Dialogues with Audiovisual Archives by Giulia Taurino

“…This curated section1 explores the state of audiovisual archiving in Europe and North America, emphasizing the dynamic interplay between digitization efforts and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies within traditional archival workflows. …”
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A note on the use of influenza vaccination strategies when supply is limited by Sunmi Lee, Romarie Morales, Carlos Castillo-Chavez

“…The 2009 A (H1N1) influenza pandemic was rather atypical. It began in North America at the start of the spring and in the following months, as it moved south, efforts to develop a vaccine that would mitigate the potential impact of a second wave were accelerated. …”
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Air Transport versus High-Speed Rail: An Overview and Research Agenda by Xiaoqian Sun, Yu Zhang, Sebastian Wandelt

“…This article synthesizes and discusses recently published studies in this area, while aiming to identify commonalities and deviations among different regions throughout the world, covering services from Europe, Asia, and North America. Our meta-analysis reveals that the literature is highly controversial and the results vary substantially from one region to another, and a generalization is difficult, given route-specific characteristics, such as demand distribution, network structure, and evolution of transportation modes. …”
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Atmospheric Contributors to Heavy Rainfall Events in the Arkansas-Red River Basin by Taylor A. McCorkle, Skylar S. Williams, Timothy A. Pfeiffer, Jeffrey B. Basara

“…This study analyzed the top 1% 24-hour rainfall events from 1994 to 2013 at eight climatological sites that represent the east to west precipitation gradient across the Arkansas-Red River Basin in North America. A total of 131 cases were identified and subsequently classified on the synoptic-scale, mesoscale, and local-scale to compile a climatological analysis of these extreme, heavy rainfall events based on atmospheric forcings. …”
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Effects of Breakpoint Changes on Carbapenem Susceptibility Rates ofEnterobacteriaceae: Results from the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program, United States, 2008 to 2012 by Robert P Rennie, Ronald N Jones

“…Data from the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program has shown that Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute breakpoint changes for carbapenems that occurred between 2008 and 2012 in North America have resulted in decreased levels of susceptibility for some species. …”
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Au cœur du bouleau (Betula spp.) et de la conservation en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Québec, Canada) by Michel Rapinski, Alain Cuerrier

“…» Indeed, the botanical classifications of birches in North America are complex and controversial, and the forestry industry often does not consider the distinction between certain species, such as the paper birch (Betula papyrifera Marshall) and the heartleaf birch (Betula cordifolia Regel), as economically relevant. …”
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Self-Management for People with Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Fred Saibil, Emily Lai, Andrew Hayward, Jeanne Yip, Cameron Gilbert

“…In North America and the United Kingdom, we are in the age of self-management. …”
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Black Swan Event and The Stock Market Volatility Response to Shocks in Developed, Emerging, Frontier and the BRIC Markets: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic by Nayanjyoti Bhattacharjee, Anupam De

“…Further, the developed markets in North America, and the frontier markets in Africa were associated with a symmetric volatility response. …”
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Motion – The Available Treatments for Hepatitis C Are Cost Effective: Arguments against the Motion by W Ray Kim

“…Hepatitis C is a prevalent infection in North America. However, the natural history of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the general population is not fully understood. …”
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Willingness to stay or quit: evidence from migrants working in the galway bar and restaurant industry in Ireland by Olaiwola Jamiu Ogunpaimo, Kesiena Ebenade

“…On the contrary, the majority of those willing to build a long-term career in the industry are from the EU, North America and Asia, while a more significant proportion of migrant workers from Africa and South America plan to stop working in the sector. …”
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Opening a Window on Attention: Adjuvant Therapies for Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Qiyue Wang, Shuyi Mi, Zixuan Yu, Qiyi Li, Jiacai Lei

“…The prevalence of IBD in Europe and in North America has increased over the past 20 years. As most IBD patients are young at onset, their quality of life (QOL) can be influenced to varying degrees. …”
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From Prion Diseases to Prion-Like Propagation Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases by Isabelle Acquatella-Tran Van Ba, Thibaut Imberdis, Véronique Perrier

“…In animals, the most frequent prion diseases are scrapie in sheep and goat, bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle, and the emerging chronic wasting disease in wild and captive deer in North America. The hallmark of prion diseases is the deposition in the brain of PrPSc, an abnormal β-sheet-rich form of the cellular prion protein (PrPC) (Prusiner 1982). …”
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Ethical Issues in Pharmacologic Research in Women Undergoing Pregnancy Termination: A Systemic Review and Survey of Researchers by Christelle Gedeon, Alejandro A. Nava-Ocampo, Gideon Koren

“…The majority of studies were completed by international groups and not in North America or Western Europe. Conclusions. While a majority of respondents to the survey felt that, although research in women undergoing a pregnancy termination is ethically acceptable, 40% stated that it is not likely to be approved by institutional review boards of most North American medical institutions.…”
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Discontinuity in the history of taphonomy: rediscovery of early works during the second half of the twentieth century by André Silva, Hermínio Ismael de Araújo Júnior, Rodolfo Dino

“…This paper aims to elucidate factors that contributed to the temporary loss of the European tradition of Taphonomy, developed during the first half of the twentieth century, and its rediscovery and reinvention in North America during the Post-War. Such factors are not restricted to the intellectual content of papers and books produced by researchers but have to do also with linguistic, cultural, historical, and institutional matters, which have shaped and conditioned the reception of ideas and concepts within Paleontology during the twentieth century. …”
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Indigenous Theatre as Resistance: Toronto as a Nexus for Canada’s Burgeoning Indigenous Theatre Scene from Late 1980s to Early 1990s by Raphaela Pavlakos

“…The creation of this space led to the expansion of Indigenous Theatre across Canada and North America, as well as established mainstream interest and space for Indigenous voices, something that was felt through Indigenous activism of this time. …”
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Revue critique de trois outils de modélisation intégrée du territoire et de l’environnement pour la planification en Amérique du nord by Jean-François Guay, Jean-Philippe Waaub

“…Here, we are addressing three modeling tools used in territorial and environmental planning during the past 25 years in North America. This tool set is based on (1) ecological mapping where focus is put on the description of natural/physical landscape, (2) landscape-oriented visual modeling or geovisualization, and (3) spatial modelling which includes cellular automata and multiagent systems which use are intended for the detailed modeling of interactions between individuals and between individuals and their living space. …”
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Global human exposure of atmospheric polybrominated diphenyl ethers: Variation patterns of exposure pathways and phase contributions by Pengtuan Hu, Shimin Zhong, Jin Guo, Mengyao Wang, Shiyu Shi, Donghai Liu, Hao Yu, Fujie Zhu, Yi-Fan Li, Zhiguo Cao

“…The highest daily intake was found in Africa (75.4 pg/(kg·day)), followed by Asia (21.8 pg/(kg·day)), North America (5.38 pg/(kg·day)) and Europe (1.92 pg/(kg·day)). …”
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« I Speak According to the Book » : écriture et logos dans Nixon in China de John Adams et Alice Goodman by Mathieu Duplay

“…While this question was repeatedly raised in North America throughout the twentieth century, its most detailed formulation occurs in the works of Marshall McLuhan; thus, his study of writing as a medium will be invoked in an attempt to highlight the opera’s original contribution to this long-standing debate. …”
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Robustness Analysis of the Regional and Interregional Components of the Weighted World Air Transportation Network by Issa Moussa Diop, Cherif Diallo, Chantal Cherifi, Hocine Cherifi

“…Indeed, it contains five local components covering different regions (North America-Caribbean, Europe-Russia, East and Southeast Asia-Oceania, Africa-Middle East-Southern Asia, and South America) and one global component linking these regions. …”
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REALIZATION OF IDEAS N. I. VAVILOV'S IDEAS IN THE BARLEY BREEDING IN SIBERIA by N. A. Surin, N. E. Lyakhova, S. A. Gerasimov, A. G. Lipshin

“…Crosses between the cultivar ‘Chervonets’ and barley varieties developed in North America resulted in releasing 10 cultivars. In the forest-steppe zone, preference is given to two-row barleys. …”
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