Metamorphic Facies Distribution in the Western Alps Predicted by Petrological‐Thermomechanical Models of Syn‐Convergent Exhumation by Joshua D. Vaughan‐Hammon, Lorenzo G. Candioti, Thibault Duretz, Stefan M. Schmalholz

“…We model closure of an oceanic basin with exhumed mantle bounded by passive margins. To ensure thermomechanical feasibility, we model also this basin configuration. …”
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Involving End Users in the Development and Usability Testing of a Smartphone App Designed for Individuals With Prediabetes: Mixed-Methods Focus Group Study by Natalie Grieve, Kyra Braaten, Megan MacPherson, Sam Liu, Mary E Jung

“…A mean summary score of 66.8% (SD 18.91) was reported for the System Usability Scale, representing a marginal acceptability score and indicating that design issues needed to be resolved. …”
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Distressed Migrant Population under Climate Change: A Survey of Climate Poverty in Three Chinese Megacities by Zhen LI, Qian LIU, Tongzhen YANG

“…This paper focuses on the urban distressed migrant population who is marginalized in terms of society, economy and region. …”
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Sounds of Strength: a programmatic evaluation of a music therapist led community-based program for Veterans in supportive housing by Lori F. Gooding, Flor del Cielo Hernandez, Diane G. Langston

“…The most common therapist objectives included self-expression, building rapport, and group cohesion. …”
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Proclaiming Our Roots: Afro-Indigenous Identity, Resistance, and the Making of a Movement by Ann Marie Beals, Ciann L. Wilson, Rachel Persaud

“…Since its inception, Proclaiming Our Roots has grown into a grassroots social movement focused on self-determination, cultural reclamation, and resistance to colonial erasure. …”
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Melanoma cells break down LPA to establish local gradients that drive chemotactic dispersal. by Andrew J Muinonen-Martin, Olivia Susanto, Qifeng Zhang, Elizabeth Smethurst, William J Faller, Douwe M Veltman, Gabriela Kalna, Colin Lindsay, Dorothy C Bennett, Owen J Sansom, Robert Herd, Robert Jones, Laura M Machesky, Michael J O Wakelam, David A Knecht, Robert H Insall

“…We measure LPA gradients across the margins of melanomas in vivo, confirming the physiological importance of our results. …”
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Effects of Mind-Body Qigong Exercise on Overall Health, Fatigue/Sleep, and Cognition in Older Chinese Immigrants in the US: An Intervention Study with Control by Jianghong Liu, Yi Yang, Clara Li, Adriana Perez, Adrian Raine, Haoer Shi, Liye Zou

“…The control group maintained their usual daily activities. We collected self-report assessments on overall health, sleep, and fatigue and implemented two computerized cognitive tests measuring psychomotor vigilance task (PVT) and memory twice, preintervention and postintervention. …”
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Engaging community groups to enhance healthcare access for persons with disabilities in rural Uganda: A qualitative exploration. by Andrew Sentoogo Ssemata, Tracey Smythe, Slivesteri Sande, Abdmagidu Menya, Shaffa Hameed, Peter Waiswa, Femke Bannink Mbazzi, Hannah Kuper

“…However, its feasibility for persons with disabilities, who are often marginalized and excluded from participation, remains uncertain. …”
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Et jevnere utdanningsløp: Reduserte forskjeller eller selvforsterkende marginalisering? by Ann-Cathrin Faldet, Jonas Yassin Iversen, Thor-André Skrefsrud

“…English abstract A More Equitable Education: Reduced Disparities or Self-Reinforcing Marginalization? Based on the report “Et jevnere utdanningsløp: Barnehage og skole/SFO som innsats mot ulikhet blant barn” delivered by a government-appointed expert committee in February 2024, this article provides a critical discussion of the student and learning perspectives underpinning the report. …”
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Gains vs losses in pay-for-performance: Stated preference evidence from a U.S. survey. by Justin G Trogdon, Aveena Khanderia, Kathryn Brignole, Jodi A Lewis, Tara Licciardello Queen

“…<h4>Background</h4>Pay-for-performance (P4P) incentives can be paid as a bonus (gain) or a penalty (loss). Diminishing marginal utility of wealth suggests that, starting from the same initial wealth, individuals dislike losses more than they like equivalent gains.…”
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Training and Employee Performance in Uganda: A Case of National Water and Sewarage Corporation by moses Agaba

“…Senior human resource managers and managerial and technical personnel made up the sample of 96 respondents, and the study was conducted using a cross-sectional and descriptive survey approach. Self-administered questionnaires and interviews were used to gather primary data, and document reviews were used to gather secondary data. …”
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Women Economic Empowerment and Poverty Reduction: A Case Study of Kabale Municipality. by Gerald, Baguma

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Land characterization and management in the marine-volcanic area of Mount Semeru, Indonesia: A case study of sugarcane commodities by Basuki Basuki, Affan Rizwanda Adib, Hisyam Azhar Destiawan, Vega Kartika Sari

“…Indonesia has targeted achieving national sugar self-sufficiency in 2035 through intensification and extensification. …”
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B-Cell Response during Protozoan Parasite Infections by María C. Amezcua Vesely, Daniela A. Bermejo, Carolina L. Montes, Eva V. Acosta-Rodríguez, Adriana Gruppi

“…In this review, we discuss how protozoan parasites alter immature and mature B cell compartment. B1 and marginal zone (MZ) B cells, considered innate like B cells, are activated during protozoan parasite infections, and they generate short lived plasma cells providing a prompt antibody source. …”
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Swin-ReshoUnet: A Seismic Profile Signal Reconstruction Method Integrating Hierarchical Convolution, ORCA Attention, and Residual Channel Attention Mechanism by Jie Rao, Mingju Chen, Xiaofei Song, Chen Xie, Xueyang Duan, Xiao Hu, Senyuan Li, Xingyue Zhang

“…The decoder replaces traditional self-attention with ORCA attention to enable global context modeling with lower computational cost. …”
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Identification of Second-Generation Afghani Immigrant Women: A Narrative Analysis of the Nonfiction "The Meaninglessness of My Afghan Form Deeply Distressed Me" by Maral Rahimi, Sahar Faeghi

“…At the onset, the Afghan female writer exhibited behaviors and discourse that reflected self-denial of her Afghan identity to the extent that she expressed no desire to return to Afghanistan. …”
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Healthcare access barriers and utilization among the Arab Bedouin population in Israel: a cross-sectional study by Haneen Shibli, Paula Feder-Bubis, Nihaya Daoud, Limor Aharonson-Daniel

“…The study highlights the universal message of addressing both physical and systemic barriers to healthcare access, ensuring that healthcare services are culturally and linguistically tailored to the specific needs of marginalized populations locally and globally. These findings provide actionable insights for policymakers emphasizing the need to improve health equity by addressing the access barriers faced by the Arab Bedouin population, including structural, cultural, and linguistic challenges, and ensuring targeted interventions for marginalized communities both locally and globally.…”
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Identity Politics of Papuan Indigenous Ethnics in the Position Seizure Contestation: A Case Study of the OPD Structural Positions in the Governmental Bureaucracy in Papua by Ferinandus Leonardo Snanfi, Muhadjir Darwin, Setiadi Setiadi, Hakimul Ikhwan

“…From the process of marginalized Papuan ethnics were affected by ethnics egoism from village, clans, family, one ethnic and other Papuan ethnics emerge other Papuan ethnics prefer non-Papuan ethnics to collaborate in power in the governmental bureaucrcy. …”
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Tencent Text-Video Retrieval: Hierarchical Cross-Modal Interactions With Multi-Level Representations by Jie Jiang, Shaobo Min, Weijie Kong, Hongfa Wang, Zhifeng Li, Wei Liu

“…Considering intrinsic semantic frame relations, HCMI performs self-attention to explore frame-level correlations and adaptively cluster correlated frames into clip-level and video-level representations. …”
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Eagle-YOLOv8: UAV Object Detection Inspired by the Eagle-Eye Vision System by Dianwei Wang, Zehao Gao, Jie Fang, Yuanqing Li, Zhijie Xu

“…Experimental evaluations conducted on both the challenging VisDrone2019-Det dataset and our self-collected dataset validate the effectiveness of Eagle-YOLOv8. …”
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