Assessing Air-Pocket Pressure Peaks During Water Filling Operations Using Dimensionless Equations by Vicente S. Fuertes-Miquel, Oscar E. Coronado-Hernández, Francisco J. Sánchez-Romero, Manuel Saba, Modesto Pérez-Sánchez

“…Using a model developed by the authors, this paper identifies the key parameters that define the phenomenon, presenting equations in a dimensionless format. …”
Get full text

The Principle of Transparency in the Ukrainian Decentralisation Reform by Sergii Slukhai, Liudmyla Demydenko, Yuliia Nakonechna, Tetiana Borshchenko

“…We attempt to fill the gap still existing in the research of public sector transparency in Ukraine, concerning the basic administrative level, hereby being limited to big cities and regions. The authors carried out an assessment of budget transparency in newly-established ATCs in four Ukrainian regions by applying a simplified methodology (‘snapshot assessment’) involving 11 measures that could be easily located on the ATC websites. …”
Get full text

Determinants of Online Local Budget Transparency in Croatia and Slovenia by Katarina Ott, Mihaela Bronić, Branko Stanić, Maja Klun, Jože Benčina

“…The article tests the determinants of OLBT that reflect the accountability of local authorities and a cornerstone for public participation in the budget process. …”
Get full text

Adaptation to climate change in pastoral communities: a systematic review through a social-ecological lens by Matilda Azong Cho, Onisimo Mutanga, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi

“…Purpose – This paper aims to apply a socio-ecological systems framework to demonstrate that pastoral adaptation to climate change necessitates a comprehensive approach. Design/methodology/approach – The authors evaluated the depth of knowledge regarding pastoral adaptation in Africa using bibliometric and content-based analyses. …”
Get full text

Knowledge and Attitude towards Exclusive Breast Feeding among Mothers Attending Antenatal and Immunization Clinic at Dabat Health Center, Northwest Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Inst... by Mulugeta Wassie Alamirew, Netsanet Habte Bayu, Nigusie Birhan Tebeje, Selam Fiseha Kassa

“…To assess knowledge and attitude towards exclusive breast feeding among mothers attending antenatal care and immunization clinic in Dabat Health Center, Northwest Ethiopia, 2016. Methodology. Institutional based descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted. …”
Get full text

Techno-Economic Assessment of Liquefied Petroleum Gas-Powered Alternative Electricity Critical Infrastructure Development in Nigeria’s South-West Geopolitical Zone by Ibikunle Ogundari, Olaleye SALU, Olajoke ILESANMI, Oladimeji BAKARE

“… The decentralization of electricity authority in Nigeria has made it expedient for the South-West Geopolitcal Zone to develop strategic power generation infrastructure. …”
Get full text

Assessment of the Water Quality of WWTPs’ Effluents through the Use of Wastewater Quality Index by Ivan Benkov, Stefan Tsakovski, Tony Venelinov

“…The monitoring of many water quality parameters related to the compliance of treated wastewater with environmental standards has led to the development of a unitless metric, the Wastewater Quality Index (WWQI), which serves as a practical tool for regulatory authorities. The aim of this research is to propose an appropriate WWQI methodology, incorporating a set of water quality indicators and a weighting approach, to evaluate wastewater effluents under operational monitoring. …”
Get full text

New academic journals: an international overview of indexing and access models by Rosangela Rodrigues, Cristóbal Urbano, Patrícia Neubert, José Miguel Rodríguez-Gairín, Marta Somoza-Fernández

“…The main sources of new titles in open access with no processing charges for authors are universities in countries that are not home to large commercial publishers (Indonesia, Brazil, and Spain), all with government subsidies.…”
Get full text

Discourse analysis from an international relations perspective: the case study of Tucker Carlson’s televised interview with Vladimir Putin by Pablo Hidalgo-Cobo, Casandra López-Marcos, Belén Puebla-Martínez

“…The objective is to identify the main topics, themes and arguments put forward by the Russian president in a political discourse within the context of a war. Methodology: This study outlines the main premises, postulates, and theoretical contributions of prominent American international relations authors, with an emphasis on realism and liberal movements. …”
Get full text

Carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic health risks of arsenic exposure in drinking water in the rural environment by D. Mahan, O. Waissbluth, D. Caceres

“…Concentrations of arsenic in the drinking water were analyzed between 2014 and 2017 based on health authority reports and data collected during this study. …”
Get full text

Formation of professional competences of students-foreigners when studying the Russian language discipline by Ilkhamiya I. Galimzyanova, Sazida V. Vyugina

“…In the educational process with foreign students, a special place is occupied by professionally oriented reading. The methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language presents different types of reading. …”
Get full text

Binary decision diagram‐based synthesis technique for improved mapping of Boolean functions inside memristive crossbar‐slices by Anindita Chakraborty, Vivek Maurya, Sneha Prasad, Suryansh Gupta, Rajat Subhra Chakraborty, Hafizur Rahaman

“…The authors propose to map the BDD‐nodes for any input Boolean function to the crossbar‐slices using an improved technique, where each BDD‐node is mapped more efficiently, and the node‐logic is implemented following the Memristor Aided loGIC (MAGIC) design style. …”
Get full text

THE ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF TOUR OPERATORS IN ITALY, FRANCE AND SPAIN: SOME COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE by Guido Migliaccio, Maria Calvanese

“…It is useful for those in the industry and for public authorities wishing to stimulate tourism.…”
Get full text

Photodynamic Antimicrobial Chemotherapy for Root Canal System Asepsis: A Narrative Literature Review by P. Diogo, T. Gonçalves, P. Palma, J. M. Santos

“…A manual search was performed on bibliography of articles collected on electronic databases. Authors were contacted to ask for references of more research not detected on the prior electronic and manual searches. …”
Get full text

Public Administration Digitalization and Government Effectiveness in EU Countries by Armenia Androniceanu, Irina Georgescu

“… Purpose: This study continues the series of previous research carried out by the authors on the digital transformation in EU countries. …”
Get full text

Does investor's sentiment affect industries' return? – A case of selected Indian industries by Amit Rohilla, Neeta Tripathi, Varun Bhandari

“…Purpose – In a first of its kind, this paper tries to explore the long-run relationship between investors' sentiment and selected industries' returns over the period January 2010 to December 2021. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses 23 market and macroeconomic proxies to measure investor sentiment. …”
Get full text

Integrated risk analyses as part of national climate risk assessments: lessons learnt from the climate risk assessment of Germany by Walter Kahlenborn, Maike Voss, Luise Porst, Marc Zebisch, Kathrin Renner, Inke Schauser

“…Based on a review of selected national, multi-sectoral CRAs, the authors explore the application of such analyses. …”
Get full text

Design of a small-scale and failure-resistant IaaS cloud using OpenStack by Samuel Heuchert, Bhaskar Prasad Rimal, Martin Reisslein, Yong Wang

“…When a smaller deployment or a private cloud is needed, OpenStack can meet the goals without increasing cost or sacrificing data control. Design/methodology/approach – To demonstrate these enablement goals of resiliency and elasticity in IaaS and PaaS, the authors design a private distributed system cloud platform using OpenStack and its core services of Nova, Swift, Cinder, Neutron, Keystone, Horizon and Glance on a five-node deployment. …”
Get full text

PSYCHOLOGICAL GUIDING OF STUDENTS’ INDIVIDUAL EDUCATIONAL TRAJECTORIES IN VOCATIONAL SCHOOL by Evald F. Zeer, Oksana S. Popova

“…Scientific novelty. The authors single out and summarize the methodological background necessity of psychological guiding process of the development and implementation of individually-oriented professional education. …”
Get full text

Robust ensemble of handcrafted and learned approaches for DNA-binding proteins by Loris Nanni, Sheryl Brahnam

“…Originality/value – Most DNA-BP methods proposed in the literature are only validated on one (rarely two) datasets/tasks. In this work, the authors report the performance of our general-purpose DNA-BP system on four datasets representing different DNA-BP classification tasks. …”
Get full text