Open access on a zero budget: a case study of Postcolonial Text by John Willinsky, Ranjini Mendis

“…</b> The founding of a new open access journal is described in terms of its use of the open source software Open Journal Systems, its contribution to a new field of inquiry and its ability to operate on a zero budget in terms of regular expenses. …”
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Framework for churches’ response to pandemics: based on a case study on impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on Christians in Zvishavane, Zimbabwe by F. Matsveru, D. Matsveru

“…This study was conducted when Zimbabwe was under Level 4 COVID-19 lockdown to investigate its impact on Christians and propose a framework for responding to future pandemics. …”
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Dynamic physiology and transcriptomics revealed the alleviation effect of melatonin on Reaumuria trigyna under continuous alkaline salt stress by Xuebo Li, Lei Wang, Heyi Wang, Rui Hao, Lunkai Gao, Hongbo Cui, Hai Wu, Xiaodong Wu, Tong Qiao, Weijie Bai, Liming Zhang

“…IntroductionReaumuria trigyna, a pivotal salt-tolerant plant species in Central Asian salt desert ecosystems, has garnered significant attention due to its resilience under harsh environmental conditions. …”
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Ultrastructure of Placenta of Gravidas with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus by Qian Meng, Li Shao, Xiucui Luo, Yingping Mu, Wen Xu, Chao Gao, Li Gao, Jiayin Liu, Yugui Cui

“…On TEM, the distinct ultrastructural alterations indicating the degeneration of terminal villi were found in the GDM placentas as follows: thickening of the basal membrane (BM) of vasculosyncytial membrane (VSM) and the VSM itself, significantly fewer or even absent syncytiotrophoblastic microvilli, swollen or completely destroyed mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum, and syncytiotrophoblasts with multiple vacuoles. …”
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The climate change influence on Indonesia medicinal plants: A review by Ngezahayo Eric, Komariah Komariah, Masykuri Mohammad

“…Indonesia has high biodiversity and is well-known for its medicinal plant diversity, which is both singular and globally affluent. …”
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Arabuluculuğun Meslek Olarak Değerlendirilmesi by Ferhat Yıldırım

“…Özellikle 2017 yılı itibariyle zorunlu arabuluculuk uygulamasının kabul edilmesi ile arabuluculuk hem uyuşmazlık yaşayan taraflar hem de bu alanda profesyonel olarak faaliyet göstermek isteyen hukukçular açısından tercih nedeni olmuştur. …”
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Impacts of PM on Indoor Air Quality of Airport Terminal Buildings in a Core City of North China Plain by Yunting Zhao, Wenhui Zheng, Simeng Ma, Weikai Kong, Bo Han, Jian Yu

“…The air quality in airport terminal buildings has not been studied as in-depth as airport ambient air quality. Due to its unique architectural and operational characteristics, the airport terminal buildings have individual performance of indoor air quality. …”
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Cardiovascular health in perspective: a comprehensive five-year geodatabase of hospitalizations and environmental factors in Mashhad, Iran by Shahab MohammadEbrahimi, Mohammad Dehghan, Behzad Kiani

“…In addition to the CVD hospitalization case file and its shape file created by joining with 1301 census tracts, this dataset includes environmental factors such as air quality indicators (SO2, PM2.5, CO, etc.). …”
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Project modules – Prospects for ancient heritage towards ecological transition by Luca Velo, Alberto Cervesato

“… For the marginal territories in northeastern Italy, there is a desire to formulate exploratory regeneration projects capable of bridging, through a multidisciplinary approach, the territorial and architectural scales. …”
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Les pratiques touristiques ciblées sur l’enfance : vers une nouvelle perspective ? by Fiorella Dallari, Alessia Mariotti

“…L’exemple analysé dans cet article est celui de la Riviera Romagnola, le district touristique balnéaire le plus important d’Italie, situé dans une des cinq premières régions hôtelières européennes : la région Emilia-Romagna. …”
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#mycityoftomorrow. A think tank on cities and territories of tomorrow by Francesco Alberti, Stefania Cupillari, Eleonora Giannini, Sara Naldoni, Lorenzo Nofroni

“…From the will to reflect in a collective way on the implications of the health emergency on our ways of living, and from the project will to use the crisis as an experimentation field of new practices of sharing and elaboration of future urban scenarios, the campaign #MyCityofTomorrow of the spin-off Urban LIFE (University of Florence) was designed as an online platform of open dialogue on the topics which inform urban design and planning, in its broader sense, a discussion table to orient the restarts towards a more sustainable future.…”
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Medical Diagnosis and the Colour Yellow in Early Modern England by Helen HICKEY

“…This leads us to question how we might interpret its meanings, both fluid and complex, within early modern England.…”
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Learning from Demonstrations and Human Evaluative Feedbacks: Handling Sparsity and Imperfection Using Inverse Reinforcement Learning Approach by Nafee Mourad, Ali Ezzeddine, Babak Nadjar Araabi, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi

“…The teacher first provides some demonstrations for the learner to initialize its policy. Next, the learner interacts with the environment and the teacher provides binary evaluative feedbacks. …”
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An Early Presentation of Tricuspid Valve Rupture in a Trauma Patient With Congenital Heart Disease by Justus Boever, Rishi Batra, Hason Khan, Zachary M. Bauman

“…The tricuspid valve is the most frequently affected heart valve following blunt chest trauma due to its anterior anatomical position between the sternum and the vertebrae. …”
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Existence of Solutions for Generalized Vector Quasi-Equilibrium Problems by Scalarization Method with Applications by De-ning Qu, Cao-zong Cheng

“…A general nonlinear scalarization function for set-valued mappings is introduced, its main properties are established, and some results on the existence of solutions of the GVQEPs are shown by utilizing the introduced scalarization function. …”
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Why EU revenue matters: A case for an EU digital levy by Katerina Pantazatou

“…Amidst these developments, the EU has also looked for ways to increase its resources and to finance its post-Covid ambitious recovery plan. …”
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A novel intelligent photonic design method enabled by metamaterials and k-nearest neighbor by Fan Hangming, Pan Junlin, Wang Yongchen, Yuan Zhe, Cheng Mengfan, Yang Qi, Liu Deming, Deng Lei

“…The application of this method in arbitrary power splitter highlights its appropriateness for the design and optimization within integrated photonics devices.…”
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Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Bile Acids and Intestinal Microbiota by R. V. Maslennikov, Yu. V. Evsyutina

“…LPS, entering the liver with the portal vein blood, promotes the development of its inflammation and insulin resistance. The disturbance of bile acid metabolism through the effect on the FXR and TGR5 receptors also leads to insulin resistance and liver steatosis. …”
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Design Method of Equivalent Test Pieces for High-torque Laminated Coupling by Shi Dong, Feng Xiantong, Li Zhengminqing, Lu Min, Pan Dongling, Xi Rongsheng

“…It is difficult and costly to carry out fatigue life test for high-torque laminated couplings due to its large load. Therefore, the equivalent test piece is designed for high-torque laminated couplings to meet the requirements of universal coupling test equipment and reduce the test cost. …”
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Assessment of the physical and psychological aspects of the current life support system on the International Space Station for sustainable space exploration by Shuichi Ichimura, Yosuke Alexandre Yamashiki

“…The results show that resupplies involve not only gas tanks and water bags but also a significant number of spare items to maintain recovery systems. Food completely relies on resupplies, and regarding wellbeing elements, although the mass supplied from Earth seems to meet the space agency’s requirements, astronauts feel uncomfortable wearing the same clothes and using the same towels for days, especially exercise clothes, which can develop odors. …”
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