Continuum and Soft Robots in Minimally Invasive Surgery: A Systematic Review by Fahad Iqbal, Mojtaba Esfandiari, Golchehr Amirkhani, Hamidreza Hoshyarmanesh, Sanju Lama, Mahdi Tavakoli, Garnette R. Sutherland

“…Notwithstanding significant advancements, traditional MIS tools have been limited in navigating deep anatomical pathways and offering precise control at target sites. …”
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Integrative and syntactic complexity’s role in decision-making under uncertainty by Alejandra Mitzi Castellón-Flores, Edmundo Molina-Perez, Isaac Molina, Pedro Manuel Cortes, Fernanda Sobrino, Luis Serra-Barragan

“…Both cognitive structures play essential roles in navigating uncertainty. These results underscore the importance of IC and SC in effective decision-making. …”
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Peer Support and Pedagogical Conversations: Keys to Building Faculty Capacity in a Digital Age by Christy Thomas, Amber Hartwell

“… With the COVID-19 pandemic, post-secondary institutions pivoted to providing hybrid or fully online courses and recognized the need to mitigate the challenges faced by faculty in navigating this shift. This study was conducted at one Western Canadian university and followed a design-based research approach that included three phases and utilized mixed methods (interviews and surveys). …”
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Defying the “Illiberal” Gig Economy: Coping Strategies of Freelance Domestic Workers in the United Arab Emirates by Froilan Malit

“…How do low-skilled migrant workers navigate restrictive gig economies in illiberal host states of the Global South? …”
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Gender, Religion, and the Media: An Analysis of Selected Media Representations of Fungisai’s Images and Music by Pauline Mateveke

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‘Care-less whispers’ in the academy during COVID-19: A collaborative autoethnography by Paula Natalie Stone, Adele Phillips, Kerry Jordan-Daus

“…This collaborative autoethnography (Bochner and Ellis, 2016) has created a space for three women academics from working-class heritage, navigating the liminal and temporal space of the COVID-19 pandemic within a post-1992 Higher Education Institution, to explore the social relations of one Higher Education Institution and confront their lived experiences. …”
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Speaking Up, Pushing Back, Closing the Door: Agency of Open and Covert Teacher Resistance in Dual-Language Bilingual Education by Brandon Sherman, Trish Morita-Mullaney, Jennifer Renn

“…We applied an agentive triad model of teacher identity, agency, and power to understand how DLBE teachers navigated discordant situations in their schools. Teachers acted from different identity positions, including agentive compliance, anagentive compliance (without agency), and nonconfrontational resistance. …”
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Developing and Validating a User-Friendly Quality Benchmark: Enhancing the Integrity of Online Health Information for Patients and Clinicians by Lubna Daraz PhD, Cicek Dogu MA

“…The benchmark is recommended for use and intended to empower patients with a skill set to navigate through online misinformation, facilitating access to credible health information and promoting improved health outcomes.…”
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Negotiating local and global: Developing Social Science research ethics policy in a Central Asian context by Roza Sagitova, Zarena Syrgak kyzy, Lynne Parmenter

“…The paper argues that this analysis of the current situation in Kyrgyzstan is likely to be of relevance to many countries, where those responsible for governance of research at all levels are grappling with the tensions of navigating research ethics in ways that are meaningful in local contexts while being congruent with Global North ethics requirements of funders and publishers.…”
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Art, Performance, and Outsourcing in Corporate Art Commissioning: An American Scenario by Charlotte Gould

“…This article looks into the way different performance artists have engaged with a corporate environment, but also more generally at the way art has navigated new relations with its economic context in recent years. …”
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Interweaving Story and Theory by Sona Baldrian

“… Based on organizational autoethnography, this article provides a personal account of how the women’s movement in Armenia has navigated the influx of democratization aid following the 2018 regime change. …”
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Using d2d for Writing XML by Markus Lepper, Baltasar Trancón y Widemann

“…The textual structures of notes and publications in music theory and musical analysis bring challenging requirements: how to include music notation excerpts, graphics, and even combinations thereof into the typeset flow of paragraphs and the workflow, and how to integrate navigable references to these and to single domain entities into running text. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Systematic, Scoping, Umbrella, and Narrative Reviews in Clinical Research: Critical Considerations and Future Directions by Mohamad Motevalli

“…Understanding the differences between review approaches will help researchers, practitioners, journalists, and policymakers to effectively navigate the complex and evolving field of scientific research, leading to informed decisions that ultimately enhance the overall quality of healthcare practices.…”
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Policy design labs and uncertainty: can they innovate, and retain and circulate learning? by Jenny M. Lewis

“…These labs are a response to the challenging nature of many societal problems and often have a purpose of navigating uncertainty. They do this by “labbing” ill-structured problems through moving them into an experimental environment, outside of traditional government structures, and using a design-for-policy approach. …”
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L’area di Temesa tra confini geografici e interazioni culturali by Margherita Perri

“…This legend seems to be about the antagonism between indigenous communities and Greek navigators, as highlighted by the characters’ interactions and the story’s political conclusion. …”
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Better Than the Real Thing: Processed Reality in Victorian Art and Fiction by Béatrice Laurent

“…Thus, filtered and fictionalised reality came to replace the ocular experience in the interaction between the individual subject and the outside world, to the extent that novelists were impacted by this procedure. The article navigates from the visual arts to fiction and vice-versa to show that the same artistic strategies were at work in both worlds, and how fiction influenced visual artists and conversely how the visual arts were a source of inspiration for Victorian novelists. …”
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Faire la paix devant notaire (Saint-Germain-des-Prés, première moitié du xviie siècle) by Diane Roussel

“…The sociology of the contracting parties and of the litigants thus sheds light on some of the motivations and demands of the populations in their choice to navigate more or less willingly between the one and the other recourse.…”
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Ghostly (re)visions: Embodying the Indian Caribbean churile by Christopher L. Ballengee

“…I highlight how embodiments and evocations of the churile have been reinterpreted to navigate intergenerational trauma and reimagine Indian Caribbean femininity. …”
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Code-Switching in Algerian English as a Foreign Language Speakers’ Facebook Interactions: Exploring Functions and Motives by Saida Tobbi

“…From a social perspective, code-switching allowed participants to express affection, address specific audiences, and navigate cultural sensitivities, such as avoiding taboos. …”
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