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Recent Submissions
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Machine translation in scholarly publishing: A scoping review
(2025-04-08)English occupies a central position in scholarly publishing, but using a lingua franca for scholarly publishing has consequences for scholars, science, and society. For instance, non Anglophone researchers may need longer ... -
Open access publishing in an African context: Notable improvements and recurring challenges
(SAGE Publications, 2025-06-20)Open access publishing has been promoted as a pivotal means of bridging the gap in knowledge access and usage. Despite the growing support for open access publishing globally, little is known about African scholars’ ... -
Inequity, precarity, and disparity: Exploring systemic and institutional barriers in open access publishing
(Sage, 2025-07-10)Despite increasing advocacy for open access (OA), its uptake in some disciplines has remained low. Existing studies have linked the low uptake of OA in the humanities and social sciences (HSS) to disciplinary norms, limited ... -
Evaluating the linguistic coverage of OpenAlex: An assessment of metadata accuracy and completeness
(Wiley, 2025-01-14)Clarivate's Web of Science (WoS) and Elsevier's Scopus have been for decades the main sources of bibliometric information. Although highly curated, these closed, proprietary databases are largely biased toward English-language ... -
Urban Scene Segmentation and Cross-Dataset Transfer Learning using SegFormer
(SPIE, 2025-08-01)Semantic segmentation is essential for autonomous driving applications, but state-of-the-art models are typically evaluated on large datasets like Cityscapes, leaving smaller datasets underexplored. This research gap limits ... -
Table Extraction with Table Data Using VGG-19 Deep Learning Model
(MDPI, 2025-01-01)In recent years, significant progress has been achieved in understanding and processing tabular data. However, existing approaches often rely on task-specific features and model architectures, posing challenges in accurately ... -
Deep learning in dermatopathology: applications for skin disease diagnosis and classification
(Springer Nature, 2025-08-28)Medical image segmentation is pivotal in disease diagnosis and treatment planning across various imaging modalities, including MRI, CT, ultrasound, X-ray, dermoscopy, and histopathology. This systematic literature review, ... -
From Manomin to ‘Wild’ Rice and Back Again: Understanding the Transformations of a Native Ontario Grain and Indigenous Cultural Resurgence
(2024-12)Manomin (also called manoomin) is a native Canadian grain (Zizania palustris) that was the main carbohydrate food for many Indigenous people in Ontario for many generations and over a million pounds were harvested per year ... -
Hyperpolarized xenon-129 chemical exchange saturation transfer (HyperCEST) molecular imaging: achievements and future challenges
(MDPI, 2024)Molecular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an emerging field that is set to revolutionize our perspective of disease diagnosis, treatment efficacy monitoring, and precision medicine in full concordance with personalized ... -
Symptoms of premenstrual dysphoric disorder and cycle phase are associated with enhanced facial emotion detection: An online cross-sectional study
(Sage, 2024)Background: Premenstrual dysphoric disorder is a depressive disorder affecting 5%–8% of people with menstrual cycles. Despite evidence that facial emotion detection is altered in depressive disorders, with enhanced detection ... -
Revolutionizing Women’s health: the quest for materials for next-generation, non-hormonal intrauterine devices
(Springer Nature, 2024)With over 200 million users worldwide, copper intrauterine devices (Cu-IUDs) are the world’s most popular, non-hormonal, long-acting, and reversible contraception method. Cu-IUDs cause uncomfortable side effects such as ... -
Short-term responsive mating intentions increase with estradiol and testosterone across the menstrual cycle: scale development and an observational study
(MDPI, 2024)The extent to which estradiol, progesterone, and testosterone influence mating behavior across the menstrual cycle is unclear. The Proactive and Responsive Mating Strategies Scales (PARMSS) were developed to separately ... -
Uranio / Uranium
(Cactus del Viento, 2023)Difícil es imaginar un elemento que la gran mayoría nunca ha visto o tocado. Sin embargo, dicho elemento mineral de la Madre Naturaleza se encuentra conectado a la energía que consume nuestra civilización, a sus comodidades ... -
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Indigenous Message on Water / Mensaje Indígena de Agua
(2021)Este libro fue compilado para ser leído en voz alta y frente al Agua. Las palabras –como aprendí en territorio Mapuche de la escritora y activista Rayen Kuyeh- también pueden curar el Agua enferma y ser ofrenda para el ... -
Muyurina y el presente profundo: poéticas andino-amazónicas
(Pakarina Ediciones, 2019)Este libro es una trenza entre investigación, creación y oralidad. Su origen se remonta a la canción “Memorias muertas” del álbum “Remembranza Huamanguina” que el Trío Ayacucho diera a conocer en 1974, y que fuera ... -
Cartographies of resistance: counter-data mapping as the new frontier of digital media activism
(Cogitatio, 2023)In the first datafied pandemic, the production of interactive Covid-19 data maps was intensified by state institutions and corporate media. Maps have been used by states and citizens to understand the advance and retreat ... -
Work, family and identity
(Elsevier, 2021)The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the existing transition to remote work and, more broadly, flexible forms of work. Much energy and attention have been dedicated to analysing this transition, and how governments and ... -
COVID-19 and the future of work
(Elsevier, 2021)This Article draws upon law and behavioral economics to analyze the transition to remote work brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. While widely celebrated, this transition, which indeed has many promising aspects, is ... -
Brief of professor Phil Lord in opposition to the proposed class action settlement in Leung v. Uber Canada Inc. et al.
(Elsevier, 2022)This is a Brief submitted in opposition to the proposed class action settlement in Leung v. Uber Canada Inc. et al.
