Self-organized criticality and urban development by Michael Batty, Yichun Xie

“…To describe and measure this transition, we introduce a new theory based on the concept that large-scale, complex systems composed of many interacting elements, show a surprising degree of resilience to change, holding themselves at critical levels for long periods until conditions emerge which move the system, often abruptly, to a new threshold. …”
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Gender equity as a key element for agroecological transitions: Neo‐rural women as managers of agroecological initiatives by Beatriz Vizuete, Marina García‐Llorente, Irene Pérez‐Ramírez, Elisa Oteros‐Rozas

“…We propose pathways to integrate the plurality of actors and values and to promote new rural identities that fall from traditional stereotypes to enhance gender equity and move towards a true agroecological transition. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.…”
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An Analysis of Habitual Mode Use in the Years of Rising Oil Prices by Chansung Kim, Woo-Yung Kim, Jiyoung Park

“…In other words, if policy makers want to encourage people to use public transportation in a new city, it suggests that a sufficient and convenient public transportation network should be built before people move to the city. Once cities are built without sufficient public transportation networks and people have become accustomed to using private cars, then it will be more difficult to change their transportation modes, requiring much more social efforts and costs.…”
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Effect of Sand Relative Density on Response of a Laterally Loaded Pile and Sand Deformation by Bingxiang Yuan, Rui Chen, Jun Teng, Yixian Wang, Wenwu Chen, Tao Peng, Zhongwen Feng, Yang Yu, Jianghui Dong

“…In addition, the compacted sand particles did not move as easily as the loose sand particles.…”
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Impact of hopelessness on migration intentions of nursing students: a path analysis by Soner Berşe, Emine Karacan, Pelin Zivdir Yeşılyurt, Zeynep Güngörmüş

“…Conclusion More than half of Turkish nursing students consider moving abroad to seek better working conditions, higher living standards, financial gains and educational opportunities, with Germany being their top destination country. …”
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Evaluation of an Information Flow Gain Algorithm for Microsensor Information Flow in Limber Motor Rehabilitation by Naiqiao Ning, Yong Tang

“…After the classifier recognizes the upper limb movements, the upper computer sends movement commands to the controller to make the rehabilitation platform move according to the recognition results, and finally, the movement execution accuracy of the rehabilitation platform reaches 80% on average.…”
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Migraine and restless legs syndrome – is there an association? by D. Bučaitė, J. Normantas, G. Žemgulytė

“…It is a neurosensory impairment which is characterized by an unrelenting urge to move the legs that occurs or worsens at rest. For this reason, patients may complain of impaired sleep. …”
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GPS TRAJECTORY CLUSTERING FOR SPATIO – TEMPORAL BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS: THE APPLICATION OF HEATMAP TECHNIQUES AND SPATIO- TEMPORAL DUAL GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK by Mais Muhanad, Wadhah R.Baiee

“…The results showed a number of cluster changes in each period of time dependent on move users and period; for example, the (2592) cluster of period one hour. …”
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Characteristics Analysis of Bus Stop Failure Using Automatic Vehicle Location Data by Rui Li, Xin Xue, Hua Wang

“…The bus stop failure means arriving buses cannot move into the bus stop due to limited capacity but have to wait for available loading areas. …”
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THE NEW APPROACH ON FOOD QUALITY: AN IMPORTANT FACTOR ON CONSUMER BEHAVIOR AND TRENDS IN FOOD QUALITY by Johana Paluchová

“…Identifying which food preservatives, food colourings and flavour enhancing compounds have been used in the food will continue to grow in importance as consumers move towards more natural, unadulterated food products. …”
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Family in displacement and its role in cultural adaptation and native language preservation by Trifunović Maja

“…In the modern world, where migration becomes more frequent, families that move into new cultural environments often face a dilemma between integrating into the host country and preserving their own cultural identity through nurturing the native language and tradition of the countries from which they originate. …”
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Environmental conditions in commercial restaurants of a public university by Marlene Azevedo Magalhães Monteiro, Cynthia Graciane Carvalho Ramos, Rita de Cássia Ribeiro, Maria Aparecida Vieira Teixeira Garcia

“…Employees classified their work as physically hard (47.1%, n = 28), and 33.3% (n = 20) reported that the environmental working conditions causes fatigue and/or irritation and 86.2% (n = 525) indicate insufficient space to move. The restaurants assessed presented inappropriate environmental work conditions, which can interfere in productivity and occupational health.…”
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Pacific Pumas in Indian Jungle: Place of Latin America in Indo-Pacific by T. A. Vorotnikova

“…Carlos Exudé's "Peripheral Realism" provides the theoretical framework for the study, although Latin American states strive to move beyond their peripheral status.The focus is on four Pacific coastal countries in Latin America: Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Chile. …”
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Improvement of modeling on the Pidgeon process for magnesium production by introducing the variable thermophysical properties by Li R.-B., Wang C., Wang Z., Yang P.-X., Xue F., Liu F.-Q., Zhang S.-J.

“…The slag layer with lower thermal conductivity of 0.4 W.m-1.K-1 formed during reduction strongly hinders the reaction to move forward within the layers, resulting in the slow magnesium production rate in the Pidgeon process. …”
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Typology of Negation in the Ardalani Variety of Sorani Kurdish by Roya Tabei, Shoja Tafakkori Rezayi, Amer Gheitury, Mostafa Hasrati

“…In the former, the verb loses finiteness and the features move to the available copula in the structure. In the latter, the aspect changes from continuous to habitual, a more common strategy. …”
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Examining the physical and psychological effects of combining multimodal feedback with continuous control in prosthetic hands by Digby Chappell, Zeyu Yang, Angus B. Clark, Alexandre Berkovic, Colin Laganier, Weston Baxter, Fernando Bello, Petar Kormushev, Nicolas Rojas

“…Abstract Myoelectric prosthetic hands are typically controlled to move between discrete positions and do not provide sensory feedback to the user. …”
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Strategy of Balancing in Turkish Foreign Policy by D. B. Grafov

“…At some point, Turkey balances each of them by the threat to move closer to its opponent thus creating a balancing lever in “balancing triangle”. …”
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EVALUATION OF SUITABILITY FACILITIES FOR ACTIVE FIRE PROTECTION IN PT DOK DAN PERKAPALAN SURABAYA (PERSERO) by Anisa Karyati, Erwin Dyah Nawawiwetu

“…Dok dan Perkapalan Surabaya (Persero) is suggested to move items that cover fire extinguisher to be easily seen, the height of the fire extinguisher installation should not exceed 120 cm from Permenakertrans No. …”
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African Swine Fever Outbreak at a Farm in Central Namibia by Alaster Samkange, Borden Mushonga, Douglas Mudimba, Bernard A. Chiwome, Mark Jago, Erick Kandiwa, Alec S. Bishi, Umberto Molini

“…The clinical signs observed included sternal recumbency, fever, weakness, pain and reluctance to move, hyperemia of the skin and anorexia, followed by death. …”
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Teilhard de Chardin’s Vision of Science, Religion and Planetary Humanity: A Challenge to the Contemporary World by Ursula King

“…Teilhard’s evolutionary, convergent and universalist thinking can be a guiding light for the contemporary world to move forward.At the present state of crisis, planetary humanity is faced, more than ever before, with the responsibility for its further self-evolution. …”
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