This paper investigates the impact of Ghana's Universal fee-free secondary education policy (FreeSHS) on educational attainment (completion rates). The policy was introduced in the school year 2017/2018, allowing every ...

Complex societal challenges require collaboration between organizations, often with conflicting priorities and ways of working. Connecting organizations has come to be referred to as boundary-spanning. There is a need to ...

A rich academic understanding of the relation between e-governance and sustainable development is crucial for studying the current ‘twin transition’, i.e. the connection between the digital and sustainability transition. ...

Cooperation is widespread and arguably a pivotal evolutionary force in maintaining animal societies. Yet, proximately, what underlying motivators drive individuals to cooperate remains relatively unclear. Since 'free-riders' ...

Actor-critic deep reinforcement learning methods have demonstrated significant performance in many challenging decision-making and control tasks, but also suffer from high sample complexity and overestimation bias. Current ...

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are implemented across multiple cities worldwide and feature as promising solutions in local and global agendas. As solutions that can deal with interlinked urban challenges, NBS are being taken ...

Characterization and selection of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) taxa to design inocula tailored to meet a spectrum of needs is a crucial first step to achieve specific beneficial agronomic functions. Commonly, ...

Hydrothermal venting has been shown to play a role in the global biogeochemical cycles of three bio-essential elements: iron (Fe), carbon (C) and phosphorus (P). However, our insight into the coupled cycling of Fe and ...

We prove that the cohomology rings of the moduli space of one-dimensional sheaves on the projective plane are not isomorphic for general different choices of the Euler characteristics. This stands in contrast to the-independence ...

Early puberty poses a significant challenge for male Atlantic salmon in aquaculture due to its negative impact on growth and welfare. The regulation of puberty in vertebrates involves 2 key reproductive hormones: ...