Jack Kerouac’s Ecopoetics in The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels : Domesticity, Wilderness and Masculine Fantasies of Animality by Pierre-Antoine Pellerin

“…In those two novels, his poetics revolves instead around notions of kinship and sentimentality towards smaller animals, transforming the manly ethos and the inhospitable wilderness of adventure stories of the times into a domestic world of mutual harmony and hospitality.…”
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Mesleki ve Teknik Eğitim Sisteminin İstihdam ve Ekonomik Büyüme Açısından İşlevselliğinin Değerlendirilmesi by Yusuf Cice, Betül Balkar

“…Araştırma verileri, yarı-yapılandırılmış görüşmeler aracılığıyla toplanmıştır. Araştırma verileri, içerik analizi ile çözümlenmiştir. …”
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Cost Analysis for Robotic and Open Gastrectomy by Yuki Hirata, MD, PhD, Heather G. Lyu, MD, MBI, Ahad M. Azimuddin, MBA, Pamela Lu, MD, Jeeva Ajith, MBA, Jason A. Schmeisser, Elizabeth P. Ninan, MBA, Kyung Hyun Lee, PhD, Brian D. Badgwell, MD, MS, Paul Mansfield, MD, Naruhiko Ikoma, MD, MS

“…Despite increased intraoperative costs, total perioperative costs in the RG group were similar to those in the OG group because of reduced postoperative hospitalization costs.…”
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Integrating representation learning, permutation, and optimization to detect lineage-related gene expression patterns by Hannah M. Schlüter, Caroline Uhler

“…Furthermore, our method highlights differences in how gene expression memory is maintained through divisions in cancer and embryogenesis, thereby providing a tool for studying cell state memory through divisions across biological systems.…”
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VISÃO DOS CAFEICULTORES SOBRE O MARKETING DE SERVIÇOS OFERTADO PELOS CORRETORES DE CAFÉ EM CAPARAÓ – MG by Diony Gregório Prado Lopes, Leonardo dos Santos Ferreira, Rodrigo da Silva Freitas, Altamiro Júnior Lacerda de Almeida, Wagner dos Reis Marques Araújo

“…This article describes the relevance of marketing and its tools to organizations. In services, the article describes and analyzes the specific marketing of the sector, presenting the tools to be studied by the providers, in order to minimize the impacts caused by the service aspects, based on its compound, known as eight Ps, responsible for tangible quality in providing them. …”
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Développement et validation d’un questionnaire évaluant les attitudes socio-affectives en maths by Philippe A. Genoud, Matthias Guillod

“…The questionnaire is ready to be used with students (secondary school) and allows for the assessment of their general attitudes towards mathematics. It can be combined with complementary measures focusing on specific activities and tasks.…”
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Challenges and barriers to physician decision-making for prescribing and deprescribing among patients with multimorbidity in eastern China’s primary care settings: a qualitative st... by Ming Yan, Zhijie Xu, Andrew Farmer, Yu Xia, Mi Yao, Lingyan Wu, Xinmei Zhou, Liyan Han

“…Themes were developed using a conventional content analysis approach.Setting 12 community health centers and 8 township health centers across four regions in eastern China were included.Participants 26 PCPs from 20 primary care institutions in eastern China were interviewed through purposive sampling, representing a mix of urban and rural healthcare settings.Results Of the 26 participants in this study, 14 (53.8%) were women, and the mean age was 36.3 years old. …”
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A quasi affine transformation evolution algorithm with evolution matrix selection operation for parameter estimation of proton exchange membrane fuel cells by Mohammad Aljaidi, Pradeep Jangir, Sunilkumar P. Agrawal, Sundaram B. Pandya, Anil Parmar, Samar Hussni Anbarkhan, Laith Abualigah

“…Abstract Electrochemical energy conversion technologies include proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) where proton interchange is an alternative to diesel distributed generation, and PEMFCs are considered as a promising backup power source and a tool to regulate power consumption. Some of the major benefits of these PEMFCs especially in power system applications include low emission of carbon, fast load following capability, no noise and high start-up reliability. …”
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Characterization of patients with ischemic cerebrovascular disease and cognitive impairment. Cienfuegos, 2018 by Beatriz Perdomo Borges, Teresa Rodríguez Rodríguez, Marianela Fonseca Fernández, Isabel Urquiza Pozo, Idalmis Luisa Martínez Serrano, Belkis Rosa Bilaboy Pérez

“…The variables were analyzed: sex, age, skin color, schooling, occupation, marital status, origin, toxic habits, personal pathological history, type of cerebrovascular disease, affected brain structure, cognitive impairment (using the minimum Folstein mental state test and the Montreal cognitive assessment test), neuropsychological alterations, depression (using the Yessavage geriatric depression scale).…”
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Later-Life Mortality and Longevity in Late-18th and 19th-Century Cohorts. Where Are We Now, and Where Are We Heading? by Rick Mourits

“…The limits to human lifespan are a widely discussed topic. Yet, later-life mortality and longevity are generally studied from a genetic perspective, while the social dimension has received less attention. …”
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On being uniquely human in the world: a reflection on the contributions of J. Wentzel van Huyssteen by H. Musa

“…This article was initially meant to celebrate Prof. van Huyssteen’s 80th birthday on 29 April 2022. Now it remains a token of appreciation in memory of his admirable life and lasting legacy. …”
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Dove Fields in Florida by William M. Giuliano, James F. Selph, Kurt Hodges, Nick Wiley

“…Selph, Kurt Hodges, and Nick Wiley, describes how to use dove fields as a dove management tool within the guidelines barring hunting over a baited field. …”
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Individual and community level maternal factors for zero-dose children in Ethiopia using mini-EDHS 2019: a mixed effects model by Anteneh Kassa Yalew, Werkneh Melkie Tilahun, Meron Asmamaw Alemayehu, Tigabu Kidie Tesfie, Muluken Chanie Agimas, Mekuriaw Nibret Aweke, Worku Necho Asferie, Moges Tadesse Abebe

“…But the efforts to identify the factors contributing to the zero-dose children are not well addressed in Ethiopia.Objectives To assess individual and community-level maternal factors of zero-dose children in Ethiopia using mini-Ethiopian Demographic Health Survey 2019.Methods A secondary analysis of a cross-sectional study was used among a total of 3208 participants. STATA-14 was used for descriptive and multilevel binary logistic regression (mixed effects model) analysis. …”
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Social Strata Differentials in Reproductive Behavior among Agricultural Families in the Krummhörn Region (East Frisia, 1720-1874) by Kai Willführ, Charlotte Störmer

“…We believe this period-sensitive response to changes in the crop price was the result of a social transition that took place during our study period, in which relations between the classes went from being based on communal “table fellowships” (Tischgemeinschaft) to being based on capitalist employer/employee arrangements.…”
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考虑墙板约束影响的轴心受压钢柱抗火设计方法 by 李国强, 李明菲, 王银志

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STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON THE USED OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY (LCD) PROJECTOR IN ENGLISH FOREIGN LANGUAGE (EFL) CLASSROOM by Zahratul Idami

“…This research conducted for the second year students of SMA Negeri 1 Bireuen in academic year 2018/2019 with total population 331 students and 90 of them were the sample. …”
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Design Defect Analysis of N-Lobed Non-circular Bevel Gear by Liu Qinqin, Lü Gang

“…The bevel gear with spherical involute is considered as generating cutter of NCBGs tooth profile,and mathematical models between pitch surface of bevel gear cutter and that of NCBGs are established. …”
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Prevalence of iron deficiency in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients and its association with altered lipid profile by Arindam Naskar, Agnibho Mondal, Indranil Dhar

“…However, significant associations were observed between iron deficiency and lower total cholesterol levels, low-density lipoprotein, and triglycerides. …”
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El impacto demográfico de la COVID-19 durante 2020 y sus diferencias regionales. ¿Cómo afectará la pandemia al futuro de la población española? by Miguel González Leonardo, Jeroen Spijker

“…Seguidamente, se realiza una proyección hasta 2031 para evaluar el posible impacto, a nivel nacional, en dichos componentes demográficos, la población total y su estructura durante la próxima década según tres escenarios. …”
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A caution against customized AI in healthcare by Kristin M. Kostick-Quenet

“…Abstract This article critiques the shift towards personalized AI in healthcare and other high-stakes domains, cautioning that without careful deliberation, customized AI systems can compromise the diversity and reach of human knowledge by restricting exposure to critical information that may conflict with users’ preferences and biases. …”
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