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Navigating the Rapids: How Non‐Governmental Organization Managers Develop Strategic Adaptation to Repressive Political Environments

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the management adaptation strategies non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) managers employ in order to operate in repressive political environments. It answers the question: how do NGO managers initiate, manage and sustain internal change when the political/regulatory environment changes?
Charles Kaye‐Essien   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Information Structure of Language and Its Semantic Representation Based on Lambercht’s Theory; A Study of the Translation of the Crisumstantail Clause in Surah Al-Baqarah [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌های ترجمه در زبان و ادبیات عربی
In contemporary linguistics, the structure of information in language is considered an important topic. It scrutinizes the relationship between sentence structures and the language or extralinguistic contexts in which they function.
Peyman Karimi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Generating Politically-Relevant Event Data

open access: yes, 2016
Automatically generated political event data is an important part of the social science data ecosystem. The approaches for generating this data, though, have remained largely the same for two decades.
Beieler, John
core   +1 more source

Why Active Representation Varies: Cultural Stereotypes and Differential Treatment by Street‐Level Bureaucrats

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do cultural stereotypes influence the likelihood that minority street‐level bureaucrats (SLBs) will actively represent marginalized subgroups within their ethnocultural community? While existing scholarship on representative bureaucracy has focused on the conditions under which minority SLBs engage in active representation, this study ...
Sohad Amaria, Einat Lavee, Nissim Cohen
wiley   +1 more source

Developing information services for special library users by designing a low cost digital library : the experiment of NOC-Digital Library [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This research originates from a belief that special libraries in developing countries need to modernise and implement their ICT infrastructure and articulate information policies that will facilitate the exploitation of information resources to the ...
Elaiess, Ramadan
core   +2 more sources

New Method for Optimization of License Plate Recognition system with Use of Edge Detection and Connected Component

open access: yes, 2014
License Plate recognition plays an important role on the traffic monitoring and parking management systems. In this paper, a fast and real time method has been proposed which has an appropriate application to find tilt and poor quality plates.
Azad, Reza, Shayegh, Hamid Reza
core   +1 more source

Forwarding forest restoration: Seven key socio‐ecological issues for advancing forest restoration in a world in flux

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Restoring forests can help conserve biodiversity, mitigate climate change and enhance human well‐being. Despite financial and political support for global forest restoration initiatives, projects continue to face persistent challenges and trade‐offs between environmental, climatic and socio‐economic goals.
Mariana Hernandez‐Montilla   +24 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ajami in West Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
West Africans throughout the region have creatively adapted the Arabic script to write non-Arabic languages, a form of literacy known as Ajami which remains widespread today despite little or no government support.
Souag, Lameen
core  

Unraveling the direct and indirect effects of interpersonal mindfulness on school‐age bullying perpetration and victimization: The mediating role of emotional intelligence

open access: yesPediatric Investigation, EarlyView.
Emotional intelligence mediated the association between interpersonal mindfulness and bullying victimization/perpetration (BV/BP). Higher interpersonal mindfulness was significantly associated with higher emotional intelligence. Higher emotional intelligence was significantly associated with lower BV/BP.
Marguerita Aoun   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Arabic and Islam in the Globalization Era

open access: yesJurnal Al Bayan: Jurnal Jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa Arab
This article presents the relation between Arabic, Islam, and globalization. It highlighted the challenges faced by globalization to Islamic and Arabic identities.
Fahmi Sofyan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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