This article analyzes four war-themed exhibitions in Ukraine’s two leading national museums and studies their role in documenting, interpreting, and exhibiting the Russo-Ukrainian war. This research intends to prove that since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, museums have been conceptualizing the war through narratives of suffering and sacrifice, grounding tangible historical authenticity through the display of items such as war trophies and personal belongings. The narrative of suffering tends to be based on the opposition of “we” and “they,” where “we” focuses on civilian torment and resurrection as the main metaphor of physical and spiritual survival, and “they” are predominantly depicted as the military enemy, creating strong anti-Russian and anti-Soviet tendencies. The martyrdom narrative of sacrifice focuses on Ukraine’s (fallen) defenders, whose image is created by deep personalization, nationalization, and heroization. This article argues that musealization of the Russo-Ukrainian war exemplifies and represents “warring memory,” which is predetermined and justified by active engagement in an ongoing war while performing the functions of testimony, resilience, and mourning.

Ageing-in-place for persons with dementia and informal care-givers is encouraged by governments and society. However, individuals with non-Western migration backgrounds are at higher risk of dementia yet underrepresented in research and care. This study aims to identify ageing-in-place care preferences of persons with dementia and their informal care-givers in the Netherlands. Semi-structured interviews (n = 8 participants with dementia, n = 20 informal care-givers) were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. Findings reveal that informal care-givers feel a strong duty to care, assisting with various daily tasks. While they desire shared care with professionals, identifying concrete care needs is challenging, highlighting the need for proactive professional support. Participants also emphasized the importance of culturally sensitive in-home care, home adaptations, social care and accessible dementia information. Additionally, the emotional impact of dementia on care recipients and care-givers underscores the need for emotional support. These insights enhance understanding of the care preferences of persons with dementia and their informal care-givers, aiding more efficient and culturally responsive health service planning.

Revolutionary movements operated underground before and after national independence in many African countries. A communist party in Burkina Faso, the Parti communiste révolutionnaire voltaïque (PCRV), continued its underground political practice, despite democratic breakthrough. On the basis of long-term research engagement on popular struggle and the fight against impunity, the author used participant observation in street marches, meetings, sit-ins, and so on, and text analysis of pamphlets, declarations, and tracts to analyze how the PCRV is present in anti-imperialist struggles, while being absent in the public sphere.

Underwater robots conducting inspections require autonomous obstacle avoidance capabilities to ensure safe operations. Training methods based on reinforcement learning (RL) can effectively develop autonomous obstacle avoidance strategies for underwater robots; however, training in real environments carries significant risks and can easily result in robot damage. This paper proposes a Sim-to-Real pipeline for RL-based training of autonomous obstacle avoidance in underwater robots, addressing the challenges associated with training and deploying RL methods for obstacle avoidance in this context. We establish a simulation model and environment for underwater robot training based on the mathematical model of the robot, comprehensively reducing the gap between simulation and reality in terms of system inputs, modeling, and outputs. Experimental results demonstrate that our high-fidelity simulation system effectively facilitates the training of autonomous obstacle avoidance algorithms, achieving a 94% success rate in obstacle avoidance and collision-free operation exceeding 5000 steps in virtual environments. Directly transferring the trained strategy to a real robot successfully performed obstacle avoidance experiments in a pool, validating the effectiveness of our method for autonomous strategy training and sim-to-real transfer in underwater robots.

This article presents additional data to better understand the history of intercultural communication between the Yenisei people and the Han Chinese. Although the mysterious history and isolated culture of the ancient Kirghiz (Chinese Xiajiasi 黠戛斯) tribes at the Yenisei River Basin are little known to the world, ancient Chinese books and the artefacts with Chinese characters, unearthed in the Yenisei region, present a vivid picture of the Yenisei people’s foreign exchange history. This article approaches the Yenisei–Chinese cultural interaction from the perspective of the Yenisei Turk-Runic language and the date of the E77 inscription. The research material for this study is the E77 Yenisei inscription that is engraved on a Tang Dynasty bronze mirror called the Sanlejing 三樂鏡 (Lobed Mirror of Three Delights). The authors’ interpretations of the local Runic language on the E77 Yenisei inscription reveal Yenisei people’s knowledge about the Chinese iconic figure of Confucius, which blends into the Tibetan Bon religion as Kong tse or Kong tshe. Therefore, this article confirms the culture contact between the Yenisei and Han Chinese people during the Tang Dynasty.

Departing from simplistic portrayals of Chinese environmental governance as authoritarian, this study identifies a hybrid policy style that combines authoritarian environmentalism with policy experimentation, as evidenced in national park policy. A detailed examination of the North-East China Tiger and Leopard National Park shows that this hybrid increasingly tilts towards authoritarianism during implementation. To explain this dynamic, the study moves beyond the prevailing central–local lens and employs the tiao–kuai model, which captures the power relations among top leaders, central departments (tiao), and local governments (kuai). The analysis reveals that organizational interests centred on conservation have led central departments to expand their authority, marginalize local governments and narrow the space for experimentation, thereby suppressing community development demands. Even when top leaders intervene from above, the entrenched power structure of tiao and kuai still limits the effectiveness of corrective measures. The study contends that a hybrid policy style, supported by balanced power relations between tiao and kuai, is essential for reconciling conservation with development through environmental policy experimentation.

Transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement (TPVR) is often employed for patients who are poor surgical candidates. We present a case of posterior sternal protrusion into a surgically placed right ventricle to pulmonary artery conduit, making the patient a poor candidate for surgical replacement and leading to significant operator distress during ultimately successful TPVR.

Knowledge of the status of ecosystems is vital to help develop and implement conservation strategies. This is particularly relevant to the Arctic where the need for biodiversity conservation and monitoring has long been recognised, but where issues of local capacity and logistic barriers make surveys challenging. This paper demonstrates how long-term monitoring programmes outside the Arctic can contribute to developing composite trend indicators, using monitoring of annual abundance and population-level reproduction of species of migratory Arctic-breeding waterbirds on their temperate non-breeding areas. Using data from the UK and the Netherlands, countries with year-round waterbird monitoring schemes and supporting relevant shares of Arctic-breeding populations of waterbirds, we present example multi-species abundance and productivity indicators related to the migratory pathways used by different biogeographical populations of Arctic-breeding wildfowl and wader species in the East Atlantic Flyway. These composite trend indicators show that long-term increases in population size have slowed markedly in recent years and in several cases show declines over, at least, the last decade. These results constitute proof of concept. Some other non-Arctic countries located on the flyways of Arctic-breeding waterbirds also annually monitor abundance and breeding success, and we advocate that future development of “Arctic waterbird indicators” should be as inclusive of data as possible to derive the most robust outputs and help account for effects of current changes in non-breeding waterbird distributions. The incorporation of non-Arctic datasets into assessments of the status of Arctic biodiversity is recognised as highly desirable, because logistic constraints in monitoring within the Arctic region limit effective population-scale monitoring there, in effect enabling “monitoring at a distance”.

Despite constituting around 16% of the world’s population, we know little about the extent to which political parties encourage people with disabilities to participate in political parties. This article aims to fill that gap by providing a comparative analysis of political parties in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. The research develops a framework for assessing the accessibility of political parties. The research finds evidence of activity in a small number of parties but finds relatively little evidence to suggest that parties are prioritizing this issue, especially when compared with the participation of other social groups. The article argues that we need greater research into the relationship between disability and political parties, concluding with a future research agenda.

Transcatheter device closure of a large perimembranous ventricular septal defect with left-to-right shunt was attempted with an antegrade transvenous approach and a conventional arteriovenous loop facilitated, both of which were unsuccessful. We succeeded with an indigenous technique of advancing the delivery sheath towards the left ventricular apex from the venous side with the help of a cut pigtail, keeping the arteriovenous loop.