Re-evaluating Our Knowledge of Health System Resilience During COVID-19: Lessons From the First Two Years of the Pandemic by Dell D. Saulnier, Anna Duchenko, Sierra Ottilie-Kovelman, Fabrizio Tediosi, Karl Blanchet

“…Background  Health challenges like coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are becoming increasingly complex, transnational, and unpredictable. Studying health system responses to the COVID-19 pandemic is an opportunity to enhance our understanding of health system resilience and establish a clearer link between theoretical concepts and practical ideas on how to build resilience. …”
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Assessment of Energy Sustainability Issues in the Andean Community: Additional Indicators and Their Interpretation by Tatiana Ponomarenko, Ekaterina Reshneva, Alexander Patricio Mosquera Urbano

“…Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia, being members of the Andean Community, are neighbors and have similar economic conditions but lack transnational power grid interconnections, which hinders the development of a common energy market. …”
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Key directions of the Russian economy innovative development with the innovative activity practice of the integrated corporate structures by F. I. Shamhalov, R. V. Sizov

“…ARTICLE RETRACTEDThe article deals with the problems and the key directions of The article deals with the problems and key directions of innovative development of the Russian industry in connection with the need to reduce the dependence of the national economy on the situation on world commodity markets, as well as to create the conditions and incentives for the introduction and modern technologies development, improving energy and environmental efficiency of the economy and productivity for the development of economic sectors and industries, producing goods with high added value for the implementation of innovative projects and in general - to upgrade the socio-economic system of the country.The following statement is given: the development of innovative high-tech and knowledge-intensive industries must ensure import substitution products at the first stage, primarily in the militaryindustrial complex, and in the future - export-oriented competitive product.The article analyzes the experience of innovative activity of the integrated corporate structures with the participation of the state in the following areas: the integration of the industrial and financial capital; the concentration of capital (through the merger and acquisition of enterprises, strategic alliances); diversification of forms and fields of activity; globalization of activities (creation of subsidiaries in the most attractive countries and working on promising markets); capital internationalization (through the creation of transnational companies).On the basis of generalization of global corporate management experience in the state corporations the article analyzes key conditions and factors that determine the efficiency of the state-owned companies as a whole: a clear statement of goals and objectives of the state as the owner, whose interests go beyond the usual business purposes; fixing of these goals and objectives in the regulations, in the concepts and programs of long-term socioeconomic development of the country, in special agreements between the government and public sector enterprises, as well as in the statutes, in the policy and budgetary documents of state corporations; the creation of state corporations administration system that allows to carry out the separation of the control and management functions, to ensure coherence and consistency of the implementation of the asset management policy, the uniformity of the rules of management of state property on the basis of common rules; harmonization of interests of the state and private investors, their documentary fixation (for corporate plans, agreements between the parties, etc.) in order to limit undue state interference in the activities of state-owned companies, on the one hand, and protection from lobbying strain - on the other hand; increasing business transparency, which is the foundation of good governance; the establishment of effective operational management systems, including goal setting and planning, reporting, monitoring, control and evaluation of companies, risk management and information disclosure.…”
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Structural Analysis of the Development Drivers Affecting the Realization of Land use Planning at the Kurdistan Province Based on the Role-Playing of Rural Areas by Soran Manouchehri, Hamid Barghi, Yousef Ghanbari

“…Finally, 60 variables with a management, economic, social, physical, natural and spatial nature in local, regional, national and transnational spatial scales were identified in the field of communication with the Kurdistan region of Iraq, and according to the way of influence 29 variables that had the greatest role in the performance of other variables were determined as the main propellants. …”
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Inclusive governance of hydropower on shared rivers? Toward an international legal geography of the Lower Mekong basin by Oliver Hensengerth

“…It therefore expands the analytical scope of legal geography to the study of transnational spaces, in this case complex ecosystems for which there are no fixed jurisdictional boundaries. …”
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Structural elucidation of a novel mechanism for the bacteriophage-based inhibition of the RNA degradosome by An Van den Bossche, Steven W Hardwick, Pieter-Jan Ceyssens, Hanne Hendrix, Marleen Voet, Tom Dendooven, Katarzyna J Bandyra, Marc De Maeyer, Abram Aertsen, Jean-Paul Noben, Ben F Luisi, Rob Lavigne

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Madrasah Ibtidaiyah dalam Pandangan Dunia: Isu-Isu Kontemporer dan Tren dalam Pendidikan by Muqarramah Sulaiman Kurdi

“…It is urgent to be comprehensively examined, given the contemporary realm of vulnerability to local identity problems from the influence of transnational doctrine to practical problems in the learning process. …”
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Concept, features and types of corruption by L. I. Kalienichenko, D. V. Slynko

“…On a territorial basis, a distinction should be made between domestic (national) and transnational corruption, depending on the form of corruption - bribery, fraud, extortion, embezzlement (misappropriation) of public funds, clientelism, lobbying, favoritism, nepotism, state capture. …”
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Application of a multiparameter sonde for real-time monitoring of seawater quality in Durrës Bay in Albania by Elda Marku, Jonida Tahiraj, Pranvera Lazo, Spiro Drushku, Flora Qarri, Aurel Nuro, Bledar Myrtaj

“…The sonde is part of a transnational repository network that receives, stores, and analyzes data about seawater quality, serving as an early warning system for preventing the diffusion of marine pollution. …”
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The role of City Climate Networks in Promoting Citizen Participation in Municipalities: A Critical Multi-Case Analysis by Mateo Zapata Arango, Thomas Hoppe, Anatol Itten, Kornelis Blok

“…In supporting cities, climate city networks such as transnational climate networks (TCNs) and national climate networks (NCNs) have emerged to enable cities in building capacities and formulating climate policy whilst also encouraging citizen engagement and participation in public decision-making. …”
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Ecological City Design and Planning: How China Expands Urban Ecology, Institutional Learning, and Cultural Shifts through the Evolving Eco-Developments by Chiu-Shee, Colleen

“…Through the lens of a series of high-profile eco-developments initiated by the Chinese state, this dissertation examines the transnational influences of eco-environmental ideas on urbanization policy and practice, as well as the meanings and impacts of experimental projects that demonstrate eco-environmental principles. …”
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Ekistics, architecture and environmental politics, 1945-1976 : a prehistory of sustainable development by Panayiota I. Pyla. by Pyla, Panayiota Ioanni

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Will to war, will to art : cultural internationalism and the modernist aesthetics of monuments, 1932-1964 by Allais, Lucia

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After the copy : creativity, originality and the labor of appropriation : Dafen Village, Shenzhen, China (1989-2010) by Wong, Winnie Won Yin, 1978-

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Politics on parade : immigration, ethnicity and national identity in Chicago, IL by Sengupta, Annis Whitlow

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The spread of violent civil conflict : rare state-driven, and preventable by Black, Nathan Wolcott

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Life behind ruins : constructing documenta by Villeré, Mariel A. (Mariel Anaïse Kathryn)

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Assembling smallness : the American Small Industries Exhibition, Ceylon 1961 by De Silva, Nushelle (Dinuki Nushelle)

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The South Korean film industry and the Chinese film market by Lee, Sangjoon

“…Led by the company’s US-born executive Miky Lee (Yi Mi-kyŏng), CJ’s ‘global project’ has an ambitious vision of broadening the horizons of international co-productions and using English-language scripts and transnational casts to increase its films’ global appeal. …”
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The dance to abstraction: Wayang, dance and the aesthetics of interartistic exchange in the abstract paintings of Bagong Kussudiardja 1980-2000 by Lee, Isaiah Christopher Xin En

“…Having studied dance with Martha Graham in New York, focused on transnational Japanese and Indian techniques, and subsequently choreographed based on traditional Indonesian dance and wayang, Bagong’s visual idiom is one that virtually reimag(in)es artistic conventions that govern painting. …”
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