The role of violence in the classics of Brazilian Social Thought by Bruno de Souza Lessa, Jaqueline Silinske

“…We concluded that these seminal books give support to our argument insofar as violence appears in all of them as an element that grants cohesion to society as it ensures the submission of the dominated to the dominant.…”
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the evaluation of influencing factors of electronic customer relationship management adoption in e-commerce by Jalal Rezaeenour, Habil Deimazar

“…The consistency of the results obtained from these two different analytical techniques ensured that our results were valid and reliable.…”
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Engineered Bacteria for Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Using Synthetic Biology by Kai Jin, Yi Huang, Hailong Che, Yihan Wu

“…Despite numerous advancements, challenges remain. These include ensuring the long‐term survival and safety of bacteria, developing new chassis microbes and gene editing techniques for non‐model strains, minimising potential toxicity, and understanding bacterial interactions with the host microbiota. …”
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Theory and Application of Vessel Speed Dynamic Control considering Safety and Environmental Factors by Tianrui Zhou, Qinyou Hu, Zhihui Hu, Jiamao Zhi

“…The experimental results show that the proposed dynamic speed control model can reduce the ship’s fuel consumption and improve energy efficiency while ensuring the safety navigation. The study is anticipated to be used as a reference for speed dynamic control.…”
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Aid Effectiveness: From Project Appraisal to Strategic Impact Evaluation by D. A. Degterev

“…The US case shows key principles of ensuring policy coherence at different levels of goal-setting — from the National Security Strategy to planning individual projects and programs. …”
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eDAAAS: Efficient distributed anonymous authentication and access in smart homes by An Braeken, Pawani Porambage, Milos Stojmenovic, Lambros Lambrinos

“…The operations in our scheme only include a small number of communication phases and protect the identities of the entities involved (i.e. stakeholders and end-nodes) from any outside entity. The proposed scheme ensures that even if the stakeholder’s device or the Internet of Things device is attacked, the system remains secure.…”
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Investigating effective support mounts for fans during display by exploring new technologies by Sarah Bright

“…This project explored how creating a digital 3D image of a fan could enable 3D fabrication technologies to be used to produce an exact ‘imprint’ of the object ensuring that all areas were supported, allowing a more suitable fan display to be created.  …”
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Hydrogels empowered mesenchymal stem cells and the derived exosomes for regenerative medicine in age-related musculoskeletal diseases by Lixin Liu, Siwen Chen, Yantao Song, Longwei Cui, Yiman Chen, Jiangli Xia, Yibo Fan, Liqun Yang, Lina Yang

“…However, these therapies face several limitations, including issues related to ensuring stability and effective distribution within the body. …”
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Bistable Soft Shells for Programmable Mechanical Logic by Nan Yang, Yuming Lan, Miao Zhao, Xiaofei Shi, Kunpeng Huang, Zhongfa Mao, Damiano Padovani

“…All these functions are integrated into a unique programmable device, making mechanically integrated circuits more adaptable with rule‐changeable logic operations. This design ensures continuous processes and general applicability to multiple types of signals (a pressurized fluid can replace mechanical driving signals is shown). …”
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Antiretroviral therapies and status of people living with HIV in Japan: An update from hospital survey and national database. by Yoshiyuki Yokomaku, Tatsuya Noda, Mayumi Imahashi, Yuichi Nishioka, Tomoya Myojin, Aikichi Iwamoto, Tomoaki Imamura

“…These results underscore the efficacy of Japan's universal health insurance system in ensuring consistent access to HIV care and treatment, supporting both individual patient outcomes and national surveillance efforts.…”
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Energy Aware Management for Tasks Scheduling Using Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling Techniques in Cloud Data Centers - A Case Study in the Ports and Maritime Organization by Hamed Ghorbani, Behnam Barzegar, Mousa Nazari

“…The goal of this algorithm is to consume the least amount of energy while ensuring reliability and limited task scheduling. In the first step, we determine the worst execution time of each task in each virtual machine of that type on each frequency level. …”
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Bounded Analysis and Practical Tracking Control of Complex Stochastic Nonlinear Systems with Unknown Control Coefficients by Long-Chuan Guo, Xiang-Kun Fang

“…Moreover, we construct an output feedback practical tracking controller based on the dynamic and static phase combined by Ito stochastic differential theory and selection of appropriate design parameters, ensuring that the system tracking error can be made arbitrarily small after some large enough time. …”
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Comprehensive review of greenness, whiteness, and blueness assessments of analytical methods by Sherin F. Hammad, Mohamed A. Adel Hamid, Latifa Adly, Samar H. Elagamy

“…In numerous cases, sample preparation is essential to isolate the desired analyte from complex matrices, ensuring accurate and reliable analysis. Thus, modern assessment tools have evolved to include sample preparation in their evaluation, providing a more comprehensive and fair judgment of the sustainability of the method. …”
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Designing and Testing of a Simple Solar Still for Thermal Desalination. by Mujuni, Alex

“…Additionally, a collection system ensures that condensed water is diverted away from the contaminated source to prevent recontamination. …”
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Assessing the Influence of Tourism Competitiveness on the Development of Tourism Destinations: A Case Study of Queen Elizabeth Nation Park. by Turyamureeba, Frankline

“…The findings are poised to guide strategic decision-making, enabling destination managers to harness the full potential of tourism while ensuring its alignment with principles of sustainability and long-term viability. …”
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The effects of financial distress on financial performance: An empirical analysis of SMEs in Sheema, Buhweju, Rubirizi, and Bushenyi districts by Mpora, Eliab Byamukama, Bwengye, Anny Katabaazi, Atukunda, Emilly, Ngirababo, Rwusira Dan

“…The study recommends that SMEs leverage technology to manage their financial records, ensuring ease of auditing and access to credit. Additionally, SMEs should employ skilled accountants for bookkeeping to enhance the quality of their financial records.…”
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Assessment on Power Distribution Network Planning in sub-Saharan Africa by Michael, E. Irechukwu, Michael, N. Irechukwu, Samuel, S. Mushakangoma

“…Power system distribution network planning (PSDNP) encompasses several tasks including ensuring sufficient substation capacity and distribution capacity for the end users. …”
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Fur Processing in Raižiai in the 20th Century: Craft and Image by Jonas Mardosa

“…Such attitude was appreciated by the customers and the quality of the work ensured the demand for the craft. After World War II, the situation had changed. …”
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Neural Radiance Fields for High-Fidelity Soft Tissue Reconstruction in Endoscopy by Jinhua Liu, Yongsheng Shi, Dongjin Huang, Jiantao Qu

“…We first construct an EndoTissue dataset of soft tissue regions in endoscopic images and fine-tune the Segment Anything Model (SAM) based on EndoTissue to obtain a potent segmentation network. …”
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The current state of legal regulation of labor relations in Ukraine by S. M. Bortnyk

“…The experts’ point of view regarding the concept of “labor legal relations” has been studied and the author’s definition has been given, which means the volitional, legal relationship between an employee and an employer, arising on the basis of an employment contract, regarding the employee’s performance of work with its payment and ensuring the working conditions necessary for it performance provided for by labor legislation, collective agreement and agreement of the parties. …”
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