Returns to Higher Education in Mexico: A Cross-Sectional Analysis, 2010–2024 by Janeth Yadira Rodríguez Galván, Juan Francisco Islas Aguirre

“…This study evaluates the socioeconomic effects of educational policies implemented between 2010 and 2024 within the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, focusing on the labor demand for professionals with advanced competencies. …”
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Deconstruction of “The Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan in Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade” by Nataliya Krynytska

“…The US national mythology, one of the components of which is the Puritan cultural heritage, has recently increasingly attracted the attention of researchers of contemporary American literature. …”
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Loss of appetite in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - a mixed methods study by Marie Louise Bergmann, Mia Bundgaard Klausen, Lotte Holm, Jens Rikardt Andersen, Jens-Ulrik Stæhr Jensen, Howraman Meteran

“…Background Loss of appetite in patients with COPD can lead to malnutrition, which is associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality.Aims To identify factors associated with loss of appetite among COPD patients and explore their’ experiences regarding appetite and eating.Methods A questionnaire on demographics, medical history and containing the Council on Nutrition Appetite Questionnaire (CNAQ) was posted in a COPD-specific online forum. …”
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Linear Polymer Cathode Materials for Highly Efficient Aqueous Zinc‐Ion Batteries: Is the High Active Sites Density Necessary? by Yiyang Dai, Yao Yao, Liang Feng, Zhenglong Qiu, Min Deng, Qiang Peng

“…Abstract Recently, research on aqueous zinc‐ion batteries (AZIBs) has always focused on improving the energy storage performance by increasing the number of active sites, particularly in designing organic/polymer materials with a high density of active sites. …”
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Experience of using unmanned aerial photography systems for mapping the territory of the Russian Federation by S. Nekhin, A. Rubenok

“…Along with the progress in the development of UAVs, this is facilitated by the current situation in the country with a decreasing number of manned aircraft used for aerial photography. …”
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E-signature and e-services in Albania by Vilma TOMÇO, Edlira GJOLLESHI, Klorenta PASHAJ

“…In this article will be analyzed the current situation of the usage of e-signature in public and private sector. …”
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Offsetting unabated agricultural emissions with CO2 removal to achieve ambitious climate targets. by Nicoletta Brazzola, Jan Wohland, Anthony Patt

“…Assuming an average CDR cost by $150/tCO2, we find increases in prices of up to 41% for beef, 14% for rice, and 40% for milk in the United States relative to current retail prices. …”
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Nesting Process Automation in the Footwear Industry: A Hybrid Approach to Minimize Material Waste by Eliseo Aguilar-Tortosa, Eduard-Andrei Duta-Costache, Elías Vera-Brazal, José-Luis Sánchez-Romero, José Francisco Gómez-Hernández, Antonio Jimeno-Morenilla, Antonio Maciá-Lillo

“…This research reviews current methods and introduces hybrid ones, achieving up to 38.4× acceleration and up to 10.18% increase in nested pieces over manual methods.…”
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Fermentative Butanol Production—Perspectives and Scale-Up Challenges by Seedhabadee Ganeshan, Mehmet Çağlar Tülbek

“…Among biofuels, higher alcohols have recently gained renewed interest, especially in the context of upcycling agri-food residues and other industrial organic wastes. …”
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Ireland’s Well-being Framework: Going beyond growth? by Dukelow Fiona

“…By examining its evolution, it looks at the degree to which the adoption of a well-being narrative and policy framework demonstrates an opening, in the Irish context, to address the challenges of going beyond the growth dependence of the welfare state and the increasing urgency of the contradictions of green growth. …”
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Comparative Life Cycle Assessment and Costing of Biogas Direct Methanation and Water Scrubbing Upgrade by Giuseppe Piso, Erasmo Mancusi, Hamad H. Shah, Francesco Pepe, Piero Bareschino

“…By integrating biogas production with a methanation system, a net increase in biomethane yield and productivity can be achieved while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. …”
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ASPECTS CONCERNING CONTRIBUTION OF WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION NETWORKS (WSS) INVESTMENTS TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs) IN ROMANIA by Dumitru Florin FRONE, Simona FRONE

“…Today, with the start of the SARS-COV-2 pandemic in 2020, public health and personal and family hygiene are the highest priorities, practically reaffirming the crucial importance and synergies of SDGs such as SDG1- No Poverty and SDG6-Clean Water and Sanitation. In this context, the paper analyses some current trends, benefits and contributions of European and Structural Investment (ESI)-funded WSS projects in Romania, through the Large Infrastructure Operational Program. …”
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“Sounding the Loneliness Alarm”: Loneliness Problematized in a Nordic Welfare State by Elian E. Jentoft, Julia Köhler-Olsen

“…The country released its first dedicated loneliness strategy in 2019 as part of that year’s Public Health White Paper. The Norwegian context proves interesting due to the country’s unique Public Health Act, which acknowledges health inequalities and the country’s solidarity principle in policymaking. …”
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Accountability and platforms' governance: the case of online prominence of public service media content by Krisztina Rozgonyi

“…Public discourse has moved online, enabled by platforms, which in the context of information and media content have become an essential source, access point and key distributor of information. …”
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Metacognitive Online Reading Strategies among Pre-Service EFL Teachers in Indonesia by Heri Mudra

“…The most frequent levels of strategies included guessing the contents, scrolling through the texts, associating schemata and current information, using context clues, using tables or pictures, pausing and thinking about the contents, using printed texts, and translating the contents into Indonesian. …”
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The development of a Polish pre-literacy manual based on action research evidence by Edward Gillian, Bogna Ferensztajn, Bożena Franków-Czerwonko, Urszula Paradowska

“…The research described in this paper attempted to transfer to the Polish language context the knowledge developed in English speaking countries on pre-literacy developmental norms. …”
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A Review of Discrimination and Labeling of Refugees Using the Example of Syrian and Ukrainian Refugees by Buket Ökten Sipahioğlu

“…In the forced migration context, the term"refugee" is mostly related to negative issues because of the prior refugee crisis experiences and the frighteningly increasing numbers of displaced people around the world. …”
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Theoretical Dispute About the Relationship Between Interest and Growth Rates by Überblick

“…Abstract Since the outbreak of the economic and financial crisis, the prolonged phase of low interest rates has been increasingly controversial. The relationship between the interest rate r and the growth rate g plays a central role in this context: some authors derive a justification for a more expansionary fiscal policy at r < g. …”
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Microbiome research potential for developing holistic approaches to improve refugee health by Mohammad Ahsan Fuzail, Bilal Ahmed, Daniel L. Burke, Amanda Hylland Spjeldnæs, Masako Horino, Carly Ching, Muhammad Hamid Zaman

“…Morbidity from disease is increasingly being understood as dependent on wellbeing of the ecosystem, as opposed to an isolated element. …”
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Innovative tax administration tools in Russia by N. G. Мorozova, Zh. M. Korzovatykh

“…The article examines the current system of tax administration in Russia and its innovative tools, actively developed and implemented in the context of the digital technologies’ rapid development and the transformation of the control and supervisory state activities. …”
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