“Capturing The Watchdog”: How Regional Budget Weaken The Role of Local Media? by Puji Rianto, Shinta Maharani, Ni Made Ras Amanda Gelgel, Risky Wahyudi, Subhan Afifi

“…Public communication today is predominantly filled with news emphasizing publicity rather than critical and investigative coverage of local issues. As a result, efforts to create an informed society as a prerequisite for democracy would be difficult to realize. …”
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PROVIDING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL TOWNS – HISTORIC LOCALITIES OF FEDERAL IMPORTANCE by Alexey I. Grishin, Igor A. Stroganov

“…It analyzes complex programs of developing such localities with the use of state-private partnership as a promising method of providing sustainable development of small towns – historic localities. …”
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Addressing environmental pollution: Solutions for the Bukhara region at local and regional levels by Hotamova Maftuna, Dilova Nargiza

“…Environmental pollution remains a critical global issue, with effects manifesting at various scales—from local to global. …”
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Existence of Authority Nusantara Capital City in Perspective of Local Government Law by Rhendy Harnaloustamy Caesar

“…Despite being equivalent to a Minister, the Head of the Authority is still viewed as a local-level administrative official, leading to attributive legal outcomes. …”
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Legal Regulation of the Digital Transformation of Local Self-Government in the BRICS Countries by M. Lipchanskaya, S. Channov, A. Churikova

“…It is concluded that the specificity of local government, manifested in a high degree of self-government and participation of the population in solving life support issues, objectively requires a shift in the emphasis of digitalization to the local level of government. …”
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Palm Vein Verification Using Multiple Features and Locality Preserving Projections by Ali Mohsin Al-juboori, Wei Bu, Xiangqian Wu, Qiushi Zhao

“…New palm vein features extraction methods, global feature extracted based on wavelet coefficients and locality preserving projections (WLPP), and local feature based on local binary pattern variance and locality preserving projections (LBPV_LPP) have been proposed. …”
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Thangka image captioning model with Salient Attention and Local Interaction Aggregator by Wenjin Hu, Fujun Zhang, Yinqiu Zhao

“…To address these issues, this paper proposes a Thangka image captioning model based on Salient Attention and Local Interaction Aggregator (SALIA). …”
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Global Flow of Foreign Aid and Change in Recipients’ Local Labor Institutions by Shuzhen Niu, Xiang Gao, Zhenhua Gu, Yingchao Zhang, Qian Wei

“…The findings indicate that only aid to enhance local economic growth provides incentives to change domestic labor markets. …”
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PVLF: point-voxel local feature fusion for 3D detection by Haowei Zhao, Zhuolei Xiao

“…PVLF explores local spatial features to improve accuracy regarding tiny object detection. …”
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Digital transformation of population administration: Enhancing data accessibility in local communities by Ozzi Suria, Putri Taqwa Prasetyaningrum, Irfan Pratama

“…The implementation of PAS successfully transformed administrative processes into digital and improved data accessibility for the local community.…”
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Lessons from the Pilot Project of Korean ETS on the Local Landscape of Economy by Yongrok Choi, Ziqian Tang, Yunning Ma

“…To address these urbanization issues, this study concludes that a balanced approach combining stricter regulations with market-oriented promotional incentives is essential for optimizing the transition of local economies to a sustainable landscape.…”
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Does Economic Agglomeration in Rural Areas Enhance Local Economies in Indonesia? by Erna Setianingsih, Khoirunurrofik

“…Besides, collaboration between different stakeholders, including the private sector and off-takers, is necessary to expedite the growth of the local economies and boost regional productivity. …”
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THE ROLE OF LOCAL AUTHORITY IN THE FUNDING AND ADMINISTRATIVE-LEGAL PROTECTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE by Andrii Falkovskyi, Andrii Tarasov

“…An analysis of the current Ukrainian legislation in the field of cultural heritage protection allows for the identification of its strengths and weaknesses and the outlining of ways to improve legal regulation at the local level. Special attention is given to the issues of ineffective monitoring of cultural heritage sites, weak institutional capacity of local authorities, and the lack of adequate control over compliance with preservation regimes. …”
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Local Wisdom-Based Policy Innovation in Indonesia During 2018-2021 by Suranto Suranto, Awang Darumurti

“…The findings revealed several key insights: (1) Local governments were more active in proposing policy innovations rooted in local wisdom compared to the central government, owing to their closer proximity to service delivery sites; (2) service innovations were predominantly product-oriented, driven by urgent and critical needs; (3) problem-solving innovations were highly prevalent, effectively addressing critical service issues while minimizing cultural clashes; (4) sectors such as education, community empowerment, food security, environmental preservation, and health significantly influenced policy innovations, acting as a bridge between basic community services and local cultural practices; and (5) a dynamic competition emerged between innovators from Java and those outside it, with the latter excelling in the quantity of organizations and local communities, while Java demonstrated superior human resources and infrastructure. …”
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Adaptation of the best European practices in administering local health care institutions by Zhanna Oleksich, Jan Polcyn, Oleg Shtogrin

“…Systematization of scientific sources and approaches to solving investigated issues showed methodological underdevelopment and methodological lack of administration systems of Ukrainian health care facilities at the local level, considering the specifics of medical services. …”
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Novel Digital Twin Deployment Approaches: Local and Distributed Digital Twin by Shahid Rauf, Fazal Muhammad, Akhtar Badshah, Hisham Alasmary, Muhammad Waqas, Sheng Chen

“…However, it is important to acknowledge that even with a hybrid approach, the aforementioned issues will persist to some extent. To address these challenges, this article introduces two innovative approaches. …”
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Perturb, Attend, Detect, and Localize (PADL): Robust Proactive Image Defense by Filippo Bartolucci, Iacopo Masi, Giuseppe Lisanti

“…Finally, we propose a novel evaluation protocol that fairly assesses localization performance in relation to detection accuracy, providing a better reflection of real-world scenarios. …”
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The potential of accessible tourism for sustainable development of local communities in northern Pakistan by Hassaan Ahmed, Hadiqa Riaz

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Governance and Conservation Effectiveness in Protected Areas and Indigenous and Locally Managed Areas by Zhang, Yin, West, Paige, Thakholi, Lerato, Suryawanshi, Kulbhushansingh, Supuma, Miriam, Straub, Dakota, Sithole, Samantha S., Sharma, Roshan, Schleicher, Judith, Ruli, Ben, Rodríguez-Rodríguez, David, Rasmussen, Mattias Borg, Ramenzoni, Victoria C., Qin, Siyu, Pugley, Deborah Delgado, Palfrey, Rachel, Oldekop, Johan, Nuesiri, Emmanuel O., Nguyen, Van Hai Thi, Ndam, Nouhou, Mungai, Catherine, Milne, Sarah, Mabele, Mathew Bukhi, Lucitante, Sadie, Lucitante, Hugo, Liljeblad, Jonathan, Kiwango, Wilhelm Andrew, Kik, Alfred, Jones, Nikoleta, Johnson, Melissa, Jarrett, Christopher, James, Rachel Sapery, Holmes, George, Gibson, Lydia N., Ghoddousi, Arash, Geldmann, Jonas, Gebara, Maria Fernanda, Edwards, Thera, Dressler, Wolfram H., Douglas, Leo R, Dimitrakopoulos, Panayiotis G., Davidov, Veronica, Compaoré-Sawadogo, Eveline M.F.W., Collins, Yolanda Ariadne, Cepek, Michael, Burow, Paul Berne, Brockington, Dan, Balinga, Michael Philippe Bessike, Austin, Beau J., Astuti, Rini, Ampumuza, Christine, Agyei, Frank Kwaku

“…Here we review the literature that compares the effectiveness of protected areas managed by states and areas managed by Indigenous peoples and/or local communities. We argue that these can be hard comparisons to make. …”
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Locally advanced cancer of the tongue base: new method of surgical treatment by I. A. Zaderenko, A. M. Mudunov, S. Yu. Ivanov, R. I. Azizyan, A. A. Akhundov, S. B. Alieva, V. T. Tsiklauri, M. N. Narimanov, A. E. Kazimov, K. D. Il’kaev, A. V. Khromushina

“…Such surgical procedures lead to severe dysphagia, alalia and social maladjustment. Enumerated issues motivated us to develop new method of surgical treatment  of locally advanced base of tongue cancer.Objective is to introduce new opportunities of surgical treatment of locally advanced cancer of the tongue base.Materials and methods. …”
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