From Living in the Shadows to Facebook Livestreams: The Impact of Social Media on Current Mediumship Practice of Mother Goddesses Worship (Đạo Mẫu) in Vietnam by Isabel Weitschies

“…By examining the ways in which spirit mediums and practitioners utilise social media platforms, the study reveals that these digital spaces facilitate the open expression of belief, foster connections among practitioners, and enable the sharing and promotion of spiritual services as well as the online trade in ritual costumes and objects. …”
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Prevalence of low back pain among CrossFit participants: a cross-sectional study by Karina Ayumi Martins Utida, Tamires Cibeli Biberg e Silva, Kallebe Caires de Lima, Aleff Ary Tozzo, Rafaela Oliveira Cortes, Silvio Assis de Oliveira-Júnior

“…To achieve this, an electronic questionnaire was created using an online platform (Google Forms). The invitation to participate in the research was distributed to Brazilian practitioners via Facebook and Instagram platforms. …”
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Editorial: Giving Voice to Novice Teacher-Researchers by Melba Libia Cárdenas, Melba Libia Cárdenas

“…Profile was created as a forum to bring to the forefront the attempts of practitioners in doing action research. …”
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Using a Delphi Method in the Future of PR and Communication Global Study: South African Findings on Social Impact and PR Education by Dalien Rene Benecke, Padhma Moodley, Corne Meintjes, Lida Holtzhaisen, Anette Degenaar, Neil H Levy

“…The purpose of this article is to present the views of South African public relations educators and practitioners who participated in a global study titled “The Future of PR and Communication and Their Social Impact”. …”
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Closing the knowledge gap with narrative visualizations: lessons from a research-practice partnership promoting multilingual students' academic success by Julian M. Siebert

“…Using the notion of graphical excellence, I identify specific visualization strategies and features that improve the quality of the narrative visualization and support practitioners use of them. Drawing on liberatory design thinking, I discuss how this form of reporting findings builds trust and facilitates engagement between partners, increases practitioners' agency, and thus creates more equitable power dynamics in RPPs and for the multilingual students at the core of the one discussed here.…”
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EXPLORING DIGITAL SELF-EDUCATION: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF EXPERT INSIGHTS by Denisa Lăcătuș

“…Additionally, the gathered expertise contributed to developing a guideline for practitioners, focusing on the key elements for creating educational content for teenagers.…”
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Interviews with multimedia comics creators—how Hannah Berry, Lance Dann and Tom McNally use audio drama to move their work into new areas of storytelling by Alex Fitch

“…Each aspect is designed to complement each other to tell a larger story within the science-fictional world of the narrative, aimed at introducing children to ideas of kindness and resilience, and first created during Covid lockdowns. This interview was recorded at the Graphic Brighton conference, University of Brighton, 27th May 2022.Each of these Q&As was chaired by Alex Fitch and recorded in front of a live audience, and subsequently broadcast on Resonance 104.4 FM (London).Transcripts of these interviews demonstrate the connections between the related media, the different approaches each of these practitioners have undertaken regarding the creation of audio dramas and comics, how these creators became involved in each project being discussed, and the differences and similarities they have found working in each of the different media. …”
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Ordonans o handlu lądowym z 1673 roku (Kodeks Savary'ego) by Anna Klimaszewska

“…Consequently, it became very successful both in France and beyond its borders. It also created the French doctrine of commercial law. However, objective factors as well as a narrow approach of the main legislator – creator of the Act – led to a situation in which the ordinance, although useful for the practitioners, or traders, presented many imperfections on the theoretical side. …”
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Singing in Tune: Berimbau Tuning and Song Mode in Capoeira (1937–1978) by Juan Diego Díaz, Alex Rossi

“…Alone or in groups of two or three, it leads the capoeira’s ensemble by creating various kinds of grooves that accompany songs and physical games. …”
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Tariqa in Indonesia: Social Integration of Religious Adherents by Muhammad Torik, Muhammad Abdillah Asmara, Fenti Febriani

“…However, at the same time, a tariqa needs legitimacy from its followers so that it creates space for conflicts of interest among the tariqa practitioners, especially in the fields of economics, politics, as well as among their followers. …”
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Blockchain concepts in business research – a scoping review by Ioana Cîmpan, Emil Lucian Crișan

“…Findings – The paper creates a comprehensive overview of blockchain-related concepts. …”
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Discourse-organising lexical bundles in academic law textbooks: a corpus-based analysis by Abdullah Alasmary

“…This large-scale, corpus-based study aims to address this gap by providing law students, practitioners, and material developers with a data-driven inventory of text-organising lexical bundles. …”
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Developing an optimized cold/heat questionnaire by Youngheum Yoon, Hoseok Kim, Youngseop Lee, Jonghyang Yoo, Siwoo Lee

“…Results: The new cold/heat questionnaire consisted of a total of seven items, which were created based on an analysis of the existing questionnaires. …”
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Foresight for Career Development by Anna Kononiuk, Anna Pajak, Alicja Eva Gudanowska, Andrzej Magruk, Eva Rollnik-Sadowska, Justyna Kozlowska, Anna Sacio-Szymanska

“…New competences and abilities to use innovative tools that enable effective processes of creating career visions in a systemic manner are expected. …”
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Description of global innovative methods in developing the WHO Community Engagement Package by Jackeline Alger, Don Mathanga, Semeeh Akinwale Omoleke, Noel Juban, Meredith Labarda, Obinna Ikechukwu Ekwunife, Obioma Nwaorgu, Allan Ulitin, Jana Deborah Mier-Alpaño, María Isabel Echavarría, Yolanda Vargas Bayugo, Jose Rene Bagani Cruz, Pauline Marie Padilla Tiangco, Ukam Ebe Oyene, Alberto Ong Jr, Marvinson See Fajardo, Barwani Khaura Msiska, Lorena Abella Lizcano, Natalia Gomez Quenguan, Claudia Ivette Nieto Anderson, Briana Yasmin Beltran, Elsy Denia Carcamo Rodriguez, Eduardo Salomón Núñez, Vera Nkosi-Kholimeliwa, Glory Mwafulirwa-Kabaghe

“…The package aims to guide practitioners to promote local action and enhance skills for CE.Setting and participants The packages were co-created with diverse teams from WHO, Social Innovation in Health Initiative, UNICEF, community practitioners, and other partners providing synergistic contributions and bridging existing silos.Methods The design process of the package was anchored on CE principles. …”
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Diagnostics and Treatment of Peptic Ulcer in Adults (Clinical Guidelines of the Russian Gastroenterological Association, the Russian Society of Colorectal Surgeons, the Russian End... by V. Т. Ivashkin, I. V. Mayev, Р. V. Tsarkov, М. Р. Korolev, D. N. Andreev, Е. К. Baranskaya, D. S. Bordin, S. G. Burkov, А. А. Derinov, S. К. Efetov, Т. L. Lapina, Р. V. Pavlov, S. S. Pirogov, Е. А. Poluektova, А. V. Tkachev, А. S. Trukhmanov, А. I. Uljanin, Е. D. Fedorov, А. А. Sheptulin

“…The guidelines set out the modern methods of diagnostics and treatment of peptic ulcer and are created for gastroenterologists, primary care physicians, general practitioners, surgeons, endoscopists.Key points. …”
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The implications of self-directed support for residential child care by Simon Duffy

“…The Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013 promotes the individualisation of funding for support and, in theory, creates new opportunities for innovation; but there is also room for confusion, competing interpretations and unintended consequences. …”

Female genital cutting in Malaysia: a mixed-methods study by Abdul Rashid, Yufu Iguchi

“…A questionnaire was created and used by three trained research assistants for the quantitative component of the study. …”
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Lifestyle as cause and market: NCDs and Ayurveda care in Africa by Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Caroline Meier zu Biesen

“…In this paper I explore how the Indian Ocean is (re-)emerging as a region in the medical practice I have been tracing—new flows of Ayurvedic medicines from India to East Africa—not only as a trade route on the transoceanic axis between India and Africa, but also as a “shared world in turmoil” in which the Indian diaspora, the Indian pharmaceutical industry, and Ayurvedic practitioners are creating new “lifestyle disease markets”. …”
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Design and architecture of the CARA infrastructure for visualising and benchmarking patient data from general practice by Nathaly Garzón-Orjuela, Akke Vellinga, Fintan Stanley, Claire Collins, Sana Parveen, Agustin Garcia Pereira, Heike Vornhagen, Katarzyna Stasiewicz, Doaa Amin, Lukasz Porwol, Mathieu d’Aquin, Mike O’Callaghan

“…Objective Collaborate, Analyse, Research and Audit (CARA) project set out to provide an infrastructure to enable Irish general practitioners (GPs) to use their routinely collected patient management software (PMS) data to better understand their patient population, disease management and prescribing through data dashboards. …”
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