Digging for literature on tailoring cultural offers with and for older people from ethnic minority groups: a scoping review by Tierney, S, Gorenberg, J, Santillo, M, Westlake, D, Wong, G, Husk, K, Vougioukalou, S, Baxter, R, Dawson, S, Roberts, N, Potter, C, Warburton, H, McDougall, B, Latchem, J, Mahtani, KR

“…</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> Screening of 906 references–59 of which were read as full documents–resulted in six sources being included in the review. …”

Novel material composites for dielectric elastomer actuators by Ankit

“…Generally, researchers have tried to modify either of these properties with addition of solid conductive or ceramic fillers, or chemical modification of the elastomer, and this has led to undesirable changes on the other material properties. Drawing inspiration from biological materials like skin, which is a soft material system filled with fluids, a novel composite is synthesized utilizing a solid polymer matrix and a high dielectric constant liquid filler, an ionic liquid. …”
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Rethinking relief, reconstruction and development : evaluating the effectiveness and sustainability of post-disaster livelihood aid by Daly, Patrick, Mahdi, Saiful, McCaughey, Jamie, Mundzir, Ibnu, Halim, Agus, Nizamuddin, Ardiansyah, Srimulyani, Eka

“…However, aid packages were generally not able to support the development of full-time, sustainable new livelihoods for people lacking pre-disaster training and experience. …”
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Nonequilibrium hyperuniform fluids by Lei, Yusheng

“…Disordered hyperuniform structures are an exotic state of matter with vanishing long-range fluctuations in many-particle systems, which have recently drawn attention from researchers in various fields such as mathematics, physics, materials sciences, etc., due to their unusual structural properties. …”
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Fictions of youth: childness in selected West African novels, 1991-2009 by Moellenberg, T

“…A "child" here is defined as a human person under age 18 and is referred to using the term <em>childness</em>, drawing from the work of children's literature scholar Peter Hollindale. …”

Nature-inspired lightweight auxetic structures for enhanced stiffness and absorption capacity by Zhang, Ee Teng

“…Building on the foundation of hierarchical architectures in nature, a novel graded hierarchical honeycomb is further proposed. By replacing cell walls of regular honeycombs with triangular and hexagonal sub-structures, and varying the hierarchical length ratio in each layer, the structure exhibits enhanced crashworthiness behaviors. …”
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Breaking permutation-based mesh steganography and security improvement by Wang, Yimin, Kong, Lingsheng, Qian, Zhenxing, Feng, Guorui, Zhang, Xinpeng, Zheng, Jianmin

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Impact of BPL penalty functions and PSF models in PET/CT radial spatial resolution recovery by Si, Wang Jie

“…Tubes filled were placed at 5 cm intervals from the center towards the PET/CT FOV's periphery. …”
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Indoor occupancy estimation using environmental parameters by Masood, Khalid Mustafa

“…To perform occupancy estimation within the proposed framework, we present a novel technique called the Hybrid Feature- Scaled Extreme Learning Machine (HFS-ELM). …”
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Antimicrobial activity, phytochemical and toxicity analyses of salam [Syzygium polyanthum (Wight) Walp.] leaf extract and its application in food by Ramli, Suzita

“…In conclusion, S. polyanthum extract exhibited antimicrobial activity, thus it can be developed as natural sanitizer for washing raw food materials and prevent the food spoilage during storage.…”
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Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 co... by Ferrari, AJ, Santomauro, DF, Aali, A, Lacey, BWH, Rodriguez, JAB

“…For three decades, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) has filled that need. A global network of collaborators contributed to the production of GBD 2021 by providing, reviewing, and analysing all available data. …”

Tracking and detecting objects in image sequence by Wang, Li

“…The first piece of work addresses learning hierarchical features for visual object tracking by using deep learning. Previously, raw pixel values or hand-crafted features are used to represent target objects. …”
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Magnetohydrodynamics CU˗TiO2 hybrid nanofluid with viscous dissipation by Rahimah, Jusoh, Zulkhibri, Ismail, Muhammad Khairul Anuar, Mohamed, Nooraini, Zainuddin

“…Boundary layer flow is often described as a thin layer filled with fluid that is next to a solid object’s surface. …”
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Reinterpreting politics in thirteenth-century south-west Wales by Brodie, HD

“…Part 3 offers new perspectives on the region’s political narrative, drawing on the preceding thematic analysis. It demonstrates that until the mid-thirteenth century there was much more political cooperation between Welsh and Marcher lords than hitherto understood and considers why the pattern of politics changed, drawing comparison with medieval Ireland.…”

Career Development and Counseling : Putting Theory and Research to Work / by Brown, Steven D. (Steven Douglas), 1947-, editor 370878, Lent, Robert W. (Robert William), 1953-, editor 370884, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…This new edition also covers essential new material on emerging topics like: The future of work and preparing people for work in the new economy; The psychology of working theory; Working with older adults and retirees; Working with the unemployed and underemployed; Calling, work meaning, career adaptability, and volition. …”
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The political economy of oil and economic diversification: a neglected research field Robert Mabro would certainly like us to revive by Aissaoui, A

“…The less obvious reason is that multiple country case studies can help reflect the diversity of contexts and conditions and draw on distinct sources of evidence to discern national idiosyncrasies.…”

Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? : Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person / by Klitzman, Robert, author 655971

“…Healthcare chaplains have been filling the void, developing valuable approaches and insights. …”
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涂涂写写 = Alchemy of color and brushwork by Ng, Woon Lam

“…I consider brushworks and lines as drawing, and the process of filling colors as painting. …”
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A finer-grain analysis of the leakage (non) resilience of OCB by Berti, Francesco, Bhasin, Shivam, Breier, Jakub, Hou, Xiaolu, Poussier, Romain, Standaert, François-Xavier, Udvarhelyi, Balasz

“…We next show that if these block cipher calls of the mode are protected, practical attacks on the remaining block cipher calls remain possible. …”
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A History of Transparency Regulations: Interdisciplinary Strategies for Shaping Social Media Regulation and Self-Governance by Vergara, Caitlyn, Jain, Raghav, Mehta, Swapneel

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