Excerpts from The Freedom Fight: A Novel of Resistance and Freedom. by Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith

“…Undoubtedly, its depiction of slavery and resistance makes it unrivalled as an eloquent marker of a historical and linguistic age gone by. Secondly, it joins the ranks of the works of only two other leading contemporary Yorùbá writers, whose attention to language make them the remaining literary and linguistic purists of the previous generation of Yorùbá writers. …”
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Empire Seen from Within. Cinema Objects, Spaces and Edifices in the Limelight in Colonial India and Ceylon (1899-1950) by Vilasnee Tampoe-Hautin

“…Further, it was the Victorians and the Edwardians who bequeathed us the first objects, edifices and spaces of cinema, adding to the iconic and material wealth characteristic of the age. The scope widens further for research when one contemplates the way technical innovations in Europe, first in photography, then in picture animation as well as in printing and reproducing fixed or moving images, contributed eminently to the promotion of Empire within Empire, in what Michel Foucault qualified as a fin de siècle ‘frénésie neuve des images’ (Exhibition catalogue of Gérard Fromanger’s ‘Le désir est partout’, 1975, Leutrat). …”
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Sexual and Reproductive Health Services Utilization and Associated Factors among College Students at West Arsi Zone in Oromia Region, Ethiopia by Demelash Wachamo, Yadessa Tegene, Abdisa Tibeso, Assefa Washo

“…Mainly information and counseling (81.3%), voluntary testing and counseling for HIV (80.6%), condom service (37.2%), pregnancy test (35.5%), family planning services (33.2%), and abortion care services (26.0%) were most frequently utilized. The students’ aged between 20 and 24 years [AOR = 2.05, 95% CI: 1.38–3.06], female students [AOR = 1.92, 95% CI: 1.30–2.82], those not living with family [AOR = 1.54, 95% CI: 1.05–2.26], those who discussed about SRH with family/friends [AOR = 1.92, 95% CI: 1.31–2.82], and those who participated in school clubs [AOR = 1.75, 95% CI: 1.19, 2.58] more frequently used SRH service compared with their counterparts. …”
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Cross-Cultural Validity, Reliability, and Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of the Scales for Outcomes in Parkinson’s Disease-Psychosocial Questionnaire by Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Farzaneh Farhadi, Hasti Hadizadeh, Gholam Ali Shahidi, Ahmad Delbari, Johan Lökk

“…The Persian version of SCOPA-PS is a highly reliable and valid scale to measure psychosocial functioning in IPD patients with different sex, age-group, and educational level, which could be applied in future researches. …”
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Joint association of triglyceride glucose index (TyG) and a body shape index (ABSI) with stroke incidence: a nationwide prospective cohort study by Ruiying Zhang, Jianan Hong, Yaoling Wu, Liling Lin, Shuying Chen, Yingxiu Xiao

“…Methods Based on the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study(CHARLS), 8,257 people aged 45 years and older without stroke were enrolled and followed up to 9 years. …”
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Efficacy of bolus injections of landiolol hydrochloride as premedication in coronary artery CT angiography by Mark Barwig, Michael Janisch, Johannes Gessl, Wolfgang Kübler, Christopher König, Gerold Schwantzer, Helmut Schöllnast

“…Methods The study population consisted of 37 patients (17 female; median age, 56 years; IQR, 19 years; range, 19–88 years) who underwent CCTA after intravenous injection of landiolol hydrochloride due to a heart rate > 60 bpm. …”
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Non-utilisation of postpartum services in northwestern Nigeria: analyses of trend and social determinants from 2003 to 2018 by Dyah Anantalia Widyastari, Abubakar Abbani Yakubu, Yothin Sawangdee, Pojjana Hunchangsith

“…The sample consisted of 17 294 women aged 15–49 who responded to questions on postpartum attendance during the period.Setting Northwestern geographical subregion of Nigeria.Outcome The non-use of postpartum services.Results The non-utilisation of postpartum services has increased from 77% in 2003 to 87% in 2018, with an overall prevalence of 88% of all women not using the services. …”
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Examining of Impression Management of Academicians in Higher Education Institutions Providing Sports Education by Hakan Salim Çağlayan, İbrahim Bülent Fişekçioğlu, Tuncay Sarıipek

“…Acaemicians' general impression management tactics and the dimensions of impression management tactics (trying to pity yourself, trying to make themselves liked by promoting their qualification, trying to show themselves as an exemplary staff member, trying to make them realize their own importance by force, trying to own their business) while it was found that there was no significant difference according to the gender variable; trying to show themselves as an exemplary staff member the dimension of impression management tactics depends on the variable of the department in which they work, trying to make them realize their own importance by force, trying to own their business and trying to own their business the effect of the dimensions of impression management tactics on the age and professional seniority variable, trying to make themselves liked by promoting their qualification, trying to own their business the dimensions of impression management tactics and general impression management tactics it has been found that it differs significantly according to the title variable.…”
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Triatoma venosa and Panstrongylus geniculatus challenge the certification of interruption of vectorial Trypanosoma cruzi transmission by Rhodnius prolixus in eastern Colombia. by Omar Cantillo-Barraza, Lídia Gual-González, Natalia Velásquez-Ortiz, Manuel Alfonso Medina Camargo, Paola González, Lissa Cruz-Saavedra, Adriana Castillo, Sara Zuluaga, Giovanny Herrera, Hanson Cowan, Andrés Velez-Mira, Luz Helena Patiño, Juan David Ramírez, Omar Triana, Melissa S Nolan

“…Most infected humans were adults between the ages of 55 and 85 years old. No evidence of T. cruzi DNA was found using qPCR in human blood samples, but we found high parasitemia levels in the infected dogs. …”
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Study of Brain Default Network Changes in Patients with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment Based on rs-fMRI by HU Saiqin, Zhao Xv, Li Yaxue, Ji Yahong, LI Sha, LV Jing, ZHANG Yi, WANG Feng

“…ObjectiveTo explore the altered functional connectivity （FC） within default mode network （DMN） in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment （aMCI） and its relationship with cognitive function.MethodsAccording to the inclusion criteria and the exclusion criteria，resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging （rs-fMRI） was performed on 40 untreated aMCI patients （aMCI group） and 40 volunteers （control group） with normal cognitive function. The gender，age，educationlevel of control group matched aMCI group. …”
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Application of Dragonnet and Conformal Inference for Estimating Individualized Treatment Effects for Personalized Stroke Prevention: Retrospective Cohort Study by Sermkiat Lolak, John Attia, Gareth J McKay, Ammarin Thakkinstian

“…MethodsA retrospective cohort study was conducted using data from 275,247 high-risk patients treated at Ramathibodi Hospital, Thailand, between 2010 and 2020. Patients aged >18 years with HT, DM, DLP, or AF were eligible. …”
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Neuromuscular Excitation Pattern in Expert Indoor Skydivers by Susanna Rampichini, Eloisa Limonta, Irene Di Giulio, Marta Borrelli, Emiliano Cè, Giuseppe Coratella, Johnny Padulo, Stefano Longo, Fabio Esposito

“…Nine expert indoor skydiving instructors (M/F: 8/1; age 31 ± 7 years; body mass: 70.5 ± 11.1 kg; stature: 1.74 ± 0.09 m) were enrolled. …”
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EEG electrode setup optimization using feature extraction techniques for neonatal sleep state classification by Hafza Ayesha Siddiqa, Muhammad Farrukh Qureshi, Arsalan Khurshid, Yan Xu, Laishuan Wang, Saadullah Farooq Abbasi, Chen Chen, Wei Chen

“…An 16,803 30-second segment was collected from 64 infants between 36 and 43 weeks of age at Fudan University Children's Hospital to train and test the proposed model. …”
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Virulence diversity of the yellow rust pathogen population in Dagestan by E. I. Gultyaeva, E. L. Shaydayuk, R. E. Smirnova, K. M. Abdullaev, K. U. Kurkiev

“…Virulence was analyzed in the laboratory using 14 AvYr lines (Avocet NIL) and 15 differential wheat cultivars. Age-specific resistance of virulence testers under high natural infection pressure was studied in the field of DES VIR. …”
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Assessment of Bendopnea and Its Association With Clinical and Para‐Clinical Findings in Systolic Heart Failure: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Elmira Javanmardi, Tara Reshadmanesh, Sepehr Gohari, Amir Hossein Behnoush, Hassan Ahangar

“…Bendopnea was present in 34 (42.5%) and their mean age was 62.44 years (compared to group without bendopnea, p = 0.869). …”
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Development of clinical decision support for patients older than 65 years with fall-related TBI using artificial intelligence modeling. by Biche Osong, Eric Sribnick, Jonathan Groner, Rachel Stanley, Lauren Schulz, Bo Lu, Lawrence Cook, Henry Xiang

“…The combination of increased frailty and susceptibility to clinical decline creates a significant ongoing challenge in the management of geriatric TBI. As the population ages and co-existing medical conditions complexify, so does the need to improve the quality of care for this population. …”
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Metabolizable energy and digestible nutrient values of protease-supplemented field pea for broiler chicken by Tofuko A. Woyengo, Anna Rogiewicz, Robert Patterson

“…One hundred and forty broiler chicks were divided into 35 groups of 4 birds/group and fed 5 diets in a completely randomized design (7 groups/diet) from 14 to 21 d of age. The diets were cornstarch-based containing SBM or field pea as the sole protein source without or with protease (ProSparity 250TM; CBS Bio Platforms, Calgary, AB, Canada) in 2 × 2 factorial arrangement, and N-free diet. …”
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GlucoGenes^®, a database of genes and proteins associated with glucose metabolism disorders, its description and applications in bioinformatics research by V. V. Klimontov, K. S. Shishin, R. A. Ivanov, M. P. Ponomarenko, K. A. Zolotareva, S. A. Lashin

“…The results of the analysis revealed a significant increase (up to 40 %) in the proportion of genes with phylostratigraphic age index (PAI) values corresponding to the time of origin of multicellular organisms. …”
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N-terminal pro-B-type Natriuretic peptide levels and left atrial appendage thrombosis in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation by Chien Do Van, Huyen Trang Dang, Son Pham Nguyen, Minh Quang Luu

“…Transthoracic and trans-esophageal echocardiographs were performed in all patients. Results: Mean age was 70.5 ± 10.6 years, 80.6% male. In patients with LAAT, NT-proBNP was positively correlated with left ventricular end diastolic diameter (LVEDD) (r=0.345), left ventricular end-systolic diameter (LVEDS) (r= 0.449), E/e' (r=0.445), and left atrial spontaneous echo contrast (LA SEC) (r=0.478), and negatively correlated with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) (r=-0.473), left atrial strain (r= -0.301), strain rate (r= -0.283), and e'(r= -0.458). …”
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Environmental trade-offs of meeting nutritional requirements with a lower share of animal protein for adult subpopulations by J. Aubin, F. Vieux, S. Le Féon, M. Tharrey, J.L. Peyraud, N. Darmon

“…They were modeled for five adult subpopulations (defined by sex and age) using mathematical optimization. The model was created by combining the INCA2 database (to model OBS diets in the French population) and a database of 207 food items to adjust nutritional and price parameters. …”
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