Towards a global knowledge for environmentally sustainable development agenda in 21 st century southern Africa by Stanford Garikayi Mukasa

“…What assumptions are embedded in the current theories of information and communication for development? The, article will, by way of addressing these questions, propose an information, communication and knowledge networking strategy that will accommodate in a systematic way the varied and ever-changing information and communication needs of grassroots communities. …”
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Action Plans to Reduce PM2.5 Concentrations in Hotspots of Delhi-NCR Using a One-way Coupled Modeling Approach by Shubham Sharma, Mukesh Khare, Sri Harsha Kota

“…This study evaluates the changes in PM2.5 concentrations across Delhi using a one way coupled model (WRF-CMAQ-AERMOD) for various hotspot-specific intervention scenarios during post-monsoon and winter of 2018. …”
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Energy Transition in Northern Netherlands: seeking a balance between top-down and bottom-up initiatives [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 4 approved with reservations, 1 not app... by Cyril Tjahja, Bas Oldenbroek, Tineke van der Schoor, Ifigenia Psarra

“…This brief report focuses on top-down and bottom-up processes within the field of energy transition. …”
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SMC translocation is unaffected by an excess of nucleoid associated proteins in vivo by Zhongqing Ren, Lindsey E. Way, Xindan Wang

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Fetal medicine and current practice of prenatal screening by Akshatha Prabhu

“…Prenatal screening has come a long way from the discovery of fetal ultrasound markers for Down syndrome followed by improved ultrasound skills where genetic syndromes and major congenital malformations can be diagnosed right in the first trimester itself. …”
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Effect of cover crops on phosphorus and trace metal leaching in agricultural soils by Vishawjot Sandhu, Jasmeet Lamba, Preetika Kaur, Kritika Malhotra, Thomas R. Way, Kipling S. Balkcom, Rishi Prasad

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Débattre ou apprendre : faut-il choisir ? by Patrice Raynaud Serra

“…From the Platoon’s dialectical way that we found by a lecture of Hannah Arendt’s and Peter Sloterdijk’s writings, we search how to go back down into the cavern with an invisible term which opens debate.…”
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La valeur économique comme fait social : la preuve par les évaluations boursières by André Orléan

“…It is a top-down logic and not a bottom-up logic. In a last section, we propose a model to show how the top-down logic is functioning. …”
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Medical assistance as a decision-taking process. Pedagogical implications for the formation of the treatment hability by Luis Alberto Corona Martínez

“…This article has as objective to base the narrow relationship that settles down among the activity of taking of decisions and the doctor's basically curative assistance activity. …”
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An alternative statistical model for modeling the bimodal asymmetric data with properties, copulas, assessment and applications by Mustafa Kamal, Hebatallah H. Mohammad, Sabir Ali Siddiqui, Maryam Ibrahim Habadi, Mohammad Abiad, Badr Aloraini, Atif Ali Yassin Ali, Sara Mohamed Ahmed Alsheikh

“…Other possible descriptions include “monotonically decreasing”, “bathtub”, “upside-down”, “upside down-constant-increasing”, and “upside down”. …”
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Diy-City and internet of things. A research hypothesis around interactive urban design by Marco Trisciuoglio

“…In a renewed and critical interpretation of the idea of the so-called ‘smart city’, it may serve to prefigure a paradigm shift in urban design: from the apparently irresolvable opposition between top-down and bottom-up processes that marked the debates on participatory design in the last quarter of the 20th century, it will be possible to move towards the idea of collaboration between citizens, businesses and institutions that is both top-down and bottom-up. …”
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Die zekerheid van het geloof - Bucer's antwoord aan Pighius by W. van't Spijker

“…Both Rome and Luther turned this down. Bucer defended the result against Roman Catholic theologians such as Eck and Pighius. …”
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Le récit plantigrade (sur Madame Bovary) by Guy Larroux

“…The outcome is a particular approach to the tangible world that justifies the expression “down to earth”, commonly used against realistic art. …”
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Table ronde autour d’une performance dans un panier en osier by Baptiste Buob, Jérémy Demesmaeker, Laurence Maillot, Carl Lavery, Vincent Rioux

“…It is a simultaneous look at the past and future, at how the individuals who participated—those four at least—got down to work and continue to pursue a desire to get down to work, in quadruple connection with: i) Rouch’s Les Maîtres fous; ii) a performance by the company Dodescaden, also entitled Les Maîtres fous; iii) the fifty hours of film of the performance; iv) the programming of a machine, an art installation called Performance in absentia, which presents possible arrangements of those films such that it re-enacts the performance in a way that is both controlled, because it is configured, but also uncontrolled, because the programme has the built-in ability to produce unexpected results.…”
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Le processus de sublimation du cyclododécane by Stefanie Bruhin

“…Both investigations have lead to specific information on the way the sublimation process can be highly accelerated or slowed down using  the factors of temperature, volume and pressure.…”
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The Power of Parody: Went With the Wind (1976), a Film Classic Revisited by The Carol Burnett Show (CBS, 1967-1978) by Taïna Tuhkunen

“…This essay argues that despite The Carol Burnett Show’s dodging of race issues, the way it demystifies and takes down the cultural monument named “Scarlett O’Hara”—by mingling it with other generic conventions, such as slapstick comedy—sheds light on how Gone With the Wind can also work as a revelatory intertext. …”
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Ustor: cloud storage system based on regenerating codes by Qing LIU, Dan FENG, Bai LI

“…For purpose of mini-mizing storage cost and repair bandwidth, a method of utilizing functional regenerating codes(FRC) to encode data to several blocks, which are further distributed to different clouds, was proposed. In this way, amount of data downloaded through the network when data loss happens in a single cloud is cut down, and repair cost is cut down as well. …”
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Casa de piedra dam: effects of clear water on the river Colorado hydrography by Hector Walter Cazenave

“…The construction of Casa de Piedra (Stone House) dam, in the final stretch of Colorado river high valley, radically modified down waters the hydrologic river course, especially regarding sediment transport, the majority of which settles in the lake. …”
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The Challenges of Afghan Migrants in Türkiye by Jafar Pouya

“…But this unplanned migration movements have seemed to create much more challenges than opportunities because of the large number of Afghan population settling down illegally in the host countries, including Türkiye. …”
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Hunting for Cold Exoplanets via Microlensing by Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe

“…Microlensing can detect planets at distances ranging from a few hundred parsecs all the way to the Galactic center. The maximum sensitivity is reached for systems that are located half way to the galactic center, with planets orbiting the lens star at a separation of few AUs. …”
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