The Reform of Certain Aspects of the UN Peacekeeping Activities as a Factor of Increasing the Effectiveness of Local Peace-Building and Regional Development (Case of the UN Operati... by SHANCHENKO Ekaterina Pavlovna

“…Today the mission has achieved the following results: presidential and legislative elections have been held, cooperation with neighboring states has been established, UN cooperation with local security agencies is advancing, conditions for the protection of natural resources have been assured, conflict mitigation activities for the local population are being organized. …”
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Adaptation of the PESTonFARM Model to Support Decision-Making and Planning of Local Implementation of the Sterile Insect Technique in the Control of <i>Ceratitis capitata</i> Flies... by Slawomir Antoni Lux, Marco Colacci

“…Available decision support tools and SIT implementation models are effective for large-scale interventions but tend to ignore the influences of fine-grained terrain structures and therefore offer little guidance for small-scale SIT operations in locally diverse landscapes. This study addresses this issue by adapting a site-specific individual-based PESTonFARM model to simulate both the behaviour and fate of individual members of ultra-small invasive medfly propagules and the post-release dispersal and mating performance of sterile males in heterogeneous and mosaic landscapes. …”
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Migration of the Population from the Ili Region to the Russian Empire after the Ili Crisis (Based on Materials from the Newspaper “Eastern Review”) by Elena V. Karpenko

“…The Ili crisis in Russian-Chinese relations led to the intensification of migration processes in the region. The local population was seriously concerned about the consequences of the presence of Qing troops after the departure of the Russians. …”
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Organizational and legal aspects of laying on the administration of the municipal district administrative powers of the settlement: the experience of the Leningrad Region by Ivan Ivanovich Makarov

“…The article deals with the process of formation in the administrative center of the municipal district of a combined executive-administrative body with the competence to handle local issues, of both municipal district and settlement. …”
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Nursery subsidy as an instrument of legislative and expenditure independence of a commune self-government by Anna Ostrowska

“…The results of the analyzes carried out in the article were also related to the issues of granting nursery subsidies in periods of the pandemic crisis and the refugee crisis.…”
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Fees for Having Dogs in Cities with Poviat Rights. An analysis of an empirical research by Weronika Baran, Julita Tyczka

“…The elaboration presents an analysis of issues concerning a charge in Polish cities with district rights for having a dog. …”
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Histoires et pratiques dissonantes dans un ghetto en devenir. Anthropologie contemporaine du cas de Venise by Antonella Di Trani

“…While reviewing the semantic trajectory of the word ghetto and its use in different contexts, this contribution aims to show how the inhabitants, Venetian Jews, and young missionaries or newcomers, appropriate the local history of the ghetto in order to reaffirm their belonging to this "historical place", perceived differently by each in terms of the contemporary ghetto’s issues and transformations. …”
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Sécurisation et distribution : évolutions de la gouvernance de l’orpaillage en Guinée by Robin Petit-Roulet

“…Through a policy of fluctuating tolerance, the State guides the development of the activity. At local level, regulation of the activity is structured around several players: customary institutions, local authorities and landowners. …”
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THE JOURNAL OF REGIONAL HISTORY V.9 No.1 Monuments of Local Chronicle Writing of the 16th Century and Service Class People in the Russian State: A Review of Russian Historiography by Il'ya S. Agafonov

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Les contradictions d’un espace public produit dans la proximité by Antoine Fleury

“…Local interests now increasingly shape improvement choices and they are mainly the interests of residents. …”
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Pour une géopolitique extrospective du développement urbain : Malaga et Mazara del Vallo, la coopération transfrontalière par le pragmatisme territorial by William Kutz, Ilaria Giglioli

“…In doing so, our specifically extrospective approach provides a pathway for thinking across three key analytical distinctions that underpin geopolitical reasoning in the French School of Geopolitics: (i) those concerning territorial actions internal and external to the nation-state; (ii) the rapport between political and economic power rivalries, and; (iii) the role of conflict or consensus animating territorial action. Together, the issues seek to provide political geographers with scope to imagine alternative spaces by which local geopolitics is constituted today.…”
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Battlefields Tourism: The status of heritage tourism in Dundee, South Africa by Merwe Clinton David van der

“…Through structured interviews with stakeholders and structured questionnaires with visitors and local residents, this research explores the understanding of heritage tourism as well as perceptions of its influence on the physical landscape and gauges the importance of this form of tourism as a driver for local economic development in South Africa. …”
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De la controverse à l'acceptabilité sociale : le rôle constructif du conflit by Sofiane Baba, Chantale Mailhot

“…We live in a context of increasing socio-economic-environmental controversies and growing demand for involvement of civil society in decision making processes related to major development projects. Thus, issues related to the process of construction and reconstruction of relationships between companies and local stakeholders following a controversy are emerging as important objects of study. …”
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Partisan Movement in Kuzbass during the Civil War of 1917-1919 by I. Yu. Uskov, A. E. Pyanov

“…Based on the analysis of archival data and local media materials, the military operations of partisan detachments are described. …”
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L’architecture administrative de la Bretagne contemporaine : miroir de l’herméneutique nationale ou totem identitaire ? by Périg Bouju

“…As early as 1944, however, the immensity of the task of reconstruction, and political as well as ideological issues of spatial planning, implied a requalification of the actors, leaving little room for local debates. …”
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Experience Stability - Instability in an Oil City (Study of Abadan Urban Experience) by iman mombeni, Abdolhossein Kalantari

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Ganz Salzburg bewegen [All of Salzburg Moving]: a large-scale public involvement project with underserved groups, for the co-design of local and contextualized physical activity pr... by Stefan Tino Kulnik, Sybille Salbrechter, Stefanie Radwanovsky, Ulrike Garstenauer, Michael Ebner, Till Fuhrmeister, Andreas Stainer-Hochgatterer, Daniela Wurhofer, Melanie Roth

“…PA promotion requires an approach that answers to local circumstances and the specific needs of UGs, to develop tailored and contextualized concepts. …”
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Theoretical and legal features of key institutions in Municipal Law by O. O. Kolobylina

“…The following are proposed to be classified as the institutions of Municipal Law: general principles of local self-government (constitutional and legal norms); guarantee of local self-government; exercise of power by the people through local self-government bodies; principles of organisation and operation of local self-government entities; local elections and referendums; various forms of direct participation of citizens in resolving local issues; territorial communities; executive bodies of village, town, city, district and city councils; village, town and city heads; institution of representative bodies of local self-government; communal property; local budget and local finance; responsibility of local self-government bodies and officials. …”
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Enhancement of Underwater Images through Parallel Fusion of Transformer and CNN by Xiangyong Liu, Zhixin Chen, Zhiqiang Xu, Ziwei Zheng, Fengshuang Ma, Yunjie Wang

“…Images captured by underwater robots suffer from issues such as color distortion and reduced contrast. …”
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USE OF NASOLABIAL FLAP FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF THE SOFT TISSUES OVER THE ALVEOLAR RIDGE AFTER TRAUMA ON THE MANDIBLE: A CASE REPORT by Elitsa Dzhongova, Stelian Edrev

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