Expectations, impacts, and contradictions of e-scooters from a social exclusion perspective: Reflections from London's rental trial by Daniel Oviedo, Carolina Moore, Anastasia Trofimova

“…In London, United Kingdom, urban pilots for shared e-scooter services have been met with significant disruptions stemming from issues that range from the pandemic to regulatory uncertainty, recent political shifts, and slow legislative processes. …”
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Bretton Woods Organisations in a Changing World: A Single Seat for the European Union? by Susanna Cafaro, Francesco Spera

“…However, addressing these problems appears to be an unavoidable knot not only in the process of remodelling the two organisations, but also in updating them to meet the needs of the new millennium. …”
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Cluster Policy Based on the Analysis of the Situation in the Municipality by Yu. N. Lapygin, D. V. Tulinova

“…Therefore, consideration of clusterization issues at the level of municipalities is of interest from a theoretical and practical point of view. …”
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HORROR VACUI: THE MEANING CRISIS OF THE GLOBALIZED WORLD (THE CASE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION). A JUNGIAN APPROACH by Mihai NOVAC

“…On closer examination, we might find that the issue of meaning was not very much addressed in the discussions concerning globalization; certainly, it is not a major issue on the agenda of the institutions impactful upon this process. …”
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Metabolic and endocrine disorders in obesity in dogs by V. V. Horiuk, V. A. Kozhyn

“…In dogs, obesity is not only the accumulation of fat but also the development of chronic inflammation, disruption of hormone functions, and an increased risk of serious metabolic disorders such as insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, hypothyroidism, dyslipidemia, as well as respiratory and cardiovascular issues. Obesity in dogs can have serious consequences for their health and premature mortality, which is why it is important to carry out prevention and early diagnosis of this condition, particularly through controlling nutrition and physical activity, as well as a better understanding of the endocrine and metabolic processes leading to obesity. …”
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Research on Seamless Fabric Defect Detection Based on Improved YOLOv8n by Qin Sun, Bernd Noche, Zongyi Xie, Bingqiang Huang

“…An improved YOLOv8n seamless fabric defect detection model is proposed to solve the current issues in seamless fabric defects in factories in this paper. …”
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Dual role of lactate in human health and disease by Sudhir Kumar, Neha Sahu, Talha Jawaid, Hanish Singh Jayasingh Chellammal, Prabhat Upadhyay

“…However, excessive lactate accumulation is linked to health issues, including cancer, metabolic disorders, and neurological diseases. …”
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Development of Students’ Communicative and Speech Skills in the System of Teaching Russian Language at Universities of the PRC (Based on Chinese History) by Zhou Shujuan, Wang Xiaoyang

“…The essence of ideological and political education at universities in China is to cultivate students' patriotism, developing their skills in conducting a discussion on current issues in Chinese history in a foreign language. The development of monologue and dialogic communication skills in Chinese students studying Russian based on the history of their native country not only meets the requirements of the time and the goals of teaching the subject “Russian Language: Advanced Level”, but also opens up new opportunities for the ideological and political education of young people Objective. …”
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Investigation on Optimization of Finite Element Model for Stress Analysis of 12Cr1MoV Main Steam Pipeline Elbow by Shutao Wang, Renqiang Shi, Jian Wu, Chao Yang, Huan Liu

“…During the manufacturing process of elbows, issues such as cross-sectional elliptical deformation and uneven wall thickness frequently occur. …”
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Financial Literacy: a Comparative Analysis Between Employees and Farmers by Suwandi Suwandi, Muhammad Syarif

“…The ability to understand then becomes the forerunner to the birth of financial literacy, which is interpreted as a person's ability to process economic information and make the right decisions related to financial planning. …”
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Evaluation of Nomads’ Settlement Plans with focus on Settled Attitudes C.S: Talkhab Site (Ilam Province) by Younes Azadi, Seyyed Amir Hossein Garakani, Zivar Azadi

“…Nowadays, various factors such as collapse of tribal structures and systems, deterioration of grasslands, lack of decent educational system for the children, and shortage of healthcare facilities have caused tribal living extremely challenging. To help avert the process, experts have proposed different approaches among which settlement plan rendered as most appropriate. …”
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Object-Synchronized TSN Reconfiguration Under Continuous Low-Latency Streaming by Dominik Stohrmann, Rolf Ernst

“…Application-aware resource management addresses these issues by providing information about transferred application data, enabling control of applications, and managing resource allocation during runtime. …”
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Plasma Spraying of W Coatings for Nuclear Fusion Applications: Advancements and Challenges by Ekaterina Pakhomova, Alessandra Palombi, Alessandra Varone

“…The results demonstrate that, following optimization of the fabrication process, PS-W coatings exhibit excellent performance. …”
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Psychological relationship of students' logic and reasoning skills in the context of critical thinking by Ж. Молбасынова, Ю. Гелишли, М. Мурзагулова, У. Жамирова, A. Даникеева

“… In the article, one of today's actual issues is in the direction of supporting new ideas proposed by young intellectuals In the context of critical thinking, the theoretical and methodological bases of the psychological relationship between students' logic and reasoning skills were studied. …”
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Qualification of beatings as non-live-threatening and non-health-threatening violence by O. V. Artyushina

“…The author studies the norms of Russian criminal and administrative legislation in the field of protection of human bodily integrity and practical issues that have emerged in this regard.The purpose of the article is to confirm or disprove the hypothesis of a complex (not obvious to the law enforcement officer) process of qualification of violent actions that caused physical pain, but did not cause harm to human health, due to the multi-level competition of legal norms.The methodological basis of the study is the general scientific dialectical-materialistic approach based on the methods of analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction. …”
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Road Safety Improvement and Sustainable Urban Mobility: Identification and Prioritization of Factors and Policies Through a Multi-Criteria Approach by Konstantina Anastasiadou, Fotini Kehagia

“…The most important factors and, subsequently, the most effective measures and policies are identified and prioritized through a multi-criteria approach (modified Delphi–analytical hierarchy process (AHP)–technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS)). …”
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Current concepts of Peyronie’s disease (clinical lecture) by K. B. Lelyavin

“…A growing amount of research has shown that PD is a chronical disorder of local wound healing process within the tunica albuginea and the Smith’s space. …”
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Influence of Transformation Coefficient of Refrigerating Machine on Exergetic Efficiency of Air Conditioning System of Operating Clean Rooms by Volodymyr Labay, Kyrylo Andreiko

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On assessing the efficiency of executive authorities in achieving the national development goals by N. E. Buletova, T. A. Zolotko

“…Objective: to identify and characterize the current trends in improving approaches to evaluating the performance of executive authorities, taking into account the trends and prospects for improving their activities to implement the goals and objectives of national, federal, and regional projects.Methods: general scientific methods of the systematic approach aimed at a holistic perception of the research object, such as comparison, grouping, other statistical methods, as well as the scenario approach and expert assessments.Results: the issues of management system in the activities of government bodies that affect the efficiency of public servants are identified, systematized and characterized. …”
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Uncovering Barriers to Maternal Mortality Audits: An Unseen Challenge by Salsabila Dinda Nuril Ishlahi, Metta Octora, Ratih Barirah, Ario Danianto

“…The results showed that the problems faced by the MPDSR team, including ineffective of MPDSR socialization, budget limitations of MPDSR activities, feature issues in the MPDN, the ratio between labor and workload was less than ideal, incomplete and delayed collection of maternal mortality data, lack of communication between MPDSR teams, health workers have not been trained in the data entry process, labor outside of medical supervision, no monitoring of maternal mortality cases in wards other than obgyn, health workers did not understand the ICD-10 code, the assessment was still conducted in a hybrid, not all maternal death cases were assessed, blaming culture, and suboptimal monitoring of the sustainability of MPDSR recommendation. …”
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