Caught Up Between War, Localism and EU Land Policy Regulations. Unravelling Local Land Use Decision-Making in Ukraine by Oleksandr Anisimov, Yegor Vlasenko, Dominic Stead, Maria Smirnova

“… In global discussions on land use amid increasing land scarcity, municipal-level decision-making remains underexplored despite municipalities playing a crucial role in regulating land competition. …”
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Developing and validating the scale of language teachers’ design thinking competency in artificial intelligence language teaching (LTDTAILT) by Amir Reza Rahimi

“…Nowadays, cultivating DT within any educational program is becoming increasingly important for teachers since Artificial Intelligence (AI) and chatbots are available to all students. …”
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Integration in Urban Decision-Making Processes: Convergence and Divergence with the Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) by Maria Rosaria Guarini, Francesco Sica, Alejandro Segura

“…The study’s goal is to investigate the cross-functional relationships between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and current decision-making support systems, which are increasingly being used to interpret urban growth and development from a multi-dimensional perspective, such as a multi-criteria one. …”
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Predicting Medical Adherence based on Attachment Styles by Considering the Mediating Role of Emotional Regulation in Patients with Chronic Peptic Ulcer Disease by Abbas Keyvanloo, Aliakbar Saremi, Reza Nouri

“…Emotional regulation played a significant mediating role in this context (p<0.05). The prevalence of secure attachment styles was positively correlated with an increase in medical adherence, and individuals with higher emotional regulation reported a higher level of medical adherence. …”
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Assessment of the feed additive consisting of Bacillus velezensis ATCC PTA‐6737 (PB6) for turkeys for fattening and turkeys reared for breeding for the renewal of its authorisation... by EFSA Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP), Vasileios Bampidis, Giovanna Azimonti, Maria de Lourdes Bastos, Henrik Christensen, Mojca Durjava, Birgit Dusemund, Maryline Kouba, Marta López‐Alonso, Secundino López Puente, Francesca Marcon, Baltasar Mayo, Alena Pechová, Mariana Petkova, Fernando Ramos, Roberto Edoardo Villa, Ruud Woutersen, Jaume Galobarts I Cots, Elisa Pettenati, Daniel Pagés Plaza

“…The applicant is also requesting to modify the target species in the current authorisations to ‘all growing poultry’, the increase of the recommended use level in chickens for fattening, chickens reared for laying and minor poultry species except minor poultry for laying from 1 × 107 to 1 × 108 CFU/kg complete feed and the compatibility of the additive with halofuginone. …”
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Opportunities of the discipline of «Training professional communication» in the formation of students’ universal competences by Alexandra Vladimirovna Leontyeva, Irina Vladimirovna Detkova

“…The indication of the need for the formation of universal competencies in students in the current FSES HE 3++ has activated the scientific and pedagogical community to search for ways to solve this problem. …”
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Assessing municipal solid waste in Indian smart cities: A path towards Waste-to-Energy by Ateeb Hamdan, Sugato Panda, Mayur Shirish Jain, Veena Raj, Sathyajith Mathew

“…It also maps its current waste management practices in the demographic space of 10 Indian smart cities. …”
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Management of the Fuel Supply Chain and Energy Security in Poland by Joanna Alicja Dyczkowska, Norbert Chamier-Gliszczynski, Waldemar Woźniak, Roman Stryjski

“…The shift in fuel supply logistics during the discussed period, along with the increase in the fuel safety stock coefficient to quantities exceeding current demand in case of further disruptions caused by external factors, affects the security of the Polish state as well as neighboring countries in Central Europe. …”
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AMEND 2.0: module identification and multi-omic data integration with multiplex-heterogeneous graphs by Samuel S. Boyd, Chad Slawson, Jeffrey A. Thompson

“…Conclusions While the analysis of multi-omic datasets in a network context is poised to provide deeper understanding of health and disease, new methods are required to fully take advantage of this increasingly complex data. …”
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Implementation of best-evidence rehabilitation for hip, knee and hand osteoarthritis in Africa: A cause for concern by Monique M. Keller, Beatrice Sankah

“…Development of African context-specific evidence-based rehabilitation guidelines and improved training on current guidelines by universities and professional societies are needed. …”
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Promoting Peri-urban Agriculture: A Remedy for Climate Change. Case of the Town of Delly Brahim in Algiers by Nesrine Bacha, Naima Hadj Mohamed

“… The issue of promoting peri-urban agriculture seems to be an important one in response to the various current concerns about the future of cities in the face of climate change. …”
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ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF “SOCIAL COMPETENCE OF PERSONALITY» IN UKRAINIAN AND FOREIGN SCIENTIFIC PAPERS by Yana S. Lukatska

“…New Ukrainian and world realities set new tasks for the higher educational establishments, which are related to the search for new, modern methods that allow to increase the effectiveness of training. Currently, topical are the issues of not only professional but also the personal development of the student forming the priority in the implementation of educational activities in universities, preparation for future professional activities, as well as for successful interaction in society. …”
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Introducing the non-invasive prenatal test for trisomy 21 in Belgium: a cost-consequences analysis by Mattias Neyt, Frank Hulstaert, Wilfried Gyselaers

“…The objective is to estimate the consequences of introducing NIPT for the detection of T21.Methods A cost-consequences analysis was performed presenting the impact on benefits, harms and costs. Context-specific real-world information was available to set up a model reflecting the current screening situation in Belgium. …”
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Clustering Analysis of Turkish Maritime Transportation Sector by Cengiz Bahadır Karahan, Levent Kırval, Çağrı Çınar

“…Turkey is a maritime country with its current fleet, geographical location, young population and growth potential. …”
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Better Brand Management Through Design Thinking by Rodica Pamfilie, Adina-Gabriela Croitoru

“…Another extremely important element in the current global context is brand, which gives the main points of differentiation for offers existing on the market. …”
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CREATING PUBLIC OPINION AND DEVELOPING SPATIAL CITIZENSHIP THROUGH MAPS: THE CASE OF ZARAGOZA, SPAIN by María ZÚÑIGA-ANTÓN, María SEBASTIÁN LÓPEZ, Rafael DE MIGUEL GONZÁLEZ, Ángel PUEYO CAMPOS

“… The current context of social transformation and urban changes increases the need for updated knowledge of living spaces. …”
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Use of participatory forum theatre to explore HIV/AIDS issues in the workplace by Emma Durden, Dominique Nduhura

“… The continued success of entertainment education programmes around the world has seen an increase in the use of theatre for HIV/AIDS interventions. …”
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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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