Resilience and Adaptation: Yukon River Watershed Contaminant Risk Indicators by Lawrence Duffy, La’Ona De Wilde, Katie Spellman, Kriya Dunlap, Bonita Dainowski, Susan McCullough, Bret Luick, Mary van Muelken

“…River watersheds are among the most complex terrestrial features in Alaska, performing valuable ecosystem functions and providing services for human society. Rivers are vital to both estuarine and aquatic biota and play important roles in biogeochemical cycles and physical processes. …”
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Mapping the “catscape” formed by a population of pet cats with outdoor access by Richard Bischof, Nina Rosita Hansen, Øyvind Skarsgard Nyheim, Astrid Kisen, Lillian Prestmoen, Torbjørn Haugaasen

“…The resulting position data allowed us to construct both individual home range kernels and a population-level utilization distribution. …”
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To the question on the peculiarities of the legal regulation of labor relations in the martial law conditions by S. M. Bortnyk

“…The individual labor rights of employees, which are limited by legislation during the martial law, have been investigated, and their consequences for both sides of labor relations have been clarified. …”
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Judges versus artificial intelligence in juror decision-making in criminal trials: Evidence from two pre-registered experiments. by Eiichiro Watamura, Yichen Liu, Tomohiro Ioku

“…<h4>Results and conclusion</h4>Across both experiments, participants showed no preference for deferring to human judges' or AI judgments when making sentencing decisions. …”
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Visibility and Memories-Building Processes among Afro-Descendants. El Afroargentino Case by Paola Carolina Monkevicius

“…Through the ethnographic analysis carried out, it is maintained that these subaltern conceptualizations call into question dominant knowledge, negotiating and disputing new forms of legitimacy and criteria of truth about the past, which enable uses and practices in conflict for the recognition of historically denied citizens' rights. …”
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Crowdsourcing to support training for public health: A scoping review. by Kadija M Tahlil, Ucheoma Nwaozuru, Donaldson F Conserve, Ujunwa F Onyeama, Victor Ojo, Suzanne Day, Jason J Ong, Weiming Tang, Nora E Rosenberg, Titi Gbajabiamila, Susan Nkengasong, Chisom Obiezu-Umeh, David Oladele, Juliet Iwelunmor, Oliver Ezechi, Joseph D Tucker

“…Thirty-four studies were done in-person, 31 were conducted virtually and nine used both meeting options for their crowdsourcing events. …”
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Cyclical Inclusive Growth Model of the European Union by E. V. Sapir, A. D. Vasilchenko

“…Exploring the nuances of inclusive growth in the EU, particularly the role of citizen participation in societal progress, offers a valuable framework for understanding the social and economic contradictions both within and between member states. …”
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The system of procedural guarantees of the participants’ rights in criminal proceedings during pre-trial investigation by A. V. Piddubna

“…In this context, the issue of guaranteeing the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of participants to criminal proceedings during the pre-trial investigation is controversial for both legislators and scholars, and is important for every citizen of Ukraine, since pre-trial investigation and criminal procedural activities in general are associated with interference with a person's private life and restriction of his or her rights, freedoms and legitimate interests in cases provided for by law. …”
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Swiss Сonfedеration experience on reception of migrants by N. A. Voronina

“…Swiss migration politics, like in other developed Western countries-recipients of foreign labor, contains both: immigration policy (control over entry and stay of foreigners in the country) and policy of integration towards foreigners subject to integration processes.The process of integration of a foreign citizen into a new socio-economic, political and cultural environment is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon. …”
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Political rhetoric used by the main parties in the final debate before the 1999 election by Paul Schutte

“…Rigorous inquiry towards political and moral truth should be at the core of the rhetoric of a democracy to improve the quality of debating and argumentation, in order to enrich democracy and to allow citizens to make well-informed decisions. …”
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Centroid-AME: An open-source software for estimating avian migration trajectories using population centroids movement in the annual cycle by Shi Feng, Alice C. Hughes, Qinmin Yang, Leyi Li, Chao Li

“…However, understanding the migration dynamics, particularly in small birds, presents challenges due to both financial and physical constraints. The growth of citizen science observation databases is creating unique opportunities to estimate avian migration trajectories at the population level, across species and without the need for expensive additional data. …”
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The role of climate change and niche shifts in divergent range dynamics of a sister-species pair by Summers, Jeremy, Lukas, Dieter, Logan, Corina J, Chen, Nancy

“…We created species distribution and connectivity models trained on citizen science data from 1970-1979 and 2010-2019 to determine how the availability of habitat, the types of habitat occupied, and range-wide connectivity have changed for both species. …”
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Strategic Planning of Public Spaces in Order to Promote and Benefit from Social Interactions, Case Study: District 10 of Tehran Municipality by samaneh jalilisadrabad, somayeh jalilisadrabad

“…District 10 of Tehran, as the most densely populated area, suffers from a lack of both quantity and quality in public and open spaces. …”
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Mosquito‐derived ingested DNA as a tool for monitoring terrestrial vertebrates within a peri‐urban environment by Christine Chivas, Adam Stow, Andrew Harford, Thomas J. Mooney, David Loewensteiner, Kate Montgomery, Anthony Chariton

“…Abstract Global biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate. Consequently, there is a pivotal need to determine the occurrences and distributions of threatened species. …”
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TO THE BASICS OF MODERN POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: FREEDOM AND JUSTICE IN THE SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY OF T. HOBBES by L. A. Sytnichenko, D. V. Usov

“…As well as, in the unfolding of the fundamentally important both for the newest social-philosophical and philosophical-anthropological discourses of the thesis that each individual is the origin of both personal and institutional freedom and justice, making the contract first of all with himself, with his desires and sorrows and then with other people and the state. …”
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Soil data from the Barbastro-Balaguer gypsum belt, NE SpainMendeley Data by Juan Herrero, María Tierra, Carmen Castañeda

“…This gypsum outcrop was named in the 19th Century [2] as a gypseous belt, and has been further studied by other geologists like [3,4] and by civil engineers e.g. …”
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Higher Education and the Politics of the Radical Imagination by Henry A Giroux

“…Such an understanding is imperative at a time when democracy is under siege all over the globe. As an example of both the rise of authoritarianism and the challenge it poses to higher education, I focus on not only the election and presidency of Donald Trump but also an emboldened culture of manufactured illiteracy that exhibits a disdain for any notion of education wedded to the pursuit of the truth, science, and the public good. …”
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Challenges and opportunities for assessing trends of amphibians with heterogeneous data – a call for better metadata reporting by Klaus Henle, Reinhard A. Klenke, M. Benjamin Barth, Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth, Diana E. Bowler

“…Instead, there are many heterogeneous datasets that contain observations of amphibians from professional surveys as well as diverse citizen science and other voluntary surveys. The use of these data brings a number of challenges, raising concerns about their validity and use in ecological research and conservation. …”
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Quality education for all in an ideas-informed society: exploring idea-engagement amongst friendship networks and how education can prevent idea “echo-chambers” by Chris Brown, Jana Gross Ophoff, Graham Handscomb

“…The concept of the ideas-informed society (IIS) represents a desired situation in which citizens actively and critically engage with new ideas, developments and claims to truth. …”
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