Unilateral Pedicle Stress Fracture in a Long-Term Hemodialysis Patient with Isthmic Spondylolisthesis by Keishi Maruo, Toshiya Tachibana, Shinichi Inoue, Fumihiro Arizumi, Shinichi Yoshiya

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Usability of Public Play Spaces for Children with Disabilities by Asma Nidaul Haq, Yuko Ito, Natsuka Suyama, Peter Bontje, Hana Hanifah, Kaoru Inoue

“…Five themes arose regarding the experiences of children with disabilities of accessing and using the public play spaces: (1) where time appeared to speed up, (2) “I like the tall one … I like extreme,” (3) fostering connectedness, (4) the need for a safe space, and (5) how a play space should be. …”
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The Role of Commissions of Inquiry in Advancing Socio-economic Transformation: Traversing through the Limitations by Norless Zibele Nodangala

“…The paper examines how commissions of inquiry have handled systemic issues, including corruption, economic inequality, and human rights violations. …”
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Regime Change: The Need for Scientific Critical Consciousness by Usama Javed Mirza

“…Parts of this curriculum were informally pre-piloted at a private school in Islamabad, Pakistan, and at a public school in Harlem, New York. These pre-pilot experiences confirm the challenges predicted by research in implementing emancipatory curricula, e.g. that social taboos prevent open discussion of sensitive socio-scientific social justice issues. …”
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Involvement of Nitric Oxide in a Rat Model of Carrageenin-Induced Pleurisy by Masahiro Iwata, Shigeyuki Suzuki, Yuji Asai, Takayuki Inoue, Kenji Takagi

“…To clarify the role of NO in inflammation, we studied carrageenin-induced pleurisy in rats treated with an NO donor (NOC-18), a substrate for NO formation (L-arginine), and/or an NO synthase inhibitor (S-(2-aminoethyl) isothiourea or NG-nitro-L-arginine). …”
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Acceptability of the social uses of the COVID-19 screening test among women in southern Benin by Mingnimon A. Affo

“…Conclusion: Insufficient consideration of local contexts around health emergencies, infodemia and social inequalities in health have contributed to aversion to the COVID-19 screening test. …”
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PM2.5 Concentration Prediction Based on Markov Blanke Feature Selection and Hybrid Kernel Support Vector Regression Optimized by Particle Swarm Optimization by Lian-Hua Zhang, Ze-Hong Deng, Wen-Bo Wang

“…Abstract This study employed air quality and meteorological data as research materials and extracted the optimal feature subset by using the approximate Markov blanket-based normal maximum relevance minimum redundancy (nMRMR) algorithm to serve as the input data of the prediction model. In addition, a hybrid kernel (HK) was created to improve upon the traditional support vector regression (SVR) model. …”
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Production of C3+ Olefins and Propylene from Ethanol by Zr-Modified H-ZSM-5 Zeolite Catalysts by Megumu Inaba, Kazuhisa Murata, Isao Takahara, Ken-ichiro Inoue

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“Your brother is compelled–not a hero!” by Imene Medfouni

“…The acceptance of French being the MOI is a way of accommodating reality; hence, it is seen as inevitable, as exemplified in one of the participants’ use of the expression “your brother is compelled–not a hero!” …”
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Spatial analysis of distribution and access to urban services at the level of urban neighborhoods with a spatial justice approach (Case study: Commercial uses of Ardabil city) by Alireza Mohammadi, Reza Hashemi Masoomabad, chnour Mohammadi

“…One of the most important and urgent issues of urban planning is the equitable distribution of facilities, services and accessibility of citizens at the urban level. …”
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Macro Issues of Urban and Rural Development and Land Use Planning in the Horizon of Iran 1420 with Strategic Future Approach by Aliakbar Jafarloo, Monireh Ghofran, Sahar Nazari

“…The findings reveal that Iran will likely experience sudden disruptions and heightened uncertainties, compounded by economic, social, political, environmental, demographic, geopolitical, and climate-related factors, as well as issues related to cyberspace and increasing inequalities. …”
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Who’s Doing the Housework and Childcare in America Now? Differential Convergence in Twenty-First-Century Gender Gaps in Home Tasks by Melissa A. Milkie, Liana C. Sayer, Kei Nomaguchi, Hope Xu Yan

“…Using a differential convergence perspective, the authors argue that examining which domestic tasks undergo gender convergence, whose changes narrow the gap, and why changes happen is critical for understanding gender inequalities in unpaid labor time. Using data from the 2003–2023 American Time Use Survey, the authors examine trends in total housework (including core and occasional housework), shopping, and childcare time. …”
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AI and Language: New Forms for Old Discriminations? A Case Study in Google Translate and Canva by Martina Mattiazzi

“…Like any human revolution, however, it is necessary to be careful about it and consider that the growing use of these new informatic systems also entails risks. One of them, it is the reinforcement of gender stereotypes and discrimination against women through linguistics feedback. …”
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The Role of Small-Scale Industries in Achieving the Sustainable Development: the Experience of India by N. V. Galistcheva

“…It argues convincingly that due to significant number of population as well as low-skilled labor on the one hand and limited financial resources on the other one small business has been considered to be a buffer between modern big business and the bulk of the population remaining outside it. …”
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Alleviating the public health burden of hypertension: debating precision prevention as a possible solution by Madeleine J. Samakosky, Shane A. Norris

“…Systemic barriers, such as fragmented health services and socioeconomic inequalities, coupled with shifts in greater salt-intake, ultra-processed foods, more sedentary lifestyles, and overburdened healthcare services, have exacerbated elevated blood pressure and poorer management of people living with hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Gas-Solid Reaction Properties of Fluorine Compounds and Solid Adsorbents for Off-Gas Treatment from Semiconductor Facility by Shinji Yasui, Tadashi Shojo, Goichi Inoue, Kunihiko Koike, Akihiro Takeuchi, Yoshio Iwasa

“…We have been developing a new dry-type off-gas treatment system for recycling fluorine from perfluoro compounds present in off-gases from the semiconductor industry. …”
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Adaptability of Napiergrass (Pennisetum purpureum Schumach.) for Weed Control in Site of Animals Buried after Foot-and-Mouth Disease Infection by Yasuyuki Ishii, Yusuke Iki, Kouhei Inoue, Shuhei Nagata, Sachiko Idota, Masato Yokota, Aya Nishiwaki

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Perceived discrimination in fatigue: a qualitative interview study in the SOMA.SOC project by Rieke Barbek, Anna Christin Makowski, Olaf von dem Knesebeck

“…By applying an intersectional approach, intersectional discrimination specific for certain stigmatized social identities, like female gender and low occupational status became apparent.DiscussionThese findings need to be further researched and addressed in intervention strategies increasing resilience and public knowledge to reduce intersectional discrimination and health inequalities.…”
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El plano de una ciudad desigual. La distribución espacial de la riqueza en la ciudad de Buenos Aires en 1839 by Tomás Guzmán

“…Este trabajo analiza la distribución de los activos económicos, como bie - nes raíces o giro comercial, entre las zonas de la ciudad de Buenos Aires en 1839. …”
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Multiaircraft Optimal 4D Trajectory Planning Using Logical Constraints by Dinesh B. Seenivasan, Alberto Olivares, Ernesto Staffetti

“…Enforcing separation between aircraft, passage through waypoints, and obstacle avoidance is especially demanding in terms of modeling efforts. Indeed, in general, separation constraints require the introduction of auxiliary integer variables in the model; for passage constraints, a multiphase optimal control approach is used, and for obstacle avoidance constraints, geometric approximations of the obstacles are introduced. …”
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