The Impact of Transparency on the Citizen Participation in Decision- Making at the Municipal Level in Romania by Bianca Radu

“…The research showed that citizens’ suggestions had higher chances to be included in final decisions if they were voiced during Local Council meetings. Besides providing empirical insights in the implementation of the transparency law in Romania, the article provides the researchers with evidence that increased decisional transparency does not automatically lead to greater citizens’ involvement in the decision making process. …”
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Nigerian blogosphere and identity change of women by Angela Nkiru Nwammuo, Abiodun Salawu

“…The study recommends that since the mainstream media have failed to give voices to African women, it is high time women take it upon themselves and better their identities through the opportunities offered by the internet. …”
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The case of the preferred worker - three guidelines to a decolonial research agenda on meaningful work by GUSTAVO SANTOS DIAS BARRETO

“…This essay presents three guidelines for establishing a decolonial research agenda on meaningful work: examining the dynamics of acceptance and re-existence against the preferred worker archetype, revealing the voices of subaltern individuals about what work means to them, and expanding the ontological structure of meaningful work. …”
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AN OT ACCOUNT OF PHONOTACTIC AND CODA NEUTRALIZATION OF ENGLISH LOANS IN PILIBHIT HINDI-URDU by Mohd Hamid Raza

“…The objectives of this paper were to represent the aspects of the coda neutralization in the sense of voiced obstruent segment becomes voiceless obstruent segment in the final syllable structure of the loanwords, and the consonant clusters break within the insertion of an extraneous segment in any location of the English Loans in Pilibhit Hindi-Urdu. …”
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Politics of Counter-Memory in Turkey: Docudramatizing the Past as a Panacea for Official Discourses? by Nuran E. Işik

“…Historical narratives reveal a discursive struggle among different voices and ideologies which constitute an important key to understand the projections about the future. …”
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Limits, limitations, and outer boundaries of antitrust: censorship, free speech, and dominance by Jan Polański

“… Big Tech undertakings have much power over what information becomes available online. Concerns have been voiced in this context that some of their content moderation practices may amount to private censorship and a restriction of free speech. …”
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Les élites de l’ancien régime libyen : reconfigurations politiques en contexte transnational by Soraya Rahem

“…Gradually, the geopolitical transformations brought about by the arrival in power of a new presidency in Egypt in 2014 and by the mobilization of international actors for the resolution of the conflict from Tunisia are allowing the exiled elites to make their voices heard. Also, in the face of the evolving civil war in Libya, former regime elites are managing to redeploy themselves politically through transnational coalitions, by instrumentalizing political instability and the Islamist threat. …”
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Continuous Wavelet Transform and CNN for Fault Detection in a Helical Gearbox by Iulian Lupea, Mihaiela Lupea

“…Through CWT, the vibration signal is decomposed into 2D time-frequency grayscale images, with a filter bank of ten voices per octave in the frequency band of interest. …”
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KAREL SCHOEMAN EN DIE LEEFWÊRELD VAN VROEË SENDELINGE IN SUID-AFRIKA – by G van der Watt

“…He retrieved often neglected but important voices from the past. Contrary to canonised, confessional and denominational church history, he opted to focus on missionaries (Black and White), slaves, women, and the historically marginalised. …”
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Effect of Student’s Involvement in Fees Policy Implementation on Learner’s Stability in Public Universities in Uganda: The Case of Makerere University. by Oketch, Chrisostom, Tazwaire, Doreen

“…Results indicated that there is a gap on the part of student leaders to consult extensively from their constituents because they lack advocacy and lobbying skills, management rarely put into consideration student’s views while making decisions, and that protests are seen by students as a mobilization structure for airing out their voices on fees policy changes. The study concludes that the level of student involvement in fees policy implementation depends on the nature of student leadership and willingness of management to incorporate their views in decision making. …”
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Media battles in the cybersphere: analyzing news and social media agendas during the 2015 Greek bailout referendum by Nelly-Maria Sergidou, Vasiliki Triga, Nicolas Tsapatsoulis

“…This paper revisits the 2015 Greek referendum, comparing topics discussed in news media with those on Twitter to understand whether the disparity between the two platforms resulted from the dominance of news media agenda-setting or other factors, such as Twitter’s inclination toward alternative voices. The study employs content analysis and topic modeling on a dataset comprising news articles and tweets. …”
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Uncovering barriers to bilharzia prevention communication in Ugu district, South Africa by Lauren Dyll-Myklebust, Duduzile Zwane

“…The opinions that are voiced by the participants underscore the value of adopting a participatory communication approach to addressing a health problem. …”
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Normal Hearing Ability but Impaired Auditory Selective Attention Associated with Prediction of Response to Donepezil in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease by Yoshitaka Ouchi, Kenichi Meguro, Kyoko Akanuma, Yuriko Kato, Satoshi Yamaguchi

“…Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients have a poor response to the voices of caregivers. After administration of donepezil, caregivers often find that patients respond more frequently, whereas they had previously pretended to be “deaf.” …”
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Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry: A poetic deconstruction of Psalms 23, 51 and 137 by Mlamli Diko, Adelheid Bechtold Celliers

“…This scholarly discourse navigates the intricate tapestry of these Psalms, uncovering the profound themes, sensibilities and transformative power that are profoundly entrenched within the poetic expressions of these ancient voices. Contribution: The scholarly contribution herein lies in its application of poetic deconstruction, unmasking covert layers of meanings and symbolisms within the selected biblical poems and offering new perspectives into their theological and literary significance.…”
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« Histoires perturbées, passés retrouvés », une introduction by Sian Sullivan, Michèle Baussant, Lindsey Dodd, Olivette Otele, Irène Dos Santos

“…We also articulate “recovery” as polysemic: invoking retrieval of past experiences and the possibility for enhanced well-being through voicing memories that may have been suppressed, as well as attending to mismatches with public discourses about displaced groups and individual experience. …”
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¿<i>Dónde Vive la Ciencia en su Comunidad?</i>: How a Community Is Using Photovoice to Reclaim Local Green Spaces by Espacio: Familias y Comunidad

“…Community researchers examined the dual nature of STEM as both a tool of control and a means for justice, interrogating whose voices and experiences are prioritized in decision-making processes. …”
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“If You’re Male, You Get It More”: Experiences of Indonesian Female Academics Under New Managerialism by Siti Muflichah

“…Employing a feminist research methodology, this study aims to amplify women’s voices and advocate for their advancement to higher positions. …”
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Phonological Processes in Ekegusii Borrowing: A Constraint-based Approach by Edinah Mose

“…They included: epenthesis, deletion, devoicing/strengthening, voicing/ weakening, re-syllabification, substitution, monophthongization, and lenition. …”
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Public trust in local government in Somalia: effect of citizen participation and perceived local government performance by Ahmed-Nor Mohamed Abdi, Nurulhasanah Binti Abdul Rahman

“…Citizen participation is vital for enhancing trust in local government by ensuring citizens’ voices are heard in decision-making processes. However, most studies focus on central government trust, with limited research in the African context. …”
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Capturing the moment: facilitating learning from the margins. A photographic essay by Kevin J. Brazant

“…The author defines this as facilitated learning that prioritises the experiences, voices and needs of individuals or groups who are typically underrepresented, underserved or marginalised. …”
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