Social Sciences and Humanities

Ensuring universal access to safe drinking water is an urgent public health priority and human right across India, including the state of Karnataka. This proposed mixed-methods study aims to conduct an in-depth assessment of the accessibility, availability, and quality of drinking water resources across urban and rural communities in Karnataka. The research will utilize an immersive ethnographic approach to illuminate ground realities, investigating community perspectives and relationships with increasingly precarious water sources through interviews, focus groups and observations.

The article aims to analyze and compare the histories of higher education between Brazil and Africa, exploring the stimuli that shaped their educational systems. With a detailed focus on the policies, progress and challenges faced by each region, the analysis reveals notable disparities. Brazil, driven by a strong private sector presence and initiatives such as FIES, has witnessed a considerable expansion of higher education. In contrast, Africa, due to a later decolonization, faced slower progress in its education system.

This research explores how technology shapes business opportunities and visitor experiences in ecotourism, focusing on Satpura National Park in Madhya Pradesh, India. The study employed a quantitative method, surveying 45 ecotourism entrepreneurs and 242 visitors to understand the role of technology in this sector. Results show that a majority of entrepreneurs (55.6%) utilize technology, particularly in social media marketing, and an impressive 93.3% have seen substantial revenue growth as a result.

Usually, consumption expenditure-based inequality is lower(between 0.05 and 0.07 Gini coefficients) when compared with income-based inequality. But, in the case of India, because of underestimation of the tail of the distribution of consumption expenditure (i.e. exclusion of consumption expenditure of very rich and very poor, by the National Sample Survey Organization-NSSO), the gap between consumption expenditure and income-based inequality increases to about 0.173 Gini coefficients.

Artificial intelligence (AI), the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings. The term is frequently applied to the project of developing systems endowed with the intellectual processes characteristic of humans, such as the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experience. In business, artificial intelligence has a wide range of uses. In fact, most of us interact with AI in some form or another on a daily basis.

This research aims to investigate the evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats and financial crimes in the Middle East region, with a focus on the vulnerabilities and countermeasures within the region's financial sector. The study analyzes prevalent cyber threats, such as phishing attacks, ransomware, and fraud schemes targeting financial institutions and individuals in the Middle East. A diversified strategy is needed to protect the Middle East's banking industry from cyberattacks.

Augmented reality is a term used to describe an interactive experience that combines the physical world with digital content. Computers enhance real-world objects by adding effects or displaying properties that don't exist in our current reality.

Fire outbreak is particularly rampant in the Kumasi Central Market. Data gathered from Ghana National Fire Service (2016) indicate that, since 1992, there have been multiple occurrences of fire outbreaks each year in the Market. Efforts put in place to curb the menace have proven less successful. There is growing knowledge that the persistence of these fire disasters is as a result of people’s noncompliance with fire safety regulations.

This paper explores the Time-Triggered Ethernet (TTEthernet) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that transform industrial safety-critical systems. Adaptivity, efficiency, and reliability of the overall TTEthernet-based system are guaranteed by merging the new deterministic communication system in an industrial environment. The integrated system embraces intelligent security control of the integrated networks, featuring autonomous decision-making resource management and network security.

The volatility of share prices has demonstrated distinct trends in several worldwide exchange markets, such as the S&P 500 in the United States of America. There have been several attempts to identify potential causes of this volatility and strategies for mitigating it, but few studies have been conducted in this area, particularly in developing nations. Thus, the purpose of this study is to investigate how dividend policies affect the volatility of financial firms' stock returns that are listed on the S&P 500.