Privolzhsky District of Kalmyk Autonomous Oblast: Implementing Collectivization Policies by Namsyr A. Shikhanov1

“…The article examines some peculiarities of Kalmykia’s mass agricultural collectivization through the example of Privolzhsky District characterized by the presence of three sectors — animal husbandry, fishing and crop farming. …”
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French Soft Power Model and Its Adaptation in Central Asia: Cultural Diplomacy, Tourism, and National Branding by A.M. Диканбаева, M.С. Сарыбаев, Р.Е. Уткелбай

“…Enhancing these areas could open new prospects for deepening cooperation between France and the countries of Central Asia across multiple sectors. Key words: soft power, cultural diplomacy, France, Central Asia, national branding, tourism. …”
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Enhancing Power Converter Reliability Through a Logistic Regression-Based Non-Invasive Fault Diagnosis Technique by Acácio M. R. Amaral

“…Sustainability can be achieved through the widespread adoption of electrification across multiple sectors of activity, which would thereby enable increased operational efficiency and reduce the environmental impact. …”
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Decision Model for Information Security Control Assessment for Hospitals Using Disc Picture Fuzzy Information by Peng Zhuo, Lu Jin

“…This approach offers useful information for enhancing security decision-making processes in healthcare settings and can be adapted to other sectors that require in-depth security assessments.…”
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Central Characteristics and Critical Success Factors of Design Thinking for Product Development in Industrial SMEs—A Bibliometric Analysis by Jazmin Estefania Olivares Ugarte, Lars Bengtsson

“…Despite its recognized importance in business and academia, many industrial SMEs struggle with applying design thinking in their product development processes. This research aims to identify the central characteristics of design thinking and its critical success factors to enable effective application by industrial SMEs. …”
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Mapping The Ethical Discourse in Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Topic Modeling Analysis of Scholarly Communication by Georgios P. Georgiou

“… As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) continues to reshape numerous sectors, the ethical implications of its deployment have become a critical area of society. …”
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Artificial intelligence as planetary assemblages of coloniality: The new power architecture driving a tiered global data economy by Kai-Hsin Hung

“…Finally, incorporating into these are (3) the localized labor processes and tasks, where workers and users enact various AI-mediated tasks and practices driving further value extraction. …”
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Do Land Development Rights Increase Agricultural Land Prices? Empirical Evidence from China’s Land Market by Jiaxin Shi, Wei Dou

“…The key findings include the following: (1) Land development rights positively influence the increase in agricultural land prices. (2) Land development rights significantly narrow the urban–rural income disparity at municipal and county levels, which in turn impacts agricultural land prices. (3) The effect of land development rights on agricultural land prices is negatively moderated by regional economic growth. (4) While land development rights significantly enhance the prices of arable land, their impact on sectors such as agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishing, and food processing remains minimal. (5) In northern regions and economically underdeveloped areas, land development rights substantially boost agricultural land prices, underscoring their role in fostering local economic development and enhancing land use efficiency.…”
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A Column Encryption-Based Privacy-Preserving Framework for Hadoop Big Data Sets by Hidayath Ali Baig

“… The exponential growth of the Internet, the Internet of Things, and Cloud Computing in recent times has led to a significant rise of data across various sectors of business and industry. Big data has become a growing trend in recent years, attracting the attention of academics, corporate leaders, and government officials worldwide. …”
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Floating offshore wind power: Global development, key technologies and future trends by Li Xuefeng, Yue Qi, Sang Xinchun, Zhang Xiangguo

“…Looking ahead, through the application of advanced materials and innovative processes, high-precision fully coupled simulation and optimization, intelligent and digital twin technologies, and cross-industry integration with other marine sectors, floating offshore wind power will transition from the experimental stage to large-scale commercial deployment, significantly contributing to the green transformation of the global energy structure.…”
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Attitude to Law as an Indicator of the Journalist’s Legal Culture (Based on the Materials of an Expert Survey) by Olga V. Tretiakova

“…The results of the processing of expert interviews show that, in general, journalists have a respectful attitude toward industry-specific legislation and consider the current law On Mass Media to be a basic document regulating freedom of expression and many other issues of media activity. …”
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Pharmaceutical Assessment of the Impact of the Method of Extraction on the Suitability of Pectin from Plantain (Musa paradisiaca) Peels as a Suspending Agent in Oral Liquid Formula... by Frederick William Akuffo Owusu, Prince George Jnr Acquah, Mariam E. L. Boakye-Gyasi, Raphael Johnson, Genevieve Naana Yeboah, Mary-Ann Archer, Mercy Birago Antwi, Sandra Obenewaa Asare

“…Natural polymers such as pectin have gained increased utilization in pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors because they are affordable, easily accessible, nontoxic, and chemically modifiable, with the potential to be biodegradable and biocompatible. …”
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MARKETING MANAGEMENT: AN APPROACH BASED ON THE DEFINITION AND CONSIDERATION OF CORPORATE CULTURE by K. Balakleiets, A. Kovalevska

“…Issues, directions and prospects for cultural research – values, norms and communication processes – are examined, demonstrating that marketing strategies are highly contingent on cultural maturity. …”
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Trends in Russia’s GDP Growth under Environmental Constraints by Z. V. Bragina, A. R. Denisov, N. N. Masyuk, N. V. Steblyanskii

“…The relevance of the study is due to the ecologically unbalanced growth of GDP, which is accompanied by an increase in disproportions between the volume of pollutants emitted by the extractive, processing, processing, agricultural and infrastructure sectors of the economy, and the conditions of human life due to the deterioration of the “ecological quality” of the environment, which limits the possibilities for further development of human capital. …”
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A Novel Partitioned Random Forest Method-Based Facial Emotion Recognition by Hanif Heidari, M. Murugappan, Javeed Shaikh-Mohammed, Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury

“…Facial emotion recognition (FER) has been applied to various sectors, including e-learning, marketing, humanoid robot design, HMI/HCI applications, and medicine. …”
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Exploring Scenarios of Eco-Innovation in the Industry: A Prospective Approach by Devair Donizetti Gomes Júnior, Henrique Ewbank, Sandra Regina Monteiro Masalskiene Roveda, Fábio de Oliveira Neves

“…With the increasing urgency to address global environmental challenges, the pursuit of sustainable solutions has become a priority across various sectors, including engineering. Eco-innovation, aiming to integrate environmentally responsible and economically viable practices in industrial processes, is fundamental within this context. …”
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Key Concepts and Models of Strategic Innovation Management in Ukraine: Modern Approaches by Skrypnyk Svitlana V.

“…The second direction encompasses the digital transformation of innovation processes, particularly the implementation of artificial intelligence, big data technologies, and the Internet of Things. …”
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Radiometric landscape: a new conceptual framework and operational approach for landscape characterisation and mapping by Louise Lemettais, Samuel Alleaume, Sandra Luque, Anne-Élisabeth Laques, Yonas Alim, Laurent Demagistri, Agnès Bégué

“…The RS-ELVs are then processed according to geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA) approach to produce a radiometric landscape map. …”
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Effect of eicosapentaenoic acid on innate immune responses in Atlantic salmon cells infected with infectious salmon anemia virus by Ingrid Holmlund, Samira Ahmadi, Bente Ruyter, Tone-Kari Østbye, Marta Bou, Tor Gjøen

“…Abstract Aquaculture is one of the world's fastest-growing sectors in food production but with multiple challenges related to animal handling and infections. …”
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QUADRUPLE HELIX IN POLICY DESIGN: RETHINKING INDUSTRIAL REVITALIZATION IN TRANSITIONAL ECONOMIES by Anton Andriienko

“…The QH model offers a powerful normative and functional framework, offering a foundation for inclusive, democratic, and resilient policy co-creation processes that can genuinely address these underlying systemic weaknesses. …”
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