Analysing individual racism portrayal in Hanna Alkaf’s novel The Weight of Our Sky by Shue Wenn Yeoh, Mansour Amini, Kam-Fong Lee, Hu Oumeng

“…The paper investigates the methods of implicit and explicit characterization, particularly in the protagonist who grapples with OCD, showcasing Melati’s psychological struggles. …”
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Deciphering the Immune Subtypes and Signature Genes: A Novel Approach Towards Diagnosing and Prognosticating Severe Asthma Through Interpretable Machine Learning by Yue Hu, Yating Lin, Bo Peng, Chunyan Xiang, Wei Tang

“…While many manage their symptoms through pharmaceutical interventions and self-care, a significant subset grapples with severe asthma, posing therapeutic challenges. …”
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Roma & Sinti Culture as Modern German Studies by Arushi Nair

“…She tells a new story, a different story that opens up a very different perspective from the view provided by scholarship on the Roma and Sinti. In her poems, she  grapples with a continued struggle to find her own voice, like so many others in her generation interested in recovering an identity which doesn’t get served to them on a silver platter. …”
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Roma & Sinti Culture as Modern German Studies by Arushi Nair

“…She tells a new story, a different story that opens up a very different perspective from the view provided by scholarship on the Roma and Sinti. In her poems, she  grapples with a continued struggle to find her own voice, like so many others in her generation interested in recovering an identity which doesn’t get served to them on a silver platter. …”
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A SmartPLS4-based CB-SEM confirmatory factor analysis: A case of speaking needs for Chinese business English undergraduates by Ke Hu, Asmaa Alsaqqaf

“…The findings reveal that the undergraduate respondents grapple with a total of five distinct needs related to OBE instruction. …”
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Intergroup Dialogue Empowering Action for Transforming Equity in Higher Education by Manpreet Dhillon Brar, Jessica Morales-Chicas, Stacy Morris, Imalay Rivera, Rebecca Cannara

“…As universities grapple with contentious socio-political climates, promoting intergroup relations efforts remains critical in mitigating these conflicts. …”
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Developing the Preventing Model of Transnational Crimes in Russia and Indonesia in the Age of Sanctions and Global Economic Instability by Toebagus Galang Windi Pratama, Ruslan Puzikov, Sergey Lantsov, Vadim Ponkratov, Ekaterina Khomenko, Larisa Vatutina, Gustavo Henrique Rodrigues Pessoa

“…This study reveals novel insights into the distinct patterns of transnational crime: Russia primarily faces cybercrime, economic offenses, and money laundering, while Indonesia grapples with human trafficking, environmental crimes, and maritime piracy. …”
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Nipah Virus: A Zoonotic Threat Re-Emerging in the Wake of Global Public Health Challenges by Francesco Branda, Giancarlo Ceccarelli, Marta Giovanetti, Mattia Albanese, Erica Binetti, Massimo Ciccozzi, Fabio Scarpa

“…As the global community grapples with an increasing number of emerging infectious diseases, the Nipah virus stands as a stark reminder of the importance of coordinated surveillance, rapid containment measures, and the urgent development of novel strategies to mitigate the impact of this re-emerging threat.…”
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Materiality in reporting integration in South Africa: A natural language processing analysis by Cornelis T. van der Lugt, Hans-Peter Bakker, Nadia Mans-Kemp

“…Background: The concept of materiality has evolved as companies grapple with non-financial reporting. One result of this is greater diversity in terminology used in reporting narrative. …”
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Protest Wave and Countermeasures of Fear: Lebanese Act of a Global Drama by A. V. Sarabiev

“…The author stresses that from the very beginning socio-economic demands of protestors addressed to the executive power (particularly, to grapple with the rising income inequality) were accompanied by calls for democratization on the secular principles and elimination of political confessionalism. …”
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LAND SUITABILITY ASSESSMENT FOR SOYBEAN (GLYCINE MAX) IN BARDAGHAT MUNICIPALITY USING GIS TECHNIQUES by Birendra Tiwar, Amrit Dumre, Mahesh Jaishi

“…The Bardaghat Municipality, situated in the Nawalparasi West district, grapples with reduced agricultural productivity owing to inadequate land management practices and the absence of thorough land assessments for crops, notably soybean (Glycine max). …”
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Transforming healthcare: Saudi Arabia's vision 2030 healthcare model by Amal K. Suleiman, Long Chiau Ming

“…Prior to Vision 2030, Saudi Arabia's healthcare system grappled with escalating costs and a heavy reliance on foreign labour, signalling a need for transformative change. …”
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D2CBDAMAttUnet: Dual-Decoder Convolution Block Dual Attention Unet for Accurate Retinal Vessel Segmentation From Fundus Images by Vo Trong Quang Huy, Chih-Min Lin

“…However, these methods often grapple with challenges such as loss of vital information during pooling and insufficient handling of local context in skip connections, leading to less than optimal results. …”
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Post-Pandemic Inflation Dynamics: a Comparative Study of the Fiscal Theory in the Czech Republic and France by Makovský, Petr, Descubes, Irena, Hřebík, František

“…Background: In the post-2021 era, Central Europe grapples with enduringly high inflation rates, challenging the effectiveness of conventional monetary policy tools. …”
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MRCNN: Multi-input residual convolution neural network for three-dimensional reconstruction of bubble flows from light field images by Heng Zhang, Jiayi Li, Niujia Sun, Hua Li, Qin Hang

“…Nevertheless, conventional bubble measurement techniques grapple with challenges encompassing system intricacy, limited real-time capabilities, and inaccuracies stemming from their inherent two-dimensional (2-D) nature. …”
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Urban Green Spaces in Brazil: Challenges and Opportunities in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic by Romero Gomes Pereira da Silva, Cláudia Lins Lima, Sterling D. Quinn, Aneta Afelt, Anne-Elisabeth Laques, Carlos Hiroo Saito

“…The One Health concept advocated by health organizations worldwide supports the idea that the well-being of urban residents is strongly linked with physical activity in green areas. As the world grapples with the physical and mental health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, it becomes clearer that access to urban green spaces is a human rights issue. …”
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Cultivating clean skies: unveiling the tapestry of air quality in Gujarat through innovative machine learning analysis by Gaddam Advitha, Allada Nagasai Varaprasad, Koti Vennela Khushi, Pullabhotla Vijay, Sukanta Nayak

“…In this context, Gujarat, situated in Western India, grapples with escalating air quality degradation attributable to industrialization, vehicular emissions, and agricultural practices. …”
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Ethiopia's Potato Seed System: Regulatory Challenges, Quality Assurance Issues, and Pathways for Improvement ─ A mini review [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Ebrahim Seid, Lemma Tessema

“…Although potatoes play a crucial role in global food security by providing high yields compared to other staple crops, the sector grapples with significant challenges due to bureaucratic inefficiencies, limited technical expertise, and the widespread presence of counterfeit seeds throughout the value chain. …”
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Exploring the perspectives of new-in-practice specialists about the Health Advocate role: “I didn’t even know where to start” by Jacqueline Dorothy Cochrane, Nancy Dudek, Kelsey Crawford, Lindsay Cowley, Kori A LaDonna

“…In turn, participants grappled with lack of preparation, waning motivation, feelings of futility, lack of value for advocacy and need for self-preservation. …”
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Akin Ogundiran: The Historian and Archaeologist of Yoruba-Atlantic becomes Chancellor Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte by Toyin Falola

“…This division of labor, and the productive mechanism unleashed by the demand side, ultimately had implications for all aspects of institutions. Ogundiran has to grapple not only with the meaning of local history, but also with the definition of the world in which the local is situated against the background of rapidly changing events. …”
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