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Managing contractual uncertainty for drinking water services in rural Mali
Ecology and SocietyContracts allocate rights, obligations, and risks between various parties to achieve specific results. In response to slow progress to deliver safe drinking water to rural populations, governments across Africa are increasingly introducing contracts with
Johannes Wagner +2 more
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APN Science Bulletin, 2020 Water, energy and food securities lie at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Since these securities are interconnected, the business-as-usual approach (sectoral approach) cannot achieve them and need to apply the ...
Bijon Kumer Mitra +5 more
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Recoletos Multidisciplinary Research JournalBackground: In many developed cities, freshwater scarcity and recurrent flooding are significant concerns, particularly in rapidly urbanizing areas. Cebu City, a major urban center in Cebu, Philippines, is facing similar challenges. Literature highlights
Randy K. Salazar +2 more
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, 2015 Let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in $\mathrm{R}^2$, and let $\mathrm{DT}(P)$ denote its Euclidean Delaunay triangulation. We introduce the notion of an edge of $\mathrm{DT}(P)$ being {\it stable}. Defined in terms of a parameter $\alpha>0$, a Delaunay edge
Agarwal, Pankaj K. +5 more
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RELIGIOUS RESPONSES TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS: AN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE
Journal of Islamic Monetary Economics and Finance, 2022 This paper investigates the role of religion in Sustainable Development (SD) and offers an Islamic perspective to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Foyasal Khan, Mohamed Aslam Haneef
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Paving the Way to Elucidate Hg's Role in Tumorigenesis
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Tumorigenesis can result from diverse environmental carcinogens. Among them, mercury—a lifelong bioaccumulative Group 2B carcinogen—has tumorigenic potential that remains poorly understood due to confounding co‐exposures and limited organ‐specific data.
Shouying Li +10 more
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Perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of moments of the thrust distribution in e+e- annihilation
, 2000 Resummation and power-corrections play a crucial role in the phenomenology of event-shape variables like the thrust T. Previous investigations showed that the perturbative contribution to the average thrust is dominated by gluons of small invariant mass,
Gardi, Einan
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Technofixing the Future: Ethical Side Effects of Using AI and Big Data to meet the SDGs [PDF]
, 2019 While the use of smart information systems (the combination of AI and Big Data) offer great potential for meeting many of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), they also raise a number of ethical challenges in their implementation.
Antoniou, Josephina +5 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.This study presents a transferable modeling framework for carbon capture using aluminosilicates, integrating Universal Isotherm Modeling with experimental data. It reveals how ultramicropores, alumina content, and amine functionalization influence CO2 adsorption energetics.
Pooja Anil Kumar Nair +4 more
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Transformations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals Includes the SDG Index and Dashboards. Sustainable Development Report 2019 [PDF]
, 2019 The Sustainable Development Report 2019 presents an updated SDG Index and Dashboards with a refined assessment of countries’ distance to SDG targets. The report has been successfully audited for the first time by the European Commission Joint Research ...
Fuller, G. +4 more
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