Enhancing healthcare cost transparency: assessing implementation challenges, criticisms, and alternative solutions by Sonia Ali Malik

“…The United States healthcare system grapples with a staggering estimated waste of $935 billion, with pricing failure contributing a substantial $240.5 billion. …”
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In love with the desert by R. Wheeler

“…This article explores how the author, a female researcher of this tradition, has grappled with the tradition’s male-centred character. …”
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L’alternance codique dans le rap algérien et tunisien by Felix Wiedemann

“…This article examines how the Algerian rapper Lotfi Double Kanon and the Tunisian rapper Balti make use of Arabic, French and English in their songs. …”
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In vitro study on the inhibitory effect of various essential oils against murine coronavirus mouse hepatitis virus A-59 replication by Karelle Contant, Shiv Shankar, Monique Lacroix

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Editorial by I.D. Mothoagae

“…These hermeneutical lenses function as theoretical tools to analyse and grapple with the question of the strategies used by Western missionaries. …”
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Spatial interactivity. Sensoriality and design of digital data in the space by Giorgio Dall’Osso, Martina D’Alessandro, Valeria Melappioni

“…As digital is now invisibly integrated into the activities we perform daily, networks are extending into the real space, demonstrating how technology does not eliminate the human need for physical presence. Architecture must grapple with a non-tectonic reality, and ask itself not how to use the digital to manage data apparatuses to generate dynamic architectural forms, but rather how to turn information into an engine for spaces that can dynamically respond to the needs of the inhabitants. …”
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AI-writing tools in education: if you can’t beat them, join them by Tseng Waverly, Warschauer Mark

“…The release and rapid diffusion of ChatGPT has forced teachers and researchers around the world to grapple with the consequences of artificial intelligence (AI) for education. …”
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The Importance of Being Uncertain―or What I Learned From Writing History With Rumors by Sebastian Jobs

“…South I try to find out how people at the time grappled with contradictory information and tried to evaluate the credibility of their sources. …”
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Feline Alter Egos in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “Circumstance” and the Poetry of Emily Dickinson by Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau

“…When the female self is in the claws of the feline, or compared to the feline, she grapples with multiple snares as her voice is entangled within the contradictory impulses she strives to negotiate. …”
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RETHINKING HOMO AFRICANUS IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIO-POLITICAL CHANGE: by A.R. Brunsdon

“… The article grapples with an appropriate African pastoral anthropology against the background of the socio-political changes that occurred in South of Africa since the dawn of the new democracy during the mid-nineties. …”
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« Retracing our steps » : failles géologiques et défaillances familiales dans Goat Mountain de David Vann by Pauline BOISGERAULT

“…This paper wishes to analyze the ways in which David Vann’s Goat Mountain allows for an exploration of the multi-layered faults and fault lines that a group of men grapples with after they come back to their camp for their annual hunting rituals. …”
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Replicating Europe’s Normative Power: Challenges and Pathways for South Asia's Regional Integration by Adeel Kazmi

“…In contrast, South Asia grapples with political instability and geo-strategic challenges that impede regional integration. …”
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Une image vaut mille mots : la crise d’Oka de 1990 et sa représentation par une photographie by Émilie Guilbeault-Cayer

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Self-organization and the Process of Dynamic Learner Language Development by Shan An

“…To capitalize on CDST as a valid approach to scholarly work, it is necessary to grapple with its fundamental constructs. This forum piece accentuates a critical notion of CDST: self-organization. …”
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EQUIPPING THE YOUTH BY RECOURSE TO THE TOTAL LIFE TRAINING TOOL FOR YOUTH CHALLENGES IN CHRISTIANA: by F.E. Freeks

“…Farming communities in Christiana grapple with problems such as unemployment, poverty, occultism, Satanism, alcoholism and violence. …”
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Determination of spherical curve defining the angle of service of android robot arm by method of small motions synthesis by F. N. Pritykin, V. I. Nebritov

“…A generalized method for determining the angle of service based on the synthesis of motions in the specified directions of the gripper’s axis with immobile center is presented. As an example, the angle of the android robot’s arm is defined, formed by the longitudinal axis of the gripper. …”
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Clostridioides difficile infection: a changing treatment paradigm by Yousif Al Naser, Marriam AlGashami, Layth Aljashaami

“…Bezlotoxumab, though augmenting antibiotics, grapples with cost and safety concerns. Meanwhile, faecal microbiota transplantation, highly efficacious, confronts evolving safety considerations. …”
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Digital ecclesiology and Africa’s digital natives: prospects and challenges by K.M. Ndereba

“… The COVID-19 pandemic has raised important issues for the church. Churches have grappled with ministering to their congregants in light of the changes in physical gatherings over the past two years. …”
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Dynamising Liberation Movements in Southern Africa by Chidochashe Nyere

“… The book grapples with reconciling the ideological, policy and implementation bankruptcy of former liberation movements in Southern Africa especially as it applies to their incumbency of national government in their respective domains. …”
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Depictions Of Environmental Destruction By British Colonizers In Ole Kulets “The Hunter” and “Vanishing Herds” by Johnson, Ocan, Francis Akena, Adyanga

“…Therefore, consistent with our analysis, we conclude that while the country grapples with the thorny issue of environmental degradation, sound ecological policies must be put in place that recognize the validity of indigenous ecological ethics, which have been debased under British colonialism. …”
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