Protecting the Autonomy of Patients with Severe Mental Illness Through Psychiatric Advance Directive Peer-Facilitation by Nicholas Karasik

“…These include a lack of trust, support, and knowledge of PADs, as well as a lack of understanding in completing a PAD.[21] Concerning trust, one study found that 43 percent of patients did not feel they had someone they could trust to help them complete their PAD.[22] Other studies indicated that patients had limited trust in their healthcare professionals.[23] Regarding the lack of support, one survey found that 94 percent of respondents would be unable to complete a PAD without assistance or without a facilitator.[24] Many patients lack knowledge and awareness of PADs, how to complete, and what to include in them.[25] Due to their complex legal nature, over half of the respondents in one survey indicated that they had problems understanding the PAD.[26] Similarly, 79 percent of clients interviewed in one study felt that PADs posed too much of a burden.[27] Through their shared lived experience, peer-support facilitators would be in a greater position to foster trust with patients and create the environment necessary for patients to explore their values and preferences through this process. …”
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Navigating the evolution: a comprehensive review of sustainable finance in mergers and acquisitions [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] by Kishan Jee, Debdas Rakshit, Sabyasachi Mondal, Satish Chandra Tiwari

“…Background The global shift in corporate philosophy from wealth maximization to share value creation has propelled sustainable finance into the forefront of research endeavours. …”
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Design of food products using 3D and 4D printing technology and its significance for the development of additive production by H.M. Tarasiuk, A.O. Chahaida

“…The majority of respondents of all age groups are not inclined to share the statement that the creation of personalized food through 3D printing will allow balancing the intake of nutrients into the human body. …”
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Estimating the Impact of Fundamental Macroeconomic Factors on the Capital Market: A MIDAS Approach by Reza Tehrani, Mahmoud Moktarband, Menal Aboodeh

“…The exchange rate provides the basis for the growth of the stock market index by increasing the profitability of export companies, increasing the profitability of non-export companies through the nominal growth of profits, and increasing the value of assets through the creation of inflation in the economy. …”
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Biofuels – On the way to sustainability?: Opinion by Martin Kaltschmitt

“…There have been manifold communicated reasons to justify these legal measures as well as the resulting financial support from the public purse [4]:</p><ul><li>Contribution to the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions;</li><li>Protection of scarce and finite fossil fuel resources;</li><li>Domestic energy provision and thus an increased security of fuel supply;</li><li>Use of agricultural surplus production and thus avoidance of set aside land;</li><li>Creation of employment and income in rural areas as well as development of perspectives for farmers;</li><li>Convenient inclusion into existing technology and market structures of transportation based on fossil fuels;</li><li>Development and demonstration of technological processes with a high export potential and thus the option of creation of value.…”
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La Vie de l’agence de Jean Dubuisson dans les années 1950 à Paris by Élise Guillerm

“…All of them share common aesthetic values, turned towards the avant-garde, which they confront with a sustained production rhythm.The study is based on administrative records from the office of Jean Dubuisson (pay sheets, contracts, certificates of competence) generally neglected by historiography. …”
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How to mobilise users' experiential knowledge in the evaluation of advanced technologies and practices in Quebec? The example of the permanent users' and relatives' panel by Marie‐Pascale Pomey, Sandra Pelaez, Enora Le Roux, Oliver Demers‐Payette, Marie‐Claude Sirois, Louis Lochhead, Isabelle Ganache, Louise Normandin, Audrey L'Espérance, Michèle deGuise

“…It shows that URPs are structures that value the sharing of experiential knowledge of its members, humanise decision‐making and give meaning to the work done by scientific professionals. …”
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Large language models meet user interfaces: The case of provisioning feedback by Stanislav Pozdniakov, Jonathan Brazil, Solmaz Abdi, Aneesha Bakharia, Shazia Sadiq, Dragan Gašević, Paul Denny, Hassan Khosravi

“…To address these challenges, we explored the benefits of transitioning away from employing LLMs via CUIs to the creation of applications with user-friendly interfaces that leverage LLMs through API calls. …”
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Building bridges across stories: Developing cross-cultural partnerships to challenge masculinity by Nicolas Mosso Tupper

“…Through the creation, translation and sharing of documents of resistance, each of these men was able to contribute to the other, and to receive something in return. …”
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Tolerance and Non-Discrimination by Vladimir GÎRA, Ionel Constantin MITEA

“…On the one hand, the tolerant treatment of each person, regardless of ethnicity, gender, age or opinion, and regardless of whether the journalist shares the same values and ideas as that person or not, has the power to transform his job into an effective tool to combat the worst stereotypes and prejudices that have plagued our society. …”
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A Systematic Review of the Microfinance Literature: An ADO-TCM Framework Approach by Bahman Khodapanah, Mohammad Bashokouh Ajirlou, Fariba Mesri

“…Additionally, eight types of research decisions were identified: (1) Potential behaviors, (2) Small businesses, (3) Gender-based entrepreneurship, (4) Social entrepreneurship, (5) Individual entrepreneurship, (6) Women's entrepreneurship, (7) Collaborative and collective entrepreneurship, and (8) Creation of shared value. The study also identified six primary outcomes: (1) Sustainable and resilient economic development, (2) Self-sufficiency, (3) Improved living conditions and poverty reduction, (4) Social interactions, (5) Entrepreneurial ecosystem development, and (6) Enhanced business environment. …”
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Operational Modes and Technical Points for Empowering Urban Park Green Spaces by Digital Technology by Yang ZHANG, Changlin LI, Ninglu ZHANG, Fei WU

“…Digital technology can help reconstruct the logic of scenario experience and consumption mode and. through immersive experience value addition and service efficiency enhancement, activate the integration of the functions and commercial value of park green spaces. 3) Cost reduction and efficiency improvement in operation and maintenance management. …”
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Opportunities and practices supporting responsive health care for forced migrants: lessons from transnational practice and a mixed-methods systematic review by Amy Robinson, Protus Musotsi, Ziaur Rahman A Khan, Laura Nellums, Bayan Faiq, Kofi Broadhurst, Gisela Renolds, Michael Pritchard, Andrew Smith

“…The case examples drew attention to the benefits of a willingness to innovate and work outside existing structures, ‘micro-flexibility’ in interactions with patients, and the creation of safe spaces to encourage trust in providers. …”
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The Role of Local Culture in Preventing Radicalism and Intolerance through the Nyadran Tradition by Solechan Solechan

“…In its implementation, Nyadran involves various activities, such as visiting graves, praying together, cleaning graves, and sharing food, to strengthen social ties and maintain the values ??…”
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Biography of Socrates in the Context of Ancient Drama by Natalia Astrachan

“…The discrepancy between the tragic fate of Socrates and his image in the Comedy of Aristophanes “Clouds” shows the essence of the relationship of individual and shares in the process of artistic creation and reception. …”
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Genetic determination of high productivity in experimental hybrid combinations of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) by М. О. Корнєєва, О. В. Ненька

“…Purpose. Creation of experimental sugar beet hybrid combinations of high sugar yield values and defining gene­tic determination of their heterotic effect. …”
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Openness in Education as a Praxis: From Individual Testimonials to Collective Voices by Aras Bozkurt, Torunn Gjelsvik, Taskeen Adam, Tutaleni I. Asino, Javiera Atenas, Maha Bali, Constance Blomgren, Melissa Bond, Curtis J. Bonk, Mark Brown, Daniel Burgos, Dianne Conrad, Eamon Costello, Catherine Cronin, Laura Czerniewicz, Maren Deepwell, Markus Deimann, Helen J. DeWaard, Tonia A. Dousay, Martin Ebner, Robert Farrow, Inés Gil-Jaurena, Leo Havemann, Andreia Inamorato, Valerie Irvine, Shironica P. Karunanayaka, Michael Kerres, Sarah Lambert, Kyungmee Lee, Mpine Makoe, Victoria I. Marín, Alexander Mikroyannidis, Sanjaya Mishra, Som Naidu, Fabio Nascimbeni, Mark Nichols, Don Olcott, Ebba Ossiannilsson, Daniel Otto, Brenda Cecilia Padilla Rodriguez, Michael Paskevicius, Verena Roberts, Tooba Saleem, Robert Schuwer, Ramesh C. Sharma, Bonnie Stewart, Christian M. Stracke, Alan Tait, Ahmed Tlili, George Ubachs, Joshua Weidlich, Martin Weller, Junhong Xiao, Olaf Zawacki-Richter

“…The data gleaned from these narratives points to the understanding of Openness in Education as a complex, multilayered concept intricately woven into an array of values. These range from aspects such as sharing, access, flexibility, affordability, enlightenment, barrier-removal, empowerment, care, individual agency, trust, innovation, sustainability, collaboration, co-creation, social justice, equity, transparency, inclusivity, decolonization, democratisation, participation, liberty, and respect for diversity. …”
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Investigating the Mediating Effect of Credit Rating on the Relationship between Corporate Governance Quality and Stock Liquidity based on the Composite Liquidity Approach by Amin Pourrezaei Nav, Hamzeh Didar, Farzad Ghayour

“…In such cases, investors cannot accurately assess the value of a company's shares and make rational decisions to buy or sell them. …”
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Pathways to Tolerance: A Comparative Analysis of Hadith and Gospel in the Indonesian Context by Rahman, Fransiska Widyawati, Muhammad Hafis, Yohanes Servatius Lon, Zulfahmi Alwi, Ilyas, Abustani Ilyas

“…It contends that leveraging these shared values through interreligious dialogue is imperative for reducing intolerance in Indonesia. …”
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Improving health-promoting workplaces through interdisciplinary approaches. The example of WISEWORK-C, a cluster of five work and health projects within Horizon-Europe by Deborah De Moortel, Michelle C Turner, Ella Arensman, Alex Binh Vinh Duc Nguyen, Víctor Gonzalez

“…Expected achievements Together, the five projects in WISEWORK-C comprise a collaborative framework to support the creation of comprehensive, innovative solutions adaptable to a wide range of workplace environments. …”
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