“A glass half full” or “a breastless dwarf”: Metaphorical talk in women’s accounts of Turner syndrome by Kamila Ciepiela

“… This paper examines body-related metaphors used by Polish women to describe lived experiences associated with Turner syndrome (TS), and highlights the contribution this form of analysis can make to the study of health, emotional well-being, and social identity. …”
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Track Circuits Fault Diagnosis Method Based on the UNet-LSTM Network (ULN) by Weijie Tao, Xiaowei Li, Zheng Li

“…As a commonly used mode of transportation in people’s daily lives, the normal operation of railway transportation is crucial. …”
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DNA Polymerase: Structural Homology, Conformational Dynamics, and the Effects of Carcinogenic DNA Adducts by Richard G. Federley, Louis J. Romano

“…Recent studies have identified novel states that have been hypothesised to test the fit of the nascent base pair, and have also shown the enzyme to possess a lively quality by continually sampling various conformations. …”
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Environmental crises and climate change: Eco-anxiety among young people and the urgent need for a transformative response by Annamaria Lammel

“…Young people are particularly susceptible: 47% of young adults in the US state that it impacts their day-to-day lives. Children are especially vulnerable and may develop eco-anxiety from as young as 8 years old. …”
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The Role of Oxidative Stress in the Aging Process by Barbara F. Oliveira, José Augusto Nogueira-Machado, Míriam M. Chaves

“…ROS/RNS are known to play a dual role in biological systems since they can be either harmful or beneficial to living systems.…”
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Weimar Migrations: Katherine Anne Porter in Berlin by Joseph Kuhn

“…In the 1920s and the 1930s the Texas author Katherine Anne Porter lived out the life of a modernist expatriate, restlessly moving from one country to another, but it was a short trip to Weimar Berlin between September 1931 and January 1932 that had the strongest influence on her fiction. …”
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Are adverse childhood experiences scores associated with heroism or villainy? A quantitative observational study of Marvel and DC Cinematic Universe characters. by Julia Wigmore, Bilal Ahmed, Gabriel Joaquino, Elke Jaibeeh Barah, Zahra Upal, Teressa Boring, Marika Lee, Eron Muel, Samantha Perry, Sandra Davidson, Carla Ginn, Carla Ferreira, Twyla Ens, Jennifer Jackson

“…Many superhero and villain stories include trauma, which could influence how the public perceives the impact of trauma in their own lives. Our aim was to assess whether total Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) scores were associated with heroism or villainy among Marvel and DC Characters. …”
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Automatic incident detection in smart city using multiple traffic flow parameters via V2X communication by Zafar Iqbal, Majid Iqbal Khan

“…Recent research trends in intelligent transportation system are focused toward developing automatic incident detection systems to deal with on-road incidents including accidents, traffic congestion, and jamming which cause damage to precious human lives and financial losses. Most of the existing automatic incident detection systems use fixed detectors to detect traffic parameters like occupancy, speed, and lane change information. …”
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Comprehension of HIV/AIDS messages in Lesotho by Olutunmise Adesola Ojo, Rudi de Lange

“…Even though the cost of the ineffective use of graphic images in information and awareness might be difficult to calculate – especially with regard to health-related problems in which lives are involved, – the effectiveness of any visual healthcommunication material in terms of meaningful learning, comprehension or retention can nevertheless be determined by means of post-testing. …”
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The Effects of Morus alba and Acacia catechu on Quality of Life and Overall Function in Adults with Osteoarthritis of the Knee by Douglas S. Kalman, Susan J. Hewlings

“…Discomfort, stiffness, and activities of daily living measured by the WOMAC questionnaire and VAS (pain/discomfort) were improved within all groups. …”
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Jusqu’où va la mer ? Une exploration des marges de l’anthropologie maritime by Alix Levain, Pauline Laval

“…Emphasizing the singularity of the experience of life at sea, maritime anthropology particularly leaned until now on the comparative ethnography of fishing communities in oceanic environments. Societies living close to estuaries and coastal rivers also feel the influence of the sea under various forms, both direct - as the intimacy with the aquatic environment - and indirect. …”
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(Im)mobile phones by Alette Schoon, Larry Strelitz

“…What does the mobile phone become when one is not part of a mobile globalised elite, but poor, unemployed and living on the margins of society in the global south? …”
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John James Bezer (1816–1888) and his Autobiography of One of the Chartist Rebels of 1848 (1851) by Madeleine Pham-Thanh

“…While explaining the origin and nature of a working-man’s political commitment, and fleshing out the figure of the ‘Chartist rebel’ in popular imagination, Bezer’s narrative is an opportunity to substantiate the radical discourse as something drawn from lived experience. This political outlook oscillates between the individualistic ‘I’ of autobiography, and the generic subject indissociable from collective destiny. …”
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Urban Thermal Comfort - Reality and Challenges by Aneta Afelt, Wojciech Szymalski, Kamil Leziak

“…Each of the topoclimatic types can be characterised by a specific sensitivity to the occurrence of high air temperature, which has its direct impact on the parameters of thermal bioregulation of an individual living in the urban space. The analysis of topoclimatic conditions is presented on the example of two towns near Warsaw: Mińsk Mazowiecki and Wołomin. …”
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Introduction: Urban-Rural Differences in Historical Demography by Christa Matthys, Jan Kok, Richard Paping

“…Rather, demographic behavior was affected by a diversity of local conditions, including various town sizes, calling for a further exploration of the impact of local demographic, working and living conditions. The studies in this issue also warn against simplified views regarding migrants in the past, for instance, their depiction of being of relatively humble social background. …”
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Cardiac function and quality of life improvement with fasudil hydrochloride in patients with diabetes post-PCI: a randomized controlled trial by Xuejia Yang, Qian Li, Yaning Liu, Ran Chen, Yanjing Liu, Chenghui Sun, Licha Kong, Qiuli Dong

“…Treatment outcomes were evaluated over 3 months, focusing on cardiac function, blood sugar levels, and quality of life across physical, social, activities of daily living, and psychological domains. Results The experimental group showed significant improvement in cardiac function and blood sugar control, compared with the control group. …”
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A educação popular na formação de trabalhadores da economia solidária: avanços políticos e desafios pedagógicos by Adriane Vieira Ferrarini, Telmo Adams

“…The contradictions only confirmed that popular education is a process that challenges all people involved, with the utopia of building more democratic and supportive ways of producing and living as a point in common and unifying ideal. There is no formula or recipes in popular education, but constructed responses in ongoing dialogue across differences in dealing with contradictions and recreating practices and structures.…”
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Właściwości układu oddechowego młodzieży warszawskiej a zanieczyszczenie środowiska by Dorota Strzyżewska

“…The more detailed analysis of these studies, including data concerning living conditions of studied children and smoking habits within their families is under preparation.…”
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Salivary Biomarker Levels in Children with Sleep Problems Before and After Twin Block Therapy by Trupti Balasaheb Bhosale, Vabitha Shetty

“…Background: Disturbances in sleep have a wide-ranging effect on a child’s life profoundly impacting the standard of living. The aim of this study was to investigate levels of Salivary Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha (TNF-α) and Malondialdehyde (MDA) in a group of children with class II malocclusion and sleep problems before and after twin block appliance therapy. …”
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Réflexions sur l’appropriation du théâtre historique élisabéthain par la scène britannique contemporaine : usages de Macbeth dans Thirteenth Night de Howard Brenton (1981) et Dunsi... by Line Cottegnies

“…The echoes of Macbeth suggest an ambivalent perspective on history, between the hope that it might be possible to learn from the past to despair at the endless return of the same, as conflicts seem to only lead to a short-lived resolution. Of the two adaptations it is Greig’s that manifests the most dialogical relationship to the Shakespearean source: by offering an alternative sequel to the play which puts the Scottish fight for independence centre-stage, Greig offers a critical reading of Macbeth, implicitly that the question of English imperialism is a blind spot in Shakespeare’s play.…”
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