Against the rural revitalization backdrop, integrating university talents into local signature industries boosts industrial upgrading and internationalization. This study, focusing on Maoming’s lychee industry, globally the largest lychee production base, explores university foreign language volunteers’ roles in its internationalization, offering actionable university-industry collaboration models for agricultural development with significant theoretical and practical value. Despite its scale, t...

Economics 

The safe operation of urban rail transit is closely related to the lives and property of the people and the harmony and stability of the social environment. The handling of urban rail transit emergencies is particularly important. This paper classifies urban rail transit emergencies based on their nature and occurrence mechanism, elaborates on their characteristics, analyzes the problems existing in the emergency response of urban rail transit, and proposes emergency management measures for urba...

Economics 

Table grapes are an important economic crop with a wide range of cultivars grown across temperate to subtropical regions worldwide. Because different cultivars show significant differences in attributes such as color, taste, shape, price, and seed presence, consumers often find it difficult to make trade-offs when choosing. To address this issue, this study constructed a comprehensive multi-criteria evaluation model for several common table grape cultivars based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process...

Agricultural Science  Operational Research  Mathematics  Economics 

Due to its failure to meet the Condorcet criterion, the Borda count has historically been widely criticized. This study challenges that criticism by arguing that Borda’s divergence from Condorcet reflects the strength of preferences rather than a mere defect. The goal is to show that the Borda count is the only option that can balance the strength of individual preferences with majority rule when reexamined using Eric Maskin’s axiomatic framework. This article reinterprets Arrow’s well-known axi...

Public Economics  Political Economy  Economics 

The sources, tools, and methods of funding infrastructure assets must drastically change in response to the growing demand for infrastructure financing in developing nations. The same applies to Zimbabwe like other countries of the world where the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires investment in fundamental economic and social infrastructure in addition to the funding needs of traditional infrastructure. Amongst budgetary constraints, Zimbabwe is confronted with a si...

Sociology  Economics 

This paper deeply explores the strategy of how Zhangjiagang City drives leapfrog development with high-quality population development. Through analyzing the current population status and development trend of Zhangjiagang City, the importance of high-quality population development in economic growth, social progress and urban competitiveness improvement is expounded. From multiple dimensions such as education enhancement, employment optimization, talent introduction, population structure improvem...

Geography  Human Geography  Economics 

This cross-sectional study investigated women’s empowerment and its associated covariates with 445 women from Iganga and Bugiri districts in eastern Uganda. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews, and the principal component and logistic regression analyses were applied. The results indicate a concerning trend, with almost all (97.3%) of women failing to achieve empowerment, revealing a prevalent state of disempowerment. Women on average were inadequate in six out of ten empowerme...

Sociology  Economics  Nutrition 

The objective guiding this systematic literature review was to assess the role of market efficiency in spices production. The study reviewed 44 international publications from ScienceDirect published from 2010 to 2023 that address the effect of access to market information on spices production, guided by PRISMA-2020 framework. Results from this systematic review suggest that market efficiency has a substantial influence on spice production; access to perfect market information has a significant ...

Economics 

Background: This study sought to optimize agricultural supply chain management practices to address food insecurity among agro-based SMEs in Lira City. Using a concurrent triangulation research approach, the study relied on quantitative data to provide a comprehensive understanding of how supply chain management practices impact food security. The main focus was on the role of food marketing, transportation, processing and inputs management in predicting food security. M...

Economics 

This study investigates the determinants of patient satisfaction in Burundi’s national reference public hospitals, with a specific focus on healthcare institutions in Bujumbura. The analysis aimed to identify key factors influencing patients’ perceptions of care quality. Findings indicate that patients generally expressed satisfaction with various dimensions of service quality, including reliability, responsiveness, assurance, tangibility, and empathy. However, significant variations in satisfac...

Economics