Why Consultations? The public participation in water management and local spatial planning in two Polish cases by Piotr Matczak, Michał Misiewicz, Maciej Milewicz, Krzysztof Mączka

“…Despite many novelties in participation: participatory budgeting, citizens jury, deliberatice poll etc. the engagement of different stakeholders’ groups in the decision making processes concerning detailed planning issues (local spatial management plans, water management plans, the preservation management plans of the Natura 2000 sites) is usually based on the organization of open discussion meetings. …”
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Towards Circular Consent in African Studies by Abdul-Gafar Oshodi

“…By raising the issue of power, funding, and timing in the research process, this paper contributes to the debate about the functionality of consent forms as prioritized in contemporary research processes. …”
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Insight into public sentiment and demand in China’s public health emergency response: a weibo data analysis by Yanping Wang, Min Wei, Peng Wang, Yiran Gao, Tian Yu, Nan Meng, Huan Liu, Xin Zhang, Kexin Wang, Qunhong Wu

“…Objective The study aims to analyze public sentiment and identify key demands concerning COVID-19 policies and social issues using Weibo data, providing insights to improve China’s policies and legal systems in public health emergencies. …”
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Construction Technique of Long-Span Shallow-Buried Tunnel Considering the Optimal Sequence of Pilot-Tunnel Excavation by Bao Jin, Yang Liu, Changxi Yang, Zhicheng Tan, Jianyang Zhang

“…Secondly, an optimal construction method was determined and applied to the construction of a practical tunnel. Some key issues and procedure of the selected construction method were described in detail. …”
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An approach of extrapolation methods for the solution of nonlinear Volterra–Fredholm integral equations of the second kind by H. Safdari, M. Moradkhani, M.T. Dastjerdi

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Dilemmas of human potential management, from the viewpoint of employment security by Bodak Andrzej, Cierniak-Emerych Anna, Gableta Małgorzata, Pietroń-Pyszczek Agata, Piwowar-Sulej Katarzyna

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Demographic and clinical features of child abuse and neglect cases by Ebru Cengel-Kültür, Füsun Cuhadaroğlu-Cetin, Bahar Gökler

“…Abuse types in relation to age and gender of abused child, risk factors and associated psychopathologies are discussed. Issues related to legislative process and ecology of the abuse experience are mentioned as restrictions for the prevention and treatment of CAN. …”
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Le champ des politiques hydriques dans l’Ouest étasunien : éléments d’interprétation des instruments d’action by Joan Cortinas, Franck Poupeau

“…By distancing itself from critical geography approaches to these issues, the paper argues that the emergence of "neo-conservationism" in the Western United States is not the result of an unquestioned domination by economic, political and bureaucratic elites whose only motivation is to remove obstacles to the process of capital accumulation. …”
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An appraisal-based chain-of-emotion architecture for affective language model game agents. by Maximilian Croissant, Madeleine Frister, Guy Schofield, Cade McCall

“…Large language models (LLMs) might address these issues by tapping common patterns in situational appraisal. …”
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Cost Analysis of Poor Quality Using a Software Simulation by Jana Fabianová, Jaroslava Janeková, Daniela Onofrejová

“…The issues of quality, cost of poor quality and factors affecting quality are crucial to maintaining a competitiveness regarding to business activities. …”
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Le Recueil Lauvergne (1680) de Claude Barbin. Écriture en groupe ou coup d’éditeur ? by Stephanie Bung

“…Published in 1680, the Recueil de poésies par Madame de Lauvergne, dédié à Madame la Marquise de Neuville, also known as Recueil Lauvergne, is a heterogeneous collection of poems whose construction informs us about the social issues that shape many of the editorial processes of the time. …”
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The Activation of the Title III of the Helms-Burton Act: The Making of a Policy by Ernesto Domínguez López, Ariadna Cornelio Hitchman, Seida Barrera Rodríguez

“…We then address the lawsuits filed under Title III between May 2019 and January 2023 to identify the companies sued and the state of the processes as of January 2023. The low figures, underwhelming results for the defendants and technical issues with the texts filed, along with targeted companies, show the contradiction between the statute and the constitutional framework. …”
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Ethical Pitfalls in Scientific Publishing by Mahalakshmy Thulasingam, Bindhya Karthikeyan

“…This article explores the common ethical pitfalls in scientific publishing, with respect to authorship issues, plagiarism, data fabrication, challenges in peer review, conflicts of interest, duplicate publication, and predatory journals. …”
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The Role of Classroom Behavior Modification Techniques in Reducing Classroom Behavioral Problems in Schools by Naziha Sahraoui

“… This study aims to address one of the most pressing issues in the educational environment: the management of unacceptable behaviors among school students within the classroom. …”
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Factors influencing the holding of Ilia Slatin’s Symphonic Concerts in Kharkiv in the 1870s–1880s by Lichuan Zhang

“…Factors such as the improving financial position of KhRMS in the 1880s, the opening of wind instrument classes at the Kharkiv Music School in 1886, and the formation of a pool of orchestral musicians in the city helped solve the issues of forming a full-fledged symphonic orchestra, which by the early 1890s consisted of professional musicians from Kharkiv. …”
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The Focaliser Focalised in King Vidor's The Crowd (1928) by Celestino Deleyto

“… The concepts of internal and external focalisation, as described by Bal (1985), Rimmon-Kenan (1983) and others, provide, with certain variations, a powerful way to approach, from a rigorous narratological standpoint, some of the most hotly debated issues in film theory in the past twenty years: spectator manipulation and subject positioning in classical and non-classical films through the activation of mechanisms related to the gaze. …”
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The Schengen Information System and the Schengen visa as the important component of the free movement of the persons in the European Union by A. O. Yumatova

“…If the European Union is the important member of the world space so studying of these processes in the European Union frame is very actually. …”
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Modele de aplicații didactice ale învățării interdisciplinare în cadrul lecției de istorie la treapta liceală by Angela LISNIC, Vera VRABIE

“…These changes aim to overcome a number of issues that manifest through the contradiction between the supply and demand of qualitative instruction. …”
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Development of an Analysis Model from the Perspectives of Science, Individual and Society in the Teaching of Science by José Manuel do Carmo

“…From a model essentially based on information acquisition, science instruction has included the practice of the science method when the importance of emphasizing the development of personal skills, thinking processes, and action was considered. The concern about citizens’ education in matters referring to the relationship between science and society and enlightened social participation demanded a special attention in investigation and in students’ participation in issues related to urban, natural, and technological environment. …”
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Multimodal Writing to Promote Global Competence for EFL Learners by Sezen Arslan

“…Multimodal writing refers to a process of writing with a combination of different modes such as visual, auditory, spatial, linguistic and textual. …”
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