An alternative perspective on the relationship between multiscale built environments and walking behavior: evidence from the government-subsidized resettlement towns in China by Jieqiong Wang, Jing Huang

“…Disadvantaged population subgroups have been increasingly displaced to low-investment neighborhoods at the urban periphery, contributing to concerns about public health and inequality in healthy living environments. This study focuses on Chinese large-scale government-subsidized resettlement towns and examines what significant neighborhood-level mesoscale and street-level microscale environmental factors are and to what extent they affect residents’ (n = 512) socio-environmental perceptions and walking behavior. …”
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Etude de cas : la bipédie des chimpanzés de la communauté de Sebitoli, Ouganda by Lise Pernel, Brigitte Senut, Dominique Gommery, John Paul Okimat, Edward Asalu, Sabrina Krief

“…Bipedalism in chimpanzees in the wild and a chimpanzee living with humans were studied to achieve this. In the wild population, the adoption of bipedal behaviours enables chimpanzees to stand up to detect possible threats, free their hands for carrying objects, extract food that is difficult to access, or parade. …”
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From Vision to Reality: The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Different Urban Planning Phases by Frank Othengrafen, Lars Sievers, Eva Reinecke

“…The AI approach can make municipal administration and planning processes more efficient, improve environmental and living conditions (e.g., air quality, inventory of road damages, etc.), or strengthen the participation of residents in decision-making processes. …”
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Research Progress on Biomaterials for Spinal Cord Repair by Liao Z, Bao Q, Saijilahu, Chimedtseren C, Tumurbaatar K, Saijilafu

“…In addition, combined or synergistic effects of spinal cord repair can be achieved by integrating different strategies, including the use of various biomaterials and microstructures, as well as combining bioactive molecules and living cells. Therefore, it is possible to use tissue engineering scaffolds to regulate the local microenvironment of the injured spinal cord, which may achieve better functional recovery in spinal cord injury repair. …”
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Exploring the Caregiver Role after Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Parkinson’s Disease: A Qualitative Analysis by Suzette Shahmoon, Patricia Limousin, Marjan Jahanshahi

“…Eight struggled to reflect on their own lived experience and primarily focused on the impact of PD on their partners, such that their transcripts were no longer viable for interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). …”
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Exploring ESL teachers’ experiences about ICT-based 4Cs skills: a phenomenological study by Raja Bahar Khan Soomro, Rifat Abbas Khan, Irfan Ahmed Rind

“…The phenomenological approach offered a rich and nuanced understanding of the five ESL teachers’ experiences by exploring the subjective meanings they attribute to their lived experiences. The findings provided valuable insights into the experiences of ESL teachers and emphasize the significance of ICT-based 4Cs skills in the twenty-first century. …”
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Assessment of Manual Abilities Using the Box and Block Test in Children with Bilateral Cerebral Palsy by Vanessa Zapata-Figueroa, Fernando Ortiz-Corredor

“…The results of the BBT are correlated with the activities of daily living of children with bilateral CP. The data obtained from this test is used to predict the performance of daily activities of these patients in settings such as school and home and helps to identify contextual factors that influence the level of independence in children with bilateral CP.…”
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Addressing Digital Addiction Among University Students: A Study of Digital Detox Techniques in Smartphone and Social Media Addiction by Deniz Yaramış, Recep Ünal

“…While new media offers opportunities that simplify our lives, it also poses the risk of making us dependent on digital technologies. …”
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Hyperactivity and Pro-inflammatory Functions of Platelets in Diabetes by Jordan Greaves, Giordano Pula

“…Cardiovascular complications claim the lives of up to 70% of patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). …”
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Towards an Inclusive Creative Economy by Aji Damanuri, Faruq Ahmad Futaqi

“…Through a qualitative phenomenological approach, this research examines the lives of art actors and stakeholders, as well as the creative economic empowerment strategies implemented by the local government. …”
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Be Your Sister’s Keeper: Personal Experience of Travelling a Lonely Journey in Academia by Duduzile Mzindle

“…This is a qualitative self-study that I narrate my thirty-eight years of lived experiences, and it reflexively evaluates my lonely journey in academia. …”
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Patterns of Language Maintenance Among Algerian-Arabic Speakers in France by Flih Zahia

“…This paper addresses language maintenance and shift among the Algerian minority group in France, which represents the largest immigrant group with 12.7% of the total number of foreigners living in the country. It seeks to compare three generations by examining their language proficiency, language use, and language attitude in order to gauge the degree to which each generation is maintaining the heritage language. …”
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Loneliness among adult cancer survivors in the United States: prevalence and correlates by Christopher W. Wheldon, Avishek Choudhury, Bryan P. McCormick, Juan R. Albertorio-Díaz

“…In our fully adjusted model, years since cancer diagnosis, fair-poor overall health, moderate-high psychological distress, and having children living in the household were all positively and independently associated with moderate-severe loneliness. …”
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Institutional Ethnography: An Approach to Explicate the Ruling Relations in Healthcare Institutions by Farzaneh Mokhtary, Abouali Vedadhir, Akram Sanagoo, Leila Jouybari

“…In this approach, the institutional ethnographer utilizes a wide range of data collection techniques, including interviews, observations, focus group discussions, document collection, and reflexivity to create a description of what people do in their everyday lives. Conclusion The IE is used to identify and understand how higher-level processes and policies impact daily clinical work. …”
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Mortality Clustering in the Family. Fast Life History Trajectories and the Intergenerational Transfer of Infant Death in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Antwerp, Belgium by Robyn Donrovich, Paul Puschmann, Koen Matthijs

“…The results on the age of the mother at birth, her marital status, as well as the living environment suggest that at least part of the intergenerational transfer in infant mortality can be explained on the basis of life history theory: women who grew up in a high-risk family tended to reproduce earlier and faster, and often raised their children without a partner. …”
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Environmental education in schools: sustainability and hope by Azizah Husin, Henny Helmi, Yanti Karmila Nengsih, Muhammad Rendana

“…Teachers expect students to apply and sustain their environmental knowledge, values, and skills in their daily lives. The recommendations are aimed at both schools and teachers. …”
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CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST: STRATEGIC GOALS AND TACTIC ACTIONS by O. A. Kolobov

“…The article describes new technologies of political actions of the Russian Federation in the Middle East region, taking into account the factor of peacemaking and the creation of normal living conditions for the countries and peoples of the Greater Middle East. …”
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Spatiotemporal characteristics of ICT use among chinese older adults by Mao Yaqian, Kubo Tomoko

“…The study also highlights how smartphone use, while enriching older adults' daily lives with increased connectivity and entertainment options, contributes to time fragmentation and new forms of dependency. …”
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FEATURES OF PRE-ROMAN HISTORY OF SPAIN AND MODERN TIME: WHERE ARE SOURCES OF SEPARATISM? by A. A. Orlov

“…Traditionally painful problem for Spain was existence of centrifugal tendencies at the heart of which two main reasons lay: manifestations of the nationalism peculiar to those areas where Catalan, Basque and Galician nationalities historically lived, and a regionalism caused by aspiration of local elite to bigger distance from Madrid. …”
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Analysis of the Localization of physical expansion in Germi city, using VIKOR by Fariba Esfandiari, Soghra Jedi Gheshlagh Ilkhchi, Elnaz Piroozi

“…ncompatibility natural environment in the areas of urban development can create various hazards as well as to provide natural, natural bed is capable of  In relation to climatic factors and soil, slope, climate and restrictions on the physical development of cities, the (Shia, 1369: 68). That threaten the lives of a lot of financial damage, so that a reduction in development processes and precludes the formation of the development process are stable. …”
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