Snoezelen or Controlled Multisensory Stimulation. Treatment Aspects from Israel by Joav Merrick, Carmit Cahana, Meir Lotan, Isack Kandel, Eli Carmeli

“…Of the 23,000, residential services are provided to more than 6,000 in close to 60 residential centers, another 2,000 are provided residential care in hostels or group homes in the community in about 50 locations, while the rest are served with day-care kindergarten, day-treatment centers, sheltered workshops, or integrated care in the community. …”
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Trento Social Commons. Community Engagement as Tools for New Physical and Cultural Relationships Between Rural and Peripheral Spaces by Alessandro Gretter, Chiara Rizzi, Sara Favargiotti, Alessandro Betta, Giovanna Ulrici

“…Moreover, urbanization expansion process in the Alps is strongly related with temporary dynamics depending from touristic fluxes, implementation of new spaces of mobility, economic development and living.In a context of extreme land scarcity like in the Alps, urban sprawl and dwellers' search for nature proximity to homes and residential areas put territorial governance instruments under pressure and opens up complex questions.Beside other experiences between urban and peripheral spaces, the essay aims at speculating that typical rural communitarian governance models are able to strengthen collective interests over individual ones and can be translated into urban governance models by public authorities. …”
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Critical crack path assessments in failure investigations by Robert D. Caligiuri

“…The case involves the rupture of a 30-inch (0.76 m) natural gas pipeline in 2010 that tragically led to the destruction of a number of homes and the loss of life. The segment of the pipeline that ruptured was installed in 1956. …”
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Exposure Due to Indoor Radon in Bulgarian Schools by Kremena Ivanova, Nina Chobanova, Bistra Kunovska, Jana Djounova, Zdenka Stojanovska

“…Radon as a natural radioactive gas could accumulate to harmful levels in buildings, such as homes and buildings with public access. In order to assess the exposure due to radon in school the results of indoor radon measurements in 55 state school buildings in 7 municipalities located in one district in southern Bulgaria are considered in this paper. …”
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Crowd-Sourced Buildings Data Collection and Remote Training: New Opportunities to Engage Students in Seismic Risk Reduction by Antonella Peresan, Chiara Scaini, Carla Barnaba

“…During this experimental activity, students collected and elaborated crowdsourced data on the main building typologies in the proximity of their homes. In a few months, students created a dataset of valuable risk-related information, while getting familiar with the area where they live. …”
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Research Progress on Stem Cell Therapies for Articular Cartilage Regeneration by Shuangpeng Jiang, Guangzhao Tian, Xu Li, Zhen Yang, Fuxin Wang, Zhuang Tian, Bo Huang, Fu Wei, Kangkang Zha, Zhiqiang Sun, Xiang Sui, Shuyun Liu, Weimin Guo, Quanyi Guo

“…Endogenous stem cell homing and in situ regeneration strategies have received extensive attention. …”
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Les livres des gens à Damas vers 1700 by Colette Establet, Jean-Paul Pascual

“…The article evaluates the number of Damascene homes which contain books, who owns them, which types of books are possessed –information available according to whether the scribe wrote down the titles. …”
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Combination of Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Track In-Oxine–Labeled Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Neuroblastoma-Bearing Mice by Lorena Cussó, Isabel Mirones, Santiago Peña-Zalbidea, Verónica García-Vázquez, Javier García-Castro, Manuel Desco

“…Homing is an inherent, complex, multistep process performed by cells such as human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) to travel from a distant location to inflamed or damaged tissue and tumors. …”
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Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Electricity Sector Using Smart Electric Grid Applications by Lamiaa Abdallah, Tarek El-Shennawy

“…Smart consumption will depend on the use of more efficient equipment like energy-saving lighting lamps, enabling smart homes and hybrid plug-in electric vehicles technologies. …”
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Perception and Barriers to Indoor Air Quality and Perceived Impact on Respiratory Health: An Assessment in Rural Honduras by Audrey Le, Gonzalo Bearman, Kakotan Sanogo, Michael P. Stevens

“…An IRB-approved, voluntary, anonymous 23-item survey was conducted in Spanish at a medical outreach clinic in June 2012 and at the homes of survey respondents N=79. Comparative analyses were performed to investigate relationships between specific house characteristics and respiratory complaints. …”
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Psychological Characteristics of the Emotional Sphere of Internally Displaced Persons from the First and Second Waves by Vitalii Fedosieiev, Andrii Kharchenko, Alla Lisenaya, Eugene Liseniy, Varvara Kabarhina, Sergey Barinov

“…Leaving their comfort zones, citizens from "hot spots" found themselves in the "trap" of the unknown, which often led to the emergence of intrapersonal conflicts: a lack of desire and motivation to change their location while simultaneously being physically unable to stay in their homes and familiar environments. A person's living space gradually deteriorated: their moral values and plans were no longer important or achievable, leading to uncertainty and a sense of insecurity about the future, fear for their own lives and the lives of their loved ones, which caused a shift in their emotional state, chronic fear and stress, feelings of anxiety, heightened guilt, and irritability due to the inability to influence the situation, among others. …”
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Adolescent mental health in sub-Saharan Africa: crisis? What crisis? Solution? What solution? by Claire Hart, Shane A. Norris

“…Innovative community-based solutions to mental health services may significantly improve accessibility and support adolescents close to their homes and schools. For example, co-creation and peer-delivered interventions with professional supervision may enhance uptake and reduce stigma. …”
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MRI-guided focused ultrasound for treating Parkinson’s disease with human mesenchymal stem cells by Sheng-Kai Wu, Chia-Lin Tsai, Aisha Mir, Kullervo Hynynen

“…Transcranial MRgFUS serves as an efficacious and safe method for targeted and minimally invasive stem cell homing.…”
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Retracted: Function Matching of Terminal Modules of Intelligent Furniture for Elderly Based on Wireless Sensor Network by Chengmin Zhou, Xin Luo, Ting Huang, Tao Zhou

“…The research object is the smart system for nursing homes. The system uses ZigBee technology to complete the indoor wireless sensor network (WSN) layout and conducts fall test experiments, Power saving experiment, network performance experiment, observe its performance. …”
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Rebel Attentiveness by Connie Etter

“…Cycling as rebel movement resists settler colonial architecture and practices that aim to separate Palestinians from their homes, land, roads, and each other. It counters settler colonial logics that see land through the lens of ownership and property by approaching land as a meaning-making process. …”
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Clinical Whole-Body Gait Characterization Using a Single RGB-D Sensor by Lukas Boborzi, Johannes Bertram, Roman Schniepp, Julian Decker, Max Wuehr

“…The flexibility, accuracy, and minimal resource requirements of vGait make it a valuable tool for clinical and non-clinical applications, including outpatient clinics, medical practices, nursing homes, and community settings. By enabling efficient and scalable gait assessment, vGait has the potential to enhance diagnostic and therapeutic workflows and improve access to clinical mobility monitoring.…”
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How to Deal with Pulpitis: An Overview of New Approaches by Jakub Fiegler-Rudol, Wojciech Niemczyk, Katarzyna Janik, Anna Zawilska, Małgorzata Kępa, Marta Tanasiewicz

“…This review explores emerging techniques, including autogenic and allogenic pulp transplantation, platelet-rich fibrin, human amniotic membrane scaffolds, specialized pro-resolving mediators, nanofibrous and bioceramic scaffolds, injectable hydrogels, dentin matrix proteins, and cell-homing strategies. These methods utilize stem cells, growth factors, and biomaterials to regenerate vascularized, functional pulp tissue. …”
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Peran Baitul Mal Langsa dalam Pengelolaan Zakat dan Infaq untuk Meningkatkan Pemberdayaan Masyarakat by Jauwahir Jauwahir, Heri Kusmanto, Isnaini Isnaini

“…This type of research is Field Research or field research that is case study, namely research that is carried out intensively in detail and in depth on an organization, institution or particular phenomenon by collecting the necessary information by visiting homes or places of people or agencies who information will be asked. …”
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Participation in Decision Making as a Property of Complex Adaptive Systems: Developing and Testing a Measure by Ruth A. Anderson, Donde Plowman, Kirsten Corazzini, Pi-Ching Hsieh, Hui Fang Su, Lawrence R. Landerman, Reuben R. McDaniel

“…Study 1 was a mail survey of a single respondent (administrators or directors of nursing) in each of 197 nursing homes. Study 2 was a field study using random, proportionally stratified sampling procedure that included 195 organizations with 3,968 respondents. …”
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Mesenchymal Stem Cells Pretreated with HGF and FGF4 Can Reduce Liver Fibrosis in Mice by Sulaiman Shams, Sadia Mohsin, Ghazanfar Ali Nasir, Mohsin Khan, Shaheen N. Khan

“…In vivo data in cytokines pretreated group demonstrated greater homing of MSCs in liver, restored glycogen storage, and significant reduction in collagen, alkaline phosphatase, and bilirubin levels. …”
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