Humanities Education for Engineering Students: Enhancing Soft Skills Development by Fouzia Munir

“…It was found that, as a result of this intervention, they became more aware of these skills and the application of said skills in their daily lives. This study argues for the inclusion of humanities education for engineering students to develop their soft skills and to inspire human values in them.…”
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Controlling an Anatomical Robot Hand Using the Brain-Computer Interface Based on Motor Imagery by H. M. K. K. M. B. Herath, W.R. de Mel

“…In the field of robotics, new technologies for handicapped people are now being built to make their lives simple and effective. The aim of this research is to develop a 3-finger anatomical robot hand model for handicapped people and control (flexion and extension) the robot hand using motor imagery. …”
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Unveiling obstacles in virtual English education: echoes from Vietnamese learners by Le Thanh Thao, Le Xuan Mai, Pham Trut Thuy

“…The current study found some challenges the students often faced when learning online, categorized by three groups, namely teacher-related challenges, student-related challenges, and teacher-and-student living condition-related challenges. Regarding teacher-related challenges, teachers’ lack of abilities to use ICT tools and their attitudes towards teaching online negatively affected the EFL students’ online learning. …”
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BRITISH COLONIAL CONQUEST AND POPULATION MOVEMENT IN NORTHERN NIGERIA 1897– 1903 by Umar Zubairu, Mohammed Auwalu, Adamu Babayo Usman

“…The destructive manner in which towns and villages were shelled and lives were brutally killed, using sophisticated weapons put the innocent population in most unsettled conditions. …”
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Restricting Diversity to Promote Democracy: Community Literacies and Playing Across Spaces by Owen Samantha

“…To her it was significant: these pre-verbal children had found a way to independently share aspects of their lives. In 1965 a Nigerian mother commented that volunteering on a care rota in a playgroup in a housing estate in west London gave her the confidence to greet her neighbours when she saw them on the street. …”
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“Explaining Is Where We All Get Into Trouble”: Anti-Philosophical Philosophies in Richard Ford’s Bascombe Novels by Nicholas Manning

“…Frank spends however a great deal of the novel explaining why explanation must be avoided, and why life must be not interpreted, but rather lived. This position may be compared to Nick Shay’s misological efforts, in Don DeLillo’s Underworld, to preserve a “wordless shock” before the world, or the renouncement of the search for meaning in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral (“He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach—that it makes no sense”). …”
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Can Occupational Stress be Reduced by Gamification? A Study of Newcomers by Žigimantas Pečiūra

“…The study involved 575 employees from various fields living in the United Kingdom or the United States who have been working in their new jobs for no longer than one year. …”
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Development of Learning Media for the Elderly to Promote Child Health in the Community by Napalai Chaimaha, Supawadee Putthinoi, Suchitporn Lersilp

“…Results showed that the participants mostly preferred the topic of activities of daily living (ADL) in children. The learning media contributes two major contents: (a) knowledge of child development in five types of ADL performance, brushing, eating, dressing, bathing, and toileting, and (b) methods in teaching ADL skills in children. …”
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High-Bandwidth and Energy-Efficient Memory Interfaces for the Data-Centric Era: Recent Advances, Design Challenges, and Future Prospects by Joo-Hyung Chae

“…Currently, we are living in a data-centric era as the need for large amounts of data has dramatically increased due to the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in a variety of technology domains. …”
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Morphological evidence supports splitting of species in the North Atlantic Sebastes spp. complex. by Ingrid Marie Bruvold, Agneta Hansen, Arve Lynghammar, Hannes Höffle, Tanja Hanebrekke, Caroline Aas Tranang, Kjell Nedreaas, Einar Nilssen, Atal Saha, Torild Johansen

“…The redfishes (genus Sebastes) are long-lived, commercial species in the North Atlantic. …”
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Apport de la micro-usure dentaire à la reconstitution du régime alimentaire des anciens Pascuans by Caroline Polet, Céline Bourdon, Martine Vercauteren, Jean-Louis Slachmuylder

“…This study concerns the analysis of the dental microwear of 71 Easter Islanders who lived between the 13th and the 20th centuries and whose skeletons are housed in the Sebastian Englert Museum (Easter Island) as well as the Royal Institute of Natural Sciences of Belgium.The vestibular surface of the first and second permanent molars was examined by electron scanning microscope, at an enlargement of 178 times. …”
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Experimental and Numerical Failure Analysis of Adhesive Composite Joints by Farhad Asgari Mehrabadi

“…Results are discussed in terms of their relationship with adhesively bonded joints and thus can be used to develop appropriate approaches aimed at using adhesive bonding and extending the lives of adhesively bonded repairs for aerospace structures.…”
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„Sprache macht den Freigang der Gedanken möglich“. Zu den sprichwörtlichen Aphorismen von Franz Hodjak by Wolfgang Mieder

“…The author Franz Hodjak, born on September 27, 1944 in Romania and living in Germany since October 19, 1992, has become known through his poems and novels. …”
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Designing Learning Materials for Systems of Linear Equations in Two Variables in the Context of Jakabaring Tourism in Palembang by Marta Risa Putri Utami, Zulkardi Zulkardi, Ely Susanti, Meryansumayeka Meryansumayeka

“…This study aims to describe the design of an HLT for the SLETV topic using the context of Jakabaring tourism in Palembang, which is relevant to students' daily lives. The method used is design research, consisting of three stages: preliminary design, design experiment (pilot experiment and teaching experiment), and retrospective analysis. …”
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Exercising Tactically for Taming Postmeal Glucose Surges by Elsamma Chacko

“…Promoting the kind of physical activity that best counters postmeal hyperglycemia is crucial because hundreds of millions of diabetes patients living in developing countries and in the pockets of poverty in the West must do without medicines, supplies, and special diets. …”
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Access to clean energy in Africa revisited: The roles of women empowerment, corruption control, FDI and sectoral growth. by Kwame Adjei-Mantey, Paul Adjei Kwakwa, Eleazer Ankrah

“…The results suggest that African countries could enhance access to clean energy for its citizens and harness the full potential of clean energy, to promote sustainable development and improve the lives of their population, by empowering women, fighting corruption, and cultivating balanced economic growth.…”
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Évolution du système alimentaire haut-alpin by Aurélie Rousselot-Pailley

“…The mountain population living on the territory of the « Pays des Écrins » (department of Hautes-Alpes, France), today very heterogeneous, present a way of life which satys within modernity but still transporting ancient foodways that we can identify in the history of these rural societies. …”
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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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Family Health Conversations: How Do They Support Health? by Carina Persson, Eva Benzein

“…Research shows that living with illness can be a distressing experience for the family and may result in suffering and reduced health. …”
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The hydrochemistry of Angwan Mallam and environs (PART OF KEFFI SHEET 208 NE) by Adama Baba, Olalekan Agboola Olowoyeye

“…The cation, anion, and heavy element are majorly derived from leaching of the surrounding rocks and human activities influence as the mining activities in some of the villages does not contaminate or pollute its water, soil and wellbeing of the people living in Agwan mallam. The findings will be a benefit to Environmental Impact Assessment of Agwa mallam as the water in the area meets the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, Draft for National Standard for Drinking water, and World Health Organization guideline. …”
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