Social Justice Work in the University: Understanding Student and Staff Perceptions and Aspirations for Decolonising the Curriculum from a University-Wide Survey by Kyra Araneta, Kelsea Costin, Jennifer Fraser, Fatima Maatwk, Özge Süvari, Esra Tahir

“…Positioned within the university’s broader commitments to anti-racism and as part of a student–staff partnership project focused on interrogating contemporary coloniality, this research investigates how participants understand and experience decolonial initiatives as well as the perceived impact of these efforts on curriculum, relationships, and institutional culture. By conducting a survey, we sought to unravel the complexities surrounding how students and staff conceptualise decolonisation, articulate their aspirations for decolonial initiatives, and envision the potential of student–staff partnerships as catalysts for transformative social justice work within the university. …”
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Emergency department crowding in the Netherlands; evaluation of a real-time ambulance diversion dashboard by E. C. M. Baan-Kooman, S. Mol, M. C. van der Linden, M. I. Gaakeer, V. A. de Ridder

“…Methods This is a descriptive study of a nationwide online survey of Dutch EDs, conducted between January and October 2023. It included both qualitative and quantitative questions. …”
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Methodological approaches for producing doubled haploids in sugar beet and red beet (Beta vulgaris L.) by T. R. Grigolava, A. V. Vishnyakova, A. A. Sinitsyna, A. V. Voronina, O. N. Zubko, O. V. Zudova, S. G. Monakhos

“…However, at present, there is renewed interest among researchers in this approach, and scientists in different countries are conducting studies of Beta vulgaris androgenesis through isolated microspore culture. …”
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Experimental study and field application of hydraulic flushing technology in soft coal seam by Xun Zhao, Bei Hu, Baisheng Nie, Xianfeng Liu, Dan Zhao, Hongsheng Li, Chuan Deng, Zhengpeng Duan

“…To validate the practical efficacy of hydraulic flushing, a field test was conducted at the Yuwu Coal Mine in Changzhi City, Shanxi Province. …”
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Biomolecule screen identifies several inhibitors of Salmonella enterica surface colonization by Joseph Headrick, Amital Ohayon, Shannon Elliott, Jacob Schultz, Erez Mills, Erik Petersen

“…After screening 285 nutrient-type compounds, we identified ten that significantly inhibited the ability of S. enterica to colonize a plastic surface. After conducting a dose-response curve, salicylic acid was selected for further testing due to its low minimal inhibitory concentration (62.5 μM) as well as a low total inhibitory concentration (250 μM). …”
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Optimization of a Continuous Hybrid Impeller Mixer via Computational Fluid Dynamics by N. Othman, S. K. Kamarudin, M. S. Takriff, M. I. Rosli, E. M. F. Engku Chik, M. A. K. Meor Adnan

“…This paper presents the preliminary steps required for conducting experiments to obtain the optimal operating conditions of a hybrid impeller mixer and to determine the residence time distribution (RTD) using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). …”
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Domestic Violence Against Pregnant Women: Prevalence and Related Factors by Metin Pıçakçıefe, Şeyma Ata, Raziye Ülkü Kıcalı, M. Onur Vatandaş

“…Healthcare professionals should question domestic violence during pregnancy while conducting anamnesis and conduct a detailed examination about violence.…”
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Legislative amendments regarding criminal proceedings under martial law by V. V. Ablamska

“…This also affected the specifics of the procedure for conducting pre-trial investigation and court proceedings under martial law. …”
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Peculiarities of the examination of citrus fruits (mandarins) during the forensic examination by M. V. Harbuz, L. Yu. Ulybina

“…The article discusses the peculiarities of conducting an examination of citrus fruits, in particular, tangerines, with a view to their further classification in the Ukrainian Classifier of Goods for Foreign Economic Activity. …”
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A Laboratory Study of Plasma Charging Inside Lava Tubes on the Lunar Surface by S. Gopalakrishnan, X. Wang, M. Horányi

“…The electrostatic charging environment inside lunar lava tubes was investigated in laboratory experiments using a glass tube exposed to a simulated solar wind flow. A conducting surface was attached at the entrance of the tube and biased to various negative potentials to study the electron shielding effect on the charging conditions inside the tube. …”
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Integrated Identification and Efficient Use of Biodiversity in Mountainous Regions by Mehdiyeva A. M., Mahmudova Z. A., Rustamova D. F., Mansurova D., Juraeva G.

“…The purpose of the presented work is to determine the quantitative, qualitative and thermodynamic parameters of geothermal sources in these territories, as well as the spatial structure of the foci of formation of their migration routes. Conducting a comprehensive assessment of the biodiversity of deforested mountainous regions substantiates the need to ensure the protection of these unique ecosystems. …”
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International Standards of Implementing Mediation within Criminal Proceedings and the State of Its Realization in Ukraine by T. H. Fomina

“…Representatives of the legislative initiative on the need to consolidate the possibility of conducting a mediation procedure at the legislative level by adopting the draft Law of Ukraine “On Mediation” dated from May 19, 2020 No. 3504 in the second reading. …”
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Safety of Systems Integrating Fire Protection Equipment – Risks, Gaps, Recommendations by Wojciech Wróblewski, Dorota Seliga

“…The analysis includes conducting a comprehensive assessment of potential attack sites (vulnerabilities) and recommendations for building designers and managers to minimise adverse actions. …”
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Digital sociology and new opportunities for social and educational rehabilitation of disabled people by S. V. Kibakin, Y. A. Malakhova

“…Based on the conducted sociological research and using modern methodological approaches of digital sociology, the feasibility of developing institutional conditions for improving the educational rehabilitation of disabled people by means of modern Internet technologies has been justified. …”
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Investigating the implementation of a new protocol and clinical tool designed to assess the audiological needs of individuals with hearing loss in clinical settings by Mathieu Hotton, Mathieu Hotton, Loonan Chauvette, Sandie Poulin, Jean-Pierre Gagné, Jean-Pierre Gagné

“…IntroductionFew clinical protocols are presently available to guide hearing healthcare professionals who are responsible for conducting comprehensive audiological needs assessments with their clients. …”
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Monitoring the physical fitness of students aged 10-15 and 15-18 during online education by Olena Nesen, Lesia Korobeinikova, Iryna Ivanyshyn, Olga Goncharova

“…The study's findings demonstrate that conducting test exercises at home is a practical and efficient alternative to traditional diagnostics in school sports halls. …”
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Bounded multivariate contaminated normal mixture model with applications to skin cancer detection by Abbas Mahdavi

“…Results: The proposed methodology is validated by conducting experiments on two real natural skin cancer images. …”
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The Role of Atmospheric Composition in Defining the Habitable Zone Limits and Supporting <i>E. coli</i> Growth by Asena Kuzucan, Emeline Bolmont, Guillaume Chaverot, Jaqueline Quirino Ferreira, Bastiaan Willem Ibelings, Siddharth Bhatnagar, Daniel Frank McGinnis

“…Second, we investigated microbial survival in these environments, conducting laboratory experiments on the growth and survival of <i>E. coli</i> K-12, focusing on the impact of different gas compositions. …”
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Investigating the effects of alkalization on mechanical properties of enset fibers using digital image correlation technique by Abebayehu Abdela, Bart Buffel, Belete Sirahbizu, Frederik Desplentere

“…The characterization of fiber level tensile properties is vital for conducting micromechanical analyses and developing mechanical models of materials and their composites. …”
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Lip forgery detection via spatial-frequency domain combination by Jiaying LIN, Wenbo ZHOU, Weiming ZHANG, Nenghai YU

“…In recent years, numerous “face-swapping” videos have emerged in social networks, one of the representatives is the lip forgery with speakers.While making life more entertaining for the public, it poses a significant crisis for personal privacy and property security in cyberspace.Currently, under non-destructive conditions, most of the lip forgery detection methods achieve good performance.However, the compression operations are widely used in practice especially in social media platforms, face recognition and other scenarios.While saving pixel and time redundancy, the compression operations affect the video quality and destroy the coherent integrity of pixel-to-pixel and frame-to-frame in the spatial domain, and then the degradation of its detection performance and even misjudgment of the real video will be caused.When the information in the spatial domain cannot provide sufficiently effective features, the information in the frequency domain naturally becomes a priority research object because it can resist compression interference.Aiming at this problem, the advantages of frequency information in image structure and gradient feedback were analyzed.Then the lip forgery detection via spatial-frequency domain combination was proposed, which effectively utilized the corresponding characteristics of information in spatial and frequency domains.For lip features in the spatial domain, an adaptive extraction network and a light-weight attention module were designed.For frequency features in the frequency domain, separate extraction and fusion modules for different components were designed.Subsequently, by conducting a weighted fusion of lip features in spatial domain and frequency features in frequency domain, more texture information was preserved.In addition, fine-grained constraints were designed during the training to separate the inter-class distance of real and fake lip features while closing the intra-class distance.Experimental results show that, benefiting from the frequency information, the proposed method can enhance the detection accuracy under compression situation with certain transferability.On the other hand, in the ablation study conducted on the core modules, the results verify the effectiveness of the frequency component for anti-compression and the constraint of the dual loss function in training.…”
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