Engaging publics in science: a practical typology by Heather Douglas, Megan K. Halpern, Eleanor Louson

“…Public engagement with science has become a prominent area of research and effort for democratizing science. In the fall of 2020, we held an online conference, Public Engagement with Science: Defining and Measuring Success, to address questions of how to do public engagement well. …”
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Challenges of Studying Languages and Cultures in the Multicultural World by Arifi Teuta

“…Jacques Derrida likened the effort to understand others through translation to the reconstruction of the Tower of Babel, emphasizing the difficulty of finding precise expressions across different languages and cultural contexts (Derrida, 1985). …”
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At any cost: a paradigm shift in the culture of caesarean section rate monitoring in the United Kingdom by Oguljemal Redjepova, Ashwini Bilagi

“…CS rates in the UK have risen considerably over the last few decades and, in this time, there has been national effort at the level of government to kerb such rises due to concerns about the associated morbidity, and the medicalisation of birth. …”
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"Janus" Puzzle: a Case of Creative Application of Marxist Theory in the Soviet Lithuanian Historiography? by Aurimas Švedas

“…Bumblauskas (Communist pragmatism, Stalinism - Leninism, Marxism), the analysis regards this study as an effort to dissociate from the Stalinism-Leninism. …”
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Bilateral Maxillary Dentigerous Cysts in a Nonsyndromic Child: A Rare Presentation and Review of the Literature by Rakshit Vijay Khandeparker, Purva Vijay Khandeparker, Anirudha Virginkar, Kiran Savant

“…We hereby present a case of a bilateral dentigerous cyst of the maxilla in a 10-year-old child involving the crowns of unerupted permanent second premolar on the right side and the unerupted permanent canine on the left side. An effort has also been made to review the existing literature on this entity and to stress the importance of radiographic and histopathological examinations in diagnosing such an entity.…”
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Literatura, Estado y Nación en el siglo XIX argentino : el poder instituyente del discurso y la configuración de los mitos fundacionales de la identidad by Marisa Moyano

“…When we relate performatividad and literary practices united two related aspects appear: the role played by the Creole elites in its effort for to articulate national speeches with the intentions for to constitute a cultural imaginary of identity, and the fact that these speeches turn out to be imposed across the relations that are established between the producers power of these speeches and the legitimacy that emerges of the knowledge that the elites were showing thanks to that power. …”
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Revenue diversification strategies in Ethiopian higher education system: A brief reflection by Kibrom Mengistu Feleke

“…With the current massive higher education expansion in Ethiopia and the limited government capacity to adequately fund this expanding system, therefore, there is an urgent need for the public universities to work towards financial viability by broadening and diversifying their funding base. In an effort to establish financially sustainable ground, public universities need to generate revenues from non-governmental sources. …”
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Digital twins for green roofs and facade inspection using drones and multi-modal foundation models by Krause Nils Soeren, Ploennigs Joern

“…However, they also add additional maintenance effort for keeping the plants healthy. We propose a novel automated digital twin approach to monitor the health of the plants using a combination of drones with Foundation Models to monitor and analyze the health of the plants. …”
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From margins to mainstream: decolonizing science and promoting diversity for the future of STEM by Roksana Khalid, Isaiah J. Ting

“…Examples within STEM illustrate the reciprocal influence of diverse cultures in shaping scientific knowledge, underscoring that progress is a collaborative, multicultural effort. Entrenched attitudes, often rooted in implicit biases, sustain the notion that scientific excellence is synonymous with famous Western names, further marginalizing diverse contributions. …”
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Feature importance analysis for spammer detection in Sina Weibo by Yu-xiang ZHANG, Yu SUN, Jia-hai YANG, Da-lei ZHOU, Xiang-fei MENG, Chun-jing XIAO

“…Microblog has drawn attention of not only legitimate users but also spammers.The garbage information pro-vided by spammers handicaps users' experience significantly.In order to improve the detection accuracy of spammers,most existing studies on spam focus on generating more classification features or putting forward new classifiers.Which kind of issues would be put the high priority of an enormous amount of research effort into? Are extensive features or novel classifiers better for the detection accuracy of spammers? …”
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Les femmes en temps de pandémie dans les médias by Martin Blanc, Valérie Yanick, Johanna Massé, Richard Khoury, Julie Alice Gramaccia

“…It is part of a broader research effort to use artificial intelligence to better understand how women were represented in the Quebec press during COVID-19 (OBVIA, Université Laval). …”
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The Floor is not the Ground by George Papam Papamattheakis

“…Space structure is defined by logistics-influenced ‘functional diagrams’ and is reduced to mere transitory settings. This essay is an effort to challenge the contemporary ‘fulfilment’-influenced, network-based perception of human transportation spaces, towards, instead, a relational, and effectively political, understanding of them. …”
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Automated Techniques for the Interpretation of Fetal Abnormalities: A Review by Vidhi Rawat, Alok Jain, Vibhakar Shrimali

“…Then, a categorization of the bibliographic assessment of recent research effort in the segmentation field of ultrasound 2D fetal images has been presented. …”
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An opportunity lost? The declining role of authorised covert human intelligence sources in combating organised crime by Ian Stanier, Jordan Nunan

“…Combatting organised crime, requires Agencies to deploy a range of collection capabilities to identify community threats, to accurately select and prioritise organised crime targets and to inform operational decision-making. Central to this effort is the ability to identify, recruit and deploy Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS). …”
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HIJRA, BETWEEN SOCIOLOGICAL AND THEOLOGICAL PHENOMENON by Firmansyah Firmansyah

“…Except to be a role model, Hijrah is also interpreted as an effort to get closer to Allah. Today, the understanding of the Hijrah values seems to have shifted and formed a polarization of ignorance in religion with the exclusivity of the group's reason. …”
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Optimal Contract Choice in Sustainable Tourism Supply Chain When Environmental Consumers Exist by Fei Du, Dejun Zou, Jianping Hu

“…Our analysis reveals that cost sharing and revenue sharing contracts are more effective in motivating the hotel to implement environmental effort than reselling contract. Furthermore, our findings indicate that revenue sharing contract performs best in alleviating double marginalization within the sustainable supply chain by lowering the price of sustainable products. …”
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Dynamic generation of superflow in a fermionic ring through phase imprinting by Ke-Ji Chen, Wei Yi, Fan Wu

“…Our results offer microscopic insights into the dynamic development of superflow in the phase-imprinting process, and are helpful for the ongoing experimental effort.…”
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Vocational Technology Education Innovation: Building a Generation of Experts in the Digital Age by Alzet Rama, Ambiyar Ambiyar, Remon Lapisa, Unung Verawardina

“…This article discusses the importance of innovation in vocational technology education as an effort to build a generation of experts who are competent in facing the challenges of the digital era. …”
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Pouvoir et légitimité des figures de l’Etat au Chili de 1810 à 1861 by Nathalie Jammet

“…Thanks to this normative effort that became obvious during the «Authoritarian Republic», the administrative structures, that were necessary so as to comfort the authority of the State, had already been settled in Chile since 1861.…”
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A critical analysis of the Mises stress criterion used in frequency domain fatigue life prediction by Adam Niesłony

“…It is important to know, that the criterion was developed to determine the yield stress and material effort under static load. Therefore the direct use of equivalent von Mises stress criterion for fatigue life prediction can lead to some incorrectness of theoretical and practical nature. …”
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