There is an urgent need to explore and analyze new aquifer recharge potential zones (ARPZ) in arid regions exposed mainlyto hard rock local aquifers, whether fractured or non-fractured, for investment fulfillment of the Saudi Vision 2030. Over-pumping, seawater intrusion, climatological changes, population growth, lack traditional water supplies, expensive desalinized water, excessive evaporati...

Abstract Emergency governance, we are often told, is executive governance. Only the has information, decisiveness, and speed to respond crises, so not capable of being effectively constrained by other branches. Ordinary checks balances, then, believed disappear during a crisis. Referring classic theorist emergency rule, conventional accounts describe crisis governance as “Schmittian” “post-Madi...

Tourism and hospitality were among the first sectors to be severely affected by COVID-19 pandemic are still recovering from crisis. In wave of pandemic, a package precautionary measures taken contain virus brought tourist activities complete standstill changed tourists’ expectations behavioral patterns. The presented ultimate test for organizational leaders, who had no chance prepare (themselve...

Making decisions is part of our everyday life, and software projects are no exception. What architectural style would suit our application best? Should we go for the simpler design, or the more complex one that in return offers more efficiency? Should we use generic containers in our API or will typed objects be the better option? Who of the available team members should be working on the proje...

BACKGROUND The concept of benefit sharing has been a topical issue on the international stage for more than two decades, gaining prominence in international law, research ethics and political philosophy. In spite of this prominence, the concept of benefit sharing is not devoid of controversies related to its definition and justification. This article examines the discourses and justifications o...

The treehopper subfamily Membracinae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Membracidae) comprises the majority of genera and species diversity in the New World tropics. These treehoppers exhibit a wide range of social behaviors, making them an excellent group for studying patterns of social evolution in insects. However, to date the tribal and generic relationships have remained unclear. We reconstructed the ph...

CONTEXT Many authors have emphasized the importance of worker strength through unionized organizations, in relation to the improvement of working procedures, and have reported on the decisiveness of labor movement actions in achieving modifications within the field of work and health. OBJECTIVE To describe the ways in which Brazilian unions have tried to intervene in health-illness and work p...

The influence of Eric Griffiths looms large in this book. In his 1989 study The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry, Griffiths examines the negotiation between spoken and written language that is central to the reading of Victorian poetry. In The Art of Eloquence, Matthew Bevis uses a similarly comparative approach to the languages of speech and writing as the basis for his analysis of the relati...

The purpose of this study was to identify teaching styles that complement the learning preferences of undergraduate dental students while enhancing the quality of patient care. A formidable challenge to reform in dental education has been overcoming the resistance by faculty and administration to recommended changes. The organizational structure of dental institutions, with their independent de...

Sweden's income distribution for the whole population and for subgroups, including its immigrants, has been extensively studied. The interest in this area has grown with increasing availability of data, including panels. The previous studies are based on indices of inequality or mobility. While indices are useful for complete ordering and have an air of “decisiveness” about them, they lack univ...