The garment ma nufacturing sector in Peru faced persistent operational inefficiencies despite prior research highlighting the benefits of Lean Manufacturing and TPM principles. Previous studies, however, rarely addressed their combined adaptation for SMEs in developing economies. This research responded to urgent challenges such as production inconsistencies, high defect rates, and equipment neglect.

Precast concrete SMEs often suffered from operational inefficiencies, particularly due to non-standardized procedures, excessive material waste, and poorly designed layouts. Previous studies highlighted Lean Manufacturing as an effective methodology, yet its adaptation to resource-constrained SMEs remained underexplored. This research addressed those challenges by developing and implementing an integrated production model based on Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, and Systematic Layout Planning.

The operational performance of construction material and hardware retail SMEs in Peru has long been constrained by inefficient logistics systems and inadequate process standardization. Previous research has offered theoretical models with limited empirical validation, especially in resource-constrained environments.

Mass-consumption distribution companies in Latin America face growing pressure to improve efficiency while ensuring service reliability. Although Lean and TPM methodologies have proven effective in manufacturing environments, few studies explore their integration in logistics operations. This research addressed operational inefficiencies in a medium-sized Peruvian company by proposing a Lean-TPM model tailored to reduce delays, minimize failures, and enhance delivery performance.

The study addressed the need to enhance operational efficiency in SMEs within the road freight transport sector in Peru, where logistics costs significantly impact product value. Previous research focused on isolated applications of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and Kaizen, but their integration with the Kirkpatrick Model for training evaluation remained unexplored.

Generally, countries in West African countries including Ghana have suffered unfortunate developments with reference to the stockpiling of funds necessary to finance investment appetite in order to promote economic development. Due to this, Ghana keeps seeking for sources of investment which includes foreign direct and domestic investments to enlarge the savings-investment gap.

Setting priorities in public health involves selection of indicators, domains and method of aggregation to get an index of health satisfying desirable properties. Avoiding problems of scaling, selection of weights and distributions of indicator scores, multiplicative aggregation of ratios of n-indicators in t-th year and a fixed base year is suggested satisfying country index = aggregation of index of all regions = aggregation of index of all domains.

Emotional regulation is a critical aspect of human psychology that involves the ability to manage and adjust emotions to adapt to life's challenges. This topic has been extensively studied across philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. Philosophical traditions provide deep insights into managing emotions by emphasizing ethics, reason, and self-awareness as tools for navigating emotional experiences.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), is like teaching machines to think and learn in ways that resemble human intelligence. It enables computers to analyse information, solve problems, and make decisions. From customizing learning experiences to assisting doctors in diagnosing diseases faster, AI is revolutionizing industries and shaping the way we interact with technology every day.

This development of authoritarianism in West Africa, through recent military coups in Mali, Guinea, and Burkina Faso, raises important questions to the security and democratic strength in the region. The given article investigates the dynamics between authoritarian reversals and the logic of Regional Security Complexes (RSCs) in West Africa based on the Regional Security Complex Theory (RSCT) of Buzan and Waeaver.

There has been a sudden development of climate-induced migration as one of the factors making the problem of insecurity in ecologically vulnerable regions a burning issue and that within the Sahelian states of Nigeria in particular. The research paper investigates the interconnection between human security and environmental displacement between 2020 and 2025 where changing climatic conditions such as desertification, drought, and resource constraints have led to migratory population patterns that fuel intercommunal violence, state vulnerability, and decline in social solidarity.