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This multidisciplinary article examines embodied experiences, their formation, and their impact on physical activity. The body is conceptualized both as a biological entity governed by physiological principles and as a lived body – an embodied subjectivity that generates and carries lived experience within social and cultural orders. The article integrates individual-psychological and neurobiological perspectives with cultural and structural dimensions shaped by societal power relations. Negative emotions and bodily sensations, such as shame or feelings of inadequacy, may foster experiential avoidance of physical activity or lead to forms of movement that do not support wellbeing. Under stress, the central nervous system may become sensitized, interpreting ordinary situations as threatening. Meanings attributed to the body emerge through social interaction, social comparison, and media representations, where the body is often framed as an object to be improved and evaluated against external norms. Because a person’s relationship with their body is socially and culturally shaped, individual-level solutions alone are insufficient. Structural interventions are also needed to create safe and inclusive environments for physical activity. The article clarifies mechanisms underlying experiential avoidance and argues that physical activity promotion should more systematically recognize embodied experience as a basis for ethically sustainable practice.

Fundamental deep transformations are ripe, but their appearance can be significantly changed. In the active competition of people and models, everything is not predetermined, everything is shaky and fluctuating. And it is not at all necessary that the optimal path, as well as the stages and the best pace of movement will be chosen. In particular, as is known, juggling the topic of social justice is a convenient direction for justifying coups d’état and criminal outrages. Sometimes social security is undermined by racial problems, or cultural-language confrontation.

The increasing frequency and intensity of extreme heat events in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area have raised concerns about the survival of saguaros (Carnegiea gigantea) in urban environments. While saguaros are iconic symbols of the Sonoran Desert and known for their resilience to arid conditions, increasing temperatures, prolonged drought, and urban heat island effects may be accelerating their mortality. Community reports of dying saguaros prompted an urgent need for research and conservation action. This issue extends beyond the Phoenix Valley. Climate projections suggest that up to 60% of cactus species could experience habitat loss, with as many as 90% being negatively affected when combined with other human-driven stressors. Despite these alarming observations and predictions, scientific data on saguaro mortality and resilience remain limited, making it critical to study how these long-lived plants are responding to changing environmental conditions. In response, we launched the Saguaro Initiatives at the Desert Botanical Garden (DBG)—a suite of community science and conservation programs designed to document, protect, and sustain urban saguaros while raising awareness of broader cactus conservation challenges. These initiatives include the Saguaro Census, which tracks saguaro health and demographics through citizen science; the Saguaro Dead Report, a tool for recording mortality trends; and the Saguaro Genomics and Conservation Initiative, which analyzes genetic diversity and climate adaptation. Additionally, we have established a Saguaro Seed Bank to safeguard the species' genetic diversity and created a Saguaro Nursery where volunteers propagate seedlings for future restoration efforts. These projects highlight the urgency of saguaro conservation, demonstrating that protecting native biodiversity cannot rely solely on institutions—it requires a collective effort. Through research, education, and public engagement, DBG Saguaro Initiatives empower the community to take action. By leveraging the cultural and ecological significance of saguaros, we aim to shift conservation beyond scientific circles and into neighborhoods, homes, and urban spaces. The survival of saguaros—and cacti worldwide—will depend on our willingness to act.

This paper analyzes land-use management issues on excavating sites of grave and rock from a viewpoint of restoration and keeping proper land-use and conversion into another land-use especially for urban land-use. Therefore, this study focuses on conversion cases of excavated sites in the three major metropolitan areas in Japan. This paper analyzes on land ownership transition before and after the excavation. In addition, several case studies of land-use conversion by original forest owners were conducted to analyze the subject of land use adjustments and environmental issues.

Abstract BackgroundFibromyalgia (FMS) is a chronic syndrome characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and psychological symptoms such as anxiety and depression (1). Therapeutic exercise is recommended as a non-pharmacological treatment for FMS management; however, its effectiveness on clinical and psychosocial parameters remains uncertain (2). This systematic review aims to synthesize the available evidence on the impact of therapeutic exercise in patients with FMS, assessing both clinical outcomes (pain, physical function) and psychosocial outcomes (quality of life, psychological well-being).MethodsThis review will include randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published between 2014 and 2024 that evaluate the effectiveness of therapeutic exercise in adult patients with FMS. A comprehensive literature search will be conducted in PubMed, PEDro, Embase, and Cochrane CENTRAL using predefined search strategies. Study selection will follow a blinded process conducted by two independent reviewers, with any disagreements resolved by a third reviewer. Data will be extracted and synthesized into tables and descriptive summaries, without the use of inferential statistical methods or meta-analysis.Ethics and DisseminationAs this is a systematic review, ethical approval is not required. The results will be disseminated through publications in peer-reviewed journals and presentations at national and international scientific conferences, with the aim of supporting clinical practice and research in FMS management.

Abstract Climate change is intensifying water stress around the world by disrupting the water quantity and quality of surrounding rivers, lakes, and streams. Sustainable water management to adopt climate change and improve global water security needs to focus on technology and innovation. A decentralized, low-energy and sustainable approach to meet both the water quality and quantity demands requires for combating global water scarcity under climate change conditions. The proposed technology is based on the principle that incorporation of nature-based solutions in technological process development can lead to a powerful tool for tackling the climate change-driven water pollution. This technology is an extension version of the patented technology on oil sands tailings water treatment (Canadian Patent 2,952,680). The nature-based entrapped cells submerged reactor is proposed as a sustainable on-site treatment option to manage surface water quality. The process consists of selection and entrapment of suitable bacterial communities found in the natural environment. The submerged reactor containing entrapped naturally occurring bacterial communities is used for improving on-site water quality under aerobic conditions. This nature-based and decentralized microbial technology provides practical solutions like on-site wastewater treatment for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal.

As is known, the East teaches wise calmness and non-violence, helps to value life and ecological stability (including human ecology), moral-spiritual growth and non-violent development, harmonization of social, collective and personal values, goals and interests; in the social environment – the cultivation of not egoism and rivalry, but self-sacrifice and harmony, the development of long-term planning, and so on [1-9]. This is consonant with post-global conditions and, accordingly, is objectively in demand today, in particular, with the new modernization with the integration of organizational-managerial models of combinations of market, post-market and non-market models and methods [10-17].

交通不便地域では交通弱者の移動手段確保に向け、地域住民等による自家用車を用いた輸送サービスである「自家用有償旅客運送」と「互助型輸送（許可・登録を要しない輸送）」の導入がみられる。本研究では法的位置付けが異なる2つの輸送サービスの導入・運営実態を比較し、互助型輸送に特有な導入・運営課題とその課題要因を明らかにすることを目的とした。互助型輸送はサービス形態に関する法的根拠が無いうえ、自治体や交通事業者との導入前の協議が必須でない。サービスの運営団体へのヒアリング調査結果から、互助型輸送の導入・運営では、利用料金や運行範囲などのサービス形態は運営団体の判断に依り、制約が少ない一方、導入後に運営団体と交通事業者と競合関係となり得る点が課題であり、導入前の2者間の協議と運行範囲・料金等の調整の必要性が明らかになった。

International Journal of Pharmacology and Clinical Sciences,2023,12,3,127-128.DOI:10.5530/ijpcs.2023.12.15Published:February 2024Type:EditorialAuthors:Yousef Ahmed Alomi Author(s) affiliations:Yousef Ahmed Alomi BSc. Pharm, MSc. Clin Pharm, BCPS, BCNSP, DiBA, CDE Critical Care Clinical Pharmacists, TPN Clinical Pharmacist, Freelancer Business Planner, Content Editor, and Data Analyst, Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA. Abstract:Medication safety is a well-known concept locally and internationally.[1] It deals with drugs inside the patient’s health workers or healthcare providers.[2] In contrast, another safety issue discusses the safety of the patient or healthcare professionals. It is safe during the occupational and professional process.[3] There are safety concerns for the whole life during working, house, and practicing everyday life. The safety to prevent any destruction or threats of personal, equipment, material, or pharmaceutical products and the environment during health care operations.[4-6] Safety is required for ethical issues and humanity’s safety. Providing a safe environment during regular work and jobs leads to work satisfaction and increases performance and activities.[7,8] Besides, practice safety performances that distribute safety concepts in society. Safety at work requires strictly following occupational health safety laws and regulations and voiding any financial penalties if not following the law.[7,8] besides the economic burden by preventing incidents for human life, equipment, and the environment.[7] Keywords:NilView:PDF (139.55 KB) PDFClick here to download the PDF file. Images Pharmacy Safety and Occupational Health Program in Saudi Arabia

Maintaining long-term transformation orbits of countries that ensure sustainable development and security requires finding and maintaining mechanisms and forms of not just public consent, but consensus on a productive basis. Of course, the point is not in instrumental, but in meaningful adjustment of the social organism, in a conscious transition to the priority of the economy of maximizing the identification, development and pro-social realization of the complex of talents of everyone. Creativity combines the characteristic features of "labour" and "non-labour," raising labour activity and motivating the involvement of labour potential in creative projects. And this requires a transition to ensuring equal access to the benefits of civilization to ensure creative activity. That is, the very understanding of the wealth of nations, and therefore the effectiveness of the national economy, and the set of ways to achieve real state sovereignty, is changing significantly. It is the creation of a social environment that is conducive to everyone's creativity that forms the framework for enhancing security and growth. As is known, the state and dynamics of the economy largely characterize the processes of transformation of public space. At the same time, providing conditions for the massive identification, stimulation and creative realization of the population's abilities has a healing effect not only in the economic sphere, but also creates the effect of consolidating efforts precisely in productive activities (and not, for example, in maintaining comfortable idleness or in aggressive expansion) [1-9].