Acceptabilité et mise en œuvre des politiques de relocalisation face aux risques littoraux : perspectives issues d’une recherche en partenariat by Camille André, Paul Sauboua, Hélène Rey-Valette, Gaëlle Schauner

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FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN THE CONTEXT OF DECENTRALISATION: THE CASE OF UKRAINE by Valentyna Martynenko, Tetiana Koliada, Maryna Skoryk, Olga Sokolova, Maryna Korzh, Olena Jadallah

“…The paper also assesses how effectively decentralization contributes to increasing the financial autonomy of communities and how this affects their ability to independently allocate resources to address pressing socio-economic issues. The main results show that in the period 2015–2023, local budgets of Ukraine demonstrated a steady trend towards the growth of their own revenues, which had a positive impact on the financial autonomy of communities. …”
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Three-Dimensional Numerical Modeling of Local Scour Around Bridge Foundations Based on an Improved Wall Shear Stress Model by Peng Yu, Sheng Xu, Jiuchao Chen, Lingke Zhu, Jiale Zhou, Lie Yu, Zewen Sun

“…Currently, there are two primary issues with CFD simulations of local scour around bridge foundations using the RANS method. …”
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Social prescribing of cultural opportunities to support health and wellbeing: the importance of language, community engagement, and inclusion in developing local approaches by Anna Dadswell, Hilary Bungay

“…Barriers for connecting people with culture and health opportunities in the area were identified including gaps in provision and processes, challenges due to language and terminology, accessibility issues for marginalised groups, and issues around funding for transport and sustainable and equitable provision of cultural opportunities. …”
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Comparison of Optimization- and Rule-Based EMS for Domestic PV-Battery Installation with Time-Varying Local SoC Limits by Akila Herath, Supun Kodituwakku, Dinithi Dasanayake, Prabath Binduhewa, Janaka Ekanayake, Kamalanath Samarakoon

“…Intermittent output power variations and inability to use the PV power during the night peak hours are major issues with PV systems. Energy storage is a possible mitigation technique for these issues. …”
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UN MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS INDICATORS ON PROBLEMS OF ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL MEDICINES AND ENHANCEMENT OF LOCAL PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCER IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES by A. Y. Kulikov, A. G. Voskanyan

“…The article covers the key issues of local pharmaceutical production and ensuring of equitable access to essential medicines in the scopes of the UN «Millennium Development Goals». …”
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Dense Ship Detection in SAR Images via Comprehensive Confidence Score-Based Label Assignment by Yu Zhang, Xueqian Wang, Gang Li, You He, Zhaohui Song, Huina Song

“…In practice, bounding boxes (B-Boxes) of dense inshore ships in training data have large overlapping areas, which lead to indistinct labels and increase the difficulty to train CNN-based detectors with high performance. To address this issue, a comprehensive confidence score-based detector (CCSDet) is proposed in this article. …”
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An Effective 3D Instance Map Reconstruction Method Based on RGBD Images for Indoor Scene by Heng Wu, Yanjie Liu, Chao Wang, Yanlong Wei

“…Finally, we construct an ellipsoids scene from this map to test the robot’s localization capabilities in indoor environments using semantic information. …”
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What Drives Profitability in the Romanian ICT Sector? by Lucian Belascu, Dan Gabriel Dumitrescu, Alexandra Smedoiu Popoviciu, Alexandra Horobet

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The research of the customer journey of users of local treatment facilities made of fiberglass and composite materials using the customer journey map by Vira Zhuravel, Andrii Kutsynskyi, Mariia Kutsynska

“…The User Scenario, User Story and Customer Journey Map have been formed for a specific group of local treatment facilities users “specific private households”.…”
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Challenges and the scope of the local-level normalization policy in the relationship between Belgrade and Priština through the prism of the Association of Serbian municipalities by Stanković Nevena M.

“…However, the EU has largely overlooked the local context, as inter-ethnic dynamics remain burdened by numerous destabilizing factors and the further entrenchment of existing conflict structures. …”
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AN OVERVIEW OF CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIC MEASURES THAT WILL ENSURE EFFECTIVE AND SUSTAINABLE MUNICIPAL SERVICE DELIVERY WITHIN SOUTH AFRICAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT by Wendy Meadolance MADONSELA, Mocheudi Martinus SELEPE

“…Municipal service delivery is still one of the biggest issues facing the world, and public sector reforms haven't worked out so far. …”
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GLEM: a global–local enhancement method for fine-grained image recognition with attention erasure and multi-view cropping by Chenglong Zhou, Damin Zhang, Qing He, MingFang Li, MingRong Li, Xiaobo Zhou

“…This work proposes a Global–Local Enhanced Module (GLEM) to integrate global and local features to address these issues effectively. …”
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Investigating The Performance Of Local And Indigenous Businesses In Times Of Economic Recession With Emphasis On Developing The Capabilities Of Cooperatives In Sistan And Baluchest... by Ali Asghar Tabavar, Abdoulnaser Derakhshan, Sahar Arefi

“…Also, the cooperatives of Sistan and Baluchistan province can improve the performance of local businesses in the long run by increasing the number of working people.ConclusionToday, attention to employment and environmental issues has been given much attention by organizations and people. …”
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Single-Image Super-Resolution via Cascaded Non-Local Mean Network and Dual-Path Multi-Branch Fusion by Yu Xu, Yi Wang

“…While numerous methods have been proposed, the traditional approaches suffer from oversmoothing and limited generalization; CNN-based models lack the ability to capture long-range dependencies; and Transformer-based solutions, although effective in modeling global context, are computationally intensive and prone to texture loss. To address these issues, we propose a hybrid CNN–Transformer architecture that cascades a pixel-wise self-attention non-local means module (PSNLM) and an adaptive dual-path multi-scale fusion block (ADMFB). …”
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Ethnomedicinal survey of plants used in home remedies by the local community of the unexplored village Dudday, District Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan by Khalid Hussain, Iqra Mushtaq, Khalid Nawaz, Tehreem Riaz

“… Ethnomedicinal survey at village Dudday, District Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan was conducted during 2024 to document the important species of plants and related information that are used by the local community to cure several diseases. This site has never been explored before in terms of vegetation composition and structure. …”
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English and Local Language Preservation in East Nusa Tenggara: A Study of Pre-Service English Teachers’ Attitudes and Practices by Christmas Prasetia Ate, Muliani Muliani

“…This study investigates how English learning can coexist with local language preservation by addressing three key issues: (1) students’ attitudes toward English and local languages, (2) the use of these languages across different domains, and (3) strategies proposed for promoting linguistic coexistence. …”
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Prediction of Groundwater Fluctuations Using Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin Numerical Method in a Field Aquifer (Birjand Aquifer) by A. Mohtashami, S. A. Hashemi Monfared, Gh. Azizyan, A. Akbarpour

“…The prediction of groundwater level fluctuations is one of the most remarkable issues in water resources management, especially in arid and semiarid regions. …”
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Advancing rural science education in Chile through local rural knowledge: a design-based approach to water education by Catalina Iturbe-Sarunic, Catalina Iturbe-Sarunic, Brant G. Miller, Cristian Merino

“…The developed TLS emphasizes water quality and utilizes a Place-Based Inquiry for Modeling approach, encouraging students to engage in authentic inquiry using sensor technology to gather and analyze real-time data about their local water. This process integrates LRK with national science standards in Chile to enhance students’ understanding and participation in water-related issues. …”
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GLAI-Net: Global–Local Awareness Integrated Network for Semantic Change Detection in Remote Sensing Images by Qing Ding, Fengyan Wang, Mingchang Wang, Ying Zhang, Gui Cheng

“…Recently, multitask networks have become the main paradigm for SCD, but their detection performance is still affected by limited multi-scale feature extraction and insufficient cross-task information interaction. To address these issues, we propose a global–local awareness integrated network (GLAI-Net) for SCD in remote sensing images. …”
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