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Effective management and control of mining discharges is essential to minimise their negative impact on the environment and local communities. This study focuses on the assessment of the pollution risks that may be posed by Perkoa mining discharges. After characterizing the different mining discharges, the main physicochemical parameters were deter...

This handbook looks at how the notion of borderlands exists or evolves within school spaces across the curriculum. Each contribution in the handbook will serve as an opportunity for scholars to collectively rethink, challenge, bond, and concoct something not possible before by 1. looking beyond the commonly held idea of what “fits” in the entrench...

Dialogues of Reason consists of the four Dagmar Westberg Lectures Menachem Fisch Delivered at the Goethe University, Frankfurt in January 2020. The first lecture lays the philosophical foundation for showing how exposure to the critical challenge of people and communities committed differently to oneself, holds the key to overcoming the crippling p...

The literature has explained how technology adoption and usage is affected by many socio-technical issues and how the emergence and evolution of networks is key for innovation. However, empirical analysis of interactions between leadership networks and new artificial intelligence-driven technologies is scarce. To shed new light on leadership commun...

Diversity and Inclusion Engaged Marketing (DIEM) for Multicultural Marketplaces involves creating marketing strategies that authentically resonate with diverse communities, leveraging cultural understanding to build meaningful connections. This approach goes beyond mere representation, embedding inclusivity and respect for different cultural identi...

The perceptions of Filipino students regarding implementing the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013 or the K- to-12 Program in the Philippines, introduced in 2012 to enhance educational competency and global competitiveness, are examined in this research. Employing a qualitative approach enhanced using the Voyant Tool, the study meticulously colle...

This chapter focuses on the professionals who left schools with their cargoes-students and communities. It illustrates the great variety of positions that former young teachers take, from starting youth organizations to having nonprofits, supporting literacy, and after school activities. In this chapter, using typical and anecdotal examples, author...

In social Virtual Reality (VR), particularly within VRChat, a significant group of users often referred to as "mutes" refrain from voice communication. This study analyzes 4212 discussion entries, including both original submissions and comments, from the r/VRchat subreddit to explore the experiences and reasons behind this practice. Our findings i...

Increasingly, specific communication processes specific to professional fields are taken over by fans to promote, produce, and comment on online content. In this study, I engage speech acts and Bakhtinian heteroglossia to analyse fans' voices and social roles in and beyond online communities, along with their impact on the lifecycle of Chinese inte...

Few lines from my upcoming book, Economy: The New God of the World. A contentious issue in today's society is how the Muslim world and other religious communities have shifted their focus from prioritizing faith to pursuing economic gain. As a result, individuals are now hesitant to serve their communities, fearing it will negatively impact their...

Vigorously developing a sports community, changing its promotion mode, improving the service concept of a sports community, and highlighting the social, recreational and universal nature of a sports community has certain practical significance and theoretical value. This study adopts social network analysis, which is specially designed to study soc...

Filter lists are used by various users, tools, and researchers to identify tracking technologies on the Web. These lists are created and maintained by dedicated communities. Aside from popular blocking lists (e.g., EasyList), the communities create region-specific block-lists that account for trackers and ads that are only common in these regions....

We propose a generalization of the adaptive N-Intertwined Mean-Field Approximation (aNIMFA) model studied in Achterberg and Sensi [Nonlinear Dyn. 111, 12657–12670 (2023)] to a heterogeneous network of communities. In particular, the multigroup aNIMFA model describes the impact of both local and global disease awareness on the spread of a disease in...

The past couple of decades have seen tremendous advances in nuclear structure and reaction theory. Innovative theory frameworks for describing the nuclear many-body system, increasingly powerful computers, and opportunities for confronting theory predictions with data on unstable nuclei, have been driving the field. An important goal is to move fro...

Biblical Leadership and Its Relevance Today: The Architect and His Perspective guides a leader to lead God’s way at all levels, starting with acknowledging God as the authentic author and the architect of leadership. This book helps Christian leaders and potential leaders to have godly influence in their families, communities, Churches, schools, di...

In this article, I aim to restore the original meaning of William Stern’s concept of worldview and compare it to Jerome Bruner’s cultural psychology, particularly his theory of narrative dynamics. Stern’s early research on worldviews has been largely overlooked by contemporary scholars, despite its valuable implications for understanding both human...

This research addresses ecological tourism in the Wilaya of El Tarf, reviewing its concept and importance in preserving biodiversity and achieving sustainable development. It begins with a definition of ecological tourism, then examines successful experiences from countries such as the Amazon, Costa Rica, and New Zealand, where these experiences ha...

Extreme water levels (EWLs) resulting from cyclones pose significant flood hazards and risks to coastal communities and interconnected ecosystems. To date, physically based models have enabled accurate prediction of EWLs despite their inherent high computational cost. However, the applicability of these models is limited to data‐rich sites with div...

UNESCO’s definition of intangible cultural heritage has provided a widely recognized framework for the identification and preservation of intangible cultural heritage. It has legitimized the cultural practices of diverse communities, ensuring they are valued and protected. Despite its influence, UNESCO’s definition of intangible cultural heritage h...

A significant issue related to social justice in higher education is the lack of equitable access to quality education for all individuals regardless of their socioeconomic background. This problem is rooted in issues such as rising tuition costs, limited financial aid options, disparities in resources and opportunities among different communities,...

Together, we have worked tirelessly to expand Reimagine Resilience, a first ever professional training platform for educators and educational staff that addresses the adverse impact of hate, displacement, extremism, and related violence in educational institutions (Sabic-El-Rayess, 2014). For us, building resilience to hate isn’t a project, but a w...

Women are recognized as a continuous source of love and kindness, and their presence brings emotional balance and peace to families and communities. By conveying positive emotions and providing emotional support, they not only contribute to the mental health of individuals but also help in advancing the culture of health in society. This boundless...

Organismal abundance tends to decline with increasing body size. Metabolic theory links this size structure with energy use and productivity across levels of biological organization, predicting a size abundance slope of -0.75 that is invariant across environments. We tested whether the size-abundance relationship is robust to a gradient of protist...

The implementation of CSR activities in the modern days was continuously developing and evolving and has spread out and was already adopted by business firms and industries to benefit the business owners, the communities, clients, employees, and those who are directly or indirectly affected by the company's operation. The purpose of this study was...

Solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) have garnered significant attention from both academic and industrial communities due to their high safety feature and high energy density in combination with lithium(Li) metal anode. Nevertheless, their practical applications remain constrained by the relatively low room‐temperature ionic conductivity and interfac...

Tämä tutkimus tarkastelee opettajaopiskelijoiden tiedelukutaitoa, erityisesti käsitteellistä ymmärrystä ja monilähteistä luku- ja kirjotustaitoa. Opettajaopiskelijan ainedidaktisen oppimisen kannalta hyvä käsitteellinen sisältötieto ja monilähteinen lukutaito ovat keskeisiä taitoja niin opinnoissa kuin tulevassa ammatissa. Tutkimme, miten opiskelij...

The interaction data in P2P networks can be represented as graphs. When numerous nodes interact across various P2P applications, network alignment could reveal the potential for exposing users’ privacy or sensitive device information. Traditional structure-based network alignment techniques, which rely heavily on matrix operations of global adjacen...

Abstract: Based on the renewable energy assessment in 2023, it was found that only 21% of total electricity is generated using renewable sources. As the global demand for electricity rises in the AI world, the need for electricity management will increase and must be optimized. Based on research, many companies are working on green AI electricity m...

Longitudinal networks are becoming increasingly relevant in the study of dynamic processes characterised by known or inferred community structure. Generalised Network Autoregressive (GNAR) models provide a parsimonious framework for exploiting the underlying network and multivariate time series. We introduce the community-$\alpha$ GNAR model with i...

This paper summarises practical considerations for national and local policy makers and other stakeholders involved in place-based policy making to build child-friendly neighbourhoods. It highlights under which circumstances and how policy solutions that are tailored to the specific local context hold greater promise to mitigate the locational disa...

Grokking is a intriguing phenomenon in machine learning where a neural network, after many training iterations with negligible improvement in generalization, suddenly achieves high accuracy on unseen data. By working in the quantum-inspired machine learning framework based on tensor networks, we numerically prove that grokking phenomenon can be rel...

Scholars, practitioners, and clients in the eating disorder (ED) treatment field emphasize the need for more culturally responsive approaches to improve care for marginalized communities. Treatment barriers, such as counselor biases, lack of access to care, and disempowering approaches, perpetuate these gaps across diverse groups with EDs. We propo...

This article considers the cumulative effect of the variants in the Greek text of Joshua 24 under the understanding that its Hebrew Vorlage represents a text distinct from what became the Masoretic Text (MT). The best explanation for the textual phenomena in Joshua 24 may be the persistence of two Hebrew texts that were mutually informative among t...

This article is an attempt to analyse how monastic communities are presented in the latest Russian cinematography. It is an issue that has not been well researched so far, because scholars tend to focus primarily on broadly understood religious films. Considering the achievements of the last 25 years, two selected films were analysed in terms of th...

Advances in cervical cancer (CC) prevention, detection, and management have transformed it from a leading cause of death in women to a preventable disease. In 2020, the World Health Assembly adopted an ambitious global resolution to eliminate CC, setting out vaccination, screening, and treatment coverage targets to be achieved by 2030. Although man...

In contrast to the expansive work on how community policing affects citizens’ attitudes toward police, existing research says little about how community policing affects officers’ attitudes toward citizens. We examine officer-facing outcomes using an experiment in the Philippines, in which a random subset of a province’s 705 officers were assigned...

Artículo de Revisión Revisión del estado actual del conocimiento sobre el género Brahea Mart. en México Review of the current knowledge of the Brahea Mart. genus in Mexico Resumen Las especies de palmas en la república mexicana han desempeñado un papel significativo en el desarrollo de las comunidades rurales; poseen gran relevancia biológica, cult...

Despite his important role in the early decades of the British New Guinea colony, his many well-written reports, and his outstanding photographs, Albert English has been bypassed by PNG historians as well as visual anthropologists. My work on his collections and reports, which was presented at the 2022 ESfO conference, has in the paper here been sl...

Dieses Projekt trägt nicht nur wesentlich zur bestehenden Forschung über den Wissensaustausch in Familienunternehmen bei, sondern untersucht erstmals die bedeutsame Rolle von Communities of Practice (CoP) als Wissensaustauschmittel in Abhängigkeit von der Beteiligung von Familienmitgliedern. Die Erkenntnisse dieser Forschung bieten wertvolle Einbli...

It has been observed that Today's society has become completely based on nanomaterials because nanomaterials are proving to be very effective due to their minimum size, therefore they are vital to function and have a strong impact on all areas such as engineering, communication, and medical field, environment, cosmetic and coatings. Although much o...

Data quality is critical in mental health research, yet there is considerable variability in the training and preparation of those involved in data collection. Individuals with limited research training often play a central role in collecting data and, to date, no systematic means of evaluating researcher competencies exists. The Assessment of Key...

Architectural images, experienced visually and spatially, embody urban culture, aesthetics, and identity, yet their suitability in urban communities remains underexplored. This study addresses this gap by evaluating the suitability of architectural images using the niche-fitness model, combined with residents’ perception assessments. Evaluation ind...

If AI has the potential to be quite lucrative. AI has now been deployed for automated legal assistance, nursing bot services, and predictive policing. Dozens of tech companies are developing AI for prison and probation systems, jails, and immigration enforcement. While bringing efficiency and technological innovation to economic sectors, there is c...

Social infrastructure – defined by its promotion of “sociability” and support for “meaningful relationships” – has proliferated public policy discourse in the UK. The underpinning aspiration is to attract investment to deliver on multiple policy agendas. When approached this way, social infrastructure becomes a policy-making tool valued for its eff...

This research paper examines the complex relationship between faith and trauma, exploring how religious beliefs and spiritual practices influence the process of healing and resilience. It investigates the role of faith in both alleviating and complicating trauma responses, considering perspectives from psychology, theology, and lived experiences. T...

Due to anthropogenic activities, the water quality of freshwater bodies is rapidly decreasing. The aim of this study was to assess the water quality and phytoplankton diversity in the upper Ravi River basin between September 2022 and August 2023. Overall, the water quality was within the allowable limits, but in sampling zone 3, there was a deterio...

In 2021, the 44th session of the World Heritage Committee Meeting voted to list the Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex as a Natural World Heritage Site, seven years after it was first nominated for consideration by Thailand. A central point to the debate was concerns raised over human rights abuses relating to the Indigenous Karen people living inside th...

Digital technology has emerged as a significant factor influencing farmers’ participation in human settlements governance, and it shows obvious community heterogeneity. The Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) theory illustrates that the performance of digital technology is not solely dependent on technical conditions, but also closely linked...

This paper explores the use and function of the sub-cultural keyword (Wierzbicka, 1996) “plantation” in the antifeminist subreddit r/MGTOW. From a Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Lakoff, 1992) starting point, this paper combines discourse analysis and corpus-linguistics methods informed with a textual approach drawn from cultura...

Institutions have long shaped human life. One of their key roles is to balance the interests of the community with those of smaller sub-groups and individuals. The larger and more complex human communities are, the more pressing the need for functioning institutions. Climate change is an unprecedented threat to the balance between the interests of...

Extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and intensity due to climate change. This, in turn, is exacting a significant toll in communities worldwide. While prediction skills are increasing with advances in numerical weather prediction and artificial intelligence tools, extreme weather still present challenges. More specifically, identifyi...

Background- e-health literacy can be a powerful tool to engage communities in their own health care management Materials and method- Sample size was calculated to be 384 rounded to 400 using Cochran’s formula. Simple random sampling technique was used to select the participants.eHEALS tool was used to measure electronic health literacyFrequencies,...

Since the independence inclusive development of the society is the stated aim of the Indian policy. However, types of strategies and rules implemented in the past and present for the inclusive development there are many challenges faced by the government. There are many vulnerable populations and poor people which are not formally registered under...

Introduction. The governing knowledge commons (GKC) framework supports analysis and research design regarding the co-production of information and communities, including associated governance mechanisms to structure engagement with the information or community produced in the interactions. However, knowledge commons are more prominent in informatio...

This paper presents the third edition of the LongEval Lab, part of the CLEF 2025 conference, which continues to explore the challenges of temporal persistence in Information Retrieval (IR). The lab features two tasks designed to provide researchers with test data that reflect the evolving nature of user queries and document relevance over time. By...

Introduction. Little is known about gendered recordkeeping practices in marginalised communities in developing countries and about how these practices have been affected by improvement in literacy in those communities. Method. This paper reports the results of semi-structured interviews with 20 women and 17 men in two remote areas of Bangladesh abo...

The rapid growth of tourism and advancements in information technology are influencing the culture of communities in tourist destinations. Sembalun Village, situated on the slopes of Mount Rinjani on Lombok Island, Indonesia, is a suitable example of a community that has successfully preserved its cultural heritage and remains a compelling tourist...

There are a number of studies that analyze flood preparedness in communities of the global south. However, only a few studies have investigated flood preparedness in underserved communities with heightened vulnerability. This paper analyzed household preparedness against future floods in Kogi State Last-Mile Communities (LMCs) using 14 indicators a...

This chapter considers the ways that the concept of Circular Economy (CE) might be redefined within the innovation ecosystem. We argue that a key policy goal should be to mainstream CE innovation, that is, to get more SMEs doing CE innovation rather than purely focusing on improving the innovation outcomes of existing CE SMEs. To do so, a CE innova...

Within the context of renewable energy communities, this paper focuses on optimal operation of producers equipped with energy storage systems in the presence of demand response. A novel strategy for optimal scheduling of the storage systems of the community members under price-volume demand response programs, is devised. The underlying optimization...

Preparing mathematics teachers who can deliver the change we are witnessing and meet the needs of the future requires a concerted effort from all stakeholders in the mathematics education ecosystem. Such efforts must take into account the mediating role of culture-based instructional design in addressing the varying needs of indigenous communities,...

Breathing Easier in Rural and Underserved Communities: Evidence-Based Solutions for Improving COPD Care and Outcomes

The diversity of taro plants in the Magelang area has been used for a long time by traditional communities from generation to generation. But knowledge related to the use of taro plants for purposes other than food is not widely known to the public. This study aims to determine the untilization of taro plants (Colocasia esculenta L. Schott) and ana...

Public service media (PSM) worldwide have consistently been subject to societal and technological changes. Recent years have confronted PSM with radical transformations in media use, competition with transnational streaming services, and the dominance of big tech. New competitors for the attention of citizens have challenged both the PSM mission an...

Social media has changed the way individuals view their body image, especially for beauty content creators who are influencers who play a role in forming online beauty and lifestyle communities that are often exposed to ideal beauty standards. This study aims to measure the effect of social comparison and perfectionism on body image in beauty conte...

Plant–soil feedbacks (PSFs) may determine plant–species coexistence. They may stabilize coexistence, but frequently destabilize it by increasing fitness differences between species. Most studies focus on pairwise models in greenhouses. Thus, whether PSFs favor or deter coexistence is still unclear, especially in multispecies field contexts. We anal...

The field of special education requires special competence from defectologist-teachers and readiness to apply individualized teaching and support methods, which represents an important topic for scientific research. The aim of this research is to analyse the characteristics of future professional activities and the process of competence development...

Internet platforms and self-media have become vital online communities for promoting positive reputations for hotels. Previous studies have primarily focused on enhancing positive electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) through improvements in hotel infrastructure and staff services. As hotels deepen their digital transformation, the application of various...

The current study was carried out at seven research sites in the mid-hills (900-2500m asl) across six districts in Bagmati province, central Nepal to analyze the variety and distribution of macrofungal communities. The survey was carried out in the wet seasons from August 2017 to September 2022, including frequent field visits to the selected fores...

This research focuses on the implementation of Mataram City Regional Regulation Number 11 of 2015 concerning Public Peace and Order, especially regarding the prohibition on begging in Ampenan District, with a case study in Kebon Sari Village. The main objective of this research is to analyze the extent to which the Regional Regulation is implemente...

Community detection, which focuses on recovering the group structure within networks, is a crucial and fundamental task in network analysis. However, the detection process can be quite challenging and unstable when community signals are weak. Motivated by a newly collected large-scale academic network dataset from the Web of Science, which includes...

Cidade aberta e estádio fechado: apontamentos sobre os jogos olímpicos de Paris ResumoO objetivo deste ensaio busca colocar em discussão a proposição inédita realizada na abertura dos jogos olímpicos de Paris, em 26 de julho de 2024, que ocorreu nos espaços comuns da cidade. Portanto, propomos analisar a representação de corpo e nas interfaces com...

Qanat is one of the most important human-developed technologies that played a significant role in the growth and development of the communities residing in Iran. Most researchers believe that the first qanats were built in the first half of the first millennium BC. Iran is considered the most important candidate for the emergence, and spread of thi...

Syntax connects words to each other in very specific ways. Two words are syntactically connected if they depend directly on each other. Syntactic connections usually happen within a sentence. Gathering all those connection across several sentences gives birth to syntax networks. Earlier studies in the field have analysed the structure and propertie...

Les membres d’une famille, restreinte ou étendue soit-elle, doivent vivre en parfaite harmonie pour la survie de celle-ci, bien qu’une famille en tant qu’arène ne peut pas se dépasser des conflits. Pour affermir les liens familiaux, les églises ont un grand rôle à jouer. Ce rôle consiste à prêcher la Bonne Nouvelle en se focalisant surtout sur l’am...

The profile of "Women in Fisheries" typically highlights the role and contributions of women in the fisheries sector, focusing on their involvement in sustainable fishing practices, leadership, community engagement, and the challenges they face. This can include roles such as fishers, processors, marketers, or even policy advocates. Women's involve...

A rep-tile is a polygon that can be dissected into smaller copies (of the same size) of the original polygon. A polyomino is a polygon that is formed by joining one or more unit squares edge to edge. These two notions were first introduced and investigated by Solomon W. Golomb in the 1950s and popularized by Martin Gardner in the 1960s. Since then,...

Poor South Africans often mobilize for meaningful social change, especially where they do not have access to basic services. This paper explores the engagements between community activists and urban authorities in the provision of sustainable sanitation services in the ghetto settlements of Khayelitsha, Cape Town. Khayelitsha community activists ha...

Economic disparities and injustices in the United States are deeply rooted in systemic inequalities, adversely impacting the integration of immigrants into society. This document explores the historical and ongoing economic disparities, their effects on various aspects of immigrant life, and the potential of multicultural knowledge sharing to addre...

The levels of teacher-librarian formal education and training in British Columbia (BC) can vary, from a master’s degree in library and information studies, to teacher-librarianship diploma or teacher-librarianship certificate, to no formal education. There is substantial literature on the significance of having highly qualified, full-time teacher-l...

Mining in India makes up only a small share of the country’s total economy, but this sum belies its political, economic, social, strategic, and environmental significance. As a sector, mining is at the core of the strategic and nation-building imperatives of the Indian state and the economic interests of Indian capital. The interests of these actor...

The restoration of industrial landscapes to tap into the life-sustaining ecosystem services of water bodies constitutes a colossal challenge for local and regional governments. Place-based education is a pedagogical method which provides students real life opportunities of learning, helps communities to save cost and garner wider support for requir...

Background To evaluate the ability of QLQ-C30 in predicting mortality in community-based cancer patients in China. Methods A whole-cluster sampling method was adopted to enroll cancer patients in four communities in Shanghai from 2018 to 2019. The patients were surveyed using a questionnaire enquiring demographic information, cancer types, and QLQ...

The ability to create visualizations of urban public spaces is a unique skillset that confers disproportionate power and influence over the city's architectural outcomes. Our goal is to democratize that power; putting easy-to-use visualization tools in the hands of marginalized community members so that they can expand their influence over the spac...

Energy poverty, defined as the inability to access reliable, safe, and affordable energy services necessary to meet basic needs, represents a critical global challenge alongside traditional poverty concerns. Unlike conventional poverty, energy poverty emphasizes the importance of energy availability and affordability, with inadequate access adverse...

University extension has been increasingly recognized for its essential role in comprehensive education, bridging academic theory with community practice. Despite its importance, extension still faces challenges regarding recognition and funding compared to teaching and research. This article explores the significance of encouraging university exte...

A total of 112 spider species from 17 families were collected over three years from Vachellia tortilis (Forssk.) from two localities in the Limpopo and the KwaZulu-Natal provinces. From the farm Amsterdam near Dendron, 14 families represented by 68 species were sampled, and from the farm Vergeval near Pongola, 17 families and 79 species. Thirty spe...

This paper analyzes the relationship between the development of pedagogical innovation projects in experimental sciences and the establishment and evolution of Professional Learning Communities (PLC) in higher education, within an open innovation framework. To achieve this, an evaluative study employing a mixed-methods approach was conducted, invol...

As Indigenous outward migration expands, some diaspora groups are larger than their population back home which is the case for many in the Pacific diaspora. Research with Indigenous peoples is largely conducted in their homelands, with minimal research on their experiences in other countries. As Pacific Indigenous academics, we employed a dimension...

Malmea depressa is distributed in Mexico, Central America to Honduras; it is used for the treatment of hyperglycemia and urinary lithiasis, scientific studies have shown that the infusion of roots of this tree, that is consumed in some communities of Yucatan, effectively is functional.

As a new economic innovation, live streamers have widely accepted video streaming technology combined with specific business activities in real time. To predict live streamers' continuous streaming marketing intention on live streaming platforms, the study refers to the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and designs influencing factors from attitude...

The burgeoning tourism industry in rural regions often brings with it significant challenges in waste management, posing a threat to the natural environment and local communities. This chapter delves into the critical issue of sustainable waste disposal in rural touristic areas, with a particular focus on the Spiti Valley in Himachal Pradesh, India...

Child poverty is a central consideration for social work in Aotearoa, affecting families and social service delivery and social work in many fields of practice. Working with individuals, whānau and communities to enable them to pursue their dreams and aspirations is central to social work. Although thwarted from time to time by neoliberal contractu...