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  • Open Access

21 October 2026

A Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) is a legal entity created for a single, narrowly defined purpose, most often to hold assets or receivables that support financing. Its commercial value depends on bankruptcy remoteness: the likelihood that those assets...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,493 Views
29 Pages

15 November 2023

Land consolidation in rural areas is greatly influenced by a number of social, agricultural, and economic factors. They extend the time and complicate activities related to the implementation of this project. Land consolidation is a huge investment,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Sources from Agriculture and Rural Areas II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,960 Views
21 Pages

Farmers Willingness to Participate In Voluntary Land Consolidation in Gozamin District, Ethiopia

  • Abebaw Andarge Gedefaw,
  • Clement Atzberger,
  • Walter Seher and
  • Reinfried Mansberger

12 October 2019

In many African countries and especially in the highlands of Ethiopia—the investigation site of this paper—agricultural land is highly fragmented. Small and scattered parcels impede a necessary increase in agricultural efficiency. Land co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land, Women, Youths, and Land Tools or Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,205 Views
15 Pages

Proposed Algorithm for the Optimisation of the Process of Generating the Geometry of Land Use/Soil Valuation Classes for Land Consolidation

  • Przemysław Leń,
  • Klaudia Maciąg,
  • Michał Maciąg,
  • Justyna Wójcik-Leń and
  • Katarzyna Kocur-Bera

22 May 2023

Consolidation of land is one of the main procedures for optimising agrarian structures and creating a space for sustainable rural development. A specific feature of a land consolidation project is its complexity and multiple aspects. The considerable...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
782 Views
5 Pages

For most sighted people, looking into a mirror helps to consolidate a visual and spatial concept of the self. This concept connects both theoretically and substantively to other elements of identity. Similarly, observing the bodies of others plays a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
9,221 Views
16 Pages

22 June 2021

The adoption of the Charter of Fundamental Rights has strengthened the position of the European Ombudsman, since the Charter contains an article specifically dedicated to the Ombudsman. At the same time, the Ombudsman, through her/his practice, contr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union: The First Ten Years - New Challenges and Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
427 Views
19 Pages

From Offices to Vice-Rectorates: Institutional Isomorphism and the Organizational Ascent of Quality Assurance in Chilean Universities

  • Ezequiel Martínez-Rojas,
  • Cristian Zahn-Muñoz,
  • Alberto Martínez-Quezada and
  • Emilia Di Piero

6 August 2026

Quality assurance has become a major force reordering the contemporary university, and in Chile, its most visible expression is the ascent of quality units, which have moved from peripheral offices to, in many cases, vice-rectorate rank. This article...

(This article belongs to the Section Higher Education)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
956 Views
31 Pages

Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education: Bibliometric Analysis of Trends, Innovations and Institutional Commitment to the SDGs (2018–2025)

  • Luis Fernando Garcés Giraldo,
  • Rafael Liza,
  • José Alexander Velásquez Ochoa,
  • Gelver Pérez Pulido,
  • Cesar Felipe Henao Villa,
  • José Albán Londoño Arias and
  • Jorge Hoyos Rentería

31 May 2026

In a post-consensus institutional landscape—where higher education systems face intensifying pressure to demonstrate strategic governance and measurable commitment to global sustainability mandates—understanding how the scholarly field of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Innovation Imperative: Survival, Adaptation, and Conflict in the Post-Consensus World)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,350 Views
41 Pages

28 February 2026

Digital twin technology (DTT) creates a virtual replica of a physical object, system, or process and uses real-time data to support monitoring, analysis, and control. Although DTT is increasingly discussed as a means to enhance supply-chain resilienc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability Management Strategies and Practices—2nd Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
10,512 Views
24 Pages

Current Insights in the Repeat Breeder Cow Syndrome

  • Carlos Carmelo Pérez-Marín and
  • Luis Angel Quintela

3 July 2023

Cows can have difficulties becoming pregnant, and in certain cases, these reproductive failures do not have an evident cause. Furthermore, when these failures are repeated three or more times with estrous cycles of normal duration and in the absence...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Dairy Cattle Reproduction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
759 Views
29 Pages

Implementation remains a central challenge in urban policy, yet the knowledge formats designed to bridge the gap between policy goals and on-the-ground delivery remain under-examined. This study treats 250 UN-Habitat Best Practice reports not as proo...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
260 Views
24 Pages

Academic Engagement and Perceived Employability in Higher Education: A Systematic Review of Associations, Mechanisms, and Implications for Employability Development and Sustainable Career Research

  • Oscar Briccio Rodriguez-Mendoza,
  • Juan Taumaturgo Medina-Collana,
  • Oscar Juan Rodriguez-Taranco,
  • Carlos Alejandro Ancieta-Dextre and
  • Diana Vanessa Ancieta-Gonzales

24 September 2026

Academic engagement and perceived employability are increasingly relevant to how higher education prepares students for changing labor markets, yet their empirical relationship remains theoretically and methodologically fragmented. This systematic re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Crafting the Future: Employability, Digital Work, and the Soft Skills Revolution)
  • Article
  • Open Access

21 October 2026

Objective: To analyze the level of community participation in quality management and accreditation processes in accredited Family Health Centers (FHCs) in Chile. Methodology: Analytical qualitative study based on the socio-critical paradigm and Parti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Primary Care Quality, Innovation, and Patient Outcomes: Chronic Care, Safety, and Emerging Models of Care)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,409 Views
27 Pages

Evidence-Based Lessons from Policy Implementation Research in Two Countries Achieving Progress on Global Breastfeeding Targets: Recommendations from the Philippines and Viet Nam

  • Catherine Pereira-Kotze,
  • Paul Zambrano,
  • Tuan T. Nguyen,
  • Janice Datu-Sanguyo,
  • Duong Vu,
  • Constance Ching,
  • Jennifer Cashin and
  • Roger Mathisen

Background/Objectives: There is extensive evidence that breastfeeding saves lives, improves health, and provides value to the economy and societies worldwide. The Philippines and Viet Nam have progressive policies to enable breastfeeding, and breastf...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Focus on Maternal, Pregnancy and Child Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
509 Views
30 Pages

6 July 2026

The global transition toward net-zero emissions has led to the restructuring of labor markets and an intensification of the demand for sustainability-competent business graduates. However, higher-education curricula lack an operationalized, job-compe...