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On an Aggregation Theory for Indicators Expressing Behaviors of Complex Systems With an Application to Sustainability

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Certain attributes of large‐scale complex systems are often expressed through sets of indicators. For example, the sustainability of an entity, be it a nation, a city, an energy system, a corporation etc., can be effectively represented by indicators and corresponding data series.
Vassilis S. Kouikoglou   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Attachment, Forgiveness, and Generativity in Midlife

open access: yes, 2017
Current literature suggests secure attachment and forgiveness are positively correlated. However, to date, the relationship of adult attachment, forgiveness, and generativity has not been explored.
Christensen, Chad
core  

Anti‐Globalization Dynamics and Africa's Structural Transformation: Identifying Avoidable Environmental Degradation Thresholds

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study pursues a dual objective. First, it investigates the unconditional impact of anti‐globalization on structural transformation in Africa. Second, it explores how environmental degradation interacts with anti‐globalization to influence structural transformation. The analysis focuses on 52 African countries over the period 2005–2023. To
Simplice A. Asongu, Ekene ThankGod Emeka
wiley   +1 more source

Women's Empowerment, Governance, and the Economics of Clean Cooking Transitions in Africa

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past few decades, the global economy, particularly in developing nations, has persistently grappled with rising dependence on conventional energy resources, thus rendering the realization of Sustainable Development Goals 5 and 7 (SDGs 5 and 7) an elusive aspiration for the international community.
Stephen Kelechi Dimnwobi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Green Finance, Energy Transition and Biodiversity Conservation in Africa: A Dynamic Analysis of African Countries

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study evaluates the dynamic relationship between Green Finance (proxied by green Official Development Assistance) and the expansion of Renewable Energies on biodiversity conservation across 48 African countries over the period 2000–2017.
Mounkaila Gourouza Nana Hadiza   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate Vulnerability and Renewable Energy Consumption: The Moderating Role of Financial Development

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the nexus between climate vulnerability (CVUL) and renewable energy consumption (RECO) and tests the moderating effect of financial development (FD) on this relationship. The analysis is, particularly, relevant for the 162 panel countries observed between 1995 and 2022, which face diverse climate risks and exhibit ...
Sorin Gabriel Anton
wiley   +1 more source

Chemical composition and antibacterial activity of Azadirachta indica seed oil from Chad

open access: yesInternational Journal of Secondary Metabolite
This study focuses on extracting oil from the seeds of the Azadirachta indica species A. Juss, known in Chad as mim or neem, utilizing a cold-press extraction method.
Omar Belmehdi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analyzing Heavy Photon Search Simulations to Determine the Potential for True Muonium Discovery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The Heavy Photon Search (HPS) is a new experiment at Jefferson Laboratory to search for heavy photons, a particle predicted by dark matter and dark energy extensions to the Standard Model of particle physics, in the mass range of 20 MeV/c2 to 1000 MeV/c2
Civello, Chad N
core   +1 more source

Does Economic Growth Drive Equitable Water and Sanitation Access? Assessing Inequality Reduction Across 64 Nations

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether economic growth reduces inequalities in access to water and sanitation across 64 countries over an average period of 13.5 years. Drawing on disaggregated data by income quintiles and rural–urban location, and employing ordinary least squares (OLS), two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and Seemingly Unrelated Regression
Marcos García‐López   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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