Evaluating the Measures to Promote Sustainable Transport Infrastructure: A Case of City of Johannesburg, South Africa by Ntebo Ngcobo, Opeoluwa Akinradewo, Phindile Mokoena

“…The findings revealed that the primary measures to improve the sustainability of existing transportation infrastructure are promoting green infrastructure construction, enhancing transportation facilities to attract more public transportation users, such as safe taxi ranks and embracing traffic management measures. …”
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Arundhati Roy, a One-woman Dissident Force against the Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy by Geetha Ganapathy-Doré

“…Les essais polémiques que Roy a écrits après les attentats du 11 septembre s’attaquent de façon virulente à l’impérialisme américain. Elle déconstruit l’Empire en exposant les piliers invisibles de son architecture et en décodant sa rhétorique. …”
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Layers of Invisibility in Portuguese State Furniture Design, 1940-1974 by João Paulo Martins, Sofia Diniz

“…Our research, its outputs and initiatives (publications, exhibitions) have illuminated a facet of Portuguese design history that had previously been neglected, and brought in fresh arguments in support of the importance of quotidian artefacts for our understanding of built environment production.…”
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Analysing the trend of land changes and urban development of Shushtar by using remote sensing data by milad khayat, Atefeh Bosak, zahra hejazizadeh, ebrahim afifi

“…To accomplish this objective, two datasets were utilized: urban land use maps (including educational spaces, healthcare facilities, residential areas, etc.) and Landsat satellite imagery for key land uses such as rivers, barren lands, and forests, spanning three time periods: 1991, 2004, and 2014. …”
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Voice of the nurse in paediatric intensive care: a scoping review by Denise Alexander, Maria Brenner, Michael Connolly, Kate Masterson

“…Four main themes emerged from the data: the voice of the nurse in the organisation of PICU, caring for children in PICU, as a healthcare professional, and communication in PICU.Conclusion While this literature suggests many facets of the complex role of the nurse, including partnership with families and advocating for patients, the limited literature on care delivery reduces the capacity to fully understand the voice of the nurse at key junctions of care. …”
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Developing and validating a cross-cultural competence scale for Japanese nurses. by Masako Sakamoto, Shigemi Iriyama, Yu Mon Saw

“…This has resulted in a vast number of international patients in medical facilities. This shift emphasizes the immediate need for Japanese nurses who are both clinically proficient and culturally attuned. …”
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Sharing electricity over money: Third-person perspectives on human-robot dictator game outcomes by Andreea E. Potinteu, Nadia Said, Gerrit Anders, Markus Huff

“…With the increasing integration of robots into various facets of human life, understanding prosociality towards robots emerges as a crucial research endeavor. …”
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Myth and Biblical Imagery in De Profundis by Ignacio Ramos Gay

“…De la même façon que le théâtre de boulevard français représente la base thématique de la composition des comédies de société d’Oscar Wilde, l’imaginaire biblique doit être considéré comme une source d’inspiration essentielle pour des reformulations ultérieures dans son œuvre, caractérisées par l’influence et la subversion de textes originaux. …”
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Organizing the spatial space of the urban rivers\' margin of tourism development (case study of Poldokhtar city) by jahan tigh mond, Yassin Zeini Vand, Seyyed Moein Moosavi Nadoshan

“…The range of results showed that the most important strategy for creating urban river tourism in Poldokhtar is the attempt to create a social and secure environment with facilities and ease of access and special emphasis on environmental and ecological issues. …”
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Taxes on money laundering as a source of state budget revenue by Dominika Trzeszczoń

“…Money laundering is a phenomenon that needs to be considered from a multi-faceted perspective. Currently, legislation condemns behaviors that fulfill the elements of the money laundering offense, penalized by Polish criminal law. …”
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Issues of legal regulation of tourism and recreational activities in specially protected natural areas by Yu. A. Pshenichnykh, Yu. V. Morozova

“…Law enforcement and organizational issues arising in recreational facilities construction wit hin the boundaries of specially protected natural areas have been studied, and ways to solve them have been proposed.…”
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Surface enzyme-polymerization endows Janus hydrogel tough adhesion and regenerative repair in penetrating orocutaneous fistulas by Ye Ju, Chunyue Ma, Ling Ding, Mingyue Shi, Xia Wang, Dongbei Wu, Qing Wu, Xingjun Qin, Qigang Wang

“…Here, we present a Janus hydrogel adhesive (JHA) with asymmetric functions on opposite sides fabricated via a facile surface enzyme-initiated polymerization (SEIP) approach, which self-entraps surface water and blood within an in-situ formed hydrogel layer (RL) to effectively bridge biological tissues with a supporting hydrogel (SL), achieving superior wet-adhesion and seamless wound plugging. …”
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From α-to β-diversity: Understanding the historical, present, and future diversity patterns of Fagaceae in Southwestern China by Bikram Pandey, Fengying Zhang, Basu Dev Poudel, Rong Li, Mohammed A. Dakhil, Bishal Gurung, Zhaxi Luobu, Yawen Gan, Ziyan Liao, Lin Zhang

“…This study investigates the alpha (α) and beta (β) diversity facets of Fagaceae across past (historical), present, and future timelines in Southwestern China. …”
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Large Language Models for UAVs: Current State and Pathways to the Future by Shumaila Javaid, Hamza Fahim, Bin He, Nasir Saeed

“…These advancements have significantly impacted various facets of human life, fostering an era of unparalleled efficiency and convenience. …”
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Formation and Device Application of Ge Nanowire Heterostructures via Rapid Thermal Annealing by Jianshi Tang, Chiu-Yen Wang, Faxian Xiu, Yi Zhou, Lih-Juann Chen, Kang L. Wang

“…We reviewed the formation of Ge nanowire heterostructure and its field-effect characteristics by a controlled reaction between a single-crystalline Ge nanowire and Ni contact pads using a facile rapid thermal annealing process. Scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy demonstrated a wide temperature range of 400~500°C to convert the Ge nanowire to a single-crystalline Ni2Ge/Ge/Ni2Ge nanowire heterostructure with atomically sharp interfaces. …”
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La monnaie, la politique et la possibilité d’un mode de développement à nouveau fondé sur le marché intérieur au Brésil et en Argentine by Jaime Marques Pereira

“…Based on a conception of money as a symbolic, political and economic fact, the expectations are analyzed as a cognitive operation located in history, structured by the three facets of money: (i) a symbolic form as a unit of account whose acceptance is based on a development model driving a long-term visibility; (ii) an institution demonstrating the political power that guarantees an issuance and exchange regime in which credibility stands medium-term predictability ; (iii) a market value of means of payment defining in the short-term the value of the various types of income received or to be received. …”
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Counterterrorism Planning in the Shipping Industry Leveraging Competitive Intelligence by Anastasios-Nikolaos KANELLOPOULOS, Anthony IOANNIDIS

“…The second chapter explores current CT measures, focusing on the role of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the effectiveness of the ISPS Code, while identifying the reactive nature of existing strategies. …”
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A novel Fruit Fly Optimization Algorithm with quasi-affine transformation evolutionary for numerical optimization and application by Ru-Yu Wang, Pei Hu, Chia-Cheng Hu, Jeng-Shyang Pan

“…The Fruit Fly Optimization Algorithm is a swarm intelligence algorithm with strong versatility and high computational efficiency. However, when faced with complex multi-peak problems, Fruit Fly Optimization Algorithm tends to converge prematurely. …”
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Hubungan antara Profil Lipid dengan Kejadian Retinopati Diabetika pada Pasien Diabetes Melitus Tipe 2 di Fasilitas Kesehatan Tingkat Pertama Klinik Tanjung Purwokerto by Ika Murti Harini, Muhamad Rifqy Setyanto, Nur Signa Aini Gumilas, Dwi Arini Ernawati

“…Objectives: To determined the relationship between lipid profile and the incidence of diabetic retinopathy in DM patients who follow the Chronic Disease Management Program at the  first level health facilities Klinik Tanjung Purwokerto. Methods: The number of respondents in this study was 49 people. …”
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Motion detection for patient safety in CT scanner by Zaynab Boujelb, Ahmed Idrissi, Achraf Benba, El Mahjoub Chakir

“…The system has been 90 % accurate while detecting movements of patients significantly improving the quality of images produced from diagnostic facilities and less unnecessary exposure to radiation. …”
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