Effects of chronic diseases on health related quality of life is mediated by sleep difficulty in middle aged and older adults by Yaoyao Wu, Zesheng Chen, Zongxue Cheng, Zhecong Yu, Kang Qin, Caixia Jiang, Jue Xu

“…Additionally, sleep difficulty influenced the association between chronic diseases and daily activities as well as pain (or discomfort) (β = 0.0083, 95% Bca CI: 0.0042–0.0111; β = 0.0162, 95% Bca CI: 0.0107–0.0225) in the analysis of the dimensions. Sleep difficulty partially mediated the relationship between chronic diseases and HRQoL, and primarily in the daily activities and pain (or discomfort) dimensions in middle-aged and older adults.…”
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THE INFLUENCE OF POPULISM ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF NON-STATE ACTORS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION by Jarosław Filip Czub

“…In addition to its theoretical dimensions, the paper offers a practical approach to the functioning of non-state actors against the backdrop of populism, which has been developing in recent years in the European Union. …”
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Les Archives de la planète, entre ressource documentaire et matière à récits by Valérie Perlès

“…During Albert Khan’s lifetime, the academic, documentary, activist and aesthetic dimensions interacted. Since then, the collections have been passed on to the department of Hauts-de-Seine, and the banker’s estate has become a museum. …”
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Silent no more: sexual violence in conflict as a challenge to the worldwide church by D. Tombs

“…This article argues that a church response should have pastoral, biblical and theological dimensions. Starting with the Silent No More report it examines the prevalence of sexual violence in conflict and the silence of the churches on this subject. …”
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Farewell to Fiestas and Saints? Changing Catholic Practices in Contemporary Rural Oaxaca by Toomas Gross

“…The article scrutinises the changing organisation and role of fiestas in the communities, concluding that the impact of secularisation, migration and Protestantism in particular is not simple and always negative – these changes can actually invigorate certain dimensions of the fiestas.…”
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Ce que la nuit raconte au jour by Luc Gwiazdzinski

“…A sphere for everyone and for no one, the urban night necessitates exchange and cooperation and allows the integration of everyday life issues and sensitive dimensions. This little-explored space-time is conducive to innovation in research methods and tools as well as in public policies. …”
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Ermenautica delle relazioni interspecifiche by Sergio Marchetti

“…In this essay, from my experience as an ethnographer-mariner in the Ermenautica project, I initially propose a perspective on the reduction of the dimensions of the sea by comparing wet ontologies (Steinberg, Peters 2019), the reflections on the subjective signification of the oceans (Helmreich 2010, 2019) and the discourse on planetarity regimes in the humanities (Chakrabarty, Latour 2020). …”
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The Active Outward Orientation of the Organisation by George Angelopulo

“…According to this view, perceptions of real systems can be described along spatial and temporal dimensions: as ahistorical, Inward-looking and struc tural; or as historical, outward-looking and changing. …”
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Analyse économique du paysage et relations de proximités : de l’oubli au conflit by André Torre

“…Then, after having introduced the bases of the analysis of proximities, we show that this approach allows to plan the treatment of landscape’s issues other than value, such as the processes of competition between spaces or the conflicts concerning landscape dimensions.…”
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Topology of black hole phase transition in JT gravity by Hemant Rathi, Dibakar Roychowdhury

“…We present a JT gravity setup coupled with U(1) and SU(2) Yang-Mills fields in two dimensions that reveals the onset of a small black hole to large black hole phase transition at finite chemical potential(s). …”
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“A Wandering Existence”: Social Media Practices of Chinese Youth in the Context of Platform-Swinging by Hongxun Zhao, Jiahui Wang, Xurui Hu

“…It further explores new dimensions of youths’ media practices, emphasizing subjective expression, identity reconstruction, boundary clarification, and visibility control. …”
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Métamorphoses et permanences des parcours professionnels en France (1968-2018) by Marion Plault

“…The empirical foundations this “dominant narrative” are examined on the basis of three dimensions of the professional paths: employment, unemployment, job insecurity and qualification. …”
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Sujets d’Histoire : les renaissances de L’Éducation sentimentale by Judith Frömmer

“…Taken in its radical non-theological dimensions, the concept of rebirth as it is renegotiated by Flaubert’s novel offers a vision on history and historicity which, through the materiality of art, challenges all organs of human reproduction, especially by replacing the use of central perspective and the correlative notions of subjectivity by a “manière absolue de voir les choses”.…”
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Numerical Solution of Time-Fractional Diffusion-Wave Equations via Chebyshev Wavelets Collocation Method by Fengying Zhou, Xiaoyong Xu

“…Moreover, convergence and accuracy estimation of the second-kind Chebyshev wavelets expansion of two dimensions are given. During the process of establishing the expression of the solution, all the initial and boundary conditions are taken into account automatically, which is very convenient for solving the problem under consideration. …”
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Helicopter Control Energy Reduction Using Moving Horizontal Tail by Tugrul Oktay, Firat Sal

“…Parameters of helicopter FCS and dimensions of MHT are simultaneously optimized using a stochastic optimization method, namely, simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (i.e., SPSA). …”
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Nephrocalcinosis: the latest reports on risk factors – a review by Tomasz Dudzik, Łucja Dudzik, Igor Domański, Aleksandra Kozieł, Paulina Wójcik, Natalia Kuderska

“…It calls for further research to explore these new dimensions, particularly the genetic underpinnings and environmental exposures, to develop more effective management strategies and potentially prevent the onset of this complex renal condition.…”
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Green infrastructure in arid urban contexts. Transitioning ecologies beyond Green Riyadh by Monica Moscatelli, Alessandro Raffa

“… Green infrastructures play a crucial role in urban transitions by integrating and coordinating the environmental, economic, and social dimensions. This contribution focuses on green infrastructures within urban contexts characterised by an arid climate, particularly in Riyadh as a hologram of the Saudi city. …”
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Les expérimentations de coopératives énergétiques citoyennes face à leur viabilité by Philippe Hamman

“…The issues of viability are therefore studied in their triple economic, ecological and systemic dimensions. Using the social transactions paradigm, we are able to understand the practical compromises that take place at the territorial level and relativize the so-called major divisions between industrial and centralized energy systems and citizen and decentralized systems. …”
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Collaboratively mapping alternative economies by Adrien Labaeye

“…An array of real and ideal types is proposed in order to help navigate the various dimensions of collaborative mapping. Four lines of discussion are proposed: (1) what can we learn from maps when reframed as mappings – as processes? …”
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Plasmonics: Manipulating Light at the Subwavelength Scale by Cheng-Ping Huang, Yong-Yuan Zhu

“…In the plasmonic waveguide, the light can be guided along the metal surface with subwavelength lateral dimensions, enabling the possibility of high-density integration of the optical elements. …”
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