Anthropology and the City. Street Art in Medellín’s Comuna 13: A City-Making Practice and an Ethnographic Tool by Claudio Riga

“…The purpose of the research was to study the impact of street art on the residents’ life experiences. Drawing on walking and photographing ethnography, the research employed a novel method leveraging the local practice of the Graffitour–a guided walking tour based on narrating Comuna 13’s history through street art. …”
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Forest Pedagogy towards the Problem of Polish Educational Monoculture: Projective Pilot Studies by Michał Paluch

“…As it turned out, the respondents most often drew ordered elements of the urban playground infrastructure: swings, slides and sandboxes, in the vicinity of the building of the local kindergarten, which dominated the drawing. What is particularly poignant, in the analysed drawings the forest was only a symbolic background. …”
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Employees’ attitudes and work-related stress in the digital workplace: an empirical investigation by Maddalena Cavicchioli, Fabio Demaria, Francesca Nannetti, Anna Chiara Scapolan, Tommaso Fabbri

“…., job satisfaction, person-organization fit, engagement, and work-life interface) on stress levels.MethodsDrawing on data from Microsoft 365 activity records and an online survey of employees in an Italian AI firm, this study applies Factor Analysis and Generalized Additive Models to analyze the above-mentioned interactions in a highly digitalized context.ResultsFindings indicate that the time–space intensification and extension of the working experience has a significant impact in terms of increasing work-related stress when exceeding certain number of off-hours digital actions and virtual meetings. …”
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Features of personal competence of the employees of preventive activity units of the National Police by O. Yu. Shlomin

“…The obtained results of the research should be used in drawing up programs of psychological support of police officers at different stages of professional development. …”
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Behavioral analysis of loan decision-making and influencing factors among food-producing new agricultural operating entities in China by Jingzhou Wei, Taihuang Fang

“…Access to credit loans emerges as a pivotal means to address capital shortages among farmers and enhance production inputs. Drawing on survey data from 17,745 new agricultural operating entities engaged in food production in Lu’an City, Anhui Province, and agricultural households documented in the China Household Finance Survey Database, this paper employs the Logit model and the Heckman selection model to empirically analyze the loan decision-making behavior of these entities from two perspectives: loan willingness and credit scale. …”
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Średniowieczne źródła antropocentryzmu by Anita Ganowicz-Bączyk

“…., On the other hand, empiricism enhanced both nature (as the subject of cognition and exploitation) and man (as a rational being, who has some extraordinary abilities to use the environment to satisfy his needs). The process of drawing away from the holistic view on nature, of its desacralization and of tending towards controlling it started just in the Middle Ages. …”
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Factors influencing utilisation of services provided by community midwives and their non-retention in district Thatta, Pakistan: a qualitative study protocol by Anam Shahil Feroz, Sarah Saleem, Bakhtawar M Hanif Khowaja

“…Introduction Drawing on the well-acknowledged evidence of community midwives services to address the issue of high maternal mortality, the Government of Pakistan initiated the Community Midwifery (CMW) programme in 2006 to provide skilled birth attendance to pregnant women living in rural areas. …”
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Biomorphic design in landscape architecture: An overview and application via experimental design inspired by species Carica papaya l. by Jović Biljana, Zdimalova Maria, Chemarum Benjamin, Stanojević Anđela

“…Biomorphic design represent a innovative approach to landscape design. By drawing inspiration from the beauty of nature, created structures that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also sustaina­ble, and harmonious with their surroundings.…”
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Exploring Conditions for Designing Citizen Observatories in Sri Lanka: The Case of Air Quality in Rural Areas by Chaminda Rathnayake, Somya Joshi, Teresa Cerratto-Pargman

“…Citizen observatories (COs) are socio-technical initiatives that seek to engage citizens interested in environmental issues via digital applications to gather ecological data, drawing on participatory approaches. While CO projects conducted in the Global North have successfully engaged citizens, less is known about how they engage with citizens in rural areas in the Global South. …”
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Anti-Abortion Mobilization in Latin America: Signs of a Field in Transformation by Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado, María Angélica Peñas-Defago, Camila Gianella Malca

“…However, we can see important convergences among Latin-American cases. Drawing on evidence from case studies of countries in the region, this article analyses the main characteristics of contemporary anti-abortion activism in Latin America. …”
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Shared decision-making interventions in the choice of antipsychotic prescription in people living with psychosis (SHAPE): Protocol for a realist review. by Ita Fitzgerald, Laura J Sahm, Jo Howe, Ian Maidment, Emma Wallace, Erin K Crowley

“…The review will take place over five stages; (1) Locating existing theories, (2) Searching for evidence, (3) Selecting articles, (4) Extracting and organising data and (5) Synthesizing evidence and drawing conclusions. An understanding of how and why interventions work will be achieved by developing realist programme theories on intervention effectiveness through iterative literature reviews and engaging with various stakeholder groups, including patient, clinician and carer representatives.…”
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A multi-attribute decision making context for supply chain management using possibility single-valued neutrosophic soft settings by Saeed Muhammad, Basit Ali Muhammed, Rahman Atiqe Ur, Yasir Hayat Malik Muhammad

“…It enables us to assess the degree to which specific results are acceptable and to make more informed decisions by drawing on the information at our disposal and logic. …”
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Vie et œuvre d’Eugène Poilane (1888-1964) by Ariadna Burgos, Benoît Carré

“…He was interested in the local and documented indigenous knowledge, uses and methods of exploitation of the local flora, while drawing a very precise portrait of the life, customs and colonial spirit of the time. …”
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The optimal route search in Bengaluru city transport using Hamilton circuit algorithm by Parkavi S, Parthiban A

“…One strategy to address the issue of congestion is traffic engineering. So, drawing inspiration and motivation from the outstanding work of Mungporn, Pongsiri et al., “Modeling and control of multiphase interleaved fuel-cell boost converter based on Hamiltonian control theory for transportation applications, IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification 6.2, 2020, pp. 519-529”, in this paper, we study an intelligent agent model to perform route engineering for public transportation in the Bengaluru city, based on the Hamilton circuit algorithm and analyze the best and optimal route among the three significant routes out of twelve available using various parameters. …”
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Online Shopping Behaviour of Slovak During the COVID-19 Pandemic

“…Specifically, it seeks to explore the role of subjective standards and perceived usefulness in shaping consumer behavior in the online shopping domain. Drawing upon a sample of 250 Slovakian consumers and employing correlation analysis, the study reveals a positive association between internal and external subjective standards and consumers' propensity to shop online. …”
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THE THEME OF THE DEPORTATION OF THE CHECHEN PEOPLE IN THE GRAPHIC CYCLE CROSSROADS OF MEMORY (1944-2019) BY RUSTAM YAKHIKHANOV by Zarema R. Khamzatova

“…Yakhihhanov as an example, the study reveals the peculiarities of interpreting ideas and plots to unfold the theme of deportation. Drawing on the life experiences of senior family members and relatives who suffered political repression, the artist conveys personal tragedies and losses to the viewer. …”
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Interaction of the community police officer with the structural units of the National Police and other entities that implement measures to prevent and combat domestic violence by О. О. Panova, M. O. Sherbyna

“…It is determined that the interaction of the community police officer with the service for children can take place within two vectors, namely the prevention (prophylactic measures) of domestic violence (propaganda and explanatory work) and combating domestic violence (drawing up a report on an administrative offense, analysis and collection of information and data indicating violations of children's rights, etc.). …”
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Economic diplomacy of Russia towards Venezuela: From H. Chaves to N. Maduro by K. A. Isaev

“…In recent years, Russia has become one of the key donors for Venezuela with a wide range of economic diplomacy tools at its disposal. Drawing upon official data, as well as recent findings of Russian and foreign researchers, the present paper examines the evolution of Russian economic diplomacy towards Venezuela during the presidency of H. …”
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Facilitation of students’ disembedding in an online visual arts and mathematics education program by Mehtap Kus, Nora S. Newcombe

“…It is important in creating and analyzing artworks by separating a figure from its background, as well as for solving geometric problems where shapes must be viewed from new perspectives. Drawing upon research in psychology, arts, and mathematics education, the present study aimed to facilitate students’ disembedding in an online educational program employing the teaching experiment methodology. …”
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Exploring Teen Pregnancy as a Public Health Problem: A Critical Scoping Review of Public Health Research on Teen Pregnancy in Canada by Sherri Dutton, Mir Sanim Al Mamun, Colleen M. Davison

“…Evaluation of research assumptions can help to move research forward when considering complex public health issues. Drawing on previous critical reviews, this scoping review sought to map not just what teen pregnancy research is available, but how current public health research was orienting to teen pregnancy in Canada. …”
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