Liquid Modernity and the Holocaust by Dariusz Brzeziński

“…I emphasise that, according to Bauman, both moral indifference and xenophobia are increasingly significant phenomena in contemporary society, which may entail pernicious – and currently barely foreseeable – consequences. …”
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Beyond binaries and before becoming: Reconsidering resistance in UK higher education by Mollie Baker

“…  Drawing from the tensions within non-representational and human practice perspectives on affect, this paper continues the task of re-conceptualising academic-level resistance in the context of UK higher education. Such re-conceptualisation is underpinned by the belief that illustrating the breadth of resistant possibility within and between universities can assist in the development of action against the competitive and for-profit imperatives currently overwhelming this educational sphere. …”
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Leadership styles and quality of work life in SMEs by T. S. Nanjundeswaraswamy, D.R. Swamy D R

“…Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in India are currently facing the challenges of increased competitions. …”
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Vulvodynia; an under-recognized disease by Simona Roxana Georgescu, Cristina I. Mitran, Mădălina I. Mitran, Maria I. Sârbu, Mircea Tampa

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Using Big Data Technology to Protect the Environment by Dovgal Vitaly, Kuizheva S.

“…The concept of "big data" means a huge amount of information, the size of which is too large, or it is created too quickly or has a structuring that does not allow it to be processed using traditional data management systems. Currently, large amounts of data and analytics are increasingly used by government agencies, non-governmental organizations and private companies in the field of environmental protection. …”
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Imagining digital twins in healthcare: Designing for values as designing for technical milieus by Bas de Boer, Carla Strasser, Sander Mulder

“…Medicine is increasingly focusing on the prevention of diseases. …”
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Teacher training for the future: insights from a Needs Analysis on Digital Technologies and Artificial Intelligence by Letizia Cinganotto, Giorgia Montanucci

“…This contribution provides an in-depth analysis of the skills and competencies currently required by educators to effectively fulfill this evolving role. …”
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Return rates of European graduate students in the US : How many and who return, and when ? by Linda Van Bouwel

“…First, we find a high stay rate : 64 % are currently working in the US, whereas only 24 % move back to their home country and an additional 10 % move to another European country. …”
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Beyond binaries and before becoming: Reconsidering resistance in UK higher education by Mollie Baker

“…  Drawing from the tensions within non-representational and human practice perspectives on affect, this paper continues the task of re-conceptualising academic-level resistance in the context of UK higher education. Such re-conceptualisation is underpinned by the belief that illustrating the breadth of resistant possibility within and between universities can assist in the development of action against the competitive and for-profit imperatives currently overwhelming this educational sphere. …”
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Assessing the extent of transport social exclusion among the elderly by Helena Titheridge, Kamalasudhan Achuthan, Roger L Mackett, Juliet Solomon

“…“Social exclusion” is a concept that has become increasingly prominent in the UK and elsewhere in the last ten years. …”
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Beyond binaries and before becoming: Reconsidering resistance in UK higher education by Mollie Baker

“…  Drawing from the tensions within non-representational and human practice perspectives on affect, this paper continues the task of re-conceptualising academic-level resistance in the context of UK higher education. Such re-conceptualisation is underpinned by the belief that illustrating the breadth of resistant possibility within and between universities can assist in the development of action against the competitive and for-profit imperatives currently overwhelming this educational sphere. …”
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Esenin’s Reception in Russia and Abroad by Maxim V. Skorokhodov

“…The conference will result in Esenin’s encyclopedia, currently in progress.…”
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Military and political security in the Arctic before and amidst the Ukrainian crisis by I. A. Arzhanov

“…This course has been reflected in a whole series of alliance’s military exercises, which, as shown in the article, are becoming increasingly extensive and regular year by year. The author concludes that the Ukrainian crisis has only laid bare the true aspirations of the NATO countries seeking to contain Russia in the Far North and refusing to consider its interests and build a constructive dialogue in the field of military and political security. …”
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UML/OCL based design and the transition towards temporal object relational database with bitemporal data by Soumiya Ain El Hayat, Fouad Toufik, Mohamed Bahaj

“…In software modeling, UML (Unified modeling language) receives increasing attention from designers of real-time systems in software development. …”
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Improvement of RT-DETR model for ground glass pulmonary nodule detection. by Siyuan Tang, Qiangqiang Bao, Qingyu Ji, Tong Wang, Naiyu Wang, Min Yang, Yu Gu, Jinliang Zhao, Yuhan Qu, Siriguleng Wang

“…Currently, pulmonary nodules detection work mostly focus on recognition and diagnosis of solid nodules. …”
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Melt‐Processable and Electrospinnable Shape‐Memory Hydrogels by Turdimuhammad Abdullah, Cagatay Altınkok, Oguz Okay

“…Abstract Due to their ability to adapt to subtle changes in response to various external and internal stimuli, smart hydrogels have become increasingly popular in research and industry. However, many currently available hydrogels suffer from poor processability and inferior mechanical properties. …”
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Investigation of hydrogen embrittlement in steel alloys: mechanism, factors, advanced methods and materials, applications, challenges, and future directions: A review by Umme Javeria, Sung Jin Kim

“…Hydrogen embrittlement (HE) remains a critical challenge in structural metals, particularly steels, compromising their mechanical integrity in hydrogen-containing environments. The process typically initiates with crack nucleation and progresses to fracture due to a reduction in ductility and an increase in brittleness. …”
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Interactions Between Hantavirus Nucleoprotein and Glycoproteins: A Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy Study by Amit Koikkarah Aji, Titas Mandal, Salvatore Chiantia

“…Orthohantaviruses are tri-segmented negative-sense RNA viruses that can cause severe pathologies in humans. Currently, limited information exists on the molecular interactions driving orthohantavirus assembly in infected cells. …”
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Optical Identification of Plasmodium falciparum Malarial Byproduct for Parasite Density Estimation by Jerry Opoku-Ansah, Moses Jojo Eghan, Benjamin Anderson, Johnson Nyarko Boampong, Raymond Edziah, Peter Osei-Wusu Adueming, Charles Lloyd Yeboah Amuah

“…Empirical computation of ratio of the ODs for the blood absorption bands revealed reduction in the ODs with increasing PD. Multispectral images containing uninfected red blood cells (u-RBCs) and P. falciparum‐infected red blood cells (i-RBCs) on unstained blood smear slides exhibited spectrally determined decrease in both reflected and scattered pixel intensities and increase in transmitted pixel intensities with increasing PD. …”
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Formulation of best-fit hydrophile/lipophile balance-dielectric permittivity demulsifiers for treatment of crude oil emulsions by C.M. Ojinnaka, J.A. Ajienka, O.J. Abayeh, L.C. Osuji, R.U. Duru

“…The presence of water in crude oil causes corrosion, lowers capacity utilization of production and processing plant parts and pipelines, reduces oil recovery and increases the oil content of the effluent water. The stabilizing factors of crude oil emulsions vary from one oil field to the other and with time in the same well as co-produced water increases, or after a well treatment and Enhanced Oil Recovery Operations (EOR). …”
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