End-User Experience of the 2012 WHF Echocardiographic Criteria for Diagnosis of Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Global Survey by Lene Thorup, Cleonice Mota, Krishna Kumar, Joselyn Rwebembera, James Marangou, Julius Chacha Mwita, Kate Ralston, Bo Reményi, Andrea Beaton, Liesl Zühlke, Ana Olga Mocumbi

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The potential of self-access language centres in fostering lifelong global citizenship: towards a community of practice approach by Michael D. Smith, Ran Niboshi, Christopher Samuell, Simon F.N. Timms

“…Design/methodology/approach – This inquiry calls on the community of practice approach to account for the shared interests motivating lifelong cross-cultural participation, the quality of social engagement between actors, and the material and cognitive tools called upon to realise global citizenship’s shared enterprise. Findings – As argued here, embracing various cultures and inclusive participation can lead to a broader understanding of global citizenship, avoiding narrow-minded views of globalism through shared knowledge and critical practices. …”
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Motivations, Risks, Barriers, and Results Associated with the Adoption of Global Sourcing by Brazilian Companies: a Case-Based Study by Moema Pereira Nunes

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Effect of practicing water-saving irrigation on greenhouse gas emissions and crop productivity: A global meta-analysis by Mingdong Tan, Ningbo Cui, Shouzheng Jiang, Liwen Xing, Shenglin Wen, Quanshan Liu, Weikang Li, Siwei Yan, Yaosheng Wang, Haochen Jin, Zhihui Wang

“…Moreover, WSI has attracted extensive attention for its potential to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in agriculture systems. In this study, a global meta-analysis of 1230 observations from 62 publications were conducted to investigate the global patterns and underlying drivers of soil GHG emissions and crop productivity (crop yield and water use efficiency) induced by WSI, and the contributions of key factors to GHG emissions and crop productivity were further quantified. …”
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A New Modified Three-Term Conjugate Gradient Method with Sufficient Descent Property and Its Global Convergence by Bakhtawar Baluch, Zabidin Salleh, Ahmad Alhawarat, U. A. M. Roslan

“…The novelty is that by using the Wolfe Powell line search the new modification possesses global convergence properties with convex and nonconvex functions. …”
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Dynamic Spillovers of Economic Policy Uncertainty: A TVP-VAR Analysis of Latin American and Global EPU Indices by Nini Johana Marín-Rodríguez, Juan David González-Ruíz, Sergio Botero

“…This study examines the dynamic interconnectedness of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) among Latin American economies—Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico—and significant international regions, including the United States, Europe, and Japan, as well as a global EPU index. Using a Time-Varying Parameter Vector Autoregressive (TVP-VAR) model with monthly data, this study reveals the evolving spillover effects and dependencies capturing how uncertainty in one market can transmit across others on both regional and global scales. …”
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Transient Global Amnesia as the First Clinical Symptom for Malignant B-Cell Lymphoma with Central Nervous System Involvement by Atif Zafar, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Sahrish Abdin, Muhammad Taimoor Khan

“…We present the case of an elderly male who was diagnosed with transient global amnesia (TGA), only to be diagnosed with B-cell lymphoma with central nervous system involvement a few weeks later. …”
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The transnational earth: Evolution meets the World Heritage in model development scenarios for a globally inclusive knowledge economy by Hana Ayala

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El regreso de Túpac Katari. Bolivia y los procesos de transformación global del capitalismo by Iñigo Errejón Galván, Jesús Espasandín López, Pablo Iglesias Turrión

“…Een tercer lugar, analizaremos algunos aspectos de la influencia de los elementos anteriores dinámicas sistémicas globales y transformación de la estructura de clases en el proceso constituyente actualmente abierto en Bolivia. …”
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Global burden and trends of the Clostridioides difficile infection-associated diseases from 1990 to 2021: an observational trend study by Jun Xia, Tan Liu, Rui Wan, Jing Zhang, Quanzhu Fu

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Global Bifurcation Structure of a Predator-Prey System with a Spatial Degeneracy and B-D Functional Response by Xiaozhou Feng, Changtong Li, Hao Sun, Yuzhen Wang

“…Moreover, the demonstrated two local bifurcation solution branches can be extended to a bounded global bifurcation curve by the global bifurcation theory. …”
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Barriers and facilitators for the sexual and reproductive health and rights of young people in refugee contexts globally: A scoping review. by Veronika Tirado, Josephine Chu, Claudia Hanson, Anna Mia Ekström, Anna Kågesten

“…<h4>Methods</h4>We searched three databases (PubMed, Global Health and POPLINE) for peer-reviewed and grey literature published in English between January 2008 and June 2018 that reported on SRHR barriers, facilitators and interventions for young refugees aged 10 to 24 years. …”
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Analysing the global workforce dynamics of the energy transition: main findings from the World Energy Employment report 2023 by M. Armiento, M. Lelli, C. Andrews, B. Idini, R. Ruff

“…Abstract This paper, which presents highlights of the World Energy Employment report 2023 published by the International Energy Agency with the support and analytical contribution of Enel Foundation, provides an overview of the impacts of decarbonization process on the energy workforce at a global level. Data collected and estimated with deep granularity across the entire value chain shows that increasing investments in the power sector, electric vehicles and other clean technologies are fuelling workforce growth in the energy sector: nearly 67 million people were employed in the energy sector worldwide in 2022, an increase of 3.4 million jobs compared to 2019. …”
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Statistical Analysis of Relationships between Monthly Maximum Temperatures in Iran and Global Mean Land-Ocean Temperature Anomalies by Yosouf ghavidel rahimi, Manochehr farajzadeh, Mehdi alijahan

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Re-writing the Disability Script from the Global South: Tsitsi Chataika’s Contribution to Disability Studies Scholarship in Africa by Sibonokuhle Ndlovu

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Heart rate variability biofeedback in a global study of the most common coherence frequencies and the impact of emotional states by Sai Balaji, Nachum Plonka, Mike Atkinson, Malathy Muthu, Minvydas Ragulskis, Alfonsas Vainoras, Rollin McCraty

“…Abstract This global study analyzed data from the largest dataset ever studied in the Heart Rate Variability (HRV) biofeedback field, comprising 1.8 million user sessions collected from users of a mobile app during 2019 and 2020. …”
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Global Phenotypic Characterization of Effects of Fluoroquinolone Resistance Selection on the Metabolic Activities and Drug Susceptibilities of Clostridium perfringens Strains by Miseon Park, Fatemeh Rafii

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SLG-Net: Small-Large-Global Feature-Based Multilevel Feature Extraction Network for Ultrasound Image Segmentation by Xinya Fan, Jianwen Hu, Kai Hu

“…Many ultrasound image segmentation methods only focus on capturing local details and global dependencies, whereas ignoring large-scale context information. …”
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Global and Regional Burden of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Attributable to Low Physical Activity From 1990 to 2021 by Lihang Yang, Diya Xie, Fengmin Liu, Jiaying Lin, Xin Lin, Yuquan Chen, Kun Zhang

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Research from Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries will Benefit Global Health and the Physiotherapy Profession, but it Requires Support by Saurab Sharma, Arianne Verhagen, Mark Elkins, Jean-Michel Brismée, George D. Fulk, Jakub Taradaj, Lois Steen, Alan Jette, Ann Moore, Aimee Stewart, Barbara J. Hoogenboom, Anne Söderlund, Michele Harms, Rafael Zambelli Pinto

“…With urgent and unified actions, global health and the standard of physiotherapy research in LMICs can be improved and strengthened. …”
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