Under the Watch of the State? Refugee Parents’ Experiences with Surveillance in Norwegian Early Childhood Education Centers by Eric Kimathi

“…Their goal is to reduce suspicion and achieve minimal welfare state surveillance and intervention in their family lives.…”
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George Floyd, bad governance, and the silent violations of African human rights by Tata Emmanuel Sunjo

“…The world was unequivocal in denouncing such an outrageous act, but Black people living in Sub-Saharan Africa continue to face multiple right violations. …”
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Embodied and hybrid pedagogies: by I. Nell

“…Factors at play in ecumenical exposure include the content of the programme, the diversity of the student population, as well as the reflective and participatory practices of teaching, learning, and assessing in lived faith contexts. The article especially emphasises a one-day pilgrimage among the lived faith practices. …”
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Impermanence and Architecture. Ideas, Concepts, Words by Massimo Perriccioli

“…Temporariness, in its different ways of interpretation, is an emerging theme of the contemporary architectural research and raises questions about the effects of new technologies, both tangible and intangible, on ways of conceiving and realizing spaces for contemporary living. In reconsidering the concepts of stability and permanence within the process that establishes a new relationship between architectural space and time, a design approach oriented to the experimentation of innovative solutions and new structures of living is urged, towards a building philosophy in which construction becomes an act of conscious and continuously definable transformation, which arrange the time of technique to the life of man and re-establishes the importance of the temporal dimension as an environmental issue of the project.…”
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The experiences of children and young people with complex needs being cared for away from home: a cross-border study by Kirsten Stalker, Charlotte MacDonald, Rena Phillips, John Carpenter

“…She suggested that a major barrier to meeting these children's needs lies in the hidden nature of their experiences, with little information available about who they are and what their lives are like.…”

Book Review by Muhammed Haron

“…These scholars covered snippets of these personalities’ lives that included brief background notes and other biographical information. …”
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HIV and Menopause: A Systematic Review of the Effects of HIV Infection on Age at Menopause and the Effects of Menopause on Response to Antiretroviral Therapy by Kentaro Imai, Madeline Y. Sutton, Rennatus Mdodo, Carlos del Rio

“…More than half of persons living with HIV infection in the United States (U.S.) will be ≥50 years of age by 2020, including postmenopausal women. …”
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Development of a control support system for smart homes using the analysis of user interests based on mixed reality by Yuka Sone, Chifuyu Matsumoto, Jinseok Woo, Yasuhiro Ohyama

“…Abstract In recent years, IoT technologies have made our daily lives more convenient and comfortable. In particular, these technologies are being actively utilized in our living environments through the development of various smart home appliances. …”
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Environmental Influences on Young Adult Male Height. A Comparison of Town and Countryside in the Netherlands, 1815-1900 by Jan Kok, Erik Beekink, David Bijsterbosch

“…The first phase of industrialization has often been associated with decreasing standards of living for workers, and early industrial towns and cities gained bad reputations. …”
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Environmental Influences on Young Adult Male Height. A Comparison of Town and Countryside in the Netherlands, 1815-1900 by Jan Kok, Erik Beekink, David Bijsterbosch

“…The first phase of industrialization has often been associated with decreasing standards of living for workers, and early industrial towns and cities gained bad reputations. …”
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Environmental Influences on Young Adult Male Height. A Comparison of Town and Countryside in the Netherlands, 1815-1900 by Jan Kok, Erik Beekink, David Bijsterbosch

“…The first phase of industrialization has often been associated with decreasing standards of living for workers, and early industrial towns and cities gained bad reputations. …”
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Environmental Influences on Young Adult Male Height. A Comparison of Town and Countryside in the Netherlands, 1815-1900 by Jan Kok, Erik Beekink, David Bijsterbosch

“… The first phase of industrialization has often been associated with decreasing standards of living for workers, and early industrial towns and cities gained bad reputations. …”
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Predictors of Delayed Entry into Medical Care of Children Diagnosed with HIV Infection: Data from an HIV Cohort Study in India by Gerardo Alvarez-Uria, Praveen Kumar Naik, Manoranjan Midde, Raghavakalyan Pakam

“…Factors associated with delayed entry into care were being diagnosed after mother’s HIV diagnosis, belonging to scheduled castes, age <18 months, female gender, and living >90 minutes from the HIV centre. Children whose parents were alive and were living in a rented house were at a higher risk of delayed entry into care than those who were living in an owned house. …”
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Cognitive Strategies and Physical Activity in Older Adults: A Discriminant Analysis by Nathalie André, Claude Ferrand, Cédric Albinet, Michel Audiffren

“…Although a number of studies have examined sociodemographic, psychosocial, and environmental determinants of the level of physical activity (PA) for older people, little attention has been paid to the predictive power of cognitive strategies for independently living older adults. However, cognitive strategies have recently been considered to be critical in the management of day-to-day living. …”
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Assessment of Soil Organic Matter and Its Microbial Role in Selected Locations in the South Bohemia Region (Czech Republic) by David Kabelka, Petr Konvalina, Marek Kopecký, Eva Klenotová, Jaroslav Šíma

“…It can be divided and classified based on several aspects; the most general division is between the living and non-living parts of organic matter. The results presented in this paper specifically refer to the living microbial part of organic matter. …”
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AI-driven 3D bioprinting for regenerative medicine: From bench to bedside by Zhenrui Zhang, Xianhao Zhou, Yongcong Fang, Zhuo Xiong, Ting Zhang

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Use of mobile phones to collect data on COVID-19: phone access and participation rates, in Rakai, Uganda by Robert Ssekubugu, Anthony Ndyanabo, Fredrick Makumbi, Anna Mia Ekström, Laura Beres, Grace Nalwoga Kigozi, Hadijja Nakawooya, Joseph Ssekasanvu, Maria J Wawer, Fred Nalugoda, Nelson Sewankambo, Victor Ssempijja, Betty Nantume, David Serwadda, Godfrey Kigozi, Ronald H. Gray, Larry W. Chang, M. Kate Grabowski, Helena Nordenstedt, Joseph Kagaayi

“…Survey participation was higher among people living with HIV compared to HIV-negative individuals (84.0% vs 81.4%, p < .001) in the face-to-face survey, but in the phone survey the reverse was found, with participation rates being higher among HIV-negative individuals compared to people living with HIV (78.0% vs 71.6%, p < .001). …”
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Die pastorale gesprek binne 'n narratiewe diakonale pastoraat by PR van Heerden, DJ Kotzé

“… The person and the problem often becomes so intertwined that people's lives and relationships are constituted by their problems. …”
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An Ecological Approach to Contemporary Rural Identities: The Case of Tourism Farms in South-East Estonia by Ester Võsu, Maarja Kaaristo

“…We focus on how tourism farmers use the potential of their living environment, consisting of both cultural and natural elements, for designing and mediating certain affordances for activities that can be performed in their farms. …”
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What lay illness narratives reveal about AIDS-related stigmatization by Adelia Carstens

“… The main purpose of this contribution is to broaden the understanding of variables surrounding the stigmatization of people living with HIV/AIDS by analyzing a corpus of Afrikaans-speaking teenagers' narratives on HIV/AIDS. …”
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