Applications of blockchain technology in long-term care: use cases, potentials, and barriers by Beate Steurer, Birgit Trukeschitz, Ulrike Schneider

“…Abstract Background Digitalization in long-term care (LTC) is being discussed as a means of easing pressures on care service delivery, optimizing care coordination and planning processes, and improving service quality. With its advanced data protection and process automation features, blockchain technology could help solve data security and privacy issues, especially for the implementation of assistive technologies. …”
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University Management in the Western Sociology of Higher Education by P. A. Ambarova, G. E. Zborovsky

“…In recent decades, the issues of management of higher education have been actively developed in sociology. …”
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Acupressure intervention for children: A scoping review by Sri Ramdaniati, Mei Neni Sitaresmi, Fitri Haryanti, Arief Tarmansyah Iman

“…It stimulates the body’s self-healing processes by enhancing energy flow, or “chi,” along meridian channels. …”
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III-nitride power semiconductor technology toward carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals by LUO Zhuoran, HE Liang, ZHANG Jinwei, LIU Yang

“…In the past 20 years, with the development of the industry, some common key technological issues of GaN-based devices were resolved, such as large size and high breakdown voltage GaN epitaxy, preparation of stable normally-off devices and CMOS compatible preparation technology. …”
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The Trajectory of Scaled Agile Research: A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization Approach by Lucas Thulani Khoza, Mfowabo Maphosa

“…Scaled Agile refers to a set of organisational structures and processes for implementing agile practices that are applied on an enterprise scale.  …”
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Implementation Of The Positive Culture Of Seven Days Of Special Education At SDN 1 Pasanggrahan by Tita Nurhayati, Agustina Retnoasih, Purwanto, Lili Halimah

“…Through the educational process, good character traits develop within individuals, equipping them to face life with physical and spiritual happiness. …”
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Wearable Sensor-Based Exercise Monitoring System for Higher Education Students Using a Multi-Attribute Fuzzy Evaluation Model by Shiping Yu, Xiaowei Peng

“…Student exercise should be continuously monitored to eliminate risk factors and health issues. The previous monitoring system faced difficulties while handling the vast amount of data obtained from multiple sensors because it was affected by uncertainty and noise issues. …”
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The biological encoding of design and the premises for a new generation of 'living' products : the example of Sinapsi. by Sabrina Lucibello, Carmen Rotondi

“…In fact, the growing complexity derived from the AI systems’ increasing degrees of autonomy has raised issues concerning the relationship between the user and the intelligent entity, as well as important ethical issues that call into question the design and that can be overcome through inspiration from the logic and the principles governing the intimate intelligence of nature. …”
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Evaluating energy efficiency of Internet of Things software architecture based on reusable software components by Doohwan Kim, Jae-Young Choi, Jang-Eui Hong

“…In order to provide useful support, important issues related to security, performance, and energy consumption have to be considered. …”
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Pension Provision of Russian Military in 19^th - early 20^th Century (by Material of Tobolsk Province) by L. N. Suslova

“…The article is devoted to the study of the process of formation and evolution of the social security system for old age and disease of servicemen of the Tobolsk province in the 19th - early 20th centuries. …”
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Gender aspect of the development of a comprehensive school in the 1950s: problems and by Madina Kurbanismailovna Nagieva

“…The article considers some issues of the development of a comprehensive school in the 1945-1950s on the basis of historical sources and monographic studies. …”
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Book review: Alina Bârgăoanu, Examenul Schengen. În căutarea sferei publice europene [The Schengen Exam. In Search of the European Public Sphere] by Flavia Durach

“…In Search of the European Public Sphere” focuses on the Romanian public sphere and its connectivity to European issues. The public sphere is interconnected to other essential processes, such as establishing legitimacy, public opinion formation, ensuring representation of all positions and opinions, collective identity formation, and deliberation processes. …”
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Painting as Event: Performance and gesture in late Turner by Hélène Ibata

“…These performative displays may be connected to the increasingly gestural nature of his production, to his quest for a form of adequation between his own emotional involvement in the process of painting and the dynamic motions of nature, but also to his new awareness of the process of pictorial creation as a lived or kinaesthetic experience in which vision and movement are fused. …”
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Les ressorts territoriaux de la gestion de l’eau : le cas de la Drôme (1980-2013) by Sabine Girard

“…River contracts and Plans for Water Development and Management are some of the new public action instruments issued of the water policy regionalization. The objective of this article is to explore the mechanisms and conditions through which regional water management can contribute to environmental efficiency. …”
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Digital twin integration in metalworking: enhancing efficiency and predictive maintenance by William Villegas-Ch, Rommel Gutierrez, Jaime Govea

“…In the era of Industry 4.0, the integration of advanced technologies such as digital twins represents a strategic opportunity for process optimization in the metalworking industry. …”
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BASIC ASPECTS ENSURING SHIPPING SAFETY by Oleksiy MELNYK, Svitlana ONYSHCHENKO, Oleg ONISHCHENKO, Oleh LOHINOV, Valentyna OCHERETNA, Yurii DOVIDENKO

“…Widespread use of innovative technologies in all spheres of life has brought the maritime transport industry, in particular, the process of ship navigation, to a completely new qualitative level. …”
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What Is Happening Here?: An Auto-Ethnographic Account of an Emerging Woman Academic’s Entry into the Academy in South Africa by Nokulunga Shabalala

“…I also argue that perhaps this dis-ease is the starting point for us to look at what is happening and move towards a radical or reimagined academy. Through this process, I recognised how I became violently silent and disillusioned but emerged hopeful that constant processes of confrontation such as this will eventually create a home for us. …”
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Trends of Financing Green Projects of Russian Trade Companies by E. V. Altukhova

“…The necessity to follow current trends of sustainable development involves more and more participants in the process. Trade companies are an important link in this system of relations. …”
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Metamorfoses da cidade medieval. A coexistência entre a comunidade judaica e a catedral de Viseu by Anísio Miguel de Sousa Saraiva

“…We will analyze the outline of this coexistence and collaboration process, though not always peaceful, between jews and the cathedral. …”
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TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION ON THE USE OF ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT IN INTERNATIONAL PRIMARY SCHOOL: BENEFITS AND OBSTACLES by Rike Purnamasari, Syafi'ul Anam, Ahmad Munir

“…Since assessment is an essential component of education, various assessments, both short-term and long-term, can be used throughout or at the end of the learning process. Among these, alternative assessment becomes prominent to be applied. …”
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