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Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean

Kimberley Peters • Routledge eBooks (2016)

Our world is a water world. Seventy percent of our planet consists of ocean. However, geography has traditionally overlooked this vital component of the earth's composition. The word 'geography' directly translates as 'earth writing' and in...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315547619

Big data and human geography

Rob Kitchin • Dialogues in Human Geography (2013)

We are entering an era of big data – data sets that are characterised by high volume, velocity, variety, exhaustivity, resolution and indexicality, relationality and flexibility. Much of these data are spatially and temporally referenced an...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820613513388

Spatially Constrained Discontinuity Trace Extraction from 3D Point Clouds by Intersecting Boundaries Segmented

Jingsong Sima, Qiang Xu, Xiujun Dong, Haoliang Li et al. • Remote Sensing (2025)

Discontinuity trace provides critical geological data for engineering design and construction optimization. However, current extraction methods relying on discontinuity intersection fitting are highly sensitive to the segmentation accuracy ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/rs17213566

A Novel Construction Method of Bayesian Neural Networks Based on Multi-type Engineering Knowledge

Wenbin Ye, YanZhou Duan, Jun Yuan, Jixu Wang et al. • International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (2026)

Abstract In the field of engineering, the utilization of surrogate models to replace computationally intensive simulation software has become a widely adopted approach. However, when addressing complex engineering problems, the costs of sim...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1007/s44196-026-01214-1

Challenging Anthropology: Anthropological Reflections on the Ethnographic Turn in International Relations

Jon Harald Sande Lie • Millennium Journal of International Studies (2012)

Ethnography and anthropology are intrinsically linked, but recently other disciplines have started to draw inspiration from anthropological methods. The ongoing ethnographic turn in International Relations has spurred debate on what ethnogr...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829812463835

The Role of Public Administration in Promoting Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Population Growth and Global Nutrition Interventions

Sorin Burlacu, Ana Maria Călin, Elena Crizantema Vâlcu, Evelina Petronela Bălu • Proceeding Papers (BASIQ International Conference) (2023)

This research paper aims to investigate the role of public administration in promoting sustainable development through a case study of global nutrition interventions and population growth. The study employs a case study approach to gain a c...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.24818/BASIQ/2023/09/023

Public Policy and Gender Inequality in Brazilian Society: Considerations From the Realms of Labor, Politics and Science.

Janaina Xavier do Nascimento • Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais (2016)

The present text focuses on issues of gender inequality and public policy in Brazil today. My major goals are as follows: 1) to provide an analysis of gender inequality in Brazilian society through an examination of the three key arenas of ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5433/2176-6665.2016v21n1p317

Continuity and Change in Public Policy and Management

Christopher Pollitt, Geert Bouckaert • Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks (2009)

© Christopher Pollitt and Geert Bouckaert 2009. All rights reserved. Combining theory development, international comparison and original case study analysis, two of Europe's leading public policy and management scholars apply and develop so...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849802291

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

Evelyn Angiji, Paul Ebusu • Tobacco Induced Diseases (2018)

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...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.18332/tid/84466