example of the Dalat climatic resort in Vietnam by Anh Thư Lê

“…As this item has become one of the essential memorial elements of the entire wedding, it is no longer simply a private keepsake and must be original in order to impress guests and the couple’s social network. …”
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La maison aux esprits : configurations spatiales, pluralité religieuse et syncrétismes dans l’espace domestique afro-cubain by Katerina Kerestetzi

“…By rituality I am referring to private ritual actions performed on a daily basis but also to the collective ceremonies that bring together the whole religious community. …”
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Influence of Sanitizers on the Lipopolysaccharide Toxicity of Escherichia coli Strains Cultivated in the Presence of Zygosaccharomyces bailii by Lerato Mogotsi, Olga De Smidt, Pierre Venter, Willem Groenewald

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Towards the design for a new Bible translation in Sesotho by T. J. Makutoane, J. A. Naudé

“…These features will assist hearers to grasp the meaning when the translation is read out aloud to them in church or privately. …”
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Future Studies of Tourism Development Planning (Case study: Ardabil province) by hossein nazmfar, ameneh alibakhshi

“…In the second step, using the Micmac method, 14 key Factors, including the comprehensive tourism plan, the media, stimulus policies, macro policies of the state, distribution of facilities, infrastructure, recreational centers, increased private incentive to invest in the region, the region's susceptibility to Investment in tourism, planning, security facilities, budget, the existence of hot and mineral water springs, improvement of information systems, such as site and blog, have been identified as key to the development of Ardebil province. …”
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Heat accumulator with aerogel-based thermal insulation material by A. V. Fedyukhin, V. A. Karasevich, M. S. Povernov, O. V. Afanas’eva

“…These solutions are of particular relevance for private households. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the feasibility of using a heat accumulator based on talc-magnesite and with aerogel thermal insulation.Materials and methods. …”
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A Decision-Making Approach for Ranking Tertiary Institutions’ Service Quality Using Fuzzy MCDM and Extended HiEdQUAL Model by Olufunke Oladipupo, Taiwo Amoo, Olawande Daramola

“…This study adopted a contextualized service quality model for educational domain called HiEdQUAL with some extended criteria in order to evaluate the perception of service quality by respondents from the selected higher institutions: two private universities and two public universities from the south-west region of Nigeria. …”
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Knowledge, Attitude and Awareness among Diabetic vs. Non-Diabetic Patients about the Association between Diabetes and Oral Health by Jaswinder Kaur, Gurleen Kaur Pruthi, Harsimran Singh Kapoor, Vishwas Narang, Akaljot Kaur, Aakash Gupta

“…Methods and Materials: A three-part structured questionnaire was developed with multiple choice questions and circulated among patients visiting a private dental college. A total of 502 questionnaires were evaluated, and results were statistically analysed. …”
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Privacy leakage risk assessment for reversible neural network by Yifan HE, Jie ZHANG, Weiming ZHANG, Nenghai YU

“…In recent years, deep learning has emerged as a crucial technology in various fields.However, the training process of deep learning models often requires a substantial amount of data, which may contain private and sensitive information such as personal identities and financial or medical details.Consequently, research on the privacy risk associated with artificial intelligence models has garnered significant attention in academia.However, privacy research in deep learning models has mainly focused on traditional neural networks, with limited exploration of emerging networks like reversible networks.Reversible neural networks have a distinct structure where the upper information input can be directly obtained from the lower output.Intuitively, this structure retains more information about the training data, potentially resulting in a higher risk of privacy leakage compared to traditional networks.Therefore, the privacy of reversible networks was discussed from two aspects: data privacy leakage and model function privacy leakage.The risk assessment strategy was applied to reversible networks.Two classical reversible networks were selected, namely RevNet and i-RevNet.And four attack methods were used accordingly, namely membership inference attack, model inversion attack, attribute inference attack, and model extraction attack, to analyze privacy leakage.The experimental results demonstrate that reversible networks exhibit more serious privacy risks than traditional neural networks when subjected to membership inference attacks, model inversion attacks, and attribute inference attacks.And reversible networks have similar privacy risks to traditional neural networks when subjected to model extraction attack.Considering the increasing popularity of reversible neural networks in various tasks, including those involving sensitive data, it becomes imperative to address these privacy risks.Based on the analysis of the experimental results, potential solutions were proposed which can be applied to the development of reversible networks in the future.…”
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