Meanings of health and healthcare in a U.S. border region: a culture-centered approach to health disparities by Rebecca de Souza, Isabel Villegas-Glang, Brianna Pham

“…Health disparities influence health and health-related outcomes in a multitude of ways, and can be attributed to the unequal distribution of social, political, economic, and environmental resources. …”
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Elementary Teachers’ Experiences of Implementing Culturally Responsive and Inclusive Education in New York State by Grace Pai

“…Yet there is a paucity of knowledge on teachers’ attitudes towards and experiences of implementing these initiatives. …”
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Fucoidan alleviated colitis aggravated by fiber deficiency through protecting the gut barrier, suppressing the MAPK/NF-κB pathway, and modulating gut microbiota and metabolites by Weiyun Zheng, Shuangru Tang, Xiaomeng Ren, Xiaomeng Ren, Shuang Song, Shuang Song, Chunqing Ai, Chunqing Ai

“…The protective effect of UPF against FD-exacerbated colitis can be attributed to the alleviation of oxidative stress, the preservation of the gut barrier integrity, and inhibition of the MAPK/NF-κB pathway. …”
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Improved 2D Discrete Hyperchaos Mapping with Complex Behaviour and Algebraic Structure for Strong S-Boxes Generation by Musheer Ahmad, Eesa Al-Solami

“…Firstly, an improved 2D hyperchaotic map is proposed, which consists of better dynamical behaviour in terms of large Lyapunov exponents, excellent bifurcation, phase attractor, high entropy, and unpredictability. Secondly, a hyperchaotic key-dependent substitution-box generation process is designed, which is based on the bijectivity-preserving effect of multiplication with permutation matrix to obtain satisfactory configuration of substitution-box matrix over the enormously large problem space of 256!. …”
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Komunikasi visual multikultural ornamen bangunan bangsal kencana keraton Yogyakarta by Sri Wahyuning Septarina, Eko Wahyu Sentavito

“…Teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah reduksi data, penyajian data, dan penarikan kesimpulan atau verifikasi. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa, pertama, ornamen bangunan Bangsal Kencana dipengaruhi oleh identitas visual yang hadir karena relasi kuasa Sultan sebagai Raja. …”
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New scan compression approach to reduce the test data volume by Pralhadrao V. Shantagiri, Rohit Kapur, Chandrasekar Shastry

“…In the proposed new scan compression (NSC) architecture, SFFs are analysed from Automatic Test Pattern Generation (ATPG) patterns generated in a scan mode. The identification of SFFs to be moved out of the compression architecture is carried out based on the NSC. …”
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El malestar en el trabajo con gafas violeta: significados sobre el ausentismo laboral por motivos de salud mental en funcionarias del poder judicial chileno by Juan Carlos Cea-Madrid, Paula Cornejo-Abarca

“… En este artículo nos acercamos a los significados atribuidos a las licencias laborales por motivos de salud mental en funcionarias del poder judicial en Chile. …”
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Preference for HIV testing among community residents in Yunnan Province, China: results from a discrete choice experiment by Jingwen Yang, Chenquan Qiu, Renhai Tang, Wenbin Dong, Enlong Yao, Huyunzhao Wang, Shuwen Lin, Minyang Xiao, Zuyang Zhang, Jin Niu, Liru Fu, Lijun Song, Xuehua Li, Yuhua Shi, Xiaowen Wang

“…The preference regression coefficient (β) was used to compare the importance of attribute levels. Relative importance (RI) was used to indicate the degree of importance of each attribute to the participants. …”
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Charge transfer interaction of organic p-acceptors with the anti-hyperuricemic drug allopurinol: Insights from IR, Raman, 1H NMR and 13C NMR spectroscopies by Refat Moamen S., Saad Hosam A., Adam Abdel Majid A., Al-Omar Mohamed A., Naglah Ahmed M.

“…The topic of charge-transfer (CT) complexation of vital drugs has attracted considerable attention in recent years owing to their significant physical and chemical properties. …”
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Identity Construction and Transformation of Zen Tourists by Xu Haichao, Liang Zengxian

“…The findings indicate that motivations for participating in Zen tourism include four dimensions: religious attraction, physical and mental relaxation, emotional connection, and self-discovery. …”
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Forbidden Restrictions and the Existence of P≥2-Factor and P≥3-Factor by Jianzhang Wu, Jiabin Yuan, Haci Mehmet Baskonus, Wei Gao

“…The existence of factor and fractional factor in network graph in various settings has raised much attention from both mathematicians and computer scientists. …”
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Stabilization of the FO-BLDCM Chaotic System in the Sense of Lyapunov by Ping Zhou, Rongji Bai, Hao Cai

“…There exists a chaotic attractor for fractional-order 0.95<q≤1 in the FO-BLDCM system. …”
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Fraud Detection in Cryptocurrency Networks—An Exploration Using Anomaly Detection and Heterogeneous Graph Transformers by Víctor Pérez-Cano, Francisco Jurado

“…One of these challenges is the fight against fraudulent activities performed in these networks, which, among other things, involve financial schemes, phishing attacks or money laundering. This article will address the problem of identifying fraud cases among a large set of transactions extracted from the Bitcoin network. …”
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LOTS and HOTS reading questions in EFL textbooks (Kurikulum Merdeka): unveiling every learning process purposes by Maria Kartika Widiastuti, Concilianus Laos Mbato

“… Higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) have received much attention in Indonesian English textbooks and research in recent years. …”
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La política económica en los años de Alfonsín (1985-1986): la visión “cabildante” de la prensa católica by Ignacio Andrés Rossi

“…Partiendo de la importancia de esos estudios, se pretende generar un aporte analizando la faceta económica que caracterizó a la revista entre 1985-1986, atendiendo a los debates que se produjeron en la economía nacional a partir de la implementación del Plan Austral, durante los años del gobierno de Raúl Alfonsín (1983-1989). …”
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Patient centered medication treatment for opioid use disorder in rural Vermont: a qualitative study by Emily G. Hichborn, Owen B. Murray, Eilis I. Murphy, Tess E. Gallant, Sarah K. Moore, Bethany M. McLeman, John Saroyan, Anthony Folland, Megan Mitchell, Lisa A. Marsch

“…Results Participants indicated that PCC fostered engagement and often characterized MOUD clinics they no longer attended as lacking in PCC. Themes related to Therapeutic Alliance were the most prevalent and suggest pathways to retention. …”
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"They gave us the right to choose." A qualitative study of preferences for differentiated service delivery location among recipients of antiretroviral therapy at Lighthouse Trust i... by Lisa Orii, Kate S Wilson, Jacqueline Huwa, Christine Kiruthu-Kamamia, Odala Sande, Agness Thawani, Astrid Berner-Rodoreda, Evelyn Viola, Hannock Tweya, Petros Tembo, Wapu Masambuka, Richard Anderson, Caryl Feldacker

“…Across FGDs, RoC also appreciated the quality of care, the respectful provider-to-patient interactions, and the attention to privacy at community and clinic sites. …”
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Factors influencing utilisation of services provided by community midwives and their non-retention in district Thatta, Pakistan: a qualitative study protocol by Anam Shahil Feroz, Sarah Saleem, Bakhtawar M Hanif Khowaja

“…Introduction Drawing on the well-acknowledged evidence of community midwives services to address the issue of high maternal mortality, the Government of Pakistan initiated the Community Midwifery (CMW) programme in 2006 to provide skilled birth attendance to pregnant women living in rural areas. …”
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Deep brain stimulation-entrained gamma oscillations in chronic home recordings in Parkinson's disease by Maria Olaru, Amelia Hahn, Maria Shcherbakova, Simon Little, Wolf-Julian Neumann, Reza Abbasi-Asl, Philip A. Starr

“…Methods: We used a sensing-enabled deep brain stimulator system, attached to both motor cortex and subthalamic (n = 15) or pallidal (n = 5) leads, to record 993 h of multisite field potentials, with 656 h recorded prior to initiating stimulation. 13 subjects (20 hemispheres) with Parkinson's disease (1/13 female, mean age 59 ± 9 years) streamed data while at home on their usual antiparkinsonian medication. …”
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Improving general practitioners’ approaches to functional somatic syndromes: a pilot training program with a focus on compassion and communication by Gonthier Ariane, Linder Audrey, Sommer Johanna, Despland Jean-Nicolas, Ambresin Gilles

“…Results We identified three main themes in the responses of the participants: (1) the crucial issue of putting a name to chronic psychosomatic suffering; (2) the importance of self-compassion for physicians; (3) changes in therapeutic attitude fostering a reconciliation between “self” and “care”. …”
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