Group visit: Blatant Violation of Patient Rights and a Stigma Attached to Health System Responsiveness by Javad GhoddoosiNejad, Morteza Arab-Zozani

“…Results and conclusion: Considering the above mentioned facts, “stewardship” function of the health system requires the immediate legislation and strict monitoring to remove this stigma of malfunctioning responsiveness. …”
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Electrical Switching in Thin Film Structures Based on Transition Metal Oxides by A. Pergament, G. Stefanovich, V. Malinenko, A. Velichko

“…In the present review, we describe the experimental facts and theoretical models, mainly on the basis of the Mott transition in vanadium dioxide as a model object, of the switching effect with special emphasis on the emerging applied potentialities for oxide electronics.…”
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Analysis of a Single Species Model with Dissymmetric Bidirectional Impulsive Diffusion and Dispersal Delay by Haiyun Wan, Long Zhang, Zhidong Teng

“…In addition, the species not only requires some time to disperse or migrate among the patches but also has some possibility of loss during dispersal. In view of these facts, a single species model with dissymmetric bidirectional impulsive diffusion and dispersal delay is formulated. …”
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Orientalism and the British Picture Postcard Industry: Popularizing the Empire in Victorian and Edwardian Homes by Gilles Teulié

“…During the 19th century as and when Europeans developed a keen interest in what was described as the ‘Orient’—ranging from architecture in Moorish Spain to the faces and places in Northern Africa and the Middle East–—images of an exotic fantasised Orient bounced back to Europe, in particular through the works of artists who painted what they had seen, or thought they had seen. …”
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Managing Conflicts with Wildlife: Living with Snakes by Holly K. Ober, Steve A. Johnson, William M. Giuliano

“…Most snakes are secretive and rarely bother people, but in some situations some snakes can become dangerous. In this 4-page fact sheet, we present some facts about snakes, describe dangers they may cause, and provide suggestions on how to cope with these dangers. …”
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The Cytoplasm-to-Vacuole Targeting Pathway: A Historical Perspective by Midori Umekawa, Daniel J. Klionsky

“…Here, we relate some of the initial history, including some never-before-revealed facts, of the analysis of the Cvt pathway and the convergence of those studies with autophagy.…”
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The Failure of Orthogonality under Nonstationarity: Should We Care About It? by Jose A. Campillo-García, Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària

“…We consider two well-known facts in econometrics: (i) the failure of the orthogonality assumption (i.e., no independence between the regressors and the error term), which implies biased and inconsistent Least Squares (LS) estimates and (ii) the consequences of using nonstationary variables, acknowledged since the seventies; LS might yield spurious estimates when the variables do have a trend component, whether stochastic or deterministic. …”
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Ecological Capacity Assessment for Ecotourism Development Using Geographic Information System (Case Study: Mianeh County) by Hojjat Mohamadi Torkamani

“…The results indicate that about 78 percent of the city's area is in an appropriate and even better condition for the development of ecotourism, and in contrast, about 23 percent of its area faces limitations for the development of ecotourism. …”
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Domains of case changing and case maintaining movements by Mark Newson, Krisztina Szécsényi

“…In explicating these circumstances, we are not only able to provide a better understanding of when ‘case change’ can and can’t happen, but also develop the theory in ways which address certain conceptual problems that it faces. …”
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Food waste in Indonesia: Assessing readiness for valorization by Taufiq Immawan

“…Food waste offers potential for valorization into products like animal feed, organic fertilizer, and biofuel but faces challenges such as technological limitations, high costs, and safety concerns. …”
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Les héritages paysagers de la viticulture dans le Val de Loire d’Orléans à Tours et ses abords périphériques by François Legouy

“…Nevertheless, if this method has been proved by recent facts, it does not include long-term evolutions, as very well explained by Roger Dion. …”
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Protecting Youth and Volunteers by Planning Ahead, Reducing Risk by Keith G. Diem

“…Although not to be considered legal advice, here are some facts and issues to know and keep in mind while serving as a 4-H volunteer. …”
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Fuzzy sliding mode control based on an adaptive sliding surface and extended state observer for automotive electric power steering by Tuan Anh Nguyen

“…Electric power steering control faces several issues related to state errors, sensor noise, and chattering. …”
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Prospecting for geothermal energy through satellite based thermal data: Review and the way forward by F. Howari

“…The paper discusses case studies, the challenge and the way forward for geothermal prospecting as well as practical solutions to discrepancy that faces the mapping and documentation of spatial geothermal anomalies.  …”
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Reducing the Possibility of Ruin by Maximizing the Survival Function for the Insurance Company’s Portfolio by Masoud Komunte, Christian Kasumo, Verdiana Grace Masanja

“…The results show that the survival function increases with the increase in the intensity of the counting process but decreases with an increase in the instantaneous rate of stock return and return volatility. This is due to the fact that the insurance company faces more risk. …”
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Changement climatique. Sur les cartes et les narrations by Elena Bougleux

“…The paper describes examples of spatial change representations developed by Aboriginal communities who live in strict coupling with their natural environment. It focuses on the area of the Northern Territory of Australia which faces a condition of long-lasting coexistence with altered tides regimes and massive land degradation due to large wildfires. …”
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“Living the Dying Inside”: Writing Violence in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy by Claudine Raynaud

“…Symbolically, like the Native American ritual corn-husk dolls, a faceless daughter faces an inaudible mother. Reading becomes the site of the missed encounter with the Real to “tell” the trauma and performs the mother-daughter link.…”
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The Bologna Process and Learner Autonomy: Russian Specifics by M. A. Ivanova

“…The article deals with one of the problems that Russian higher education faces in the process of introducing credit-modular system as the implementation of one of the principles of Bologna  Declaration. …”
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Managing Conflicts with Wildlife: Living with Frogs by Steven A. Johnson, Holly K. Ober, William M. Giuliano

“…Most frogs in Florida are reclusive and harmless to people, but two species of frogs that have invaded Florida can be harmful to humans and their pets. This 4-page fact sheet presents some facts about native frogs, describes the problems invasive frogs cause, and provides suggestions on how to cope with problem frogs. …”
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Yoruba Indigenous Medicine in Search of Justification by Richard Taye Oyelakin

“… Yoruba Indigenous Medicine (YIM) faces the question of empirical justification. This presents a satisfying conditions of the scientific requirements for its significance and recognition. …”
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