Academic Articles & Research Papers

The Anthropology of Landscape

Abstract Landscape has long had a submerged presence within anthropology, both as a framing device which informs the way the anthropologist brings his or her study into “view”, and as the meaning imputed by local people to their cultural an...

Health and beyond...strategies for a better India: using the "prison window" to reach disadvantaged groups in primary care

As of 2013, the latest statistics available, more than 400,000 individuals are lodged in Indian prisons. Prisoners represent a heterogeneous population, belonging to socially diverse and economically disadvantaged sections of society with l...

Socioeconomic inequalities in effective service coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health: a comparative analysis of 39 low-income and middle-income countries

Background: Reducing socioeconomic inequalities in access to good quality health care is key for countries to achieve Universal Health Coverage. This study aims to assess socioeconomic inequalities in effective coverage of reproductive, mat...

Handbook of Public Policy Analysis

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES The Policy Sciences at the Cross-Roads Promoting the Policy Orientation: Lasswell in Context Public Policy, Social Science and the State: An Historical Perspective POLICY PROCESSES Theories of the Policy Cycle Agenda...

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...

Mapping Customer Relationship Management Research in Higher Education: Trends and Future Directions

Customer relationship management (CRM) has become a critical strategy for higher education institutions (HEIs) to enhance student engagement, institutional efficiency, and digital transformation. Despite its growing adoption, the evolution ...

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...

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

Digital Voice: Technology as a Tool of Oppression and Liberation in Christina Dalcher’s Vox

Digital feminism combines feminism and digital tools; the core purpose of digital feminism is to demonstrate how women utilize the internet as a platform to share issues and promote empowerment. This study focuses particularly on the two ma...

Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Platforms in Local Energy Markets

This review explores Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Energy Trading Platforms in Local Energy Markets, drawing insights from three key studies. These markets, using P2P trading, efficiently distribute electricity within communities. Research assesses P2...

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...

The Harris Extended Bilal Distribution with Applications in Hydrology and Quality Control

In this research work, a new three-parameter lifetime distribution is introduced and studied. It is called the Harris extended Bilal distribution due to its construction from a mixture of the famous Bilal and Harris distributions, resulting...

Centuries of Heat Waves over India during 20th and 21st Century

An assessment of temperature extremes is made for the Indian subcontinent to identify the changes since 1951 to 2015, and for the future climate periods till 2100 for all the 21 CMIP5 (Coupled Model intercomparision Project phase 5) models ...

Correlation between the Findings of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Shoulder and Shoulder Arthroscopy

Introduction: Shoulder pain is a significant cause of decreased functional activity of an individual. The overall prevalence of shoulder pain is 16-26%, which makes it the third most common cause among musculoskeletal complaints. The cau...

Proficient randomized response model based on blank card strategy to estimate the sensitive parameter under negative binomial distribution

This paper has great potential for estimating population proportion who possess stigmatized character by using Negative binomial distribution as a randomization device. The properties of the proposed estimation procedure have been examined....

Consapevolezza dello spazio e conoscenza giuridica. Due fasi nella regolazione delle encomiendas indigene a Tucumán (regione andina meridionale, XVI e XVII secolo)

Supponendo che lo spazio sia un fattore determinante per la produzione o lo sviluppo del diritto, proponiamo che i regolamenti sulle encomiendas indiane nell’America coloniale fossero sempre locali e non generali. Non cercavano di replicare...

Political Science and Conservation Biology: a Dialog of the Deaf

"The reasons political scientists neglect conservation biology and biodiversity may lie even deeper than incentives related to publication and hiring. They may have more to do with what political scientists view as the most important issues...

The Political Science of Political Science

PROFESSOR LAZARSFELD ONCE REFERRED TO SOCIOLOGY AS BEING IN A sense a residuary legatee, the surviving part of a very general study, out of which specializations have successively been shaped. The same might be said of political science. In...

Field Research in Political Science

Field research - leaving one's home institution in order to acquire data, information or insights that significantly inform one's research - remains indispensable, even in a digitally networked era. This book, the first of its kind in polit...

Artificial neural network modeling of mixed convection viscoelastic hybrid nanofluid across a circular cylinder with radiation effect: Case study

As a result of its use in the manufacturing and construction industries, research on the flow of nanofluid is rather well-known among academics and professionals in related fields. It is helpful for electrical equipment to utilize it for co...