Academic Articles & Research Papers

Managing public policy issues

Estimating the Genuine Progress Indicator before and during the COVID pandemic in Australia

In the efforts to ensure the health of the Australian population during the COVID pandemic, social, economic, and environmental aspects of people’s life were impacted. In addressing the pandemic risks, a number of governments prioritized pe...

Joint Costs in Electricity and Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructures: The Role of Urban Factors

This paper analyzes the joint cost structure of electricity and natural gas distribution investments. Assessing the joint costs is critical for urban development and public policy regarding competition at the local level. The paper accounts...

Estimating Chinese bilateral aid for health: an analysis of AidData’s Global Chinese Official Finance Dataset Version 2.0

Background Although it is difficult to quantify, previous estimates suggested that China’s global health aid has increased sharply since the early 2000s. Unlike many donors, China has no official aid reporting obligations, nor does it volun...

New spatial records of vascular plants in the Azores Archipelago: the PRIBES project and the Azorean Biodiversity Portal (ABP) initiatives - I. São Jorge Island (Azores)

The Azores Archipelago is known for its important natural heritage, yet its ecosystems face a “green tsunami” in the form of numerous exotic and invasive species. This influx has wrought serious biodiversity loss and degradation of ecosyste...

Organizational Responsibilities of Managers in Commanding and Forbidding Employees Based on the Holy Quran

Objective This study aims to identify the organizational responsibilities of managers in providing employees with “commands” and its related derivatives by examining the verses of the Holy Quran. Methods The methodology used in this study t...

Co-creation, co-design, co-production for public health – a perspective on definition and distinctions

Collaboration between community members, researchers, and policy makers drives efforts to solve complex health problems such as obesity, alcohol misuse, and type 2 diabetes. Community participation is essential to ensure the optimal design,...

Getting involved: Uganda cancer society´s efforts to build strategic partnerships for tobacco tax increments and strong tobacco industry monitoring

Background and challenges to implementation Uganda Cancer Society's (UCS) purpose is to coordinate civil society efforts for a systematic contribution towards effective cancer control in Uganda. UCS is moving towards fully integrating tobac...

Green Technology and Governance in Sustainable Tourism: A Roadmap for Human and Social Sustainability in Cirebon, Indonesia

This study examines the combination of governance and green technology to facilitate the sustainable development of tourism in Cirebon City, Indonesia. Employing a qualitative case study design, data were collected through document analysis...

A morning with Louis Pasteur: a short history of the “clean hands”

Abstract: This article examines the story of Louis Pasteur from the point of view of a classic movie presented at the Weekly Seminars of the “Oswaldo Cruz Institute”, at the end of the 2017 activities. Although very old, the movie The Story...

Trends in adult cardiovascular disease risk factors and their socio-economic patterning in the Scottish population 1995–2008: cross-sectional surveys

Objectives To examine secular and socio-economic changes in cardiovascular disease risk factor prevalences in the Scottish population. This could contribute to a better understanding of why the decline in coronary heart disease mortality in...

Evaluating the effect of comprehensive land consolidation on spatial reconstruction of rural production, living, and ecological spaces

China’s long-standing dual-track institutions, which differentiate between urban and rural areas, have prioritized urban development, exacerbating the urban–rural divide and contributing to the ongoing decline of rural regions. In response,...

A Web-Based Honeypot in IPv6 to Enhance Security

IPv6 is a next-generation IP protocol that replaces IPv4. It not only expands the number of network address resources but also solves the problem of multiple access devices connected to the Internet. While IPv6 has brought excellent conveni...

Correlations between oral Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) initiations and policies that enable the use of PrEP to address HIV globally.

Policies facilitating access to HIV prevention services, specifically for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), can foster enabling environments for service uptake. This analysis aims to establish whether policies enabling broad PrEP eligibility...

Structuration, fondements et objectifs de la politique linguistique au Pays Basque

2004 marked a turning point in the linguistic policy elaborated and implemented in the Basque Country, in particular due to the transformation of the Public Authority, composed of the State, the Aquitaine Region, the Department of the Atlan...

Effect of the mHealth-supported Healthy Future programme delivered by community health workers on maternal and child health in rural China: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

Introduction Millions of young rural children in China still suffer from poor health and malnutrition, partly due to a lack of knowledge about optimal perinatal and child care among rural mothers and caregivers. Meanwhile, there is an urgen...

Janus-faced Populism: De-democratization or Democratization of Democracy?

As one of the most visible aspects of political life in recent years, the populist rises imply the ‘crisis of representation’ that means the existing institutional mechanism of representative democracy is ineffective in representing the var...

Tobacco smoking using Midwakh is an emerging health problem--evidence from a large cross-sectional survey in the United Arab Emirates.

IntroductionAccurate information about the prevalence and types of tobacco use is essential to deliver effective public health policy. We aimed to study the prevalence and modes of tobacco consumption in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), part...

Going beyond the flood insurance rate map: insights from flood hazard map co-production

Flood hazard mapping in the United States (US) is deeply tied to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Consequently, publicly available flood maps provide essential information for insurance purposes, but they do not necessarily pr...

A Cooperative City. A dream Come True

The article explores the process of creating a large cooperative housing complex in a district of New York. It highlights the unique circumstances that made the cooperative City project possible in the United States. The article also examin...