Administrative Stressors in Pakistani Medical Schools: A Call for Identification and System-level Interventions by Shabiaa Nauman Aziz

“…This could be achieved by conducting student surveys and interviews, establishing focus groups and discussions, and analyzing the records of student complaints, academic performance, and administrative processes, thus providing a deep insight into potential issues. …”
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HouseGanDi: A Hybrid Approach to Strike a Balance of Sampling Time and Diversity in Floorplan Generation by Azmeraw Bekele Yenew, Beakal Gizachew Assefa, Elefelious Getachew Belay

“…Floorplan synthesis is the process of generating new, realistic floor plans for buildings and homes using machine learning and generative models. …”
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Experimental Study on Bending Performance of Prefabricated Retaining Wall by Yidan Ma, Hengchen Du, Shicheng Nie, Kai Zhu, Han Liu, Dehong Wang

“…To address the engineering issues of difficult quality control, complex construction processes, and long construction periods in cast-in-place protective walls for manually excavated piles, a prefabricated protective wall structure is proposed. …”
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Frail older people ageing in place alone and their perception of the built environment in rural and urban sites: a mixed-methods study by Maria Gabriella Melchiorre, Marco Socci, Giovanni Lamura, Sabrina Quattrini

“…For this paper, semi-structured interviews involving 40 participants aged 65 years and over in the Marche Region (Central Italy) were processed, and a mixed-methods analysis (quantitative/qualitative) was conducted. …”
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Movimentos sociais e democracia: a tensão necessária by Marcus Abilio Pereira

“…These theories have contributed to a theoretical breakthrough on the issues of political inclusion, recognizing the importance of political autonomy and expansion of formal equality. …”
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A precise machine learning model: Detecting cervical cancer using feature selection and explainable AI by Rashiduzzaman Shakil, Sadia Islam, Bonna Akter

“…In addition, two data balancing techniques—Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique and Adaptive Synthetic Sampling—were used to mitigate the data imbalance issues. Furthermore, Chi-square and Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator are two distinct feature selection processes that have been applied to evaluate the feature rank, which are mostly correlated to identify the particular disease, and also integrate an explainable artificial intelligence technique, namely Shapley Additive Explanations, for clarifying the model outcome. …”
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Effects of long-term ecological research and cognitive biases on the evaluation of scientific information by public land managers in Oregon and Washington, USA by Claire Rapp, Michael P Nelson, Jeremy T Bruskotter

“…Natural resource managers (managers) value and use scientific information to inform their decision-making process in a variety of ways. The scientific information managers use depends on a variety of factors, including the source of the information and ease of access. …”
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Flood resilience assessment of region based on TOPSIS-BOA-RF integrated model by Guofeng Wen, Fayan Ji

“…Firstly, an indicator system is established through the process of “data collection-indicator extraction -opinion solicitation-indicator confirmation”, focusing on dimensions of robustness, redundancy, resourcefulness, and rapidity. …”
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A 20‐year mapping of Bayesian belief networks in software project management by Abraham L. R. deSousa, Cleidson R. B. deSouza, Rodrigo Q. Reis

“…Abstract In recent years, more software engineering researchers have focussed on methods, techniques, tools, and processes to support software project management (SPM) addressing quality, cost, and time constraints. …”
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Low-Voltage Current-Mode Analog Filter Using Current Differencing Transconductance Amplifier by Montree Kumngern, Fabian Khateb, Tomasz Kulej

“…The Monte Carlo analysis, along with process, temperature, and voltage corner analyses, confirms the robustness of the design.…”
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Multiple assessment of sustainability in desert ecosystem (Case study: Mehriz region of Yazd) by Mohammad Amin Nazarian, Abbas Ali Vali, Abolfazl Ranjbar Fordoei

“…Research Topic: Investigating the sustainability of deserts based on international natural indicators is one of the central issues in the process of destruction of arid and semi-arid regions and is of great importance in research. …”
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Integrating a culturally adapted mental health intervention within entrepreneurship training for displaced youth in Colombia: a pilot randomized controlled trial by Alethea Desrosiers, María Pineros-Leano, Indrani Saran, Catalina Escobar, Natalia Pineros-Leano, María Paula Jimenez, Andres Moya, Theresa S. Betancourt

“…Many have experienced mental health issues in addition to socio-economic problems, but significant gaps remain in mental health service provision. …”
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Ecosystem Health Assessment of Coal Mining Subsidence Wetlands Using the DPSIR Model: A Case Study in Yingshang County, China by Cankun Li, Jiang Chang, Shiyuan Zhou, Shanshan Feng

“…These changes significantly impact regional ecological processes, structure, and functions. Hence, assessing the health condition and restoring the degraded subsidence wetlands efficiently have become urgent issues in coal resource-based cities. …”
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IS IT NECESSARY TO TEACH THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY IN GENERAL PHYSICS COURSE by Sergey N. Kolgatin

“…Planning the course structure, one has to make the selection of most significant questions sacrificing minor and less significant issues. This process is particularly exacerbated by severe restrictions on the time allowed for the subject. …”
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Changes in Pore Structure of Coal Caused by CS2 Treatment and Its Methane Adsorption Response by Run Chen, Yong Qin, Pengfei Zhang, Youyang Wang

“…The pore structure and gas adsorption are two key issues that affect the coal bed methane recovery process significantly. …”
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Missed opportunities for digital health data use in healthcare decision-making: A cross-sectional digital health landscape assessment in Homa Bay county, Kenya. by Mercy Chepkirui, Stephanie Dellicour, Rosemary Musuva, Isdorah Odero, Benson Omondi, Benard Omondi, Eric Onyango, Hellen Barsosio, Lilian Otiso, Gordon Okomo, Maina Waweru, Maia Lesosky, Tara Tancred, Yussif Alhassan, Simon Kariuki, Feiko terKuile, Miriam Taegtmeyer

“…The primary challenge hindering effective digital data utilisation is network instability, alongside issues such as the lack of interoperability, disjointed data quality assurance processes, and non-standardised patient identifiers. …”
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New case of Crohn's disease by I. Y. Statsenko, V. V. Skvortsov, M. A. Kirina

“…Terminal ileitis was defined as a chronic recurrent disease of the gastrointestinal tract of unclear etiology, characterized by a transmural segmental spread of the inflammatory process with the development of local and systemic complications. …”
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A review based study on emotional distress and physical pain in oral and head and neck cancer patients pre- and post-chemotherapy by Sanya Mehndiratta, Ravindra Singh, Saanjli Bhandari, Mansha Dadhich

“…However, the Head and Neck Cancer (HNC) patients face some serious issues due to the site of tumour or surgery itself. …”
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‘Another brick in the wall’. On the origins of nationalism in the ‘new’ federal states of Germany by A. V. Belinskii, M. V. Khorol’skaya

“…For example, the authors underline the role of the politics of memory in the GDR and primarily the approaches of its leaders to the issues of the Nazi past and their attempts to draw on the country’s history to shape a new national identity. …”
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Proteomics approaches – their potential for answering complex questions in meat science research by Elisabeth Huff-Lonergan, Steven M. Lonergan

“…Omics approaches provide insights into the molecular processes underlying meat quality. Targeted proteomic approaches need to be considered to provide a fuller understanding of the changes important to meat quality.…”
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