The experience of virtualization and university culture: A qualitative study of Tehran universities by F. Lolaee, S. Bastani, M. Farasatkhah

“…Participants were purposefully selected from among students, graduates, faculty members, and university administrators. …”
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Energy Efficiency of Using Hybrid Heating Points in Conditions of Integration of Electrical and Thermal Networks of Urban Neighborhoods. Part 1. Justification of the Feasibility of... by A. V. Sednin, M. I. Pozdnyakova

“…The paper discusses the circumstances and technical solutions that contribute to the integration of electrical and thermal networks of urban neighborhoods within the framework of a surplus of electricity generating capacities arising from the imbalance in the development of energy generation and consumption, stochastic processes of market economy development, the transfer of energy-intensive industrial production to other countries, the desire to diversify fuel energy resources, passion for the construction of energy sources for alternative energy resources in counterbalance to traditional energy facilities without taking into account all aspects of the interaction of the former with the environment, etc. …”
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Violence against healthcare professionals: perspective of local focal points in the south of Portugal by Maria Otília Zangão, Isaura Serra, Dulce Cruz, Maria da Luz Barros, Anabela Coelho, Maria Antónia Chora, Carolina Santos, Laurência Gemito

“…,departments, services, offices or functional units) on violence against health professionals in the Alentejo region. …”
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Challenges to the performance of the regional health departments in Mauritania: a qualitative study by Mohamed Ali Ag Ahmed, Kirsten Accoe, Karina Kielmann, Bruno Marchal, Verónica Trasancos Buitrago, Hamma Issa Moussa, Bart Criel

“…Results This study assessed the performance of two RDHAs in Mauritania by analysing of their key functions. The participants noted a lack of clarity in their objectives, an overly bureaucratic vision of their functions and inadequate technical capacities hampering the provision of required services. …”
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From DVB-S to DVB-S2X: Progress in Standardization of Digital Satellite Broadcasting Systems by K. Yu. Kolomensky, A. Yu. Demidova, A. S. Kazarinov

“…New functions and features introduced in the DVB-S2 system were analyzed, including the Time-Slicing (Annex M) option, which allows receivers to select and decode a specific stream carrying one or more services of interest without wasting resources on processing other streams. …”
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Perception of a child with a chronic disease and mothers' involvement in parenting tasks by Monika Parchomiuk, Beata Antoszewska, Elżbieta Kręcisz-Plis

“…Based on regression analyses, we demonstrated the relationships between the perception of selected positive aspects of the child's functioning, the significance of the child's illness, and the mothers’ involvement in caregiving, educational and therapeutic tasks. …”
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Assessing key soft skills in organizational contexts: development and validation of the multiple soft skills assessment tool by Daiana Colledani, Daiana Colledani, Egidio Robusto, Pasquale Anselmi

“…The present study aimed to develop and validate the Multiple Soft Skills Assessment Tool (MSSAT), a short self-report instrument that evaluates interpersonal skills (initiative-resourcefulness, assertiveness, conflict management), interpersonal communication skills, decision-making style (adaptive and maladaptive), and moral integrity.MethodsThe scale development process involved selecting and adapting relevant items from existing scales and employing a cross-validation approach with a large sample of workers from diverse organizational settings and job positions (N = 639). …”
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Epidemic Process of Haemophilus influenzae Infection in WHO Regions by S. O. Vysokochanskaya, S. Y. Kombarova, R. V. Polibin, A. A. Basov

“…Although Hib infection is classified as vaccine-preventable, WHO and CDC do not post annual incidence information on their resources, unlike other vaccine-preventable infections. …”
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Depoliticization and Criminalization of Social Protest through Economic Decisionism: the Colombian Case by María Carolina Olarte

“…I argue that recent initiatives to criminalize protests exemplify the manner in which physical violence, whether realized or implied, is playing an important role in the legitimization, foundation, and operation of a new property regime characterized by a de facto land reform, a selective enforcement of property rights and an increasing shielding of economic decisions - concerning natural resources exploitation - from political debate. …”
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Local nutrient addition drives plant diversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands by Qingqing Chen, Shane A. Blowes, W. Stanley Harpole, Emma Ladouceur, Elizabeth T. Borer, Andrew MacDougall, Jason P. Martina, Jonathan D. Bakker, Pedro M. Tognetti, Eric W. Seabloom, Pedro Daleo, Sally Power, Christiane Roscher, Peter B. Adler, Ian Donohue, George Wheeler, Carly Stevens, G. F. Ciska Veen, Anita C. Risch, Glenda M. Wardle, Yann Hautier, Catalina Estrada, Erika Hersch-Green, Yujie Niu, Pablo L. Peri, Anu Eskelinen, Daniel S. Gruner, Harry Olde Venterink, Carla D’Antonio, Marc W. Cadotte, Sylvia Haider, Nico Eisenhauer, Jane Catford, Risto Virtanen, John W. Morgan, Michelle Tedder, Sumanta Bagchi, Maria C. Caldeira, Miguel N. Bugalho, Johannes M. H. Knops, Chris R. Dickman, Nicole Hagenah, Anke Jentsch, Petr Macek, Brooke B. Osborne, Lauri Laanisto, Jonathan M. Chase

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Elucidating the role of brassinosteroid signaling genes and their promoters in Arabidopsis revealed regulatory mechanisms in plant development and responses to different abiotic st... by Sunny Ahmar, Muhammad Sohaib Shafique, Marcin Rapacz, Ewa Pociecha

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Exploring Health Literacy Among Parents of Children Who Attended the Pediatric Rehabilitation Clinics in Qatar: A Convergent Parallel Research Design by Jessie Johnson PhD, RN, Fadi Khraim PhD, RN, Carolyn Wolsey RN, EdD, MN, Rami A. Elshatarat PhD, RN, Lisa Thornton MD, FAAP, FAAPMR, Dina Schnurman RN, MSN/MBA, Mohammed AlDalaykeh PhD, RN, Amal Al-Farsi PT, MScHCM, PGDipPE

“…While the English-speaking sample demonstrates nuanced comprehension and minimal reliance on external resources, the Arabic sample exhibits challenges in functional and critical HL, with some turning to Google for information. …”
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The Internal Heterogeneity of Carbon Emissions in Megacities: A Case Study of Beijing, China by Zheng Wang, Kangkang Gu, Hu Yu

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Communication in the Mirror of Social Semiotics by N. V. Kazarinova

“…The subject of this article is communicative resources, which are selected by partners from a huge variety of linguistic means, functional styles, rhetorical techniques, and subject activities, and through which a common semantic space between individuals is generated.Methodology and sources. …”
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Whole-genome identification, evolutionary decipherment, and expression profiling analyses of alcohol dehydrogenase family members in soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) by Liang Wang, Jing Wang, Xianqin Wen, Wenhua Dongchen, Yumei Dong, Yuanyuan Li, Quan Liang, Yaqiong Zhang

“…This work provides valuable insights for future gene functional research, which may boost the applications of favorable GmADH gene resources in soybean genetic improvement.…”
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An Elongator mouse model of ALS spotlights TDP-43 in the motor neuron nucleolus by Magge Snow, BreAnna Cameron, Renzie Pond, Rachel Trudell, Sara Snyder, Lauryn Torres-Hernandez, Devyn Deschamps, Danara Tulimaiau, Kiana Hawkinson, Morgan Russell, Danielle Horan, Joseph Walters, James H. Fox, Britni Arlian, Alain Chariot, Laurent Nguyen, Lynn George

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Barriers to and facilitators of rehabilitation according to socio-economic status, after acute respiratory distress syndrome due to COVID-19: A qualitative study in the RECOVIDS co... by Mathilde Kléber, Nicolas Meunier-Beillard, Isabelle Fournel, Eléa Ksiazek, Marine Jacquier, Fiona Ecarnot, Jean-Philippe Rigaud, Pierre-Louis Declerq, Jean-Pierre Quenot, Marie Labruyère

“…Eligible patients were randomly selected, aiming to select the same number of socially deprived and non-socially-deprived patients. …”
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Outline of the Concept of the Population Protection and Civil Defence System in the Context of Contemporary Statutory Regulations by Justyna Stochaj

“…Aim: Development of an outline of the concept of the civil protection and civil defence system in the context of modern statutory regulations, including selected elements such as: the general characteristics of the functioning of the civil protection system and its transformation into a civil defence system under martial law or a state of war, the entities and subsystems of the civil protection and civil defence system and the dependencies that exist between them, taking into account the administrative division of the country. …”
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Prospects for using soft processors in systems-on-a-chip based on field-programmable gate arrays by I. E. Tarasov, D. S. Potekhin, O. V. Platonova

“…., processors based on configurable logical resources, for implementing control functions in an FPGA-based SoC.Methods. …”
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Application of evolutionary algorithm in estimation of environmental performance in farm systems by Srđan Jović, Dalibor Radovanović, Dušan Marković

“…Evolutionary algorithm (EA) can be employed in these problems because they can simultaneously focus on two or more objective functions. Multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) as one of the EAs was selected and wheat as one of the most important strategic crops was chosen in order to test the application of these algorithms in farm systems. …”
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