Farming While Aging: Reasons and Strategies for Maintaining Family Farming in Parbotihan Village, North Sumatera by Firdaus Marbun

“…The reluctance of youth to work in farming and their choice to migrate to urban areas has resulted in a scarcity of productive workers in rural areas. …”
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Exploring Monte Carlo Negotiation Search with Nontrivial Agreements by Elijah Alden Malaby, John Licato

“…We demonstrate significant improvement of our algorithm over random agreement sampling, although further work is required to more consistently produce optimal agreements.…”
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Human Consciousness and the ‘Anthropological Turn’: Theological Perspectives on Evolutionary Anthropology by Martin Breul

“…In this article, I show that Tomasello’s insights carry significant implications for philosophical and theological debates. …”
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Motions in Pictures: From Habermas’s Informal Political Sphere to Formal Politics in the Films <i>Footloose</i>, <i>Land and Freedom</i> and <i>The Beguiled</i> by Jane Thomas, Sean Tunney

“…Drawing on Habermas’s theory of communicative action, we debate prevailing understandings of the implications of his work for deliberative democracy via an exploration of the films. …”
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Impact of the inclusion of variable CO2 cost in the distribution network design by Rodrigo de Castro Barros, Mauro Sampaio, Jobel Santos Correa

“…In addition, this work addresses the inclusion of CO2 as a cost associated with transportation and manufacturing activities. …”
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Sustainability indicators in high entropy alloy design: an economic, environmental, and societal database by Stéphane Gorsse, Théo Langlois, An-Chou Yeh, Matthew R. Barnett

“…Abstract This work introduces a comprehensive dataset and framework for assessing the sustainability of high entropy alloys (HEAs) and other metallic alloys. …”
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Bessel statistical convergence: New concepts and applications in sequence theory. by Ibrahim S Ibrahim, Majeed A Yousif, Pshtiwan Othman Mohammed, Dumitru Baleanu, Ahmad Zeeshan, Mohamed Abdelwahed

“…This work contributes to the foundational understanding of sequence behavior, with potential applications across various scientific disciplines.…”
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El De Iudaica Arbore (1517) de Étienne Chenu y los conversos españoles en Tolosa y el Languedoc by María José Vega

“…This article studies a text printed in Toulouse in 1517, the De arbore Iudaica, a work of fiction with theological, political and polemical implications which contains as well some allusions to current affairs in Toulouse. …”
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Contributions of a Social Justice Language Teacher Education Perspective to Professional Development Programs in Colombia by Ana María Sierra Piedrahita

“…In this article, the author discusses the social justice language teacher education perspective and how it can help language teachers to develop a political view of their work and effect change inside and outside their particular school contexts. …”
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Addressing the Underrepresentation of African American Mental Health Professionals: A Call to Action by Victor Ajluni MD, Georgia Michalopoulou PhD

“…By addressing this issue, we can work towards a more equitable, effective, and culturally responsive mental health care system for all.…”
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Chirality in nanomaterials by Roberto Matassa, Sekhar Chandra Ray, Yuebing Zheng

“…We also showcase several papers from this collection that exemplify the breadth of current work, offering insights into the future directions of this rapidly evolving field.…”
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The long-term average spectrum in forensic phonetics: From collation to discrimination of speakers by Jordi Just Alcaraz

“… The present work aims to provide more data regarding the comparison and discrimination of speech samples in the field of forensic phonetics. …”
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An Interior Solution for the Kerr Metric: A Novel Approach by Yu-Ching Chou

“…Ovalle’s foundational work through ellipsoidal coordinate transformations. …”
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Studying Elections in India: Scientific and Political Debates by Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal

“…Election studies (which are here defined as scholarly work focusing on the major phases of the electoral process, i.e. the campaign, the vote, the announcement of results and subsequent government formation) constitute a distinct sub-genre of studies on democracy, which focuses, so to speak, on the ‘mechanics’ more than on the ‘substance’ of representative democracy. …”
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The long-term average spectrum in forensic phonetics: From collation to discrimination of speakers by Jordi Just Alcaraz

“… The present work aims to provide more data regarding the comparison and discrimination of speech samples in the field of forensic phonetics. …”
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Two Types of Temporal Symmetry in the Laws of Nature by A. Y. Klimenko

“…This work explores the implications of assuming time symmetry and applying bridge-type, time-symmetric temporal boundary conditions to deterministic laws of nature with random components. …”
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Políticas de vinculación del Estado uruguayo e inmigración uruguaya en Argentina by Zuleika Crosa

“…This article examines the Uruguayan State’s entailment migratory policies with their emigrated population and the implications for the Uruguayan associations in Argentina. …”
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Luigi Mangiagalli by Piergiorgio Crosignani, Carlo La Vecchia

“…<p>Luigi Mangiagalli (1850-1928) is a well known figure and a “founding father” of obstetrics and gynecology in Italy, but less recognized are the wide range implications of his work on a public health and social level. …”
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Fetishism and Form: Advertising and Ironic Distance in Don DeLillo’s White Noise by Adam Szetela

“…Given DeLillo’s prior career as a copywriter for Ogilvy & Mather, as well as a large body of scholarship that analyzes his novels in relationship to issues of political economy and American culture, this essay seeks to not only deepen an understanding of the historical issues that surround DeLillo’s work, but also the political implications of his writing. …”
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Intercultural Competencies: Value Orientation Theory by Pablo Lamino, John Diaz, Laura Valencia, Jaehyun Ahn

“… This second publication in the Intercultural Competencies series examines the implications of value orientation theory for Extension work in Florida agriculture, providing practical recommenda­tions for developing intercultural competence and program effectiveness. …”
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