The Efficacy of a Multidisciplinary Group Program for Patients with Refractory Chronic Pain by Masayuki Inoue, Shinsuke Inoue, Tatsunori Ikemoto, Young-Chang P Arai, Masatoshi Nakata, Atsuko Miyazaki, Makoto Nishihara, Takashi Kawai, Noboru Hatakeyama, Setsuko Yamaguchi, Kazuhiro Shimo, Hirofumi Miyagawa, Tomomi Hasegawa, Hiroki Sakurai, Yoshinobu Hasegawa, Yusuke Ohmichi, Takahiro Ushida

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Towards culturally inclusive healthcare in Peru: Mapping epistemic concepts in contemporary Indigenous Amazonian medicine-Traditional healers' perspectives. by Ilana Berlowitz, Maria Amalia Pesantes, Cynthia Cárdenas Palacios, Chantal Martin-Soelch, Ursula Wolf, Caroline Maake

“…Furthermore, while the healers considered traditional and biomedicine as complementary systems, they identified the lack of recognition of traditional healers as a primary barrier for collaboration. Indeed, preconceptions and stigma on Indigenous medicine along with a paucity of research, still represent an impediment to countries' ability to respond to Indigenous peoples' health-related expectations and needs, thus maintaining existing inequalities. …”
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Prediction of High-Tech Talents Flow Impact on Labor Income Share: Based on DEA and Fractional Hausdorff Grey Model by Wei Cui, Anwei Wan, Yongbo Yang

“…Furthermore, the Malmquist index of technological progress is decomposed into catching-up of technological progress index and leapfrogging of technological progress index, which, respectively, replaces the Malmquist index of technological progress as a mediator variable in the panel data model. …”
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Which social determinants of health have the highest impact in community oncology to advance patient care equity and improve health outcomes? A scoping review by Kayleigh R. Majercak, Emily F. Gorman, Nicholas J. Robert, Barbara Palmer, Henry Asante Antwi, C. Daniel Mullins

“…Most studies on SDOH/health inequities in the community oncology setting are exploratory. …”
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The Burden of Severe Periodontitis in China From 1990 to 2021, With Projections to 2050: A Comprehensive Analysis From The Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Yuyang Wang, Yinbao Wang, Lu Fan, Yueyuan Yu

“…Decomposition analysis identified population growth and aging as the principal drivers of the increase in disease burden. Health inequality analysis indicated a growing disparity related to the Socio-Demographic Index (SDI), with a disproportionate burden concentrated in regions with higher SDI. …”
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Designing Health Recommender Systems to Promote Health Equity: A Socioecological Perspective by Caroline A Figueroa, Helma Torkamaan, Ananya Bhattacharjee, Hanna Hauptmann, Kathleen W Guan, Gayane Sedrakyan

“…With changes in practices and with an intentional equity focus, HRS could play a crucial role in health promotion and decreasing health inequities.…”
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Stability on 3D Boussinesq system with mixed partial dissipation by Lin Hongxia, Liu Sen, Guo Xiaochuan, You Ruiqi

“…This enables us to establish the strong Poincaré-type inequalities on u˜\widetilde{u}, u3,θ{u}_{3},\theta and some anisotropic inequalities, which ensure the establishment of the closed priori estimates. …”
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Eating disorders in minority ethnic populations in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and the UK: a scoping review by A. Williams-Ridgway, R. McGowan, S. McNeil, H. Tuomainen

“…Conclusion There is a need for further research addressing inequities in ED prevalence, service access, and treatment experiences among minority ethnic and Indigenous groups, especially in Australia, Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand. …”
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Examining the Challenges Faced by Women Employees in Tourism Industry in Kabale District. by Kamugisha, Serestine

“…The study revealed the challenges women employees are facing in the tourism industry and these included gender inequality in the hospitality industry, employers struggle when recruiting females into senior management positions, women having fewer opportunities to advance in their careers or to be promoted to a more senior position, women who have husbands and families are confronted. …”
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Case studies in adaptation: centring equity in global health education during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond by Anna Pancheshnikov, C Nicholas Cuneo, Wilfredo R Matias, Rebeca Cázares-Adame, Abner Gamaliel Santos López, Ryan M Paxton, Chi Chiung Grace Chen

“…The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted all aspects of life globally and laid bare the pervasive inequities in access to education, employment, healthcare and economic security in both high-resource and low-resource settings. …”
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Indigenous communities of colombian amazon trapeze: social imaginaries and tourism by Marta Lucía Vélez Rivas

“…The latter in turn, resignify identities and practices, as forms of resistance or adaptation, which influences the construction of new imaginaries and the tourist experiences.…”
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Future of the German Economic Model by Überblick

“…This forum features a selection of articles funded by the Forum New Economy and presented at its workshop, including studies on the development of inequality in Germany, new industrial policy, the relevance of fiscal rules and the pitfalls of the German export model. …”
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Intergenerational Rights? by Richard Vernon

“…But skeptica arthe that there is no need to introduce a self-contained concept of 'historical justice' as our general concepts of justice provide all the necessary resources to deal with present inequalities. A rights-based approach to intergenerational issues has some advantages when compared to rival approaches: those based on intergenerational community, for example, or on obligations deriving from traditional continuity. …”
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Jatropha: An Alternative Substitute to Fossil Fuel by Kamrun Nahar, Monica Ozores-Hampton

“…The plant produces seeds containing inedible oil that can be converted to biodiesel. The cake by-product from oil extraction can be used for fish and animal feed, biogas, or as an organic fertilizer. …”
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Blue Electroluminescent Carbon Dots Derived from Victorian Lignite by Tadahiko Hirai, Doki Yamaguchi, Ken Inoue, Ryo Suzuki, Makoto Tanimura, Yuko Kaneda, Masaru Tachibana

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Stabilization Strategies of Supply Networks with Stochastic Switched Topology by Shukai Li, Jianxiong Zhang, Wansheng Tang

“…Based on Lyapunov stability theory, sufficient conditions for the existence of state feedback control strategies are given in terms of matrix inequalities, which ensure the robust stability of the supply networks at the stationary states and a prescribed H∞ disturbance attenuation level with respect to the uncertain demand. …”
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Strategies for community care aimed at vulnerable groups in Ecuador by Cruz Xiomara Peraza de Aparicio, Tania Fonseca Borges, Sandra Inda Mariño

“…To do this, we review the issues of inequality and vulnerability, key in the 2030 Agenda. …”
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Déchets, mauvaises herbes et plantes sauvages by Flaminia Paddeu

“…Drawing on three bodies of critical geography literature, namely urban informality studies, radical food studies, and urban political economy and ecology, it advocates that investigating urban food collecting provides a tool to analyze structural forms of power, exclusion, injustice and inequality as well as alternative pathways in spaces of advanced capitalism.…”
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Nonzero-Sum Stochastic Differential Game between Controller and Stopper for Jump Diffusions by Yan Wang, Aimin Song, Cheng-De Zheng, Enmin Feng

“…By a dynamic programming approach, we give a verification theorem in terms of variational inequality-Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (VIHJB) equations for the solutions of the game. …”
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Viscosity Approximation Methods and Strong Convergence Theorems for the Fixed Point of Pseudocontractive and Monotone Mappings in Banach Spaces by Yan Tang

“…And the common element is the unique solution of certain variational inequality. The results presented in this paper extend most of the results that have been proposed for this class of nonlinear mappings.…”
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