Integrating High-Value Cost-Conscious Care into an Existing Medical School Curriculum by Sruthi Eapen, Aylmer Tan, Paul Gorman, Gretchen Scholl, Andrea Smeraglio

“…The curricula comprised three spaced asynchronous online sessions targeting HVCCC skill development followed by a gamified 90-minute clinical skills lab where students competed to determine the correct diagnosis at the lowest cost. …”
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Static and dynamic assessments of park accessibility and equity across different living circles in shenzhen’s core area by Zhongshan Huang, Qiyue Jia, Shixian Luo, Zhigang Tu, Lei Zhao, Siyuan Li, Zhengyan Lu

“…With the rapid expansion of cities, the demand for park green spaces within urban living circles is increasing. …”
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Revealing speckle obscured living human retinal cells with artificial intelligence assisted adaptive optics optical coherence tomography by Vineeta Das, Furu Zhang, Andrew J. Bower, Joanne Li, Tao Liu, Nancy Aguilera, Bruno Alvisio, Zhuolin Liu, Daniel X. Hammer, Johnny Tam

“…Results We show that P-GAN not only improves RPE cell contrast by 3.5-fold, but also improves the end-to-end time required to visualize RPE cells by 99-fold, thereby enabling large-scale imaging of cells in the living human eye. RPE cell spacing measured across a large set of AI recovered images from 3 participants were in agreement with expected normative ranges. …”
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Application of photodynamic therapy with 5-aminolevulinic acid and fractional CO2 laser for the management of recalcitrant plantar warts by Jiaoquan Chen, Xinyi Xie, Yingxue Liu, Fengyi Chen, Yeqing Gong, Bihua Liang, Yiling Wu, Shiqi He, Yueming Li, Huilan Zhu, Shaoyin Ma

“…Patients then received He-Ne laser irradiation for 30 min at an energy density of 100 mW/cm², with treatments spaced 4 weeks apart. Results: The study included 10 participants aged 24 to 53 years (mean age: 33.4 ± 8.09 years). …”
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Resistive switching mechanisms in BiFeO3 devices with YBCO and Ag as top electrodes by Santiago Ceballos Medina, Lorena Marín Mercado, Alexander Cardona-Rodríguez, Mario Fernando Quiñonez Penagos, César Magén, Luis Alfredo Rodríguez, Juan Gabriel Ramírez

“…Devices with YBCO top electrodes display ohmic conduction, whereas Ag top electrode devices exhibit a combination of Schottky, Poole-Frenkel emission, and spaced charge limited conduction mechanisms. Resistance versus time measurements were performed over 30 cycles with 20 different writing voltages to evaluate the ratio between the low resistance state (LRS) and high resistance state (HRS). …”
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Policies on mental health in the workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic: A scoping review. by David Villarreal-Zegarra, C Mahony Reátegui-Rivera, Iselle Sabastizagal-Vela, Miguel Angel Burgos-Flores, Nieves Alejandra Cama-Ttito, Jaime Rosales-Rimache

“…Workplaces are conducive spaces for implementing strategies and interventions to promote mental health. …”
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In the Plots of Neoliberalism: the Impact of AirBnb on Hotel Industry and the Real Estate Market in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Rita de Cássia Ariza da Cruz, Cristina Pereira de Araujo, Luciano Muniz Abreu

“…As a theoretical premise, this text considers the relationship between AirBnb, the hotel industry and the real estate market as an expression of neoliberalism in the production of urban spaces in a developing country, based on the construction of a ‘market society’, on the competition between individuals and on their self-entrepreneurship (Andrade; Côrtes; Almeida, 2021). …”
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Des vestiges liés à la phase de construction de l’aqueduc de la Brévenne à Limonest (Métropole de Lyon) ? by Stéphane Ardouin, Cécile André-Chaze

“…If we had a hypothetical ditch discovered in this same excavation, the four ditches would be evenly spaced between 15 and 20 m apart. At Dardilly and Lentilly, the fillings are close and in the latter case, the width in contact with the aqueduct is the same as that observed at Limonest. …”
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LGBTQ Community Archives in Small Urban Centers: Reflections on Community and University Partnerships to Build Awareness of the Lehigh Valley’s Rich LGBTQ History from AIDS Activis... by Mary Foltz, Susan Falciani Maldonado, Kristen Leipert, Rachel Hamelers, Adrian Shanker

“…., and the value of subcultural spaces on the coasts. As scholars have argued in the past decade, literary critics and historians need to focus more attention on LGBTQ activism, cultural production, and community formations outside of major urban centers. …”
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Cost-Effective Autonomous Drone Navigation Using Reinforcement Learning: Simulation and Real-World Validation by Tomasz Czarnecki, Marek Stawowy, Adam Kadłubowski

“…The motivation behind this study is the growing interest in deploying AI in public spaces, particularly in autonomous vehicles such as flying drones, to address challenges in navigation and control. …”
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Experiences and perceptions of respectful maternity care among mothers during childbirth in health facilities of Eastern province of Rwanda: An appreciative inquiry. by Alice Muhayimana, Irene Josephine Kearns, Darius Gishoma, Olive Tengera, Thierry Claudien Uhawenimana

“…They also acknowledged their responsibility to ensure proper birth spacing.<h4>Conclusion</h4>The aspects of care the participants appreciated could be consistently maintained and promoted. …”
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Numerical Analysis on the Load Sharing Performance of Long-Short CFG Pile Composite Foundation Subjected to Rotation of Adjacent Retaining Wall by Bantayehu Uba Uge, Yuancheng Guo, Yunlong Liu

“…For the other parameters considered in this article viz. pile spacing, subsoil stiffness, cushion stiffness and thickness, and applied working load, the increment in % load sharing of the long and short pile range was 3.45–4.15, 1.3–5.79, 1.48–3.36, 4.15–4.79, and 3.67–4.15% and 3.36–4.67, 1.43–4.99, 1.48–3.36, 3.36–3.64, and 1.38–3.36% of the imposed load, respectively. …”
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Investigation into the Pore Structure and Multifractal Characteristics of Shale Reservoirs through N2 Adsorption: An Application in the Triassic Yanchang Formation, Ordos Basin, Ch... by Zhikai Liang, Zhenxue Jiang, Zhuo Li, Fenglin Gao, Xiaoqing Liu

“…The dominant types of reservoir spaces include organic matter (OM) pore and interparticle pore which are related to inorganic minerals. …”
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Environmental impacts of urban growth and land use changes in tropical cities by Timothy O. Ogunbode, Victor O. Oyebamiji, David O. Sanni, Emmanuel O. Akinwale, Francis O. Akinluyi

“…The environmental implications include deforestation, reduced green spaces, increased surface runoff, and pollution, which affect air quality, water resources, and biodiversity. …”
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« Une femme en Côte d’Ivoire, une femme au Burkina Faso » by François Ruf

“…Within the family, strategies evolve through networks, across several economic spaces. Women’s contribution to labour on cocoa farms and adjacent fields of food crops is known and acknowledged. …”
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20 ans d’Observatoire photographique des paysages dans le Parc naturel régional des Vosges du Nord by Romy Baghdadi

“…They also wanted to reassess the process in the light of their regional development commitments, and namely commitment number 3 of being “a region which cares for its spaces and landscapes” (Parc 2014 Association). After having compiled a collection of more than 700 photographs taken from 200 different points of view, spanning a period of 20 years, and documenting changes in the landscape, the question was, what should the next step be ? …”
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Evaluating ecosystem multifunctionality in tree-based intercropping: a case study from southern Québec, Canada by David Rivest, Marc-Olivier Martin-Guay, Ève-Marie Hébert, Samuel Dulac, Alain Cogliastro, Audrey Maheu

“…This study investigates the multifunctionality of tree-based intercropping (TBI) systems, which integrate widely spaced rows of trees with agricultural crops and can be adapted to different climates. …”
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Cross-Linked Self-Standing Graphene Oxide Membranes: A Pathway to Scalable Applications in Separation Technologies by Juan A. G. Carrio, Vssl Prasad Talluri, Swamy T. Toolahalli, Sergio G. Echeverrigaray, Antonio H. Castro Neto

“…This method enabled precise control over membrane thickness and the formation of laminated microstructures with interlayer spacings ranging from 0.8 to 1.2 nm. The resulting self-standing membranes, with areas between 0.002 m² and 0.090 m² and thicknesses from 0.6 μm to 20 μm, exhibit excellent flexibility and retain their chemical and physical integrity during prolonged testing in direct contact with ethanol/water and methanol/water mixtures in both liquid and vapour phases, with stability demonstrated over 24 h and up to three months. …”
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Therapeutic Potential of <i>Lappula patula</i> Extracts on Germline Development and DNA Damage Responses in <i>C. elegans</i> by Qinghao Meng, Anna Hu, Weiyu Xiao, Robert P. Borris, Hyun-Min Kim

“…Germline defects were observed, including increased nuclear spacing at premeiotic and pachytene stages, altered number of bivalents during diakinesis. …”
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