Merit-based recruitment in the South African Public Service: Challenges and opportunities by Simon Matome Nkgapele, Sifiso Mofokeng

“…Section 195 (i) of South Africa’s Constitution mandates that public administration must reflect the nation's diversity, with recruitment and personnel management practices based on competence, fairness, and impartiality, while addressing historical inequalities to ensure broad representation. This creates a dual obligation for public administration: to foster inclusivity and equity while ensuring merit-based recruitment. …”
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Health in Swedish integration policies – a discourse analysis by Sara Svanholm, Heidi Carlerby, Eija Viitasara

“…Previous research has indicated that migrants risk facing inequities both internationally and in Sweden; integration policies are therefore important to study. …”
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The role of climate and population change in global flood exposure and vulnerability by Justin S. Rogers, Marco M. Maneta, Stephan R. Sain, Luke E. Madaus, Joshua P. Hacker

“…This study highlights the vast inequities in flood exposure, and future work should direct resources and strategies toward sustainable risk mitigation in these areas.…”
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Explaining the framework of sustainable competitiveness in the direction of spatial development of Arak District by Mina Eftekharnia, Keramatollah Ziari, Majid Naderi

“…On the other hand, due to the complex relationship between environmental, social and economic systems, with the introduction of the concept of competitiveness in the development process, regardless of other subsystems, the field of environmental and social damage in urban and regional systems has arisen and consequences Such as uneven development, increasing social disparities and inequalities and environmental pollution, increasing energy consumption, traffic and other social, cultural and environmental issues; In a way that many metropolises of the world and even Iran are involved with these issues now. …”
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Budgetary and tax policy at the present stage and its role in forming budgets of different levels by N. Z. Zotikov

“…Budgetary and tax policy is designed to ensure sustainable development of the Russian economy on the basis of modernization, to improve the living standards of the population by reducing social inequality, and to adapt the budget system to modern realities. …”
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Les enjeux et les déclinaisons de la notion de « santé sexuelle et reproductive » au Maroc. Réflexions à partir du cas des grossesses hors mariage by Irene Capelli

“…Are discourses, policies and practices inspired by the concept of SRH in Morocco declining in terms of rights or do they produce new forms of normalization and governance of women's bodies? …”
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Reestructuraciones de las periferias hortícolas de Buenos Aires y modelos espaciales ¿ Un archipiélago verde ? by Julie Le Gall, Matías García

“…Est mis en évidence le développement inégal de la région Nord (Pilar) et Sud (La Plata), qui bouscule le modèle de ceinture verte continu et uniforme prédominant jusqu’alors pour décrire les périphéries maraîchères. …”
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REVEALED COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE IN TRADE BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA AND CEFTA 2006 by Emilija Miteva-Kacarski

“…Furthermore, the Trade Balance Index shows that in the course of the analyzed time period, the Republic of Macedonia constantly appeared as a net exporter of products in the category of tobacco and beverages. …”
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As políticas públicas e os corpos subalternizados em tempos de pandemia: reflexões a partir da implementação do auxílio emergencial no Brasil by Dyego de Oliveira Arruda, Caroline Oliveira Santos

“…It is important to note that, even with emergency aid payments, the most precarious and vulnerable labor segments (such as self-employed workers and those without a formal contract) were those who suffered the most falls in their usual income levels, which suggests the existence of structural inequalities in the configuration of Brazilian society. …”
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CALCULATION OF INDUCTANCE OF THE INTERIOR PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR by Phyong Le Ngo

“…Interior permanent magnet synchronous motor (IPMSM) refers to salient-pole synchronous motors, characterized by inequality of inductances of longitudinal (d) and transverse (q) axes. …”
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Disruptively regional: How women in Regional, Rural and Remote communities ‘imagine’ with and through digital and social media by Tara BRABAZON, Jacqueline EWART

“…We explore how technology provides new opportunities to share stories of women’s strength and capacity to build new pathways between information and citizens.  …”
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Dual Marginalisation and the Demand for Dual Citizenship: Negotiating “At Homeness” Among Diaspora Liberians by Franka Vaughan

“…Moreover, it reframes discussions on strategic citizenship, particularly in the context of growing inequalities and rising anti‐immigrant sentiments.…”
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Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control of Plate Vibrations by Manu Sharma, S.P. Singh

“…Fuzzy rule base consisting of nine rules, is generated from the sliding mode inequality. …”
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The Impact of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles on Cytotoxicity, Genotoxicity, and miRNA Expression in Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Seedlings by Ilona Plaksenkova, Inese Kokina, Anastasija Petrova, Marija Jermaļonoka, Vjačeslavs Gerbreders, Marina Krasovska

“…Zinc oxide nanoparticles are one of the most commonly engineered nanomaterials and necessarily enter the environment because of the large quantities produced and their widespread application. …”
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On a class of functions unifying the classes of Paatero, Robertson and others by S. Bhargava, S. Nanjunda Rao

“…By applying an estimate of Moulis concerning functions in Vkλ(0), we obtain an inequality in the class Mkλ(α,β,b,c) which will contain an estimate for the Schwarzian derivative of functions in the class Vkλ(β) and in particular the estimate of Moulis for the Schwarzian of functions in Vkλ(0).…”
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Rapid and simple determination of histamine-N-methyl transferase activity by high-performance liquid chromatography with UV detection by Hajime Inoue, Ken-Ichi Hisamatsu, Miki Yamauchi, Norio Kumagai

“…The mobile phase used for the separation of methylhistamine was 0.05 M NH4H2 PO4 (pH 3.0) containing 2 mM of sodium octanesulfonate. The new assay technique could detect methylhistamine as an enzyme activity product of histamine-N-methyltransferase in the brain and kidney of rats. …”
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A Bounded Lifetime Distribution Specified by a Trigonometric Function: Properties, Regression Model, and Applications by Simon A. Ogumeyo, Festus C. Opone, Abdul Ghaniyyu Abubakari, Jacob C. Ehiwario

“…In this paper, the Sine-generated family is used to create a new bounded lifetime distribution, known as Sine-Marshall–Olkin Topp–Leone distribution, for modeling data defined on the unit interval. …”
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Empowering marginalized communities through the digital transformation course by Pelin Yüksel-Arslan, Claudia Plant, Fares Kayali

“…In this article, we discuss specific course content, including digital inclusion, algorithmic bias, and emerging inequalities. The key goals are to understand and mitigate the risks of algorithmic bias, inaccessibility, and digital discrimination in educational technologies affecting diverse and vulnerable populations, and to promote digital literacy, access, and motivational design to encourage forced migrants’ active and safe participation in technology-enabled education. …”
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A quantitative prediction method utilizing whole omics data for biosensing by Takahiko Koizumi, Kenta Suzuki, Inoue Mizuki, Kie Kumaishi, Yasunori Ichihashi

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Bullying as an object of statistical research by L. A. Davletshina, M. V. Karmanov

“…Olweus, bullying is deliberate, systematically repeated aggressive behavior that includes inequality of social power or physical strength. Later, there was a division into bullying and mobbing. …”
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