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Divine competition: Religious organizations and service provision in India [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper examines religious and non-religious service provision by religious organisations in India. We present a stylized Hotelling-style model in which two religious organisations differentiate hemselves on the strength of religious beliefs in order ...
Iyer, S, Velu, C, Weeks, M
core   +1 more source

Impact of Digital Ability and Rice Technology Adoption on Rice Farming Performance in Benin

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the combined effects of digital ability and the adoption of various rice technologies among smallholder rice farmers, using GPS‐spatially matched data sources that include household surveys and a general census of rice value chain actors in Benin.
Landry Bellarmin Kassa, Takeshi Sakurai
wiley   +1 more source

An overview of the current state of women’s leadership in higher education in Saudi Arabia and a proposal for future research directions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Despite the predominance of perspectives on women’s leadership, which consistently emphasize the underrepresentation of women in virtually every sphere of political and economic life in countries around the world, very little is known about women’s ...
Abukudair   +31 more
core   +2 more sources

Retinal Vessel Segmentation: A Comprehensive Review From Classical Methods to Deep Learning Advances (1982–2025)

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Four decades of retinal vessel segmentation research (1982–2025) are synthesized, spanning classical image processing, machine learning, and deep learning paradigms. A meta‐analysis of 428 studies establishes a unified taxonomy and highlights performance trends, generalization capabilities, and clinical relevance.
Avinash Bansal   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors of Dynamics of ICT Services Exports: The Case of Kazakhstan

open access: yesЕвразийская интеграция: экономика, право, политика
The paper examines the trends in Kazakhstan’s export of information and communication technology services, which is currently one of the priorities of the country’s economic development.Aim and Tasks.
V. Yu. Dodonov
doaj   +1 more source

Faculty Perceptions of Academic Freedom at a Private Religious University

open access: yes, 2010
Academic freedom is viewed by many in higher education as an indispensible foundational principle offering protection to university faculty. University faculty working within schools of education rely on the protection of academic freedom to pursue and ...
Ross, T. Christopher, Ed.S   +1 more
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A community‐driven approach to address substance use and create a Great Plains American Indian addiction and recovery research agenda

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Substance use, specifically opioid and methamphetamine use, is of increasing concern among American Indian (AI) populations in the Great Plains. This community‐driven participatory study investigated the impacts of substance use and community‐defined needs in treating addiction.
Brynn Luger   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnic fractionalization and income inequality: the case of Kazakhstan

open access: yesПроблемы постсоветского пространства
Ethnic diversity has an impact on many areas of social life, which has led to an extensive layer of research on relationships in this area. Many authors have studied in detail the impact of ethnic diversity on conflicts, instability, domestic politics ...
V. Yu. Dodonov
doaj   +1 more source

Religious Belief and Its Influence on Healthy Ageing among The Elderly in Blora, Central Java [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Background: WHO defines healthy ageing “as the process of developing and maintaining the functional ability that enables wellbeing in older age”. This study aimed to examine religious belief and its influence on healthy ageing among the elderly in Blora,
Cahyaningtyas, N. A. (Niena )   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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