Defining Blackness in Colombia by Peter Wade

“…This paper looks at the complex relationship between concepts employed by social scientists and those used in everyday practice and discourse, arguing that the standard ideas about how ideas travel from one domain (state, academe, social movements, everyday usage) to another, and become essentialised or destabilised in the process, are often too simple. …”
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Early Loading of Cast-in-Situ Reinforced Concrete Structures by A. H. Baiburin

“…It is shown that keeping concrete up to standard strength without taking into account the stages of loading leads to a significant increase in the cost of work, especially in winter. …”
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The Sportscomp Erasmus+ Project: Higher Education to Improve Competency in Sports Physiotherapy by Carlo Ramponi, Armi Hirvonen, Mati Arend, Eleni Kapreli, Prof. Dr. Jo Verschueren

“…One of the most important milestones of the International Federation of Sports Physical Therapy (IFSPT), a specialty group of the World Physiotherapy (WP) group, was the creation of the Sports Physiotherapy Competencies and Standards document. This statement, finalized by an international panel of experts almost twenty years ago, under The European Union-funded Sports Physiotherapy for All (SPA) project, describes effective professional behaviours and integrates specific knowledge, skills and attitudes in the context of practice. …”
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The RFOT Theory of Glasses: Recent Progress and Open Issues by Biroli, Giulio, Bouchaud, Jean-Philippe

“…In this short survey, we will review recent investigations that broadly support all static aspects of RFOT, but also those for which the standard dynamical extension of the theory appears to be struggling, in particular in relation with facilitation effects. …”
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Pesticide Recordkeeping Form for Florida Applicators by Frederick M. Fishel

“…This 5-page document provides a form containing the required elements to include on a record of pesticide application for meeting the restricted use pesticide and Worker Protection Standard (WPS) requirements. An example application record and an explanation of the required elements is provided. …”
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Comparative evaluation of an AI-powered life coach against traditional coaching methods by David Brown, Marlene Orozco, Noah Lloyd

“…Utilizing a controlled experimental design, participants were divided into three distinct groups and engaged in a standardized coaching scenario. The study evaluates the performance of 1440 across multiple key metrics, including goal achievement, satisfaction, and perceived support. …”
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A note on approximate accelerated forward-backward methods with absolute and relative errors, and possibly strongly convex objectives by Barré, Mathieu, Taylor, Adrien, Bach, Francis

“…The method supports both relative and absolute errors, and its behavior is illustrated on a set of standard numerical experiments.Using the same developments, we further provide a version of the accelerated proximal hybrid extragradient method of [21] possibly exploiting strong convexity of the objective function.…”
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Parler de son vécu à travers la création vidéoludique : une étude du jeu Dys4ia by Rémy Sohier

“…A technical and aesthetic analysis makes it possible to identify forms of criticism and militant activity against certain standards of industrial creation. The game can be studied to specify how the experience is autobiographical and how the tools are used. …”
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2003 Handbook of Employment Regulations Affecting Florida Farm Employers and Workers: Child Labor [State] by Leo C. Polopolus, Michael T. Olexa, Fritz Roka, Carol Fountain

“… Child labor regulations provide state standards for employment of children in agriculture. …”
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Florida Solid and Hazardous Waste Regulation Handbook: Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) by Michael T. Olexa, Aaron Leviten, Kelly Samek

“…To fulfill this purpose, OSHA authorized the Secretary of Labor, who is the head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, to set and enforce safety standards for employees working in dangerous circumstances such as handling hazardous wastes. …”
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INFINITESIMAL FIELD SIZE HVL OF ISO 4037 NARROW SPECTRUM X-RAYS: SIMULATED RESULTS by Ngoc Thiem Le

“…This work presents Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System (PHITS) simulated values of HVL and their standard deviations for an infinitesimal radiation field size. …”
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Managing the leachate at the regional landfill in Kikinda by Marković Sanja, Milanović Jelena

“…Several municipalities in Serbia began with the organization of the regional waste management system and within that frame, the construction of regional landfills which meet European standards in terms of environmental protection. The paper presents a method of management and use of leachate at the regional waste landfill 'ASA', Kikinda.…”
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2003 Handbook of Employment Regulations Affecting Florida Farm Employers and Workers: Transportation of Migrant Farm Workers [State] by Leo C. Polopolus, Michael T. Olexa, Fritz Roka, Carol Fountain

“… The purpose of having Transportation of Migrant Farm Workers regulations is to provide state standards for transporters of migrant farmworkers. …”
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MITIGATING EFFECTS OF VOLTAGE DEVIATION ON DELSUTH HEALTH CARE FACILITY UTILIZING DYNAMIC VOLTAGE RESTORER (DVR) by UMUKORO ARIEYERI PATRICK, PATRICK OSHEVIRE

“…The voltage profile was improved by upgrading the network to standard power factor. …”
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2003 Handbook of Employment Regulations Affecting Florida Farm Employers and Workers: Transportation of Migrant Farm Workers [State] by Leo C. Polopolus, Michael T. Olexa, Fritz Roka, Carol Fountain

“… The purpose of having Transportation of Migrant Farm Workers regulations is to provide state standards for transporters of migrant farmworkers. …”
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Soil Sampling Procedures by Davie Kadyampakeni, Kelly Morgan, Arnold Schumann, Rhuanito Ferrarezi, Jamie D Burrow

“… To achieve optimal grove nutrition, citrus growers must test grove soil before beginning any fertilization program. Standard procedures for sampling, preparing, and analyzing soil should be followed for meaningful interpretations of the test results and accurate recommendations. …”
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OPTIMIZATION OF DIMENSION AND SHAPE FOR BALL VALVE BODY IN FIRE SAFE DESIGN by GHEORGHIŢA TOMESCU, RADU IATAN, IULIANA IAŞINICU (STAMATE)

“…Fire Safe Certification is achieved through a standardized fire testing. This article aims to show how to optimize the shape and size of the main body of a ball valve in sequence CAD – FEM - testing and evaluation of the performance of valves when exposed to fire. …”
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Soil Sampling Procedures by Davie Kadyampakeni, Kelly Morgan, Arnold Schumann, Rhuanito Ferrarezi, Jamie D Burrow

“… To achieve optimal grove nutrition, citrus growers must test grove soil before beginning any fertilization program. Standard procedures for sampling, preparing, and analyzing soil should be followed for meaningful interpretations of the test results and accurate recommendations. …”
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Coulomb corrections for coherent neutrino nucleus scattering by Ryan Plestid

“…We find that the corrections are much smaller than naive power counting in Zα would suggest and that Coulomb corrections do not substantially alter predictions for CEvNS in the Standard Model. We comment on similarities to older literature on mesonic and muonic atoms.…”
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