Built experiences. History as a barometer of contemporaneity by Emilio Faroldi

“…It is for these and other principles that we must live the city, we must preserve it and value it, not as antiquarians or museum managers, but as citizens-architects with a highly developed sense of civic duty. …”
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Patient Design: The Importance of Including Patients in Designing Health Care by Bertalan Meskó, Dave deBronkart

“…Today, the rise of the internet and digital health has led to the end of that era. We are already witnessing early signs of the era of participatory health: genuinely empowered people living their lives and managing their health according to their own priorities, in partnership and consultation with physicians as needed. …”
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Capacity Control in Indoor Spaces Using Machine Learning Techniques Together with BLE Technology by M. Encarnación Beato Gutiérrez, Montserrat Mateos Sánchez, Roberto Berjón Gallinas, Ana M. Fermoso García

“…At present, capacity control in indoor spaces is critical in the current situation in which we are living in, due to the pandemic. In this work, we propose a new solution using machine learning techniques with BLE technology. …”
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Normative uncertainty by MacAskill, W

“…<p>Very often, we are unsure about what we ought to do. Under what conditions should we help to improve the lives of distant strangers rather than those of our family members? …”

Memory bank augmented long-tail sequential recommendation by Hu, Yidan, Liu, Yong, Miao, Chunyan, Miao, Yuan

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Spatial Analysis of Tourism and Urban Development Indicators with Happy City Approach(Case study: Shiraz Metropolitan) by sara mirzaei, Ali Zanghiabadi

“…Environmental justice is equality of people by their needs, abilities, efforts and impact on the production of society, so it is treated equally with all residents wherever they live. In urban planning, the physical-spatial distribution of urban elements and services is balanced and commensurate with the needs of citizens in each neighborhood and urban area. …”
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21W.742J / SP.575J / WGS.575J Writing About Race, Spring 2007 by Faery, Rebecca Blevins

“…A century after Du Bois penned those words, most Americans would agree that at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the color line remains one of our most pressing social issues. In this course, we will explore the terrain of race in America by reading the works of writers of color and others concerned with the issue of race, by viewing films that address racial issues, and by writing to explore how the fictions and facts of race condition all our lives, social and civic, private and public. …”
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Single-walled carbon nanotubes as near infrared fluorescent sensors : characterization, biological and analytical applications by Jin, Hong, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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PALS Provider Course: Essential Program for Training Doctors of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine by Ji Whan Han

“…Only prompt and precise emergency medical treatment can save the lives of children without sequelae; therefore, PALS provider course must be required for all medical personnel. …”
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Blueprint: heart bracelet / Nur Nafisha Omar Razi...[et al.] by Omar Razi, Nur Nafisha, Ahmad, Nurul Hidayah, Hasnan, Nur ' Ainul Nasrin, Sanusi, Hawa

“…Our product mainly targeted for people that suffer from heart problems but it also suitable for all ages as it is multifunction. …”
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The consitutional obligation of an identical tax treatment of marriage, common law partnerships and same-sex partnerships in the Republic of Serbia by Kostić Svetislav V.

“…The problem we face is that our understanding of certain phenomena has changed over time, as best illustrated by the fact that Aristotle, who introduced the concept of discrimination, would have found it difficult to understand the postulate that all people are equal in their rights and obligations before the law. …”
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Dum spiro spero? (Anna Starobiniec, Żywi) by Aleksandra Zywert

“…This problem (in the light of scientific progress) is only apparently distant and exotic, and in fact closer than we all think (especially in the moral and ethical dimension). …”
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Transactions Everywhere by Kuszmaul, Bradley C., Leiserson, Charles E.

“…Rather than viewing transactions as infrequent occurrences in a program, as has generally been done in the past, we have adopted the point of view that all user code should execute in the context of some transaction. …”
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Cooperation facilitates the colonisation of harsh environments by Cornwallis, C, Botero, C, Rubenstein, D, Downing, P, West, S, Griffin, A

“…However, this is based on evidence that has not investigated the order of evolutionary events, so the inferred causality could be incorrect. We resolve this problem using phylogenetic analyses of 4707 bird species and found that causation was in the opposite direction to that previously assumed. …”

A Syrian refugee with meningococcal empyema by Ozhan Akyol, Aslinur Ozkaya-Parlakay, Eda Uluman, Belgin Gulhan, Tugba Bedir Demirdag, Selin Nar-Otgun

“…Meningococcal infections are an important cause of mortality and morbidity in childhood. Herein we report a 2-year-old Syrian refugee boy living in Turkey diagnosed with Neisseria meningitidis serotype B infection complicated with intracranial empyema. …”
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Augmented Reality: Current and New Trends in Education by Dorota Kamińska, Grzegorz Zwoliński, Anna Laska-Leśniewicz, Rui Raposo, Mário Vairinhos, Elisabeth Pereira, Frane Urem, Martina Ljubić Hinić, Rain Eric Haamer, Gholamreza Anbarjafari

“…The educational landscape is an environment prone to change due to the volatile and ever-changing nature of the digital society in which we all live. Although the world moves at different speeds and any generalization is bound to have some exceptions, there is evidence from research conducted in different places and contexts that educational methods are becoming increasingly digitized and driven by technological innovation. …”
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Risky health behaviours and chronic conditions among aged persons: analysis of SAGE selected countries by Joseph Kojo Oduro, Joshua Okyere, Jonas Kwame Mawuli Tawiah Nyador

“…Abstract Background Increasing trends in risky health behaviours contribute to chronic health problems among the rapidly growing ageing population. …”
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Centralisation of services for children with cleft lip or palate in England: a study of hospital episode statistics by Fitzsimons Kate J, Mukarram Shumaila, Copley Lynn P, Deacon Scott A, van der Meulen Jan H

“…</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>All live born patients with a cleft lip and/or palate born between April 1997 and December 2008 were identified in Hospital Episode Statistics, the database of admissions to English National Health Service hospitals. …”
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Older adult drug overdose: an application of latent class analysis to identify prevention opportunities by Maryann Mason, Kaveet Pandya, Alexander Lundberg

“…Variables in the latent class analysis model included sex, race, alcohol test result, social isolation, recent emergency department (ED) visit, chronic pain, and pain treatment. Results We identified three distinct decent profiles. Class 1 (13% of decedents) included female decedents who were in pain treatment, had physical health problems, and had greater likelihood of a recent ED visit before their death. …”
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DNA supercoiling in bacteria: state of play and challenges from a viewpoint of physics based modeling by Ivan Junier, Elham Ghobadpour, Elham Ghobadpour, Olivier Espeli, Ralf Everaers

“…The purpose of this essay is to address upcoming challenges by thoroughly exploring the relevance, predictive capacity, and limitations of current physical models, with a specific focus on structural properties beyond the scale of the double helix. We discuss more particularly the problem of DNA conformations, the interplay between DNA supercoiling with gene transcription and DNA replication, its role on nucleoid formation and, finally, the problem of scaling up models. …”
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