‘It's the little things that count’: healthcare professionals’ views on delivering dignified care: a qualitative study by Williams, V, Kinnear, D, Victor, C

“…<p><b>Background</b></p> Although ‘care’ and dignity in care are seen as central to the delivery of good care by patients, families and professionals, we still lack a clear understanding of what these, often contested and elusive concepts, mean in the practice setting, particularly from the perspective of healthcare professionals. …”

Factors influencing Malays as a second language learning in essay writing: a case study of Iban ethnic students in Sarawak, Malaysia by Edmund Austrus, Zamri Mahamod, Norhafizah Adnan

“…Second language learners, such as Iban students studying Malay, often face significant challenges in essay writing due to the proficiency gap between their first language and Malay. …”
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A comparison of soil sampling procedures used to monitor soil fertility in permanent pastures by Friesen, DK, Blair, GJ

“…Soil testing programs are often brought in disrepute by unexplained variability in the data. …”

Measurement uncertainty evaluation in soil liquid limit testing by Lua, K L, Lim, A J M S, Sim, S Y

“…Measurement uncertainty provides an indication of the quality of test result and very often also adopted in laboratory proficiency testing activities. …”
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Emulating an atomic gyroscope with multiple accelerometers by Shettell, Nathan, Dumke, Rainer

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Meta-analysis indicates better climate adaptation and mitigation performance of hybrid engineering-natural coastal defence measures by Huynh, Lam Thi Mai, Su, Jie, Wang, Quanli, Stringer, Lindsay C., Switzer, Adam D., Gasparatos, Alexandros

“…Traditional approaches to coastal defence often struggle to reduce the risks of accelerated climate change. …”
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Role of primary and secondary care data in atrial fibrillation ascertainment: impact on risk factor associations, patient management, and mortality in UK Biobank by Camm, CF, Von Ende, A, Gajendragadkar, PR, Pessoa-Amorim, G, Mafham, M, Allen, N, Parish, S, Casadei, B, Hopewell, JC

“…Hospital admissions, diagnoses, and procedures (HADP) data are often used to identify disease cases. However, this may result in incomplete ascertainment of chronic conditions such as atrial fibrillation (AF), which are principally managed in primary care (PC). …”

WHAT A MUSHROOM LIVES FOR : Matsutake and the Worlds They Make / by Hathaway, Michael J., author 656068

“…After spending time with Chinese and Japanese matsutake scientists in their labs and field stations, and as he became an ever-more skilled mushroom forager himself, Hathaway reconceived this book entirely. Rather than writing a book on the social worlds of Chinese mushroom hunters, he decided to key on how the mushroom's own behavior shapes the actions of humans and human communities -- as well as the actions of other living beings -- in ways that aren't often considered. …”
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Behave The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst / by Sapolsky, Robert M., author 656050, Penguin Random House (Online service) 655978

“…Finally, he expands the view to encompass factors larger than one individual. How did culture shape that individual's group, what ecological factors millennia old formed that culture? …”
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Efficient techniques for subgraph mining and query processing by Lin, Wenqing

“…Given massive amounts of graph data, people are often interested in a small portion, namely their subgraphs, by the processes of mining and querying. …”
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3D content recovery and complexity reduction by Tan, Cheen Hau

“…Due to issues related to the acquisition of 3D content, postprocessing is often required on captured 3D content before it can be used in applications. …”
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Development of aptamer-based low-background assays for adenosine triphosphate detection by Peng, Yanfen.

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Control-oriented meta-learning by Richards, Spencer M., Azizan, Navid, Slotine, Jean-Jacques, Pavone, Marco

“…Our key insight is that we can better prepare the controller for deployment with control-oriented meta-learning of features in closed-loop simulation, rather than regression-oriented meta-learning of features to fit input-output data. …”
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Values and value in simulated participant methodology : a global perspective on contemporary practices by Nestel, Debra, McNaughton, Nancy, Smith, Cathy, Schlegel, Claudia, Tierney, Tanya

“…We argue for the use of the term simulated rather than standardized and acknowledge the dominant role of the SP as patient and the origins of the methodology. …”
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A cup of coffee by Yong, Kai Ting

“…In my lifetime’s journey with coffee, coffee is more than just a drink. Coffee is a moment of enjoyment. …”
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Development of a machine-learning-based detection and tracking algorithm for drones by Er, Hwa Ming

“…It is a challenge to achieve real time semantic segmentation for detection and tracking on drones as the drones had a limited amount of computation power. Since edge devices, often, did not have high processing power [3], steps must be taken to ensure that the algorithm was efficient in accommodating edge devices. …”
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Let's choose one of each: using the partition dependence effect to increase diversity in organizations by Feng, Zhiyu, Liu, Yukun, Wang, Zhen, Savani, Krishna

“…When employers make hiring decisions, they often pass over highly qualified candidates belonging to minority groups. …”
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Domain ontology generation in web search by Lau, Steven Jia Lim.

“…There are many methods which can achieve these aims as there are disciplines. We often require data for varied applications, many structure data differently thus the ontology model doesn’t try to model for any one application. …”
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Key challenges in social value 2025: responsible stakeholder engagement, robust data management and reliable digitalisation. Identifying nine key challenges from research, theory a... by Mulholland, Cara, Georgiadou, Maria Christina, Fittion, Sarah

“…Effective stakeholder engagement is critical, yet often hindered by power imbalances, digital accessibility gaps, and a lack of established best practices. …”
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Fashioning the academic by Davenport, Emma

“…This may also be the product of an increasing pedagogic emphasis on the student at the centre of the learning process, rather than both the teacher and the student in a specific communicative interaction. …”
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