Context-based and explainable decision making with argumentation by Zeng, Zhiwei, Fan, Xiuyi, Miao, Chunyan, Leung, Cyril, Chin, Jing Jih, Ong, Yew Soon

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Speaking legibly: Qualitative perceptions of altered voice among oral tongue cancer survivors by Genevieve Philiponis, Sarah H Kagan

“…None experienced severe impairments that inhibited their daily lives. However, all expressed some level of concern about speech. …”
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Observations on Refractive Status and Risk Factors for Visual Impairment in Children with Disabilities by Larisa Bianca Holhoș, Mihaela Cristiana Coroi, Liviu Lazăr

“…Vision integrates all the senses and plays a fundamental role in the acquisition of different skills and the general development of a child. …”
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Fragments de modernité urbaine: formes de régénération et rénovation parisiennes by Dino Gavinelli

“…In order to understand the complex urban texture of a city like Paris we should proceed with an epistemological, aestetic, political and social interpretation which also takes into consideration the economic and territorial components, because all these interwoven aspects concur to the richness of the metropolitan landscape of Paris. …”
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Women suffer but men die: survey data exploring whether this self-reported health paradox is real or an artefact of gender stereotypes by Susan P. Phillips, Madlen O’Connor, Afshin Vafaei

“…Abstract Background Despite consistently reporting poorer health, women universally outlive men. We examine whether gender differences in lived circumstances considered, and meaning attributed to SRH by women and men might explain this paradox. …”
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Cost-effectiveness of therapeutics for COVID-19 patients: a rapid review and economic analysis by Metry Andrew, Pandor Abdullah, Ren Shijie, Shippam Andrea, Clowes Mark, Dark Paul, McMullan Ronan, Stevenson Matt

“…However, almost all drugs could plausibly have cost per quality-adjusted life-years above National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s thresholds. …”
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How COVID-19 pandemic affected nutrition behaviors by Pittara Pansawira

“…In the present, we will have to tackle many nutritional-related problems in any population. …”
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The eco-ethical contribution of Menico Torchio – a forgotten pioneer of European Bioethics by Iva Rincic, Amir Muzur, Cristina Richie

“…Abstract Background In 1926, Fritz Jahr described bio-ethics (German: bio-ethik) as “the assumption of moral obligations not only towards humans, but towards all forms of life.” Jahr summarized his philosophy by declaring, “Respect every living being on principle as an end in itself and treat it, if possible, as such!.” …”
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Mobility and Safety: a Challenge to Win for Everyone by FIABA Onlus, Giuseppe Trieste, Massimo Pannacciulli

“…This congestion first of all concerns the so called “tyre mobility”, generating two negative effects: -car accidents are in continuous growth, with high costs in terms of human-lives and permanent damages; -our streets became in the last 15 years very dangerous. …”
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40 Centuries of State and Legal Thought (review for the first Part of the textbook by O. M. Holovko and T. Ye. Kahanovska "History of the Doctrines on Law and State") by V. A. Grechenko

“…It has many advantages and benefits, and it is difficult to say everything in a fairly short review, but we will say one more thing. Undoubtedly, this book will help improve the training of the new generation of lawyers, give them a basis for reflection on some of the eternal problems of jurisprudence - theoretical and practical, closely related to their present and future lives. reference book on this historical and legal discipline.…”
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Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Client Participation in Drug Abuse Treatment by Akbar Aliverdinia, S. Ahmad Mir Mohamad Tabar Divkolai

“…Introduction Drug abuse seems to be a major problem in all contemporary societies; it has destroyed millions of lives and fighting it has consumed a substantial percentage of national budgets around the world (UN Drug Report, 2011: 8).Iran has one of the most serious drug problems in the world and the latest Rapid Situation Assessment (RSA), which was conducted in 2010 by the authorities in the country, estimated the number of drug users - both drug abusers and recreational drug users – to be 2/1 million people. …”
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A gendered lifecourse examination of sleep difficulties among older women by Walker, R, Luszcz, M, Hislop, J, Moore, V

“…We conducted in-depth interviews with 12 oldest-old (average age 86) community-dwelling women who currently experienced sleep difficulties. …”

Regard sur l’interaction de l’urbanisation, du traumatisme historique et de l’identité culturelle parmi la jeunesse autochtone au Canada by Elizabeth Fast, Jennifer Nutton, Mireille De La Sablonnière-Griffin, Anna Kozlowski, Nahka Bertrand, Swaneige Bertrand, Jennifer Mitchell

“…Using interviews from a larger study that explored the cultural identity of urban Indigenous youth in Montreal, we illustrate how urbanization, historical trauma, and cultural identity interplay in the lives of the youth interviewed for this study. …”
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Community Occupational Therapy in Dementia intervention for people with mild to moderate dementia and their family carers in the UK: the VALID research programme including RCT by Wenborn Jennifer, Mountain Gail, Moniz-Cook Esme, Poland Fiona, King Michael, Omar Rumana, O’Keeffe Aidan, Morris Stephen, Pizzo Elena, Michie Susan, Vernooij-Dassen Myrra, Graff Maud, Hill Jane, Challis David, Russell Ian, Sackley Catherine, Hynes Sinéad, Crellin Nadia, Mundy Jacqueline, Burgess Jane, Swinson Tom, Di Bona Laura, Field Becky, Hart Cathryn, Stansfeld Jacki, Walton Holly, Rooks Sally, Ledgerd Ritchard, Orrell Martin

“…We audio recorded and transcribed all interviews, checked them for accuracy, anonymised them and used inductive thematic analysis. …”
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Biophysics and its scientific data in industrial product design by Jasim Khazaal Aluqaily, Alaa Najim Abbood

“…According to the performance and functional applications in designing the functions of industrial products at the electromagnetic level, it was found that remote sensing applications: such as fire sensors that were adopted from the insect (Black Beetle) and that their metaphors enable them to hear fire, and collision sensors, which were adopted from the insect (locust) , And its ability to fly in large swarms without colliding with one another, and the location echo sensors that were adopted from (bats), which moves without having a sense of sight, and sound sensors that were adopted from (dolphins). we found that all of these biological features broadened the designer’s understanding of the biological world, and the breadth of knowledge base of industrial designer, which enabled him to design products bearing solutions to problems that were not easily solved without understanding the biological structures of these organisms. …”
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Design and Dynamic Analysis of Ideological and Political Education Platform Based on Network Multimedia Technology by Xiaowen Chen

“…As a group of users in the “digital age”, college students’ thinking, behavior, and concept are all influenced by the multimedia network. The fast growth of multimedia network not only brings thought-political opportunities to students, but also brings problems. …”
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Genome-Wide SNP Analysis Reveals the Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of the Domestic Reindeer Population (<i>Rangifer tarandus</i>) Inhabiting the Indigenous Tofalar Lan... by Veronika Ruslanovna Kharzinova, Arsen Vladimirovich Dotsev, Anastasiya Dmitrievna Solovieva, Larisa Delger-Oolovna Shimit, Anton Pavlovich Kochkarev, Henry Reyer, Natalia Anatolievna Zinovieva

“…We believe that our findings will contribute to the formation of a rational basis for solving problems related to the conservation of domestic Tuva-Tofalar reindeer in order to increase the number of this substantial reindeer population which will contribute to the sustainable functioning of ecosystems and the lives and culture of indigenous peoples inhabiting the southern sections of Eastern Siberia.…”
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Just sex by Kugelberg, E

“…The ways in which we organise our societies’ major institutions have profound implications for our intimate lives. …”

Baseline characteristics of people experiencing homelessness with a recent drug overdose in the PHOENIx pilot randomised controlled trial by Richard Lowrie, Andrew McPherson, Frances S. Mair, Kate Stock, Caitlin Jones, Donogh Maguire, Vibhu Paudyal, Clare Duncan, Becky Blair, Cian Lombard, Steven Ross, Fiona Hughes, Jane Moir, Ailsa Scott, Frank Reilly, Laura Sills, Jennifer Hislop, Natalia Farmer, Sharon Lucey, Stephen Wishart, George Provan, Roy Robertson, Andrea Williamson

“…Abstract Background Drug-related deaths in Scotland are the highest in Europe. Half of all deaths in people experiencing homelessness are drug related, yet we know little about the unmet health needs of people experiencing homelessness with recent non-fatal overdose, limiting a tailored practice and policy response to a public health crisis. …”
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Post-Soviet studies: crisis of concepts, conventions, and compromises by Bogdanova, E, Dzenovska, D, Morris, J, Muravyeva, M, Pallot, J

“…The roundtable, which took place in Helsinki in October 2022, was not so naive as to seek to solve any problems. The discussion that took place was an attempt to feel out and confront the underlying concepts and assumptions that have failed, as well as an attempt to capture scholarly reflections on the difficult situation that we are living through now.…”