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From Community‐Based to State Management: Evaluating Ghana's Small‐Town and Rural Water Governance Reform

World Water Policy, Volume 12, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT In Ghana, the government has initiated a reform in rural water management to shift away from community‐based management (CBM) to state management, but research assessing the reform is still insufficient. This study aims to critically evaluate the impact of the reform in addressing rural water challenges.
Ernestina Ohenewaah Denchie, Kevin Lo
wiley   +1 more source

Increasing Frequency of Coastal Erosion Indicated by a Hindcast Model of Storm‐Driven Forcing Calibrated With Beach Stratigraphy

Earth's Future, Volume 14, Issue 8, August 2026.
Abstract Beach stratigraphy at North Beach, Sandy Hook, New Jersey is used to calibrate a model of coastal erosion, establish a model‐based erosion threshold, and evaluate how often threshold conditions have been exceeded since 1979 through hindcast analysis.
W. John Schmelz, Kenneth G. Miller, Jonathan Liu, J. N. Stanley, James V. Browning   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Closing the Equity–Revenue Gap: Pricing Pathways for Unmetered Urban Water Utilities in the Global South

Water Resources Research, Volume 62, Issue 8, August 2026.
Abstract Urban water utilities across South Asia grapple with persistent financial shortfalls and significant inequities in water affordability, with limited tools for reform in largely unmetered systems. In this study, we evaluate non‐volumetric pricing strategies and service reforms capable of improving utility revenues while reducing the ...
H. F. Khan, J. Sears
wiley   +1 more source

Infection control in the brain and the eye

Acta Ophthalmologica, Volume 104, Issue 5, Page e478-e490, August 2026.
Abstract The Central Nervous System (CNS), comprising the brain and the eye, is considered to have a ‘privileged’ mechanism for dealing with immunological challenge (immune privilege, IP). CNS IP has been revealed through experiments using foreign protein antigens and cell and tissue alloantigens (grafts), but evidence for a role for IP in modulating ...
John V. Forrester, Paul G. McMenamin, Samantha J. Dando   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Providing regular and frequent maps of losses and gains of farmland birds based on European monitoring data

Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract Knowledge of species distributions is essential for informing policies on nature conservation and restoration. However, updating them on a regular basis and doing so in a harmonized manner at the international level is difficult. The European Bird Census Council integrated national monitoring data covering 5 years to update farmland bird ...
Sergi Herrando, Guillem Pocull, Sara Fraixedas, Anna Gamero, David Martí, Oriol Solà, Dani Villero, Verena Keller, Petr Voříšek, Alena Klvaňová, Gabriel Gargallo, Vitalie Ajder, Marc Anton, Ainars Aunins, Dawn Balmer, Mattia Brambilla, Tomasz Chodkiewicz, Przemysław Chylarecki, Cristi Domșa, Vlatka Dumbović Mazal, Virginia Escandell, Néstor Fernández, Ruud Foppen, Juan Gallego‐Zamorano, Carlos Godinho, Irene Guerrero, Christina Ieronymidou, Frédéric Jiguet, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Primož Kmecl, Peter Knaus, Lechosław Kuczyński, Åke Lindström, Qenan Maxhuni, Blas Molina, Jean‐Yves Paquet, Maria Luisa Paracchini, Danae Portolou, Draženko Z. Rajković, Dimitrije Radišić, Jiří Reif, Paul Shimmings, Henk Sierdsema, Jovica Sjeničić, Karel Šťastný, Bård G. Stokke, Nicolas Strebel, Zoltán D. Szabó, Tibor Szép, Norbert Teufelbauer, Nicolas Titeux, Sven Trautmann, Judit Veres‐Szászkac, Thomas Vikstrøm, Lluís Brotons   +54 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trustworthy intelligent rooms: integrating blockchain, federated learning, and data-centric AI for healthcare 4.0. [PDF]

Front Digit Health
Veerapaneni RK, Delhibabu R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704

The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 1052-1081, August 2026.
Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
wiley   +1 more source

Security enhancement using scalable Blockchain-based Multi-Factor Authentication (BMFA). [PDF]

PLoS One
Rahman F, Fatima A, Hassan M, Al-Zyoud M, Alfaidi A, Maktoof MAJ, Ghazal TM.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The slow emergence of the rational investor: Grain markets and grain storage of rural estates in western Germany, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 1235-1264, August 2026.
Abstract We develop new datasets of monthly grain prices in 14 urban markets and of the storage and marketing of grain by 5 rural estates located in western Germany between the late seventeenth century and c. 1860. We explore whether observed patterns of monthly prices, sales, and storage of grain are consistent with the rational competitive storage ...
Matthias Hartermann, Ulrich Pfister, Friederike Scholten‐Buschhoff   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transforming healthcare: A bibliometric review of global blockchain integration and future trends. [PDF]

Medicine (Baltimore)
Zhang B, Xu J, Yang K, Yu L, Zheng Q, Qin Y, Xie Y, Sun J.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source