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The Interrelation Between Culturally Learned Helplessness and Economic Underdevelopment

open access: yesUniversal Journal of History and Culture
This article offers insights into the interrelationship between culturally learned helplessness and economic underdevelopment. It is argued that the concept of learned helplessness offers noteworthy insights into the nature of economic underdevelopment ...
Ferhat Öztutuş, Yunus Eroğlu
doaj   +1 more source

Economics of underdevelopment : a series of articles and papers [PDF]

open access: yes, 1958
IDRC personnel. Compilation on the economic aspects of underdevelopment - discusses the causes and factors contributing to underdevelopment in developing countries and the various methods used in analyzing and dealing with the problem; examines the main ...
Agarwala, A.N., Singh, S.P.
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A Multimodal Laser‐Induced Graphene‐Based Flexible Sensor for Soft Robotic Hand Environmental Perception

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A multimodal laser‐induced graphene (LIG)‐based flexible sensor is developed to detect proximity and contact signals. Integrated into a soft robotic hand, it enables vision‐free object searching and grasping. Combined with a convolutional neural network, the system achieves accurate material and texture recognition, enhancing the capability of ...
Youning Duo   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Terra em Transe. A Marxist Poetics and Aesthetics as a Critique of Capitalist Development (English version)

open access: yesÑawi: Arte, Diseño y Comunicación
This article examines the film Terra em Transe (Glauber Rocha, 1967), framed in the Brazilian “Cinema Novo” movement. The analysis revolves around the constitution of a cinematographic poetics linked to a Marxist aesthetic.
Diana Montes
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Underdevelopment, Development and the Future of Africa

open access: yes, 2017
In view of the resilience of Africa's underdevelopment, what do Africans make of their determined aspirations for development? The continent of Africa has constantly drawn global attention, most especially for both human and natural evils ...
Mawere, Munyaradzi
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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

Design Optimization of Soft Fabric Pneumatic Actuators

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study presents a systematic optimization framework for elongating and bending fabric‐based soft pneumatic actuators. After a preliminary design‐space reduction, the framework minimizes energy consumption under mechanical performance constraints by integrating validated finite element modeling with statistical surrogate models. Optimal designs were
Grigorios M. Chatziathanasiou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Political Economy of Water in Southern Africa

open access: yesWater Alternatives, 2008
Southern Africa is a region characterised by extensive socio-economic underdevelopment. Given water’s key role in social organisation, water allocation, use and management in Southern Africa is embedded in deep historical and structural processes of ...
Larry A. Swatuk
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Introduction: Interrogating the Resurgence of Latin American Dependency Theory

open access: yesAlternautas
As 2025 draws to a close, we are witnessing a fundamental transformation of the global economy and political order established in the 1970s and '80s. The rise of China to become by some measures the largest economy in the world, and the formation of the
Philip Roberts
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Tropical Underdevelopment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Most recent cross-country analyses of economic growth have neglected the importance of physical geography. This paper reviews the distinctive development challenges faced by economies situated in tropical climates. Using geographic information system (GIS) mapping, the paper presents evidence that production technology in the tropics has lagged behind ...
openaire   +3 more sources

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