Academic Articles & Research Papers

Public Finance and Public Policy

The second edition of Public Finance and Public Policy retains the first edition's themes of investigation of responsibilities and limitations of government. The present edition has been rewritten and restructured. Public choice and politic...

Understanding Public Policy

1: Policy Analysis: What Governments Do, Why They Do It, and What Difference it Makes 2: Models of Politics: Some Help in Thinking About Public Policy 3: The Policymaking Process: Decision-Making Activities 4: Policy Evaluation: Finding Out...

How the social media impact women’s psychological well-being in the patriarchal structure? The moderating effect of social capital

Abstract Background Despite technological, political and economic progress, Pakistan is still a traditionally patriarchal society, and cultural norms curb women’s freedom of socialization, which contributes to poor mental health. The digita...

Digital Maturity Assessment and Conceptualization: Manufacturing Companies Perspective

Production is a key component of every nation’s economy, yet the manufacturing sector faces major challenges and opportunities due to rapid digital transformation. Many companies have not fully adapted to these technological shifts, limitin...

Classification and Techno-Economic Analysis of Different Types of Cryptocurrencies from the Perspective of the Macro Framework of the Monetary System in Islamic Economy

In recent years, with the definition and expansion of a new phenomenon called cryptocurrencies, we have witnessed scientific discussions and challenges in the field of accurate thematics of this phenomenon and the jurisprudential and religi...

NEW TRENDS IN MULTILINGUALISM AND MINORITY LANGUAGES ON A GLOBAL SCALE

The article examines current trends in language policy and attitudes towards multilingualism and minority languages in the European Union, the USA, and Australia. On the example of some languages (Basque, Breton, Corsican, Sámi etc.) vari...

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of community perinatal mental health services on access, experience, recovery/relapse and obstetric and neonate outcomes: the ESMI-II mixed-methods study

Background Perinatal mental health disorders affect one in five mothers during pregnancy or within 2 years post childbirth. These disorders can lead to poor pregnancy and childbirth outcomes and maternal deaths. Additionally, they negativel...

Knowledge, attitude, and practices toward COVID-19 vaccination among patients attending OPD of a tertiary care hospital in Kolkata: A descriptive cross-sectional study

Background: The acceptance of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination by the community was largely affected by information or misinformation spreading through various channels. Hence, in the process of deploying vaccines, it bec...

Communication studies in Australia: Achievements and prospects

This article briefly outlines the history of communication studies in Australia, emphasizing that this history spans only thirty years. The significance to communication studies of the 1987 revolution in the structure of Australian higher e...

The internet and communication studies

Giving Sense to Change Leadership: Towards a Narrative-Based Process Model

Introduction: Recent studies on change agency and organizational change failure have significantly broadened the organizational behavior perspective on individual change experiences, however, the underlying mechanism for change leaders’ inf...

Determinants and socioeconomic inequalities in vitamin A-rich food consumption among children aged 6–23 months in Somalia: a multilevel analysis of the 2020 Somalia Health and Demographic Survey (SHDS)

IntroductionVitamin A deficiency (VAD) remains a public health concern, particularly among children in resource-limited settings. This study aimed to evaluate the consumption of vitamin A-rich foods and associated socioeconomic inequalities...

Presenting a Productivity Pattern Based on Social Capital Using the Meta-Synthesis Approach

The Asian Productivity Organization (APO) reports a one percent increase in Iran's Total Factor Productivity (TFP) index when compared to the majority of Asian countries and some reference countries in the long-term horizon of 50 years. In ...

Editorial: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 11: sustainable cities and communities. A sociological perspective

Sociotechnical Privacy. Mapping the Research Landscape

While it is extraordinarily difficult to theoretically specify privacy, in the last 100 years or so (social) psychology, philosophy, communication studies, economics, and, to a lesser degree, also sociology and anthropology, provided attemp...

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...

Barriers faced by people with disabilities in mainstream sports: a systematic review

IntroductionDespite advances in inclusive policies and social awareness, the participation of people with disabilities (PwD) in mainstream sports remains limited due to numerous barriers. This systematic review seeks to identify and critica...

MAPPING RICE CROPPING SYSTEM IN THE LOWER GANGETIC PLAIN USING LANDASAT 8 (OLI) AND MODIS IMAGERY

The Indo-Gangetic basin is one of the productive rice growing areas in South-East Asia. Within this extensive flat fertile land, lower Gangetic basin, especially the south Bengal, is most intensively cultivated. In this study we map the ric...

An Algebraic Characterization of Prefix-Strict Languages

Let Σ+ be the set of all finite words over a finite alphabet Σ. A word u is called a strict prefix of a word v, if u is a prefix of v and there is no other way to show that u is a subword of v. A language L⊆Σ+ is said to be prefix-strict, i...

Fatores que determinam o desenvolvimento rural nas microrregiões do Brasil

Rural development in Brazil’s microregions: a multidimensional study. Because the rural Brazilian population has heterogeneous characteristics of social, technical and regional aspects, we studied how the rural development is distributed al...