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Demystifying Non‐Western Administrative Traditions: An Empirical Comparison of Administrative Systems in Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes public administration systems in 29 non‐Western countries. Country‐level data is presented for 10 core aspects of administrative systems: managerialism versus legalism, politicization, personnel system, civil society participation, accountability, service orientation, public expenditure share, decentralization, legal ...
Marlene Jugl
wiley   +1 more source

Tracing contact and migration in pre-Bantu Southern Africa through lexical borrowing. [PDF]

open access: yesEvol Hum Sci
Fehn AM   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Primary producers' positions towards bears and bear conservation: Insights for human–bear coexistence

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract We present primary producers' (farmers', livestock breeders', beekeepers') positions towards bears and bear conservation as documented through semi‐structured interviews within the frame of human dimensions actions of LIFE projects implemented between 2015 and 2022 in Greece.
Tasos Hovardas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accelerating the prioritisation of plant species with underexplored medicinal potential: The pm4mp (Phylogenetic Methods for Medicinal Plants) R package

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Medicinal plants used in ethnobotanical traditions to treat or prevent diseases have gained renewed interest for their largely untapped potential in drug discovery. In this study, we developed and tested novel methods to prioritise plant species based on their unexplored medicinal potential. By enabling researchers to target the most promising species,
Giovanni Zecca   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Synthesizing Interacting Model‐Based Optimal Control and Model‐Free Learning Approaches for Nonlinear Systems

open access: yesInternational Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we consider the optimal control problem for an unknown continuous‐time nonlinear system, and present a framework that integrates model‐based and model‐free methods to solve it. Each approach offers distinct advantages: model‐based techniques provide offline synthesis and data efficiency, while model‐free procedures excel at ...
Surabhi Athalye   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tropical Forests and Sustainability: The Role of Multilateral Financing in Latin America

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The challenge of slowing deforestation and degradation in the tropical regions of Latin America requires financing mechanisms (public and private) that can enable actions to preserve and sustainably manage forest integrity. This paper begins by examining the strategy implemented by the World Bank to protect forest cover in tropical countries ...
Ángela Andrea Caviedes Conde   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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