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Expanding impact of mobile health programs: SAHELI for maternal and child care

open access: yesAI Magazine, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 363-376, Winter 2023., 2023
Abstract Underserved communities face critical health challenges due to lack of access to timely and reliable information. Nongovernmental organizations are leveraging the widespread use of cellphones to combat these healthcare challenges and spread preventative awareness.
Shresth Verma   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate‐related armed conflict and communities' resistance to Rural Grazing Area settlement policy in Nigeria's Middlebelt

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 121-141, Winter 2023., 2023
Abstract In Nigeria, resource contests have sparked unending ecological conflict. As a result, conflict resolution measures have been proposed to mitigate climate‐related conflict. However, the acceptance of such policies is hampered by ethnic suspicions, communities' exclusion, religious sensitivities, and a lack of political will.
John Sunday Ojo
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal Preference Satisfaction for Conflict‐Free Joint Decisions

open access: yesComplexity, Volume 2023, Issue 1, 2023., 2023
When presented with multiple choices, we all have a preference; we may suffer loss because of conflicts arising from identical selections made by other people if we insist on satisfying only our preferences. Such a scenario is applicable when a choice cannot be divided into multiple pieces owing to the intrinsic nature of the resource.
Hiroaki Shinkawa   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Distributed reinforcement learning for dynamic spectrum allocation in cognitive radio‐based internet of things

open access: yesIET Networks, Volume 11, Issue 6, Page 207-220, November 2022., 2022
Abstract Cognitive Radio (CR) with other advancements such as the Internet of things and machine learning has recently emerged as the main involved technique to use spectrum in an efficient manner. It can access the spectrum in a fully dynamic way and exploit the unused spectrum resources without creating any harm to cognitive users. In this paper, the
Jamal Elhachmi
wiley   +1 more source

Guglielmo Ferrero (1896), Ibn Kaldoun: an Arab Sociologist of the Fourteenth Century

open access: yesJournal of Historical Sociology, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 312-319, September 2022., 2022
Abstract Ferrero introduces the life of ibn Khaldun and his Prolegomena to History, relying on William Mac Guckin de Slane's French translation of the work. Ferrero is one of the first Europeans to define ibn Khaldun as a sociologist and an original theorist of the concept of civilization as a sociological category.
Masturah Alatas
wiley   +1 more source

Resource Provisioning Techniques in Multi‐Access Edge Computing Environments: Outlook, Expression, and Beyond

open access: yesMobile Information Systems, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022
Mobile cloud computing promises a research foundation in information and communication technology (ICT). Multi‐access edge computing is an intermediate solution that reduces latency by delivering cloud computing services close to IoT and mobile clients (MCs), hence addressing the performance issues of mobile cloud computing.
S. Durga   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Operationalization of Utilitarian and Egalitarian Objectives for Optimal Allocation of Health Care Resources

open access: yesDecision Sciences, Volume 52, Issue 5, Page 1169-1208, October 2021., 2021
ABSTRACT Resources for health care interventions, such as tests and treatments, are limited. This makes it necessary to prioritize patient segments (defined in terms of their risk) by allocating resources so that the expected contribution to the chosen population‐level objective is maximized. In this article, we build a model for the optimal allocation
Yrjänä Hynninen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wounds and Wonder: Emotion, Imagination and War in the Cultures of Romantic Surgery

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 239-259, June 2020., 2020
Abstract: This article uses the writings of the surgical siblings John and Charles Bell to explore the relationships between surgery, war and emotion in the Romantic era. Drawing on the argument that it was in this period that war came to be constructed as the ‘ultimate' emotional experience, rich in pathos and distinct from anything in civil life, it ...
Michael Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
wiley   +1 more source

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