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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Morgane Laouenan, Palaash Bhargava, Jean-Benoit Eymeoud, Olivier Gergaud, Guillaume Plique, Etienne Wasmer
Summary: A new literary trend aims to build the most comprehensive and accurate database of notable individuals. By collecting a massive amount of data from Wikipedia and Wikidata, and using deduplication techniques for cross-verification, a database of 2.29 million individuals has been created. The data collection is driven by specific social science questions and reveals an Anglo-Saxon bias in the English edition of Wikipedia.
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Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Dawn D. Cheong, Bettina Bock, Dirk Roep
Summary: The conventional gender analysis fails to adequately explain the slow progress towards gender equality. Our research examines the gender discourses embedded in agricultural and rural development policies in Myanmar and Nepal. We discover that both countries prioritize increasing women's participation in development activities, but this creates a binary categorization that places the responsibility on women for improving their position. Unfortunately, such limited discursive practices invisibilize gendered power relations and hinder progress towards gender equality.
AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES
(2023)
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Sociology
Constance Hsiung
Summary: Studies of occupational sex segregation rely on the sociocultural model to explain why some occupations are dominated by men or women. However, this model fails to explain deviations from gender norms and the co-occurrence of feminine and masculine skills in occupations. This study fills these gaps by evaluating two previously untested explanations.
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Law
Shannon Malone Gonzalez, Samantha J. Simon, Katie Kaufman Rogers
Summary: This study reveals the discrepancies in understanding the function of racial diversity in policing between police officers and black civilians. While police officers selectively accommodate race-conscious critique while ignoring the historical and power dynamics, black civilians emphasize the historical roots, collective memories, and lived experiences to understand the relationship between policing and minority communities.
LAW & SOCIETY REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Gerontology
Mark Tausig, Janardan Subedi
Summary: The increase in the population of older adults in Nepal has led to national policies and programs to meet their needs. However, there is still limited understanding about older adults, making it unclear if government programs effectively address their needs. Nepal, being a poor country with significant inequalities based on caste/ethnicity, gender, region, and income/wealth, presents challenges in obtaining accurate data about older adults. Adopting social determinants of health, healthy aging, and life-course perspectives would be beneficial in identifying needs and formulating policies for older adults in Nepal.
Article
History
Peter Grajzl, Peter Murrell
Summary: We argue that topic-modeling can be a powerful tool for legal-historical research by analyzing large corpora. The example of pre-industrial English caselaw on finance demonstrates how topic-modeling generates new insights on legal developments and the importance of common-law and equity in finance-related law. Topic-modeling has the potential to bridge legal history and economics, offering a quantitative overview of legal history and enabling inductive analysis.
LAW AND HISTORY REVIEW
(2022)
Review
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Krishna Prasad Acharya, Sarita Phuyal, Rakesh Chand, Krishna Kaphle
Summary: Despite challenges such as inadequate resources, poor academic environment, and political influence, Nepal has still managed to conduct positive research and development activities, bringing rays of hope for its future development.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Darcy M. Anderson, Ankush Kumar Gupta, Sarah Birken, Zoe Sakas, Matthew C. Freeman
Summary: The research found that despite cultural barriers, women in rural WaSH programs effectively leveraged social relationships and support to encourage behavior change, and were perceived to be more effective than men in mobilizing widespread, sustained improvements in sanitation and hygiene.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYGIENE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
(2021)
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Economics
Tendai Zawaira, Matthew Clance, Carolyn Chisadza
Summary: Using data from the Ethnographic Atlas and World Values Survey, this study examines the impact of historical social institutions and current gender attitudes on female employment outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. The findings indicate that patriarchal systems tend to decrease female labor force participation compared to matriarchal systems. Additionally, the negative effects of current gender attitudes appear to be influenced by historical social institutions. The study highlights the importance of understanding gender dynamics in SSA by considering historical social institutions and their influence on gender identification and roles.
SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
(2023)
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Economics
Annalisa Frigo, Eric Roca Fernandez
Summary: This paper explores the historical roots of gender equality and introduces gender-specific outside options in the marriage market as a new determinant of gender equality. Research shows that expanding women's options besides marriage can increase their bargaining power with men, leading to a persistent improvement in gender equality. Additionally, evidence is provided to demonstrate the role of female-only communities called beguinages in reducing gender inequality.
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC GROWTH
(2022)
Article
Nursing
Sital Gautam, Anju Poudel, Kalpana Paudyal, Mangal Maya Prajapati
Summary: This study explored the perceptions of new nursing graduates in Nepal regarding the transition to professional practice. It found that these graduates generally perceived the transition as an intense experience. The study identified the challenges and difficulties faced by the graduates during this transition and highlighted the support and assistance needed for a smooth transition.
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Business
Dawn Yi Lin Chow, Thomas Calvard
Summary: Through interviews with practitioners in the commercial legal industry in Singapore, this study reveals how a dominant managerial and economic focus restricts the diversity of moral expression and undermines lawyers' moral autonomy. Therefore, there is a need to research and reform professional institutions to support more comprehensive and unconstrained moral reflection and to avoid the moral and social stigma associated with legal work.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2021)
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Engineering, Environmental
Gyanu Maskey, Chandra Lal Pandey, Monika Giri
Summary: This study analyzes the challenges households face due to both water scarcity and excess, noting that both pose risks to water insecurity. It emphasizes the need to build resilient water systems and robust institutions to ensure water security. Water scarcity affects equity, quality, and affordability, while excess water degrades infrastructure and risks human health and well-being. Constraints to addressing water challenges include limited capacity of water institutions, leadership changes, political influence, and emerging federal challenges. The study suggests timely planning and site-specific innovations to address water scarcity and excess, including strengthening water infrastructure, supply services, institutions, and governance.
Article
Development Studies
Nirmal Kumar Raut, Ryuichi Tanaka
Summary: The study shows that during the civil conflict in Nepal, conflict led to short-term improvement in individual health status and both short-and medium-term increases in healthcare utilization. Monitoring by the Maoists on staff absenteeism in healthcare facilities improved the quality of healthcare services, resulting in better health outcomes in conflict-intense areas.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Mansour A. Alyahya, Ibrahim A. Elshaer, Fathi Abunasser, Osama H. Mahmoud Hassan, Abu Elnasr E. Sobaih
Summary: There are differences between male and female students in their e-learning experiences during COVID-19, especially in gender-segregated cultures where female students have limited access to conventional learning but often have more access to technology-based learning. The results indicate that female students have a higher explanatory power in explaining the e-learning experience.
Article
Ecology
Aude Vialatte, Cecile Barnaud, Julien Blanco, Annie Ouin, Jean-Philippe Choisis, Emilie Andrieu, David Sheeren, Sylvie Ladet, Marc Deconchat, Floriane Clement, Diane Esquerre, Clelia Sirami
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Engineering, Civil
Floriane Clement, Prachanda Pradhan, Barbara Van Koppen
WATER INTERNATIONAL
(2019)
Review
Food Science & Technology
Floriane Clement, Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Stephanie Leder, Soumya Balasubramanya, Panchali Saikia, Ram Bastakoti, Emma Karki, Barbara van Koppen
GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY-AGRICULTURE POLICY ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENT
(2019)
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Environmental Sciences
Prajal Pradhan, Daya Raj Subedi, Dilip Khatiwada, Kirti Kusum Joshi, Sagar Kafle, Raju Pandit Chhetri, Shobhakar Dhakal, Ambika Prasad Gautam, Padma Prasad Khatiwada, Jony Mainaly, Sharad Onta, Vishnu Prasad Pandey, Keshav Parajuly, Sijal Pokharel, Poshendra Satyal, Devendra Raj Singh, Rocky Talchabhadel, Rupesh Tha, Bhesh Raj Thapa, Kamal Adhikari, Shankar Adhikari, Ram Chandra Bastakoti, Pitambar Bhandari, Saraswoti Bharati, Yub Raj Bhusal, M. K. Man Bahadur, Ramji Bogati, Simrin Kafle, Manohara Khadka, Nawa Raj Khatiwada, Ajay Chandra Lal, Dinesh Neupane, Kaustuv Raj Neupane, Rajit Ojha, Narayan Prasad Regmi, Maheswar Rupakheti, Alka Sapkota, Rupak Sapkota, Mahashram Sharma, Gitta Shrestha, Indira Shrestha, Khadga Bahadur Shrestha, Sarmila Tandukar, Shyam Upadhyaya, Jurgen P. Kropp, Dinesh Raj Bhuju
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nepal, with short-term restrictions on most targets, but potential for easing in the medium to long term. Impeding factors include lockdowns, unemployment, closures, diluted focus on non-COVID-19 issues, and reduced support from development partners. However, the pandemic has also presented opportunities for sustainable transformation, such as lessons learned for planning, use of technology, reverse migration, and local government empowerment.
Article
Geography
Floriane Clement, Fraser Sugden
Summary: The study highlights the importance of integrating local knowledge in climate change policy-making, while also addressing power dynamics and authority issues. Farmers' discourses appear to align with policy narratives on the surface, but challenge core assumptions of national and international climate change adaptation policies at a fundamental narrative level.
Article
Geography
Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Floriane Clement, Stephanie Leder
Summary: The development sector has predominantly focused on a static and apolitical framing of women's empowerment. This article proposes the inclusion of a new variable, the will to change, to reintroduce dynamic and political processes in framing and measuring empowerment. The study analyzes the influence of critical consciousness on women's will to change the status quo, as well as the role of visible agency, social structures, and individual determinants in these processes. Findings show that women with higher visible agency and critical consciousness are more willing to gain agency in certain empowerment domains. This analysis advances the understanding of empowerment processes and supports the design of development programs and improvement of measurement tools.
JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Pablo F. Mendez, Floriane Clement, Guillermo Palau-Salvador, Ricardo Diaz-Delgado, Sergio Villamayor-Tomas
Summary: To achieve sustainability, we must understand how social-ecological systems respond to different governance structures and consider their historical, institutional, political, and power conditions. Our study combines the networks of action situations approach with a polycentric power typology and the concept of discursive power to analyze the conditions in social-ecological system traps. Using the Donana estuary-delta as a case study, we examine the governance mechanisms that prevent further degradation in the system, but also the coordination failures and power dynamics that pose a risk of regime shift and suppression of system functions.
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
(2023)
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Development Studies
Gitta Shrestha, Emily L. Pakhtigian, Marc Jeuland
Summary: Migration has significant impacts on left-behind populations, particularly on the social inclusion of women. Women's participation opportunities are influenced by intersecting identities, with limited participation for women from poor households, lower caste, and young age. The access to community resources for left-behind women depends on their caste and kinship networks.
Article
Ecology
Akriti Sharma, Emma Karki, Nishadi Eriyagama, Gitta Shrestha, Marc Jeuland, Luna Bharati
ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY
(2020)
Article
Environmental Studies
Gitta Shrestha, Deepa Joshi, Floriane Clement
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE COMMONS
(2019)
Article
Environmental Studies
Floriane Clement, Wendy Jane Harcourt, Deepa Joshi, Chizu Sato
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE COMMONS
(2019)
Article
Development Studies
Corey O'Har, Florian Clement