Bridging the gap in sustainability measurement and reporting for agroecosystems: Overview and development of an adaptive sustainability assessment and monitoring framework by Mohammed Ibrahim, Bahadur KC Krishna, Evan D.G. Fraser

“…The framework categorizes sustainability indicators and selects those relevant to each category, establishing a site-specific baseline against which actual farm measurements are compared. …”
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A dynamic nomogram predicting nosocomial infections in patients after colon cancer surgery by Xue Yao, Shuhui Wang, Anning Lu, Yun Xu, Na Li

“…The objective of this study is to construct a nomogram for predicting the risk of nosocomial infections among patients after colon cancer surgery.MethodsTotal 1146 patients after colon cancer surgery were selected and divided into a training set and a validation set. …”
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Friendly Censorship in the Creative History of Leo Tolstoy’s Short Story “Candle” by Natalia I. Gorodilova

“…The author of the article comes to the conclusions that P.I. Biryukov initiated the question of the end of the “Candle”; that the controversy that unfolded around the story entailed a violation of the author’s intention; that L.N. …”
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Navigating the Dynamics of Learner Absenteeism in South African Urban Secondary Schools: An In-Depth Management Analysis and Strategic Framework by Richard Moloele, Madikela T. Lekalakala

“…Despite the government’s initiatives to improve learners’ reading levels and redress their lack of reading comprehension skills, it is still a serious problem, particularly in rural areas. …”
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Rigorous and extensive accuracy assestment of automatically classified LiDAR data: a case study in the city of Milan, Italy by D. Lodigiani, V. M. Casella

“…Two areas, San Siro and Città Studi, were selected to create a ground truth without automated methods. …”
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Perceptions of the HIV counselling and testing programme by patients in a rural regional hospital in South Africa by Emeka Orisakwe, Stella Ochiogu, Peter Ocholla

“…Method: One hundred and seventy-two patients referred for HCT were randomly selected over a three-month period. Data were collected by a research assistant using the modified standardised World Health Organization/ Health Global Access Project (HGAP) questionnaire. …”
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Connecting communities: Enhancing broadband access in rural Tanzania through small cell deployment by Pascal Yamakili, Mrindoko Rashid Nicholaus

“…This proposed methodology is analysed through system simulations of a carefully selected practical deployment scenario in Southern Chunya, Tanzania. …”
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Use of two-part regression calibration model to correct for measurement error in episodically consumed foods in a single-replicate study design: EPIC case study. by George O Agogo, Hilko van der Voet, Pieter van't Veer, Pietro Ferrari, Max Leenders, David C Muller, Emilio Sánchez-Cantalejo, Christina Bamia, Tonje Braaten, Sven Knüppel, Ingegerd Johansson, Fred A van Eeuwijk, Hendriek Boshuizen

“…We adapted two-part regression calibration model, initially developed for multiple replicates of reference measurements per individual to a single-replicate setting. …”
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Melioidosis vaccines: a systematic review and appraisal of the potential to exploit biodefense vaccines for public health purposes. by Sharon J Peacock, Direk Limmathurotsakul, Yoel Lubell, Gavin C K W Koh, Lisa J White, Nicholas P J Day, Richard W Titball

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>Vaccines could represent one strand of a public health initiative to reduce the global incidence of melioidosis.…”
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Surgical team perceptions of the surgical safety checklist implementation in Indonesian hospitals: a descriptive qualitative study by Inge Dhamanti, Muhammad Miftahussurur, Ika Nur Pratiwi, Vina Himmatus Sholikhah, Fitri Yakub

“…Despite the global acceptance of the initiative, there is limited comprehensive research on the challenges, success factors, impact and the role of professional organisations in SSC implementation in Indonesia. …”
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A Value-Based Framework from Building Stock Model to Retrofit Model by Ivett Flores

“…The framework has three main steps: A) Building Stock Model: Mapping of selected buildings of the program PAEIAPF in a GIS system. …”
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Toward the Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Shift: What are EFL Teachers’ Understandings, Practices, and Needs? by Trinh Quoc Lap, Phan Ngoc Tuong Vy, Nguyen Thi My Hanh, Le Cong Tuan, Nguyen Thanh Hung

“…Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), widely established as a mainstream approach in ESL countries, is gaining traction in EFL contexts through selective programs and initiatives. Reflecting this trend, Vietnam’s educational reforms under the 2018 General Education Program have incorporated CLIL-informed lessons into newly adopted English textbooks, signaling a step toward integrating language and subject learning. …”
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A COGNITIVE APPROACH FORMING THE BASIS OF SYSTEM AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX RESEARCH OBJECTS by A. N. Vetrov

“…Financial analysis of highly-integrated (credit) organisations initiates the need to take into account a wide range of different scientific fundamental and applied areas of contemporary science, as well as necessitating the use of an innovative research apparatus. …”
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Motivating and inhibitory factors in mask-wearing: Chronic patients’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic by Parvaneh Aghajari, Mina Hosseinzadeh

“…Participants were purposively selected from chronic patients visiting healthcare centers in Maragheh, Iran. …”
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Designing a model of sustainable education based on artificial intelligence in higher education by kamran Bagherimajd, Kosar khajedad

“…For this purpose, five faculty members of the Education and Technology Department performed data analysis based on open, axial and selective coding in MAXQDA software. The results showed opportunities and challenges of AI in SE in seven main categories and 24 sub-categories, which include organizational structure (human resources, financial resources, facilities and equipment, rules and regulations), curriculum (tools and approaches to planning, curriculum design, curriculum development and change), global citizen (responsibility, global competence and global civil participation), continuous learning (adaptive learning, collaborative learning, personal learning and automatic learning), creativity and innovation (initiative, educational innovations, creative thinking and innovation in methodology), teaching and learning process (tools, methods, evaluation and feedback) and communication (interaction and international communication, scientific communication, emotional communication and social communication). …”
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Investigating barriers to green human resource management implementation at a South African government department by Farai Nyika, Precious Nompumelelo Nqobile Nkosi-Mahla, Khalida Akbar

“…These experts were selected from a population of 650 employees through purposeful sampling, which was employed to identify the participants who were most pertinent to the research objectives. …”
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Genome Wide Mapping of NR4A Binding Reveals Cooperativity with ETS Factors to Promote Epigenetic Activation of Distal Enhancers in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells. by Ryan P Duren, Seth P Boudreaux, Orla M Conneely

“…Expression of NR4As is broadly silenced in leukemia initiating cell enriched populations from human patients relative to normal hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells. …”
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Substance use among Ghanaian adolescents in secondary education: the determinants and medico-social implications by Walter Appati, Easmon Otupiri, Adelaide Appati, Eliezer Bernard Owusu Ntim

“…Curiosity (53.9%) and peer influence (33.3%) are the main factors driving substance use initiation among students. Majority (39.7%) of students experienced an inability to study for tests, while 29.5% got into fights under the influence of substances. …”
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Cee-16: A Cluster Analysis Based on Tourism Competitiveness and Correlations With Major Determinants by Delia Popescu, Iulia Monica Oehler-Şincai, Daniel Bulin, Ion Alexandru Tănase

“…For the analysis are selected exactly the 16 countries participating in the 16+1 platform initiated by China in 2011, tourism being one of the components of sectoral cooperation in this framework. …”
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Predicting Drivers’ Eyes-Off-Road Duration in Different Driving Scenarios by Wei Yuan, Zhuofan Liu, Rui Fu

“…Drivers consecutively direct their gaze to various areas to select relevant information from the traffic environment. …”
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