Offline solutions for agricultural extension: Integrating digital libraries into train-the-trainer programs by Laura Hosman, Rachel Nova

“…This article evaluates the effectiveness of a train-the-trainer (TTT) approach that integrates an offline digital library and competency-based training to address both the information and skills needs of extension agents in Rwanda. Using Harper et al.'s (2024) TTT framework, the study assesses a TTT workshop conducted with agriculture extension interns, focusing on their ability to train farmers in CA practices. …”
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Experimenting with twilight learnings and twilight writings for community engagement by Silvia Mugnaini, Åsa Ståhl, Leah Ireland

“…In this article, we show that a reflective community can start to emerge through sharing experiences and knowledges in a confined space that is simultaneously connected to society in a fractal scaling (O’Brien et al. 2023) way. Some of the participants grew so fond of reflecting together on hope, allies, uncertainties, pain and frustrations, that they continued to build the community by articulating themselves through follow-up interviews and through writing together in different ways. …”
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Case report: Low-dose radiation reverses pembrolizumab resistance in melanoma by Ka Hey Agnes Fong, Isaac Ho, Tsz Him So

“…Immunotherapy has been the mainstay of the initial systemic treatment for metastatic melanoma regardless of the tumor’s genetic mutation status (Atkins et al., 2022). It is known to offer long-term overall and treatment-free survival benefits, also with generally tolerable side effect profiles. …”
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Eventually Periodic Solutions of a Max-Type Difference Equation by Taixiang Sun, Jing Liu, Qiuli He, Xin-He Liu, Chunyan Tao

“…We show that if p=1 (or p≥2 and k is odd), then every well-defined solution of this equation is eventually periodic with period k, which generalizes the results of (Elsayed and Stevic´ (2009), Iričanin and Elsayed (2010), Qin et al. (2012), and Xiao and Shi (2013)) to the general case. …”
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EXPOSING SOCIAL INEQUALITY FROM THE MENTALLY ILL REPRESENTATION IN TODD PHILLIPS’ JOKER by Jennifer Gracia Marsena, Sonny Angjaya

“…In analyzing the social inequality aspect of the film, this study uses theory of structural discrimination by Link, et al. which theorizes that laws, policies, or other practices. are discriminating a marginalized group. …”
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LAS TRANSFERENCIAS PÚBLICAS Y SU EFECTO DISTRIBUTIVO. La experiencia de los países del Cono Suren el decenio de los 2000 by Javier Alejo, Marcelo Bérgolo, Fedora Carbajal

“…Este artículo aplica una variante de la metodología de descomposición no paramétrica propuesta por Barros et al (2006, 2007) para evaluar la importancia de las fuentes de ingreso de los hogares, en particular la aportación de las transferencias públicas, en los cambios en la desigualdad de ingresos en los años 2000 en los países del Cono Sur: Argentina, Brasil, Chile y Uruguay. …”
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Towards Symbiocene: Simulation and Extrapolation of Environmental Inevitability in Ecofiction by Pooja Agarwal

“…The current paper seeks to investigate select texts of ecofiction: Megan Hunter’s The End We Start from (2017), Jim Laughter’s Polar City Red (2012), Louis Lowry’s The Giver (1993), and Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia (1975), towards analyzing how ecofiction can foster global eco-consciousness (Wallis 2013) by either instilling a sense of eco-guilt (Agoston et al. 2022) or offering ecological hope (Northcott 2020). …”
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Triangulação metodológica e abordagem multimétodo na pesquisa sociológica: vantagens e desafios by Fabiana Luci de Oliveira

“…I begin by specifying the characteristics of quantitative and qualitative methods, and of their combination (multi-method approach), pointing to the potentials and limitations in this combination, and I conclude describing two studies as examples: a classic research for excellence (Distinction: A social critique of the judgment of taste), in which Bourdieu (1977b) used a combination of methods to verify the determinants of cultural practices, and a more recent study (Corruption and inequality at the crossroad – a Multimethod Study of Bribery and Discrimination in Latin America), in which Fried et al. (2010) discuss the relationship between corruption and social inequality in Latin America, from an experiment followed by qualitative interviews as a way to better understand and explain the results of the experimental phase.…”
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Numerical study of crack path by MMCG specimen using M integral by S. El Kabir, R. Moutou Pitti, N. Recho, Y. Lapusta, F. Dubois

“…In order to study the mixed mode loading in wood material, Moutou Pitti et al [1] have proposed a new specimen called Mixed Mode Crack Growth (MMCG). …”
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Improving the evapotranspiration estimation by coupling soil moisture and atmospheric variables in the relative evapotranspiration parameterization by Elisabet Walker, Virginia Venturini

“…A sigmoid (Fs) and a logarithmic (Fl) F expression were included in Walker et al.’s (2019a,b) equations to evaluate their impact on the accuracy of ET estimations. …”
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Confused Flour Beetle, Tribolium confusum Jacquelin du Val and Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) by Rebecca Baldwin, Thomas R. Fasulo

“…The red flour beetle may elicit an allergic response (Alanko et al. 2000), but is not known to spread disease and does not feed on or damage the structure of a home or furniture. …”
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Cyclic Bicytopenia in a Patient with Shapiro Syndrome by Lindsey E. Roeker, Vinay Gupta, Wilson I. Gonsalves, Alexandra P. Wolanskyj, Naseema Gangat

“…Shapiro syndrome is defined as the constellation of periodic hypothermia and hyperhidrosis along with agenesis of the corpus callosum by Shapiro et al. in 1969. Periodic hypothermia is a more broad diagnosis with a number of proposed mechanisms; it occurs in patients without structural brain abnormalities. …”
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Construire un projet durable de prévention des TMS : dimensions stratégique et pédagogique d’une intervention ergonomique by Nadine Noyer, Flore Barcellini

“…To achieve this, we designed our intervention as a teaching strategy (Dugué et al., 2010), the aim being to transform how the various actors (decision-makers, administrators, school principals...) represented the tensions between management viewpoints, work quality, and health. …”
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Complexity: a new paradigm for fracture mechanics by S. Puzzi, A. Carpinteri

“…Further examples will deal with criticality in the acoustic emissions of damaged structures and with scaling in the time-to-failure (Carpinteri et al. [9]). Eventually, results on the transition towards chaos in the dynamics of cracked beams will be reported (Carpinteri and Pugno [10,11]).…”
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Contando y Capturando Cocodrílidos by Michael S. Cherkiss, Holly E. Fling, Frank J. Mazzotti, Kenneth G. Rice, Marianna D. Conill

“…Estos métodos han sido modificados según la especie en estudio o según las condiciones de su hábitat específico, así como para minimizar el riesgo de daño que puede ser causado tanto a los cocodrilos como al investigador (Webb y Messel 1977; Hutton et al. 1987; Walsh 1987; McDaniel y Hord 1990). Cualquier situación con demandas especiales, requerirá de innovaciones en los métodos utilizados. …”
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Competition of motile and immotile bacterial strains in a petri dish by Silogini Thanarajah, Hao Wang

“…To studybacterial competition in a petri dish, we modify and extend themodel used in Wei et al. (2011) to obtain a group of more generaland realistic PDE models. …”
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Observation of Six Pre-Flare VLP Pulsations in Solar Corona by Malihe Jalalirad, Narges Fathalian

“…Periodicities that we calculated for the VLPs of these flares are between 14.6 and 28.2 minutes, which is in agreement with the results of Tan et al. (2016). The number of pulses observed in each pre-flare is between 4 and 6. …”
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Relapsed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Presenting as Acute Renal Failure by Ashley Rose, Samuel Slone, Eric Padron

“…Renal failure due to bilateral infiltration of tumor cells has been reported in only a few cases and is thought to be a poor prognostic indicator (Luciano and Brewster, 2014; Sherief et al., 2015). Biopsy is essential to the diagnosis of renal infiltration of leukemia. …”
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Grass-like mantid, American grass mantid, Thesprotia graminis, (Scudder, 1878) (Insecta: Mantodea: Thespidae) by Bethany McGregor, Nathan Burkett-Cadena, Andrea Lucky

“…There are 14 Neotropical species within the genus Thesprotia, all of which occur in South America except Thesprotia graminis (Rondon et al. 2007). The type specimen for this species is a male that was collected in Gainesville, Florida. …”
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Low-Dosed X-Ray Computed Tomography Imaging by Regularized Fully Spatial Fractional-Order Perona-Malik Diffusion by Zhiwu Liao

“…These schemes include PMD, regularized PMD (RPMD), and FOPMD in (Hu et al. 2012). Experimental results show that besides good ability in edge preserving, the new scheme also has good stability for iteration number and can avoid artifacts and speckle effect with suitable parameters.…”
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