Foreigner in contemporary Japanese state discourse: Constructing differences between the nation and the Other by D. S. Alekseev

“…This duality reflects Japan’s struggle to balance globalization with affirming national identity in the logic of nihonjinron, highlighting the challenges of integrating foreigners into Japanese society.…”
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Defining familiarity in nursing homes providing care for residents with dementia: a scoping review by Joanna Sun, Sumiyo Brennan, Therese Doan

“…Emphasis on design considerations includes the wellbeing of the designated population and the need to embrace multisensory integration in the design process.ConclusionsA strong link exists between familiarity and key design considerations, such as a homelike environment, wellbeing, and multisensory integration. …”
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Policy Fragmentation, Women’s Land Rights and Governance in Zimbabwe by Newman Tekwa

“…It only through an integrated comprehensive gender-sensitive land policy framework that these challenges faced by women can be resolved. …”
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Access to the European cultural heritage of settlements and towns in the Danube macro-region through interoperable strategies digital transformation by Babin ANATOLIE, Elena PRUS, Elena MARGINEANU

“…Objectives of the study: to analyse the available European best practices and methodology for adaptation in the integration of the regions of the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine in the interregional innovation partnership on the smart specialisation "Cultural and Creative Regional Ecosystems" (CCRE-S3) [1]. …”
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Influence of Magnetic Field on the Peristaltic Flow of a Viscous Fluid through a Finite-Length Cylindrical Tube by S. K. Pandey, Dharmendra Tripathi

“…A significant difference between the propagation of the integral and non-integral number of waves along the tube is that pressure peaks are identical in the former and different in the latter cases.…”
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Improved feature reduction framework for sign language recognition using autoencoders and adaptive Grey Wolf Optimization by Rajeev Goel, Sandhya Bansal, Kavita Gupta

“…This paper proposes technique that integrates machine learning and swarm intelligence to effectively address this issue. …”
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Maximizing Microgrid Efficiency: A Unified Approach with Extended Optimal Propositional Logic Control by Muhammed Cavus

“…An MG can be defined as a system integrating different types of energy sources and control devices. …”
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Diversity in Health Sciences Education: Advocating for Difference in Biological Variability by John Jairo Botello Jaimes, Guillermo Orlando Sierra, John Camilo García Uribe, Angie Katherine Turriago Castañeda, Aníbal Vicente Arteaga Noriega, Kely Johana Acevedo Oquendo, Debis Eduardo Lozano Taborda

“…This approach promotes a holistic and adaptive understanding of learning within the health sciences. Integrating biological diversity and plurality into the training of health professionals is crucial to foster innovation and adaptability among students.…”
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Employee attendance system using face recognition and GPS using local binary pattern histogram by Narahari Vigraha Prasada, Ikrimach

“…Tracking employee attendance is an integral part of running a company in an organized and economical manner. …”
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A 3D Approach for the Virtual Commissioning of Processing Plants by Nikolai Striffler, Tobias Voigt

“…Our approach addresses this by proposing a 3D simulation model architecture that integrates physics-based simulation environments, enabling efficient and accurate generation of dynamic simulation models. …”
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Site Selection of Landfill with emphasis on Hydrogeomorphological – environmental parameters Shahrood-Bastam watershed by Ahmad Reza Arabameri, Mohammad Hossein Ramesht

“…Therefore, numerous criteria must be considered and the selection process is a complicated since it has to integrate social, environmental and technical parameters. …”
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How do events shape the media agenda on Islam and Muslims in Western Europe? An analysis of news events in Germany, the UK and France (2000–2020) by Liriam Sponholz, Anna-Maria Meuth

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Modulation and Multiple Access for Beyond 6G Electromagnetic Nanonetworks in the Terahertz Band by Pankaj Singh, Sung-Yoon Jung

“…These developments have paved the way for integrating fully operational nanonetworks into beyond 6G (B6G) wireless systems. …”
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Impact of Modern Technology on Social Research Methods in Educational Contexts by Horia Aljounid

“…This study contributes to the discourse on technology in educational research by offering insights into both the benefits and challenges of digital tool integration and provides practical recommendations for future research in an increasingly digitalized educational landscape.…”
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Chlorogenic Acids Inhibit Adipogenesis: Implications of Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling Pathway by Mengting Liu, Jian Qin, Jing Cong, Yubin Yang

“…We investigate the effect of CGA in inhibiting adipogenesis and evaluate its role in modulating Wnt10b (wingless integration1 10b), β-catenin, glycogen synthase kinase-3β (GSK-3β), and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPAR-γ) involved in the Wnt (wingless integration1)/β-catenin signaling pathway. …”
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Landscape as guiding element in the design and planning of dutch colonial settlements (1600-1800) by Ron Van Oers

“…Pointers to further research involving the integration of natural and culturallandscapes in and around Cape Town are appended.…”
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Rugularizing generalizable neural radiance field with limited-view images by Wei Sun, Ruijia Cui, Qianzhou Wang, Xianguang Kong, Yanning Zhang

“…To address challenges arising from under-constrained conditions, our approach employs cost volumes for geometry-aware scene reasoning, and integrates relevant knowledge from the ray-cast space and the surrounding-view space using an attention model. …”
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Pursuing Paradigm Shift in Construction Safety Management: A Theoretical Introduction to the Safety Action Evaluation by Ahmed Jalil Al-Bayati, Keith J. Kowalkowski, Daniela Schröter

“…This study proposed a new approach to integrate construction safety management into the responsibilities of frontline supervisors. …”
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Zero-shot reranking with dense encoder models for news background linking by Marwa Essam, Tamer Elsayed

“…In this paper, we investigate multiple methods to integrate both the lexical and semantic relevance signals for better reranking of candidate background links. …”
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Func-Bagging: An Ensemble Learning Strategy for Improving the Performance of Heterogeneous Anomaly Detection Models by Ruinan Qiu, Yongfeng Yin, Qingran Su, Tianyi Guan

“…Bagging enhances model robustness through repeated sampling and weighted averaging of homogeneous classifiers, while stacking improves classification performance by integrating multiple models using meta-learning strategies, taking advantage of the diversity of heterogeneous classifiers. …”
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