Evaluation of Strategic Noise Maps Arising from Urban Traffic by Şafak Hengirmen Tercan, Gökhan Yaman

“…The traffic noise exposes are occurring in the high populated living areas. Strategic noise maps are prepared to identify these noise areas in cities and to create liveable cities. …”
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Guest Editorial: The Gig Economy and Women Workers in the Middle East by Stella Morgana

“…How are ordinary women gig workers re-imagining their tech lives and challenging unwritten rules, patriarchy and lack of access to the labour market? …”
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Eternal City or the Stuff of Nightmares? The Characterisation of Rome in Portrait of a Lady and Middlemarch by Hannah Hunt

“…Their disillusionment and increasing insight about the nature of their marriages is ironically juxtaposed to their sightseeing of a classical civilisation which teaches them how their predecessors in the city lived, through their own eyes and those of various guides. …”
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Participatory ESOL as process and product: Community-based participatory research with refugee English learners by Melissa Hauber-Özer, Joseph Decker

“…We encourage fellow community-engaged scholars to reconnect with the roots of this powerful approach and recognise the importance of living out their onto-epistemological commitments in both the process and the product of participatory inquiry. …”
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Examining the relationships between self-stigma, loneliness, depressive symptoms, and suicidal ideation among people with bipolar disorder by Piotr Świtaj, Paweł Grygiel, Joanna Leciak, Izabela Stefaniak, Sylwia Opozda-Suder, Marta Anczewska

“…Our findings clearly indicate that interventions aiming to reduce the risk of suicide among people with BD should be comprehensive and take into account not only psychiatric symptoms, but also social context and the psychological aspects of living with this diagnosis.…”
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Scaling species interactions: implications for community ecology and biological scaling theory by Douglas S. Glazier

“…Body-size scaling of biotic interactions has not only important implications for the development of synthetic theory bridging community ecology and biological scaling, but also practical applications for understanding the effects of human exploitation and climate change on living systems.…”
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Pentecostal Reinventions of the Passover: Contextual Reflections on the End of Year Night Worship Festivals in Uganda by Alexander Paul Isiko, Enock Kisekka

“…This article therefore discusses the Pentecostal Church reinvention of the ancient Jewish Passover festival to mirror the lives of African Christians in contemporary contexts. …”
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Psychosocial Adjustment to Sex Reassignment Surgery: A Qualitative Examination and Personal Experiences of Six Transsexual Persons in Croatia by Nataša Jokić-Begić, Anita Lauri Korajlija, Tanja Jurin

“…The aim of this study was to depict the factors contributing to the psychosocial adjustment of six transsexual individuals living in Croatia following sex reassignment surgery (SRS). …”
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Digital Representations of Illness: Key Issues in Cancer Patient Narratives by Jennifer Moreno

“…In addition, as reflected in their narratives, patients seem to change their life expectations, values and priorities after living with cancer. Furthermore, our findings suggest that patients may understand certain issues such as ‘being healthy’ differently from the general population.…”
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Investigating the Clinical Characteristics and PITX3Mutations of a Large Chinese Family with Anterior Segment Mesenchymal Dysgenesis and Congenital Posterior Polar Cataract by Hui Dang, Min Peng, Weiyue Gu, Gang Ding, Yuqin Sun, Zhongkai Hao, Ning Wei, Xu Wang, Chenming Zhang, Aijun Deng

“…Among the 36 members in four family generations, there were 11 living cases with different degrees of ocular abnormalities, such as cataracts, leukoplakia, and small cornea. …”
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Design the local square for qualitative upgrading and preserve historical identity Case study: central square of Tabriz gharamalek by sara ghahri lalaklou, rasool darskhan

“…This research is of descriptive-analytical type and the statistical population in the present study are people  in square .random  sampling from people of different ages and insights , after starting with the least number , continued until we reached the theoretical saturation of research.the data collection tools are field and library.the analysis was in the form of an open and closed-ended questionnaire that the validity of the questionnaire was assessed as face validity (experts opinion) . and  whit using the swot technique and spss software were analyzed. among the various items to memorize the square , the name of Gharamalek square with 59.3 % is reminiscent of the historical  and valuable space and with naming this space a living historical place is embodied in people's minds.the sum of factors and applications such as the comprehensive mosque , the historical bath , the silk road and etc have been instrumental in establishing the identity of the square.the silk road that used to cross this area in the past and is not known today , ad a negative effect on people's mental image. …”
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Education Phenomenon in Terms of “Metaphysics of Man” by G. K. Saikina

“…Scheler’s concept of an “educated creature” was taken as an example of a bearer of a metaphysical relation to education, the essential features of which are ontological participation, the culture of the soul, openness to others, and living integrity, freedom, decency, guidance by common sense. …”
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The Ethics of Refusal in Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life by Marguerite La Caze, Magdalena Zolkos

“…We argue that Malick complicates the question of what it means to rise in defiance against power by locating Jägerstätter’s refusal not in religious dogma or a position of righteousness, but depicting it as a lived experience infused with affect, hesitation and doubt. …”
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The The Influence of Perceived Convenience and Service Quality on Customer Loyalty (A Study at the Brilink Agent Bio Energy 2 Sidoarjo) by Devi Putri Pratama, Budi Prabowo

“… Banks are business entities that collect funds from the public in the form of savings and then distribute them to the public in the form of credit and/or other forms to improve people's living standards. The development of the digital world means that the banking world does not want to lose promising business opportunities.  …”
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Evolutionary Explanations of the “Actuarial Senescence in the Wild” and of the “State of Senility” by Giacinto Libertini

“…With the distinction between “damage resulting from intrinsic living processes”[4], alias “age changes”[5], and “age-associated diseases”[4,5], the same theory explaining IMICAW allows a rational interpretation of the first category of phenomena while another theory, the “mutation accumulation” hypothesis, gives an immediate interpretation for the second category.The current gerontological paradigm explaining the increasing mortality with increasing chronological age as consequence of insufficient selection should be restricted to the “age-associated diseases”. …”
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Early Stroke Prediction Methods for Prevention of Strokes by Mandeep Kaur, Sachin R. Sakhare, Kirti Wanjale, Farzana Akter

“…The findings can certainly assist the physicians to detect the stroke at early stages to save the lives of the patients.…”
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Alleviating the public health burden of hypertension: debating precision prevention as a possible solution by Madeleine J. Samakosky, Shane A. Norris

“…Systemic barriers, such as fragmented health services and socioeconomic inequalities, coupled with shifts in greater salt-intake, ultra-processed foods, more sedentary lifestyles, and overburdened healthcare services, have exacerbated elevated blood pressure and poorer management of people living with hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa. Most public health strategies focus on detecting, treating, and controlling hypertension through lifestyle modifications and medication. …”
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Minority Narratives: The Voices of Women Architects from the School of Madrid in Early Democratic Spain (1975-1982) by Josenia Hervás y Heras, Eva Hurtado Torán

“…Their status as a determined minority is reflected in the relationships they established, with friendships and student complicity that accompanied them throughout their lives, as confirmed by their professional collaborations, comments, and vivid memories of their belonging to a group or community.…”
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Dietary Patterns among Eight Grade Adolescents and their Impact on Dietary Adequacy by Zeida Bárbara Alejo, Amarelis Rodríguez Fuente, Daysi López Sosa, Pilar Almaguer Sabina

“…<strong>Background:</strong> the study of dietary patterns in adolescence becomes of great importance because at this stage individuals acquired eating habits that they will keep throughout their lives. These habits, if not adequate, may increase the risk of chronic diseases in adult ages. …”
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Non-hydrostatic depth-integrated models for dam break flows through rigid-emergent vegetation by Mahmoud Adel A., Ginting Bobby Minola, Uchida Tatsuhiko

“…Dam failures can trigger catastrophic downstream flooding, threatening lives, and infrastructure. Vegetation acts like a natural dam break flow buffer, dissipating energy, reducing wave height and celerity. …”
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