The Dark Side of Multinational Corporations in Africa by Tryson Yangailo

“…It is strongly recommended that governments embrace multinational corporations in order to develop their countries and, at the same time, develop and implement strong strategic reforms, policies, legal frameworks, labour laws, and international accountability in order to curb and manage these impunities.…”
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Race, transformation and education as contradictions in a neoliberal South Africa by Isha Dilraj

“… In navigating the complexities of race and inequality in South African society, shadowed by colonialism and apartheid, the term transformation has gained traction as the mantra for growth, retribution, education reform, and economic and societal prosperity. However, the capitalistic and neoliberal environment within which the country operates has resulted in transformation initiatives becoming an obsolete contradiction. …”
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Indigeneity and Resistance in Zubair Ahmad’s Grieving for Pigeons by Nayab Sadiq

“…Drawing upon concepts of Mieke Bal on cultural memory and Aleida Assman’s “remembering forward”, this research highlights how Ahmad’s stories (2023) succeed in excavating the transformation and reformation of cultures by reinterpreting understanding of the past and, thus, put forward a “remembering forward”. …”
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African Socialism, the Economy of Affection, and a Concern for Foreign Affairs by Prolific S. Mataruse

“…In his time, he was seized with grand questions like self-reliance, educational reform, international debt and global inequality, nuclear weapons, non-alignment, African independence, and African unity. …”
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Optimal Management of Computer Network Security in the Era of Big Data by Minfeng Chen

“…The development of big data and its related technology supports and promotes a new round of technological innovation, making a new generation of information security technology reform and innovation, bringing opportunities and challenges to optimize, and consolidating national information security. …”
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The psychometric properties of the Thai version of the Zuckerman–Kuhlman-Aluja personality questionnaire by Tinakon Wongpakaran, Nahathai Wongpakaran, Zsuzsanna Kövi

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FOREIGN AID TO UKRAINE AFTER 2014: VOLUMES, PROJECTS AND DONORS’ MOTIVATION by O. V. Shishkina

“…While multilateral institutions tend to address the needs of Ukrainian economy by funding the reforms and infrastructure, donor states pay more attention to their long-term strategic and economic interests. …”
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RELATIVE EFFICACY OF THE CAPITAL MARKET OVER THE MONEY MARKET IN A GROWTH-FINANCING ECONOMY by Adedeji Daniel Gbadebo

“…The paper recommends that the government should ensure it extends the on-going market reforms to increase the sophistication of the financial market and make it more globally competitive. …”
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Development and Validation of an Evaluation Tool for Process Implementation of Foundation Course in Competency-based Medical Education by Anita Chalak, Yogesh Pawade, Shalini Maksane

“…Background and Aim: Competency-based medical education curriculum introduces several innovative reforms like foundation course (FC) in Phase-I MBBS. …”
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The “golden age” of Russian serfdom by O. Yu. Yakhshiyan

“…The proprietary (proprietorial) interest of the landed gentry in relation to the local lands and peasants received a previously unthinkable impulse due to Peter’s elevation of the status of estates to patrimonial, as well as the erasure of the legal boundary between serfs and peasants by turning both into “audit souls” during the tax reform. Already in the last years of Peter the Great’s reign, the authorities were inclined to identify the right of landlords to peasants with the right to immovable property in the context of the evolution of serfdom in Russia. …”
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International Experience of Legal Regulation of Social Vacations by V. O. Latysheva

“…Therefore, it is necessary to take into account the positive international experience in the legal regulation of social vacations in the period of reforming the labor legislation of Ukraine. The author of the article has provided scientifically substantiated conclusions on the borrowing positive international experience of legal regulation of social vacations and implementing into national legislation.…”
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Comparative Evaluation of Socioscientific Issues in Secondary Physics Curriculum and Textbooks by Sevim Bezen

“…In this context, this study determined that the current education reform is incompletely reflected in the textbooks. …”
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New Generation of Smart Highway: Framework and Insights by Chenglong Liu, Yuchuan Du, Yiheng Ge, Difei Wu, Cong Zhao, Yishun Li

“…This paper provides new insights for sustainable and reproducible highway reformation, drawing some implications for NGSH design.…”
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Critical thinking and suggestions on C-V2X with the developments of intelligent connected vehicles by Shanzhi CHEN

“…C-V2X (cellular vehicle-to-everything) is the international standards dominated by China’s enterprises for V2X wireless communications.Based on a brief review of C-V2X, it was indicated that C-V2X could provide capabilities such as low-latency and high-reliability for communications between vehicles and the surrounding traffic elements.C-V2X has demonstrated an obvious surpassing international technological trend and industrial competitions because of technical advantages.The related concepts of V2X, the relationship between 5G and C-V2X, the relationship between V2X and vehicle-infrastructure cooperation, the relationship between V2X and self-driving vehicles as well as the relationship between individual vehicle with intelligence and connected vehicles with cooperative intelligence, were clearly clarified.The insights about the development of C-V2X and intelligent connected vehicles (ICV) were presented.Facing the great strategic opportunities of global automobile industry revolution and China’s transportation industry reform, the innovative development mode of vehicle-infrastructure-cloud cooperation based on “5G+C-V2X” was proposed accordingly.Finally, the industrial progresses and problems were discussed with corresponding policy suggestions.…”
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Nkunimdie Christology: An Akan contextual expression of the Christus Victor motif of atonement by I. Boaheng

“…Thus, the article seeks to bring about positive reforms in Akan religio-ethical beliefs and practices, and hence empower Akan Christians not only to discontinue their reliance on traditional powers, but also to have complete trust in Christ’s atonement alone as means of providing them with all their physical and spiritual needs. …”
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Analysis of Water Resources Carrying Capacity in the Greater Bay Area Based on Index Probability Distribution by CHEN Juan, WANG Sen

“…The Greater Bay Area is the forefront of China’s reform and opening up and the important engine of economic growth.Water resources have become a key factor driving or restricting the sustainable economic development of the Greater Bay Area.Taking the Greater Bay Area as the research object,this paper constructs a three-level index system of water resources carrying capacity based on two subsystems of water resources environment and economic society.It also proposes an analysis model of water resources carrying capacity based on index probability distribution.The comprehensive evaluation of water resources carrying capacity in nine cities of the Greater Bay Area is carried out by combining the coupling coordination degree and the index probability distribution,which are mutually verified.The results show that the comprehensive value of water resources carrying capacity in Greater Bay Area mostly in grade III. …”
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Stanisław Bednarski SJ and prof. Stanisław Kot: pupil and master by Stanisław Cieślak SJ

“…In 1933, as a result of Jędrzejewicz reform, the Chair of Cultural History headed by him was abolished. …”
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La réflexivité infirmière en formation, entre injonction et allant-de-soi by Catherine Aubouin, Gilles Monceau

“…In France, a reengineering of nursing studies took place in 2009. This reform accompanies an overall evolution of the profession and has profoundly transformed the training system. …”
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Sociétés chorales et Renaissance de la musique anglaise, 1840-1910 by Gilles Couderc

“…Their favourite repertoire was the English oratorios of Handel and Mendelssohn, a genre which flourished all century long in the wake of the great religious awakening of the late eighteenth century and provided English and foreign composers with work in an opera-shy kingdom. Various social reformers, like John Curwen of Tonic Sol-Fa fame, developed methods to teach the untrained choristers how to read music, thus permitting their exposure to high-brow culture, to which the policy of the music publisher Novello greatly contributed. …”
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ISSUES OF DIVISION OF POWERS BETWEEN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND ITS SUBJECTS IN THE FIELD OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS by Roman V. Zelepukin, Anna V. Lipuntsova

“…Among them there are changes in the conditions for the development of physical culture and sport, as well as the restructuring of executive bodies in the regions in the context of the reform of public authority. The subject of the research is regulatory legal acts that establish and disclose the powers of authorities and other subjects in the context of the analyzed relations at the federal level and at the level of subjects of the Russian Federation, as well as the activities of authorized public authorities in this sphere. …”
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