Rethinking neglected tropical diseases: A shift towards more inclusive and equitable terminology. by Marlous L Grijsen, Yonah E Yangaza, Al Kadri, Fidel Strub, Esther E Freeman, Wendemagegn Enbiale

“…Although the term NTD has successfully directed funding and resources towards these conditions and encouraged global partnerships and high-level policy initiatives, the term may also have unintended negative consequences. In this paper, we aim to explore the term NTD and stimulate a dialogue that re-evaluates its meaning into more inclusive and equitable language.…”
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Trace Elements in Sediments of Selected Gutters and Bar – Beach, Lagos, Nigeria by CL Overah, CMA Iwegbue, EK Ossai, GE Nwajei

“…It was also observed that the Lagos bar beach is the receiving end of all the pollution loads arising from the channeled gutters. …”
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Worst Case Resistance Testing: A Nonresponse Bias Solution for Today’s Survey Research Realities by Stephen France, Frank G. Adams, V. Myles Landers

“… This study proposes a method of nonresponse assessment based on meta-analytical file-drawer techniques, also known as worst-case resistance testing (WCRT), and suitable for a wide range of data collection scenarios. …”
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The Discernment of the Deceits of the Devil in angelum lucis according to St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. John of the Cross by Juan Manuel Rossi

“…Motions that come from God pass through our soul, but there are also tendencies that are born of our own nature, and there are others that are suggested to us by the devil, whom St. …”
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The Preferred User: How Audio Description could Change Understandings of Australian Television Audiences and Media Technology by Ellis Katie, Kent Mike, Locke Kathryn

“…This paper reveals findings into both the amount of audio described content that has been created but not made available to television audiences, while also reviewing existing innovative platforms for audio description, such as the app BAM-Describe. …”
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Sergei Eisenstein’s System Thinking: Influences and Inspirations by Bulgakowa Oksana

“…In the very first notes, he defines a goal that seems to be similar to Aleksandr Bogdanov’s tektology: to find a basic structure – an isomorph – for a work of art but also for the growth of plants and bones, for human society and the organization of bees and ants. …”
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Paesaggi di coesistenza, ovvero come attorno ad un passeriforme si articola l’abitare in una zona di montagna by Lia Zola

“…Based on field research carried out in three alpine valleys, Valle Susa, Val Chisone and Val Troncea, my essay tries to broaden the understanding of landscapes of coexistence by arguing that they are complex sites of relationships where humans and non humans alike shape and co-shape them through interactions but also frictions and conflicts that revolve around a small bird, Petronia petronia. …”
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On Deferred Statistical Summability in Intuitionistic Fuzzy $n$-Normed Linear Space by Reena Kumari, Vijay Kumar, Archana Sharma

“…In this paper, we define strong deferred summability and deferred statistical summability in intuitionistic fuzzy \(n\)-normed linear spaces (briefly called IF-\(n\)-NLS) and study some of their properties. We also define deferred statistical Cauchy sequence deferred statistical completeness and characterize deferred statistical summability in such spaces. …”
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“I must speak to you plainly”: A history of English Bible translations, independent of the King James Version (1611) tradition by J.A. Naudé

“…However, numerous English translations that are independent of the King James Version tradition and its revisions also emerged, specifically with the goal of producing translations in contemporary, accessible English. …”
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(Anti-)Stokes scattering on the domain wall string by Hengyuan Guo, Hui Liu, Jarah Evslin

“…We include both the case in which the incident particle is transmitted and also that in which it bounces backward. Our results are given as finite-dimensional integrals of normal modes and elementary functions, and numerical results are presented in the particular case of the ϕ 4 double-well model.…”
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Herbicides to Kill Invasive Trees in Home Landscapes and Surrounding Natural Areas by Kenneth Langeland, Stephen F. Enloe

“… Several plant species that are invasive in natural areas of public lands also occur on private property. Invasive plants on private property that thrive within both landscaped and surrounding natural areas can serve as a source of infestation to other natural areas. …”
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Tropical Spiderwort (Commelina benghalensis L.), Identification and Control by Jason A. Ferrell, Gregory E. MacDonald, Barry J. Brecht

“…This results in viable seed being produced both above and below ground. Tropical spiderwort also possesses the ability to root at the nodes and can be propagated from cut stems. …”
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Neuroimaging Insights into Autism Spectrum Disorder: Structural and Functional Brain by Mahie Patil, Nofel Iftikhar, Latha Ganti

“…Studies using structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) show that people with ASD often have less gray matter in key brain areas like the amygdala and superior temporal sulcus. There are also concerns with white matter connections in the brain. …”
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On Ruijsenaars-Schneider spectrum from superconformal indices and ramified instantons by Hee-Cheol Kim, Anton Nedelin, Shlomo S. Razamat

“…We compare results of these two approaches for the low-lying levels of Ruijsenaars-Schneider model. We also discuss different previously proposed exact quantization conditions for the Coulomb branch parameters of the instanton partition functions and their interpretations in terms of index calculations.…”
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Wildland Weeds: Paragrass, Urochloa mutica by L. T. Markle, Brent A. Sellers, William A. Overholt

“…Paragrass (also referred to as Californiagrass) is thought to have been introduced into Florida sometime in the late 1870s as a forage plant. …”
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Developing the Bank of Researchers for the E3UDRES2 European Universities Alliance by Radu Vasiu, Andrei Ternauciuc, Muguras Mocofan, Diana Andone

“…Another important challenge faced by our Alliance is the digitalization strategy of the consortium, involving identification of each university’s specific needs, of their shared values and expectations, challenges and opportunities for joint collaboration. The paper also includes a SWOT analysis to assess the strengths, weaknesses (gaps) and overall adequacy of open education tools, resources and training against the needs of the E3UDRES2 alliance, all technical universities.…”
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HEAR THE UNHEARD VOICES OF VISUAL ART: by S.E. Dry

“…The researcher proposes the use of the narrative as a starting point to identify and develop a personal theme/concept in “tracing an untold history” of “unheard voices”, not only to add content to art-making, but also to guide art students to trace their “history and meaning of a unique outcome” and rewrite their own alternative stories. …”
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RETRACTED: Bone Age Assessment Based on Deep Convolutional Features and Fast Extreme Learning Machine Algorithm by Longjun Guo, Juan Wang, Jiaqi Teng, Yukun Chen

“…As the development of deep learning DL-based bone age prediction methods have achieved great success. However, it also faces the issue of huge computation overhead in deep features learning. …”
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GENERAL EDUCATIONAL ASPECT OF A MINERALOGICAL MUSEUM OF THE NORTH-EASTERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY, YAKUTSK by O.G. Tretiakova, V.R. Filippov, I.V. Kozlova, V.F. Popov

“…From the viewpoint of the museum pedagogy, the museum forms not only an educational, but also an educational and cultural environment for the formation of a harmoniously developed personality.…”
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Campo de lavanda by Adriana García García

“…This primary activity has a high demand in the pharmaceutical sector and in herbal medicine, but it also generates new touristic offers, with lavender routes for visitors and tourists. …”
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