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Isha Ray,Renee Kuriyan
Pág. pp. iii - viii pgs.
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Pádraig Carmody
Pág. pp. 1 - 17 pgs.
Many claims are made about the transformational developmental impacts of new ICTs, particularly mobile phones, on Africa. However, such claims neglect other structural dynamics and the contradictory impacts of mobile phones, which can reduce, but also so...
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Vikram Parmar
Pág. pp. 89 - 96 pgs.
Despite large-scale investment in ICT in developing countries, information poverty has not been addressed, particularly for rural users. This article analyzes the shortcomings of current ICT design and deployment approaches and attributes the failures to...
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Richard Duncombe
Pág. pp. 81 - 100 pgs.
This paper provides a contribution to theorizing information and communication technology (ICT) and development by applying a livelihoods approach. This is found to provide the basis not only for an information-centered understanding of ICTs but also a m...
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Andile Dube, Mokubung Nkomo
Pág. 1 - 14
The study traces the pathways of young people who dropped out of school between grades 1 to 11 as they seek re-entrance to the education, training and development (ETD) system, or entrance into the labour market. Particular attention is given to the fact...
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Marie Lynn Miranda, Sharon E. Edwards, Martha H. Keating and Christopher J. Paul
This paper assesses whether the Clean Air Act and its Amendments have been equally successful in ensuring the right to healthful air quality in both advantaged and disadvantaged communities in the United States. Using a method to rank air quality establi...
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Medha Wardhany
Pág. 352 - 365
This study aims to obtain information and results that can be run in programs of poverty alleviation and unemployment in a more effective and efficient in accordance with the expectations of all parties including the people who are still categorized as m...
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Saviour Formosa
Societies have rapidly morphed into complex entities that are creating accessibility, yet, at the same time, they are developing new forms of neogeographic-poverty related to information uptake. Those that have managed to partake in the opportunities pro...
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Johanna G. Ferreira
Pág. 5 bladsye
The use of genetically modified crops, especially in countries where poverty is rife, is extremely controversial and can have social, economical and political implications. Life Sciences teachers can address this issue and provide learners and com...
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Cliff Schmidt,Trina Jean Gorman,Michael Shayne Gary,Andrew Azaabanye Bayor
Pág. pp. 85 - 100 pgs.
Technology projects increasingly provide information to people living in rural poverty. However, using information to affect health or farming practices requires overcoming unique challenges, including illiteracy and lack of electricity. This article exa...
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Juan Esteban Rodríguez Álvarez,Pedro Etchepare Ibarra,Marianela Altamirano González
ÍndiceContenidosLos conjuntos de vivienda social y su imagenConclusionesSobre la disociaciónSobre la codificación en la vivienda planificadaSobre la codificación en la vivienda espontáneaReflexión finalEjemplos de estudio de parámetrosEjemplos del anális...
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Dinar Wahyuningrum, Siti Aisyah
Pág. 13 - 25
The problem that is often faced by developing countries is high-income inequality among the population. On the other hand, the development of digital technology occurs very quickly and encourages the community to play a more active role in economic activ...
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Samain Sabrin, Maryam Karimi and Rouzbeh Nazari
Extreme heat events at urban centers in combination with air pollution pose a serious risk to human health. Among these are financially distressed cities and neighborhoods that are facing enormous challenges without the scientific and technical capacity ...
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Paidamwoyo Mhangara, Asanda Lamba, Willard Mapurisa and Naledzani Mudau
The successful implementation of the African Union?s Agenda 2063 strategic development blueprint is critical for the attainment of economic development, social prosperity, political stability, protection, and regional integration in Africa. Agenda 2063 i...
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Luis Gerardo Ruiz-Suárez, Bertha Eugenia Mar-Morales, José Agustín García-Reynoso, Gema Luz Andraca-Ayala, Ricardo Torres-Jardón, José Santos García-Yee, Hugo Alberto Barrera-Huertas, Arturo Gavilán-García and Roberto Basaldud Cruz
In this work, we report the economic impact of exposure to high ozone concentrations on four important crops in the area of influence of the Mexico City Megalopolis. Estimated yield losses were as follows: maize: 3%; oats: 26%; beans: 14%; sorghum: 15%. ...
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Arafan Traore, John Mawenda and Atupelye Weston Komba
In this study, land-cover change in the capital Conakry of Guinea was simulated using the integrated Cellular Automata and Markov model (CA-Markov) in the Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS). Historical land-cover change informati...
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Tânia Fontes, José Correia, Jorge Pinho de Sousa, Jorge Freire de Sousa, Teresa Galvão
Pág. 35 - 42
Public transport networks were, in the past, mainly designed to maximize the efficiency of commuting trips. However, with such perspective there are considerable risks to marginalize some specific population groups (e.g. disabled, elderly, children, preg...
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?tefan Bulboaca
Pág. 1 - 20
This paper evaluates real economic convergence (REC) for countries and regions within the European Union. The research aims to gather information about the socioeconomic evolution and development of the EU members and decide if the convergence was succes...
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Wei Liu and Xinyu Wu
In order to assess the degree to which China?s poverty alleviation resettlement (PAR) has been able to address the development conundrum of natural resources reliance and human welfare, it was necessary to investigate the effects of PAR on rural househol...
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Andrew Vargo, Benjamin Tag, Chris Blakely and Koichi Kise
Online knowledge-based peer-production communities, like question and answer sites (Q&A), often rely on gamification, e.g., through reputation points, to incentivize users to contribute frequently and effectively. These gamification techniques are im...
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