CPEC Social-cultural impacts of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on the well-being of local community by Yunpeng Sun, Usman Ghani, Abdul Hameed Pitafi, Tahir Islam

“…Results have shown that the social, cultural, and educational benefits of local communities are significant predictors of the well-being of citizens, and QOL issues have shown to have a major impact on the well-being of citizens. …”
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How to promote local governments collaboration? evidence from carbon reduction in the Yangtze River Delta by Yue Liu, Yaodong Cang

“…Collaboration on carbon reduction among local governments is considered an efficient approach to address the carbon emission issues in China. …”
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Is the Smart cities of hybrid model of local government - The type III cities: Four possible answers by Valerii LOGVINOV, Natalia LEBID

“…The search of these answers is very important for Ukraine, where the initiative to build smart cities comes mainly from the local community of active young people, for whom the smart city is seen as a tool that allows them to take part in the government, to solve the issues of life of the city together. …”
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“Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child”: navigating consequence management in local government transformation in South Africa by Elvin Shava, Tigere Paidamoyo Muringa, Olufemi M. Oladejo

“…BackgroundThe phrase “Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child” aptly describes the state of South African local government, where the lack of consequence management has fostered systemic inefficiencies, corruption, and declining service delivery. …”
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Falwa: Python Package to Implement Finite‐Amplitude Local Wave Activity Diagnostics on Climate Data by Clare S. Y. Huang, Christopher Polster, Noboru Nakamura

“…Recent development of a finite‐amplitude local wave activity (FALWA) theory by Nakamura and collaborators enables comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of finite‐amplitude Rossby waves observed in climate data, which helps to understand the drivers of their life cycles. …”
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Fiscal federalism, inter-governmental transfers and public health– The case of Urban Local Bodies in India by Samik Chowdhury

“…Public policy in India has historically ignored the potential of urban local bodies (ULBs), a constitutionally mandated third tier of Government, in addressing urban health issues. …”
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Challenges and Opportunities in Developing Stroke Rehabilitation Technologies in the Visayas Region: A Local Regional Perspective by Roy Francis Navea, Alyssa Marie Dar Juan, Lancelot Lyle de Jesus, Elda Grace Anota, Honeylene Paloma, Annah Teves

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Development of a versatile oncolytic virus platform for local intra-tumoural expression of therapeutic transgenes. by Nalini Marino, Sam Illingworth, Prithvi Kodialbail, Ashvin Patel, Hugo Calderon, Rochelle Lear, Kerry D Fisher, Brian R Champion, Alice C N Brown

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Improved Monarch Butterfly Optimization Algorithm Based on Opposition-Based Learning and Random Local Perturbation by Lin Sun, Suisui Chen, Jiucheng Xu, Yun Tian

“…To solve the issues, this paper develops a novel MBO algorithm based on opposition-based learning (OBL) and random local perturbation (RLP). …”
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Monitoring and planning of local territorial development as a modelable business process: the case of Latvian municipalities by Vera Komarova, Edmunds Cizo, Timurs Boronenko

“…The relevance of the study is driven by the need to improve the efficiency of monitoring and planning processes for local territorial development, which are currently unstructured and insufficiently systematized in Latvian municipalities. …”
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Blind super-resolution network based on local fuzzy discriminative loss for fabric data augmentation by Ning Dai, Xiaohan Hu, Kaixin Xu, Xudong Hu, Yanhong Yuan, Bo Cao, Luhong Shi

“…In the field of fabric defect detection, the development of algorithms has been hindered by issues such as poor quality and limited quantity of open-source datasets. …”
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Management and utilization of the Fund for Innovative Medicines: a multistakeholder qualitative survey on regional and local practices by Andrea Vitagliano, Marzia Bonfanti, Chiara Lucchetti, Andrea Marcellusi

“…In order to identify characteristics, critical issues, and improvement opportunities, this analysis investigates the FFI management processes through the perspective of the Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) involved. …”
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Ultra-Local Model-Based Adaptive Enhanced Model-Free Control for PMSM Speed Regulation by Chunlei Hua, Difen Shi, Xi Chen, Guangfa Gao

“…Conventional model-free control (MFC) is widely used in motor drives due to its simplicity and model independence, yet its performance suffers from imperfect disturbance estimation and input gain mismatch. To address these issues, this paper proposes an adaptive enhanced model-free speed control (AEMFSC) scheme based on an ultra-local model for permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drives. …”
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Raising complex public health challenges on local government agendas: a Norwegian case study by Kristine Løkås Vigsnes, Charlotte Kiland, Harry Rutter, Eirik Abildsnes

“…Conclusions This article contributes knowledge of how complex public health problems receive attention and how these issues are shaped and defined, placed on governmental agendas, and paired with solutions. …”
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Infrared Small Target Detection via Multidirectional Local Gravitational Force and Level-Line Connectivity by Xuying Hao, Xianyuan Liu, Yujia Liu, Yijuan Qiu, Yunjing Zhang, Yi Cui, Tao Lei

“…To address these challenges, we propose a method that employs multidirectional local gravitational force (LGF) contrast combined with level-line connectivity (LLC) contrast. …”
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The efficiency and capabilities assessment of some local materials in wastewater treatment using the multi soil layering by Samira Ghotbi, Amirabbas Abedini, Abolfazl Akbarpour, Reihaneh Malakooti

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Computerized Accounting Systems and Organizational Performance in Local Governments in Uganda A Case Of Rubanda District by Charles, Akandwanaho

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FUNCTIONING OF UNITED TERRITORIAL COMMUNITIES AND IDENTIFICATION OF MAIN PROBLEMS OF ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT OF LOCAL BUDGET MANAGEMENT by Nataliia Gavkalova, Liudmyla Akimova, Alina Zilinska, Sergij Lukashev, Lyudmyla Avedyan, Oleksandr Akimov

“… The importance of the study of the united territorial communities functioning and the identification of the main problems of organizational support of local budget management are substantiated. It has been studied that the issues related to the development of organizational support of local budget management are insufficiently researched in the domestic scientific literature. …”
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Life cycle assessment and cost analysis of locally made solar powered cooler for vaccine storage by Milton Mbugano, Juma Rajabu Selemani, Baraka Kichonge, Grite Nelson Mwaijengo, Mwema Felix Mwema

“…Solar power generation technologies have emerged as a viable alternative solution to address these issues. This study conducted a life cycle assessment (LCA) and cost analysis (CA) of the locally developed solar-powered cooler to assess its economic viability and potential environmental impacts. …”
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LocaLock: Enhancing Multi-Object Tracking in Satellite Videos via Local Feature Matching by Lingyu Kong, Zhiyuan Yan, Hanru Shi, Ting Zhang, Lei Wang

“…Specifically, LocaLock utilizes an anchor-free detection backbone for efficiency and employs a local cost volume (LCV) module to perform precise feature matching in the local area. …”
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