Academic Articles & Research Papers

AGRICULTURE IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHALLENGES – THE PROBLEM OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Changes in seasonal weather cycles, a growing number of extreme phenomena, an upward trend in temperature and changes in the distribution of rainfall, significantly affect the functioning and effectiveness of agriculture. However, agricultu...

Regional, subregional and country-level full vaccination coverage in children aged 12–23 months for 34 countries in sub-Saharan Africa: a global analysis using Demographic and Health Survey data

Objective This study estimated the proportion of children aged 12–23 months who were fully vaccinated in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), explored geographical disparities across subregions and countries, and identified country-level factors assoc...

INFLUÊNCIA DA MATURAÇÃO DO FRUTO NA GERMINAÇÃO DE SEMENTES DE NIM (Azadirachta indica a. juss.)

AN INVESTIGATION OF LOCAL EFFECTS ON SURFACE WARMING WITH GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION (GWR)

Urban warming is sensitive to the nature (thermal properties, including albedo, water content, heat capacity and thermal conductivity) and the placement (surface geometry or urban topography) of urban surface. In the literature the spatial ...

The geography of gentrification

This paper revisits the ‘geography of gentrification’ thinking through the literature on comparative urbanism. I argue that given the ‘mega-gentrification’ affecting many cities in the Global South gentrification researchers need to adopt a...

Between Geography and History

Abstract The late Hellenistic period witnessed the rise of an imperial power whose dominion extended across almost the whole known world. The Roman empire radically affected geographical conceptions, evoking new ways of describing the earth...

Cosmopolitanism and the geographies of freedom

Preface Prologue Part One: Universal Values 1. Kant's Anthropology and Geography 2. The Postcolonial Critique of Liberal Cosmopolitanism 3. The Flat World of Neoliberal Utopianism 4. The New Cosmopolitans 5. The Banality of Geographical Evi...

Moral Geographies

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748612796); This book explores the interface between geography, ethics and morality. It considers questions that have haunted the past, are subjects of controversy in the present, and which affect the ...

Decolonizing posthumanist geographies

This paper engages my struggles to craft geo-graphs or earth writings that also further broaden political goals of decolonizing the discipline of geography. To this end, I address a body of literature roughly termed ‘posthumanism’ because i...

Political Science and Conservation Biology: a Dialog of the Deaf

"The reasons political scientists neglect conservation biology and biodiversity may lie even deeper than incentives related to publication and hiring. They may have more to do with what political scientists view as the most important issues...

Reflections on Ethnographic Work in Political Science

The objectivist truth claims traditionally pressed by most political scientists have made the use of ethnographic methods particularly fraught in the discipline. This article explores what ethnography as a method entails. It makes distincti...

NARRATIVE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE

▪ Abstract Narratives—the stories people tell—provide a rich source of information about how people make sense of their lives, about how they construct disparate facts and weave them together cognitively to make sense of reality. Narrative ...

Transparencia algorítmica

La transparencia y la rendición de cuentas, consustanciales al Estado democrático, adquieren una nueva dimensión con la generalización del uso de la Inteligencia Artificial, especialmente por las denominadas VLOP (Very Large Online Platform...

Investigating Spatial Effects through Machine Learning and Leveraging Explainable AI for Child Malnutrition in Pakistan

While socioeconomic gradients in regional health inequalities are firmly established, the synergistic interactions between socioeconomic deprivation and climate vulnerability within convenient proximity and neighbourhood locations with heal...

Business Administration (Business Management & Information Technology)

This history for the Business Administration (Business Management & Information Technology) program was collected to commemorate DMACC's 50th anniversary celebration during the 2015-16 academic year....

Healthcare professionals' and students' perspectives on artificial intelligence in clinical documentation in eastern Saudi Arabia: Factors influencing adoption and utilization

The increasing universal acceptance of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare systems is driving advancements, with clinical documentation at the forefront. This research aimed to gain insight into the views, perspectives, and influenci...

The portfolios with strong brand value: More returns? Lower risk?

This study focuses on the brand value-shareholder return relationship using the approach of Madden et al. (2006) based on Aaker (1991) and compares “Strong Brands Portfolio”, created through brand values in “Turkey's Most Valuable Brands” a...

English collocations: A novel approach to teaching the language's last bastion

Collocations are a class of idiomatic expressions comprised of a sequence of words which, for mostly arbitrary reasons, occur together in a prescribed order. Collocations are not necessarily grammatical and/or cannot be generated through kn...

The Impact of Technology Orientation on Export Performance with Emphasis on the Mediating Role of Innovation and Moderating Role of Corporate Social Responsibility

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the impact of technology orientation on export performance, emphasizing the mediating role of innovation strategies (exploratory and exploitative) and the moderating role of corporate social responsi...

Digital Co-Creation in Socially Sustainable Smart City Projects: Lessons From the European Union and Canada

Utilizing readily accessible information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as mobile devices, applications, and simple Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, and harnessing their potential through Experimentation as a Service (EaaS), c...