Academic Articles & Research Papers

Lessons Learned from Developing a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to Support Citizen Scientists in Africa

Data gaps limit solutions and policy development for environmental issues. Citizen science offers a possible solution to reduce data gaps at a limited cost while enhancing environmental education (EE). While highly effective in the latter, ...

Commercial interests in health policy dialogues: a qualitative content analysis of NEDLAC’s engagement with South Africa’s Health Promotion Levy

Abstract Background Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are rising rapidly in South Africa, prompting the introduction of the Health Promotion Levy (HPL) in 2018 to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages. However, the levy remains...

Public Policy Analysis

Public Policy Analysis, the most widely cited book on the subject, provides students with a comprehensive methodology of policy analysis. It starts from the premise that policy analysis is an applied social science discipline designed for s...

Interprofessional communication with hospitalist and consultant physicians in general internal medicine: a qualitative study

Abstract Background Studies in General Internal Medicine [GIM] settings have shown that optimizing interprofessional communication is important, yet complex and challenging. While the physician is integral to interprofessional work in GIM t...

From ELIZA to Conversational AI: Can a Chatbot Develop Emotions? Her as a Case Study

The rapid evolution of conversational artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked an ongoing debate regarding its ability to replicate, or even experience, human emotions. While early conversational chatbots such as Joseph Weizenbaum’s ELIZA (...

Building Digital Altruism through the Motivation–Opportunity–Ability (MoA) Framework: A Multistakeholder Participation Case Study of LindungiHutan.com

The rise of digital platforms has transformed altruistic action into measurable, scalable online participation, yet studies of how digital altruism is structurally formed within environmental sociopreneurship remain limited, particularly fr...

Participatory Research for Adaptive Water Management in a Transition Country - a Case Study from Uzbekistan

Participatory research has in recent years become a popular approach for problem-oriented scientific research that aims to tackle complex problems in a real management context. Within the European Union project NeWater, stakeholder processe...

Survey the Situation of Furniture foreign trade, determine and prioritize the influencing indexes on export development (Case Study: Household Furniture)

Furniture industry have a significant share in global trade, Therefore, development of this industry to exhibit meaningful presence in international markets can influence growth of GDP and non-oil incomes for our country. The aim of this st...

Reconceptualizing Indigenous Parent Involvement in Early Educational Settings: Lessons from Native Hawaiian Preschool Families

Indigenous families are often perceived by teachers and school administrators as disinterested and uninvolved in their children’s education. This article aims to complicate that longstanding stereotype. A detailed, qualitative case study of...

Bankruptcy Prediction, Financial Distress and Corporate Life Cycle: Case Study of Central European Enterprises

Businesses are influenced by the cyclical nature of economic development and distinct stages in the corporate life cycle. Accurate early-warning mechanisms are crucial to mitigating bankruptcy risk, enabling timely rescue measures. This art...

Case Study and Theory in Political Science

Multi-level governance readiness and regional policy capacity in supporting Indonesia’s new capital development

IntroductionThe establishment of Nusantara Capital City (IKN) as Indonesia’s new capital requires effective multi-level governance in which supporting provinces play a decisive role in ensuring administrative, infrastructural, and economic ...

Dispositivos de la globalización: la construcción de grandes proyectos urbanos en Ciudad de México

El impacto territorial de la globalización se ha traducido en la construcción de grandes proyectos urbanos que han servido como puntos de contacto al interior de las ciudades ligadas a los circuitos de capital. Mediante una aproximación gra...

Artificial neural network modeling of mixed convection viscoelastic hybrid nanofluid across a circular cylinder with radiation effect: Case study

As a result of its use in the manufacturing and construction industries, research on the flow of nanofluid is rather well-known among academics and professionals in related fields. It is helpful for electrical equipment to utilize it for co...

A mathematical model for process cycle time - theory and case study

The article focuses on derivation of a regression model which describes dependence of process cycle time on relevant factors entering the process. The analyzed processes are typical in that the coefficient of variation of times correspondin...

UML IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Abstract: The article elaborates weather UML, primarily used in software engineering, can be a useful tool in business modeling and administration. By analyzing the advantages the modeling language has to offer we find that UML is visual an...

Interactive evolution for industrial design

Interactive evolutionary design (IED) has the potential to change development processes in industrial design from generating individual solutions to designing parametric models that are employed to create a vast space of possible solutions....

Archaeology of Death

List of contributors Preface 1. Approaches to the archaeology of death Robert Chapman and Klavs Randsborg 2. The search for rank in prehistoric burials James A. Brown 3. Social configurations and the archaeological study of mortuary practic...

A balnearização como fenômeno de fronteira (notas a partir do caso francês, 1830’s–1980’s)

This article proposes a reflection based on a French case study, concerning more precisely the region of La Rochelle, on the border dynamics inherent to the phenomenon of balnearization. As a process involving several spatial and corporeal ...

Archaeology and the Senses

This book is an exciting new look at how archaeology has dealt with the bodily senses and offers an argument for how the discipline can offer a richer glimpse into the human sensory experience. Yannis Hamilakis shows how, despite its intens...