Richard Crook, James Manor
This book is an in-depth empirical study of four Asian and African attempts to create democratic, decentralised local governments in the late 1980s and 1990s. The case studies of Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Karnataka (India) and Bangladesh focus upon the enhancement of participation; accountability betwee...
Mohammad Muhshin Aziz Khan, M.A.H. Mithu, Nikhil Ranjan Dhar
Paula McFadden, Anne Campbell, Brian J. Taylor
Child protection social work is acknowledged as a very stressful occupation with high turnover and poor retention of staff being a major concern. This paper highlights themes that emerged from findings of 65 articles that were included as part of a systematic literature review. The review focused on...
Nasimul Noman, Hitoshi Iba
Jing Meng, Zhifu Mi, Dabo Guan, Jiashuo Li et al.
Abstract Economic globalization and concomitant growth in international trade since the late 1990s have profoundly reorganized global production activities and related CO 2 emissions. Here we show trade among developing nations (i.e., South–South trade) has more than doubled between 2004 and 2011, w...
Kin Yuen Leong, R. Saidur, S.N. Kazi, Al Mamun
Chen Wang, Yuanchang Xie, Helai Huang, Pan Liu
Surrogate Safety Measures (SSM) are important for safety performance evaluation, since crashes are rare events and historical crash data does not capture near crashes that are also critical for improving safety. This paper focuses on SSM and their applications, particularly in Connected and Automate...
Mahshid Dehghan, Andrew Mente, Sumathy Rangarajan, Patrick Sheridan et al.
BACKGROUND Dietary guidelines recommend minimising consumption of whole-fat dairy products, as they are a source of saturated fats and presumed to adversely affect blood lipids and increase cardiovascular disease and mortality. Evidence for this contention is sparse and few data for the effects of d...
Mead Cain, Syeda Rokeya Khanam, Shamsun Nahar
Grzegorz Królczyk, Radosław W. Maruda, Jolanta Królczyk, Szymon Wojciechowski et al.
A comprehensive analysis of literature pertaining to ecological trends in machining processes of difficult-to-cut materials (e.g. hard steels, Ti-based alloys, Ni-based alloys) has been performed. The paper focuses on the improvement of machining processes with a balanced attention onthe reduction o...
Abdalla M. Abdalla, Shahzad Hossain, Atia Tasfiah Azad, Pg Mohammad Iskandar Petra et al.
Ali Ahmed, Kah S. Lee, Allah Bukhsh, Yaser Mohammed Al‐Worafi et al.
The increase in Muslim parents' refusal and hesitancy to accept childhood vaccination was identified as one of the contributing factors in the increase of vaccine-preventable diseases cases in countries such as Afghanistan, Malaysia and Pakistan. The spread of inaccurate and irresponsible informatio...
Angela Zhang, Lei Xing, James Zou, Joseph C. Wu
In the past decade, the application of machine learning (ML) to healthcare has helped drive the automation of physician tasks as well as enhancements in clinical capabilities and access to care. This progress has emphasized that, from model development to model deployment, data play central roles. I...
Ying Bai, Yuan Zhang, Bing Han, Li Yang et al.
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are highly expressed in the CNS and regulate physiological and pathophysiological processes. However, the potential role of circRNAs in stroke remains largely unknown. Here, we show that the circRNA DLGAP4 (circDLGAP4) functions as an endogenous microRNA-143 (miR-143) sponge...
Monika Hooda, Chhavi Rana, Omdev Dahiya, Ali Rizwan et al.
The core focus of this review is to show how immediate and valid feedback, qualitative assessment influence enhances students learning in a higher education environment. With the rising trend of online education especially in this COVID-19 pandemic, the role of assessment and feedback also changes. ...