Attitudes toward Management of Sickle Cell Disease and Its Complications: A National Survey of Academic Family Physicians by Arch G. Mainous, Rebecca J. Tanner, Christopher A. Harle, Richard Baker, Navkiran K. Shokar, Mary M. Hulihan

“…There were significant differences in comfort level for treatment of SCD patients depending on whether or not physicians had patients who had SCD, as well as physicians who had more than 10% African American patients. Physicians also felt that clinical decision support (CDS) tools would be useful for treatment (69.4%) and avoiding complications (72.6%) in managing SCD patients. …”
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Comparison of Design Guidelines for Hot-Rolled I-Shaped Steel Compression Members according to AISC 360-16 and EC3 by S. Pinarbasi, T. Genc, E. Akpinar, F. Okay

“…Thirty-six years after its publication, Turkish Building Code for Steel Structures was replaced with a more rational specification, Specification of Design and Construction of Steel Structures (SDCSS), which was prepared almost entirely based on the current American steel design specification (AISC 360-16). …”
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A non-stationary panel data approach for examining convergence in South Africa by Stacey-Lee Marais

“…This article gives fresh insight on this topic from an African perspective by comparing 39 countries—South Africa, 32 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) members and 6 Latin American countries. The author investigated their average steady-state equilibria and tested convergence trends from 1980 to 2019. …”
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Health information-seeking among Latino newcomers - an exploratory study by Christina Courtright

“…This exploratory study examines health information-seeking practices among Latin American newcomers to a small city in the United States. …”
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Three Cases of West Nile Encephalitis over an Eight-Day Period at a Downtown Los Angeles Community Hospital by Adam Puchalski, Antonio K. Liu, Byron Williams

“…Since its introduction in New York City in 1999, the virus has spread throughout the entire North American continent and continues to spread into Central and Latin America. …”
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Keloidal Scleroderma: Case Report and Review by Sama Kassira, Tarannum Jaleel, Peter Pavlidakey, Naveed Sami

“…In our review, the majority of patients were African American and female. 91% of cases had nodular lesions with distribution on the trunk. …”
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Cocaine Induced Pleural and Pericardial Effusion Syndrome by Shehabaldin Alqalyoobi, Omkar Vaidya, Al-Ma’Mon Abu Ghanimah, Ahmed Elkhanany, Ashraf Gohar

“…A 42-year-old African American female with chronic cocaine use for 20 years, presented with two-day history of exertional shortness of breath and pleuritic chest pain. …”
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Bilateral Diffuse Tumorous Pseudoangiomatous Stromal Hyperplasia: A Case of Bilateral Mastectomy in a 29-Year-Old Woman by Hongyan Dai, Carol Connor, Wei Cui, Jason Gatewood, Fang Fan

“…A 29-year-old African-American female presented with a one-year history of bilateral breast enlargement and asymmetry. …”
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The correlation between high-sensitivity cardiac troponin levels in diabetic patients’ serum and lower limb lesions: based on NHANES data by Lin Li, Linxi Jiao, Danyang Yang, Jingxia Zhao, Ping Li

“…ObjectiveTo evaluate the association of hypersensitive cardiac troponin (hs-cTnT), a biomarker of myocardial injury, with diabetic lower extremity disease in American adults.MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional study (unweighted N=1,196) of diabetic patients aged 40 years or older who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 1999 to 2004. …”
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Science for Architecture: Designing Architectural Research in Post-War Sweden by Frida Rosenberg

“…How did architectural research in Sweden become scientific in its approach rather than artistic, as architecture education in the post-war period was primarily influenced by the Bauhaus pedagogy?
Via the American Bauhaus pedagogical developments taking place at the IIT and the GSD, Swedish architecture education adopted the artistic ‘learning by doing’ approach. …”
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Uncovering Diversity within the Glomeromycota: Novel Clades, Family Distributions, and Land Use Sensitivity by Camille S. Delavaux, Alexis Aellen, Sidney L. Stürmer, Silmar Primieri, Ursel M. E. Schütte, Devin M. Drown, Robert J. Ramos, Thomas W. Crowther, James D. Bever

“…We survey sites representing native and human‐altered ecosystems across the American continents—in Alaska, Kansas, and Brazil—to shed light on these gaps. …”
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Optimum Design of Braced Steel Space Frames including Soil-Structure Interaction via Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization and Harmony Search Algorithms by Ayse T. Daloglu, Musa Artar, Korhan Ozgan, Ali İ. Karakas

“…The stress constraints according to AISC-ASD (American Institute of Steel Construction-Allowable Stress Design), maximum lateral displacement constraints, interstorey drift constraints, and beam-to-column connection constraints are taken into consideration in the optimum design process. …”
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Slowness and Renewed Perception: Revisiting Douglas Gordon’s 24 Hour Psycho (1993) with Don DeLillo’s Point Omega (2010) by Françoise Sammarcelli

“…This article analyzes how American writer Don DeLillo revisits Gordon’s installation in his novel Point Omega (2010), which allows him to experiment with the relations between contemporary art and fiction. …”
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Home in Han Suyin’s 'Till Morning Comes' from the Perspective of New Cultural Geography by Xiaoling Hu, Arbaayah Ali Termizi

“…From leaving homes, searching for homes to returning homes, Stephanie, an American woman in diaspora, is exposed to different cultures, experiencing a sense of home in China, a sense of homelessness in both China and America, and a sense of being between worlds. …”
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“Back and Forth Between the Sea and the Mountain”: Negative Mobility and Transnationalism in Hualing Nieh’s Mulberry and Peach by Grazia Micheli

“…Through an analysis of Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China (1976/1998) by the Asian American writer Hualing Nieh, this essay focuses on the negative outcomes of coerced mobility and transnationalism. …”
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Criteria for Assessing Exposure to Biomechanical Risk Factors: A Research-to-Practice Guide—Part 2: Upper Limbs by Francesca Graziosi, Roberta Bonfiglioli, Francesco Decataldo, Francesco Saverio Violante

“…According to the above-mentioned criteria, we discuss methodologies proposed by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) and evaluate activities requiring high-speed continuous movement and the use of hand force, working with the arms above the shoulder level, to prevent localized fatigue in the upper extremities in cyclical work tasks. …”
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Les nouvelles frontières des Jeux Anthropologiques de Saint-Louis by Fabrice Delsahut

“…From these facts, we would like to show how sports sciences and burgeoning anthropology began, together, to serve such questionable causes as racial hierarchy and the right to colonize and how they greatly contributed to the birth of an American nation that put sport in the heart of its constitution. …”
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Severe Bioprosthetic Mitral Valve Stenosis and Heart Failure in a Young Woman with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Siddharth Wartak, Isaac Akkad, Adnan Sadiq, Gregory Crooke, Manfred Moskovits, Robert Frankel, Gerald Hollander, Jacob Shani

“…A 23-year-old African American woman with a past medical history of systemic lupus erythematous (SLE), secondary hypertension, and end stage renal disease (ESRD) on hemodialysis for eight years was stable until she developed symptomatic severe mitral regurgitation with preserved ejection fraction. …”
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Semantic transfers in the domain of FOODSTUFFS by Aleksandra Zofia Kowalczyk

“…For some language users it may sound somewhat unnatural, and hence unacceptable, to name a female person mutton with the intended metaphorical sense ‘a prostitute’, tomato applied in the transferred sense ‘attractive, but not a very wise female’ or peach, which denotes an ‘attractive female, especially in American English’. However, cases of foodsemy are nothing else, but instances of metaphorical conceptualizations, which are considered to be pervasive, unconscious and automatic. …”
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Screening A Christmas Carol (Dickens, 1843): Adaptation as Completion by Florent Christol

“…Indeed, the story of Scrooge’s life-changing encounter with the Christmas Spirits has been adapted, revised, condensed, retold, and modernized on screen more than any other work of English or American literature. Why is cinema so attracted to this particular piece? …”
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