Ungoverned Spaces and Menace of Herder-Farmer Conflictin Ondo State, South West Nigeria by Adebajo Adeola Aderayo, Orebanjo Abiodun Olusola

“…Herder-farmer conflict led to loss of lives, destruction of property, disruption of  socio-economic activities, food insecurity and distrust among ethnic groups.  …”
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The 2020 IDS Release of the Antwerp COR*-Database. Evaluation, Development and Transformation of a Pre-Existing Database by Sam Jenkinson, Francisco Anguita, Diogo Paiva, Hideko Matsuo, Koen Matthijs

“…An important characteristic is the sample's large migrant population, including the timings of their demographic events and living arrangements, whilst resident in the district of Antwerp. …”
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Cultivating Slow Curating in Times of Acceleration by Alice Semedo, Fabiana Dicuonzo

“…We will argue that slow curating processes cultivate ‘slower’ ways of knowing, act as seedbeds of emergence and as catalysts to transformation that recuperate the pieces of a fragmented territory while also helping to re-locate its existence—its past, its present and its future—in balance with and within a constellation of living networks. Through heritage criticality, we will investigate territory interpretation and intervention examples that adopt disruptive, cross-, inter-, and trans-disciplinary approaches, including artistic, architectural, urban, performative, and curatorial practice, as effects and methods of slow curating taken as a public activity. …”
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Breast Cancer. A Characterization in the Decade from 1996-2005. by Lidia Torres Ajá, Julio César Sarmiento Sánchez, Arístides Sánchez Sánchez, Otto Pacheco Ruiz, Nancy Capin Sarría, Práxedes Rojas Quintana

“…Some variable such as sex, age, affected breast, topographic localization, histological variant, clinical stage at the time of diagnosing, modality of the used biopsy, surgical techniques applied, and municipality where the patient lives. <strong>Results:</strong> The incidence rate in some years is high in regard to the national scope. …”
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The use of technology for social interaction by people with dementia: A scoping review. by Merryn Anderson, Rachel Menon, Katy Oak, Louise Allan

“…The current evidence is limited and variable; future research is warranted including studies with specific loneliness outcome measures, studies focusing on PwD living alone, and technology as part of intervention programmes.…”
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“It’s about finding and knowing myself”: Why Johannesburg-based South African Millennials consume self-help media by Simphiwe Emmanuel Rens

“…As such, these Johannesburg-based South African millennials consume self-help media texts, and the moral grammar of norms, beliefs, and values about successful living encoded therein, as tools for self-management with the goal of “mastering” the self – in relation to others – to understand how best to behave to avoid the “mistakes” that impede the smooth-sailing of what these participants describe as their life journeys. …”
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Raw Materials Synthesis from Heavy Metal Industry Effluents with Bioremediation and Phytomining: A Biomimetic Resource Management Approach by Salmah B. Karman, S. Zaleha M. Diah, Ille C. Gebeshuber

“…Biomimetic resource management comprises bioremediation, biosorption, biosynthesis, phytomining, and further methods that provide innovative ways of interpreting waste and pollutants as raw materials for research and industry, inspired by materials, structures, and processes in living nature.…”
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RETRACTED: Biodiversity Loss with Habitat and Risk of New Diseases by Darshit Ram

“…It relates to the variability among living organisms on the Earth, including the variability within and between species and that within and between ecosystems. …”
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Infants of the Spring (1932): Cutting across the Stage of Harlem’s Black Bohemia by Elisa Cecchinato

“…He did so focusing on the so-called “Niggeratti Manor,” a residence where some of the young Black artists of the Harlem Renaissance lived. At the time, New York was still organized along racially segregated lines and various factors were shaping the uptown neighborhood: the migration of Black Americans from the South to the North of the United States; the urban reforms that aimed to organize this migration; and the political, intellectual, and artistic production that accompanied the Black emancipation struggles. …”
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SELF-DETERMINATION OF THE KURDES IN SYRIA: ORIGINS, FORMS AND INTERNATIONAL PROSPECTS by M. Dyurre

“…Kurds are an indigenous people in this territory and for a long time lived within a single space within the Ottoman Empire. …”
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Relationship between Burnout, Quality of Life, and Work Ability Index—Directions in Prevention by Mirjana Arandjelovic, Maja Nikolic, Slavisa Stamenkovic

“…There is a high degree of work burnout that has not yet been accompanied with significant impairment of quality of living and work ability in exposed workers. That is why a salutogenic approach in the prevention of this phenomenon, by health-promotion programs in the workplace, would be the method of choice for burnout improvement.…”
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Le maïs et la mémoire bioculturelle de Mésoamérique by Víctor M. Toledo, Narciso Barrera-Bassols

“…Growing maize has unceasingly sculpted heterogeneous landscapes, providing meaning to the systems of knowledge about non-human living beings and their intricate cycles. The study of a Purhépecha community from Central Mexico, focusing on the study of their way of thinking and knowledge associated with maize cultivation practices, demonstrates the biocultural existence, adaptation, and resilience of this sacred-plant. …”
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Game-Based Learning: Alternative Approaches to Teaching and Learning Strategies in Health Sciences Education by Zijing Hu

“…This study aimed to explore acupuncture students’ lived experiences with game-based learning at an identified South African university. …”
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Domestication of Arabo-Islamic Words in the Ilọrin Dialect of Yorùbá by Abdulrazaq Mohammed Katibi

“…Yoruba language-like many other living languages- has developed for its ability to accommodate new concepts into its vocabulary. …”
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Managing Major Life Changes: An Exploratory Study Using the Bridges Transitions Framework to Help Foster Youth Prepare for Discharge by Ande A. Nesmith

“…Background: Adolescents in foster care endure frequent disruptive transitions, often culminating in discharge to independent living rather than reunification or adoption. Former foster youth fare poorly once on their own, with high rates of homelessness and social disconnection. …”
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Information sharing between different groups: a qualitative study of information service to business in Japanese public libraries by Shunsaku Tamura, Makiko Miwa, Yasunori Saito, Mika Koshizuka, Yumiko Kasai, Mamiko Matsubayashi, Nozomi Ikeya

“…Sometimes images have political connotations as both librarians and other stakeholders hope the service to be useful in promoting local business and/or industry and advancing local lives.…”
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Plasticity of Neuron-Glial Transmission: Equipping Glia for Long-Term Integration of Network Activity by Wayne Croft, Katharine L. Dobson, Tomas C. Bellamy

“…We argue that induction of glial plasticity typically requires repetitive neuronal firing over long time periods (minutes-hours) rather than the short-lived, stereotyped trigger typical of canonical long-term potentiation. …”
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Goddess Worship and New Spirituality in the Postmodern World: a Brief Overview by T. V. Danylova

“…The cult of the Goddess finds practical application in women’s lives. These are magical rituals, work with the archetypes, life-changing tours. …”
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(Post)Feminist Genealogies in Kate Muir’s Suffragette City ad Lisa Evans’ Old Baggage by Mariana Ripoll Fonollar

“…Suffragette City reproduces the conversations and encounters between the ghost of a Scottish suffragette fighting for her enfranchisement in the twentieth century, and her great-great-granddaughter living in New York at the beginning of the following century. …”
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COVID-19: An Updated Situation from Singapore by Ke-Yan Loo, Angel Yun-Kuan Thye, Lydia Ngiik-Shiew Law, Jodi Woan Fei Law

“…Over 237 million confirmed cases have been reported, and more than 4.8 million lives have been lost due to the novel coronavirus. …”
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