Identifying factors influencing rezoning in Woldia town of North Wollo, Amhara Region, Ethiopia by Nigatu Amsalu Workineh, Dereje Shitu Shiferaw, Degarege Dagnaw Bogale, Minyichil Teshome Kassahun

“…These issues hinder the efficient implementation of land-use plans and lead to inconsistent rezoning. …”
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Arctic states’ policy on climate change adaptation: examples of national adaptation plans by M. Yu. Zadorin, E. F. Gladun

“…The article touches upon the issues of the implementation of international standards in national climate strategies on the example of the Arctic states. …”
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Women's experiences of maternal and newborn health care services and support systems in Buikwe District, Uganda: A qualitative study. by Marte Bodil Roed, Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen, Robert Mangeni, Irene Namata

“…Mothers relied on professional health workers and traditional birth attendants for basic maternal services but expressed general discontentment with spousal support in maternal issues. Financial dependency, gender disparities, and lack of autonomy in decision making on maternal issues, prohibited women from receiving optimal help and support. …”
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Smart cities & crowdsourcing. A bottom-up approach by Marta Christina SUCIU, Diana Florentina NÄ‚SULEA

“…Even though different regions design some well-integrated projects, the goal of becoming a smart city ultimately lies in the ability of local communities to self-organize and voluntarily use some innovative technologies that might facilitate to find efficient and effective solutions for solving some of the most pressing daily issues, such as traffic. …”
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Corruption Perception Studies and Anti-Corruption in Nigeria by Remi Aiyede

“…It examined key perception studies of corruption at the global, regional and national levels in relation to Nigeria and discusses key issues associated with them. These include controversies around the definition of corruption, methodological issues such as the reliability of the perception approach to the study of corruption, possibilities of cross country comparisons, the connections between global, regional and local anticorruption studies and the issue of how such studies and rankings reflect power relations. …”
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LPCF-YOLO: A YOLO-Based Lightweight Algorithm for Pedestrian Anomaly Detection with Parallel Cross-Fusion by Peiyi Jia, Hu Sheng, Shijie Jia

“…Furthermore, the Wise-IoU loss function is employed to enhance the model’s localization performance and generalization ability. …”
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On precise path planning algorithm in wireless sensor network by Farhanda Javed, Samiullah Khan, Asfandyar Khan, Alweena Javed, Rohi Tariq, Matiullah, Faheem Khan

“…Location information of sensor node is a critical issue for many applications in wireless sensor network. …”
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Decision Support System for the Design Process of Apatite Biopolymer Composite Parts by Panda Anton, Dyadyura Kostiantyn, Dmitrishin Dmitriy, Smorodin Andrey, Prokopovich Igor

“…In connection with the increase in the number and severity of various types of bone tissue injuries received as a result of wounds during military operations in Ukraine, an important issue in orthopedics and traumatology is making informed decisions about the possibility of restoring the integrity and functions of bone tissue when using different types of composition, porosity and strength of apatite-biopolymer composites. …”
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Spatial and Temporal Distribution Analysis of Traffic Accidents Using GIS-Based Data in Harbin by Meina Wang, Jing Yi, Xirui Chen, Wenhui Zhang, Tiangang Qiang

“…First, the spatial localization of accidents was completed using geocoding, and the localized accident data were classified by season. …”
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Implications of Media Convergence in The Existence of Mass Media in Banten by Indrianti Azhar Firdausi, Ichsan Adil Prayogi, Saskia Pebriane

“…Meanwhile, changes in the form of information content presented no longer prioritize local issues, but rely on more general and viral issues.…”
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Social Justice in Community Environments: A Collaborative Photovoice Process by Jennifer Schindler-Ruwisch, Helen Ramos Paiz, Kaila Pryor

“…A small New England University and a local community center undertook a community based participatory research approach to understand the community-driven factors that most impact health. …”
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Architectural and environmental acoustics as an aspect of sustainable development by Jerzy SADOWSKI, Jacek NURZYŃSKI

“…Sustainability, among other global and local issues, embraces also problems connected with protection against noise and vibration. …”
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Geography and gender studies : the situation in Brazil and Argentina by Susana Veleda da Silva, Diana Lan

“…We first situate research in relation to feminist movements in society which were shaped by working class activism and affected by local and global political and economic currents. …”
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Les GPS peuvent-ils résoudre les différends territoriaux ? Enjeux du géoréférencement participatif et conflits de limites foncières et politico-administratives dans les Andes boliv... by Irène Hirt, Louca Lerch

“…Moreover, it presents a cartographic analysis of demographical and geopolitical issues at stake in the conflict, and indigenous land claims superimpositions (Tierra Comunitaria de Orígen). …”
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Scalable PBFT-like algorithm for trust management of degree/graduation certificates by ZHANG Xuewang, LEI Zhitao, LIN Jinzhao

“…Local consensus was employed within the sub-regions. …”
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Gouvernance et gestion intégrée du littoral : l’exemple des recherches francaises by Hélène Rey-Valette, Martine Antona

“…This paper aims to characterize the wide range of research dealing with the governance issues in Integrated Coastal Zone management (ICZM) policies. …”
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“Kefāf-ı nefsler için”: Oenophilic friars negotiating alcohol rights in eighteenth-century Galata by Vanessa de Obaldia

“…A series of Ottoman documents from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries will be analysed in relation to the types of issues raised, local Ottoman and foreign Catholic actors and bureaucratic processes. …”
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Connexions entre la justice environnementale, l’écologisme populaire et l’écocitoyenneté  by Nayla Naoufal

“…This article examines historic and contemporary citizen movements linked to socio-ecological issues and underscores the evolution in their claims : Initially, environmental justice was exclusively reactive and focused on local cases of disproportional exposure to environmental problems ; today, it is also proactive, increasingly transnational and, in some cases, holistic. …”
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Use of Capacitive Probes to Detect Asymmetry and Earth Fault in a Medium-Voltage Power Network by Krzysztof Walczak, Aleksandra Schött-Szymczak

“…The detection of short circuits in a medium-voltage (MV) network is a complex issue due to the way the neutral point works. An additional difficulty is the relatively large load asymmetry. …”
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Intraoperative hemorrhage as a complication of cesarean myomectomy: Analysis of risk factors by Sparić Radmila

“…Cesarean myomectomy is a controversial issue. It was considered relatively contraindicated for many years due to increased risk of intraoperative hemorrhage. …”
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