Environmental scanning: how developed is information acquisition in Western European companies? by David Benczur

“…Important empirical essays in academic literature are overviewed, including extensive American and also French surveys. These works did not report any major development of Environmental Scanning Systems throughout the years or significant changes due to the Internet. …”
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Pengaruh Terapi Pijat Terhadap Kenaikan Berat Badan Bayi Prematur di RSUP. Dr. M. Djamil Padang by Yori Rahmi, Wedya Wahyu, Eliza Anas

“…One of the non-invasive actions that encourage weight gain is massage therapy. According to the American Association of Massage Therapy (AMTA), massage is defined as the manipulation of soft tissue using hands or body to hold, move, or apply stress manually. …”
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Is there a “Meditative-polemic-May”? by Maruszka Eve-Marie Meinard

“…The examples extracted from Google reveal that this specific use of MAY and MIGHT is mostly found in American English, that it is mostly used in journals, and that the subclause refers to past events that could logically be expected. …”
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AMÉRICA LATINA Y EL GIRO BOTÁNICO EN LOS ESTUDIOS CULTURALES1 by Alejandro Ponce de León

“…Este artículo traza los contornos del reciente giro hacia la vida vegetal dentro de los estudios culturales latinoamericanos, a partir de una lectura de tres libros: el volumen editado por Monica Gagliano, John Ryan y Patrıcia Vieira The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature; el libro de Theresa Miller Plant Kin: A Multispecies Ethnography in Indigenous Brazil; y The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature de Lesley Wylie. El escrito presenta algunas de las contribuciones y posibilidades que hacen los trabajos dentro del giro botánico a las conversaciones de los estudios culturales, y luego señala cómo la especificidad latinoamericana ofrece y demanda novedosas estrategias metodológicas y conceptuales con las cuales abordar las enredadas relaciones entre los humanos y las plantas en el contexto regional. …”
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The Historical Sociology of Rural-Urban Development by James Scott: Against Simplifications by A. M. Nikulin

“…This article is a critical analysis of the historical and sociological works of the American political anthropologist J. S. Scott (1936-2024). …”
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Nosocomial Isolates and Their Drug Resistant Pattern in ICU Patients at National Institute of Neurological and Allied Sciences, Nepal by Pashupati Bhandari, Ganesh Thapa, Bharat Mani Pokhrel, Dwij Raj Bhatta, Upendra Devkota

“…A standard methodology was used to achieve these objectives as per recommendation of American Society for Microbiology. ESBL was detected by combined disc assay using cefotaxime and cefotaxime clavulanic acid, ABL by inhibitor based method using cefoxitin and phenylboronic acid, and MBL by imipenem-EDTA combined disk method. …”
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Decision Support Model for Design of High-Performance Concrete Mixtures Using Two-Phase AHP-TOPSIS Approach by Mohd. Ahmed, M. N. Qureshi, Javed Mallick, Mohd. Abul Hasan, Mahmoud Hussain

“…Three methods of concrete mix design, namely, American Concrete Institute (ACI) mix design method, Department of Energy (DOE) method, and Fineness Modulus (FM) method, are considered for ranking mix design methods and the resulting mix factors. …”
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Gender earnings ratio differences among population groups in Canada by Aneta Bonikowska

“…There was essentially no change among Black and South Asian workers, and small declines were seen in the gender earnings ratio among Japanese, Latin American, and Arab and West Asian employees.…”
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Expanding the Role of Primary Care in the Prevention and Treatment of Childhood Obesity: A Review of Clinic- and Community-Based Recommendations and Interventions by Michaela Vine, Margaret B. Hargreaves, Ronette R. Briefel, Cara Orfield

“…By aligning the most promising interventions with recommendations published over the past decade by the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and other health organizations, we present nine areas in which providers can promote the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity through efforts in clinical and community settings: weight status assessment and monitoring, healthy lifestyle promotion, treatment, clinician skill development, clinic infrastructure development, community program referrals, community health education, multisector community initiatives, and policy advocacy.…”
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Autobiographies of Spanish Refugee Children at the Quaker Home in La Rouvière (France, 1940) : Humanitarian Communication and Children’s Writings by Célia Keren

“…This paper attempts to present and tackle some of those, through the study of fifteen biographical notebooks written around 1940-1941 by Spanish refugee children who lived at La Rouvière in France, in a colony created and run by the American Quakers Friends Service Committee (AFSC). …”
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Scale-Dependent Browsing Patterns on Canada Yew (Taxus canadensis) by White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) by Steve K. Windels, David J. Flaspohler

“…Canada yew (Taxus canadensis) is a clonal shrub that forms discrete patches and was formerly an important component of forest understories in much of northeastern North America. Following Euro-American settlement, Canada yew has been extirpated or reduced in abundance throughout much of its former range, particularly in the USA; winter browsing by white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) has been implicated as responsible for much of its decline. …”
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Lung Cancer with Skin and Breast Metastasis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Bikash Bhattarai, Marie Frances Schmidt, Meenakshi Ghosh, Abhisekh Sinha Ray, Saveena Manhas, Vikram Oke, Chidozie Charles Agu, Md. Rawshan Basunia, Danilo Enriquez, Joseph Quist, Catherine Bianchi, Ravi Hans, Saroj Kandel

“…A 48-year-old African American male with a past medical history of poorly differentiated left breast cancer status after modified radical mastectomy (MRM), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and smoking (20 pack-years) presents to the ER with progressive shortness of breath on exertion, upper back pain, and weight loss for 2 months in duration. …”
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Quand Bradley Manning devint Chelsea. De la NBC à Wikipédia, l’espace public comme scène d’une transition de genre by Fabienne Malbois, Léonore Cabin

“…Indeed, on the 22nd of August 2013, Bradley Manning, a former US Army intelligence analyst incarcerated in an American military prison for having delivered confidential cables to WikiLeaks, let the public know through a statement sent to NBC that he had always been a woman. …”
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Facultative parthenogenesis: a transient state in transitions between sex and obligate asexuality in stick insects? by Larose, Chloé, Lavanchy, Guillaume, Freitas, Susana, Parker, Darren J., Schwander, Tanja

“…We discovered and characterised facultatively parthenogenetic populations of the North American stick insect Timema douglasi, a species in which only obligately parthenogenetic populations were known so far. …”
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Applying Concepts of Curriculum Design and Cultural Adaptation: Collaborating on a Dual-Degree Occupational Therapy Program in Mainland China by Julie McLaughlin Gray, Ling Yu (Elena) Meng, Adley Chan, Cameron Chang, Yijun Liu, Liguo Qian, Hui Wang, Ninghua Wang, Yanyan Yang, Mouwang Zhou, Grace T. Baranek

“…As part of an international partnership, a dual-degree graduate program in occupational therapy was established between a Chinese and an American university. A team composed of members from both institutions collaborated on culturally adapting an entry-level master’s program in occupational therapy for China, based on a U.S. program, which welcomed its first cohort in September 2019. …”
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THE TRANSITION “SCHOOL – UNIVERSITY”: PREDICTORS OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS by T. A. SAPRYKINA

“…The theme of factors of academic achievement of students, on the one hand, is well developed in the American research tradition, where this issue is highlighted in hundreds of works and dozens of different experimental plans. …”
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Vers une démocratisation de l’éducation et de la formation par les MOOC ? Étude des caractéristiques des utilisateurs de la plateforme France Université Numérique by Éléonore Vrillon

“…Using data collection (n=5709) from an ad hoc questionnaire disseminated to 12 MOOC offered by the french government platform France Université Numérique (FUN), we found differences between American MOOC student profile and French MOOC student. …”
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Traumatic Death due to Simultaneous Double Spine Fractures in Patient with Ankylosing Spondylitis by Mitsuru Yagi, Shunsuke Sato, Atsushi Miyake, Takashi Asazuma

“…CT scan showed a displaced fracture at the C6/C7 with American Spinal Injury Association-A spinal cord injury and displaced fracture at L1. …”
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Representations of the First Colonial “Civil War” in Victoria’s Reign: the Canadian Rebellions in the English Press (1837–1838) by Françoise Lejeune

“…English leaders and editorials reported on a “civil war” in the colonies, while American newspapers whose despatches were quoted verbatim in the English press, more often referred to “rebellions” or “insurrections”. …”
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La mise en art de la Blackfoot Valley (Montana, USA) ou comment (ré) concilier le front minier et le front écologique ? by Sylvain Guyot, Gabrielle Saumon

“…This article presents a Rocky Mountain valley in the state of Montana (USA), a central symbolic space of the American West that is heavily marked by the identity-charged notions of “wilderness” and “frontier”. …”
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