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Toward a Common Standard for Aid Transparency: Discourses of Global Citizenship Surrounding the BRICS

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2016
The impact of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and other emerging economies on the field of international development has seen traditional donor nations wrestle with fundamental shifts in the geometry and makeup of the donor ...
James Pamment, Karin Wilkins
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Financial cooperation for development, DNA of South-South Cooperation

open access: yesRevista iberoamericana de estudios de desarrollo = Iberoamerican journal of development studies, 2016
The aim of this article is to assess the weight and implications of the refundable component of financing for development offered by China. The relevance of focusing on the reimbursable financial cooperation of China derives not only from its quantitative importance, but of two qualitative aspects that contribute to a fuller understanding of SCC in ...
openaire   +1 more source

Is Youth's Engagement in Agribusiness an Opportunity or a Necessity? A Closer Look at the Situation in South Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the broad focus on necessity‐ and opportunity‐driven entrepreneurship in research and policy, the entrepreneurial dichotomy within the agribusiness context has not been adequately addressed. This study contributes to closing this knowledge gap by examining youth's perceptions of agribusiness through the lens of the push‐pull motivation
Cool Dady Mangole   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Africa in the global South’s future development trajectory: the role of Africa-China relations

open access: yesAsian Review of Political Economy
This research examines Africa’s evolving role in the Global South’s development trajectory, focusing on its multifaceted cooperation with China as a transformative force in the global development architecture.
Messay Mulugeta
doaj   +1 more source

The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Provisão de Bens Públicos globais

open access: yesMeridiano 47, 2017
This work investigates the goals of Brazil from the implementation of a pharmaceutical plant in Mozambique. Interviews with authorities involved in the construction of the plant and documentary analysis of official publications was performed. The results
Pascoal Carvalho Gonçalves   +1 more
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VAE+DDPG: An Attention‐Enhanced Variational Autoencoder for Deep Reinforcement Learning‐Based Autonomous Navigation in Low‐Light Environments

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Variational Autoencoder+Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient addresses low‐light failures of infrared depth sensing for indoor robot navigation. Stage 1 pretrains an attention‐enhanced Variational Autoencoder (Convolutional Block Attention Module+Feature Pyramid Network) to map dark depth frames to a well‐lit reconstruction, yielding a 128‐D latent code ...
Uiseok Lee   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Steerable and Expandable Magnetic Aspiration Catheter for Enhanced Aspiration Thrombectomy

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This article presents a novel magnetic aspiration catheter (MAC) that can be both actively steered and undergo distal‐end expansion via externally applied magnetic fields. The MAC facilitates precise branch selection and enhances clot engagement by improving endovascular navigation and aspiration efficiency. Phantom experiments validate its feasibility
Hakjoon Lee   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Device‐Level Implementation of Reservoir Computing With Memristors

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Reservoir computing (RC) is an emerging computing scheme that employs a reservoir and a single readout layer, which can be actualized in the nanoscale with memristors. As a comprehensive overview, the principles of RC and the switching mechanisms of memristors are discussed, followed by actual demonstrations of memristor‐based RC and the remaining ...
Sunbeom Park, Hyojung Kim, Ho Won Jang
wiley   +1 more source

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