Lessons of World War II and Strategic Planning of the Big Three (1945–1949) by I. E. Magadeev

“…In Washington the decisionmakers acknowledged the Soviet superiority in conventional weapons and didn’t exclude the possibility that the Soviet Army could quickly establish control over the Western Europe and that the US military would have to retake it in a ‘new Operation Overlord’. …”
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Design and Experiment of Assistive Mechanism for Adjustment of Transrectal Ultrasound Probe by Jin-Gang Jiang, Hui Zuo, Yong-De Zhang, Zhi-Yuan Huang, Xiao-Wei Guo, Yong Xu

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Efficacy of low-dose rituximab versus immunosuppressants in refractory orbital inflammatory pseudotumors with intracranial extension by Yuyu Li, Mingming Sun, Xintong Xu, Biyue Chen, Xiyun Chen, Yuhang Wang, Quangang Xu, Huanfen Zhou, Shihui Wei

“…ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of low-dose rituximab (RTX) and immunosuppressants in treating orbital inflammatory pseudotumor (OIP) with intracranial extension, a refractory and high-relapse disease.MethodsPatients who had been diagnosed with refractory OIP with intracranial extension and who were refractory to systemic corticosteroids were retrospectively recruited at the Neuro-Ophthalmology Department at the Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital between December 2018 and September 2022. …”
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Is radio an effective method for delivering actionable information for responding to emerging pest threats? A case study of fall armyworm campaign in Zambia by Harrison Rware, Monica K. Kansiime, Idah Mugambi, David Onyango, Justice A. Tambo, Catherine Mloza Banda, Noah A. Phiri, Gilson Chipabika, Mathews Matimelo, Dorcus Chaaba, Tamsin Davis, Julien Godwin

“…Abstract Background The Fall Army Work (FAW) radio campaign was implemented between November 2018 and April 2019 in key maize growing areas and locations with reported high severity of fall armyworm as identified by national stakeholders. …”
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Relations between Russia and Lithuania in the contemporary Lithuanian historiography by Nerijus Šepetys

“… It is impossible to imagine the 20th century in the history of Russian and Lithuanian relations without the "Soviet power" brought on the bayonets of the Red Army. Lithuania successfully fended off the bayonets' thrust in 1918-1919; however, these bayonets subdued Lithuania with insidiousness and constraint in 1940 and by force and violence in 1945. …”
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The causes and numbers of hospital admissions and deaths during the Korean War by Kun Hwang, Hun Kim, Chan Yong Park

“…Methods The War History of Rear Troops of the Korean War (confidential) published in 1955 by the Republic of Korea Army Headquarters was reviewed. Results During the war, 397,519 patients were admitted to hospitals (wounded in action, 53.9%; wounded on duty, 5.2%; due to disease, 40.9%). …”
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Tegaserod maleate exerts anti-tumor effects on prostate cancer via repressing sonic hedgehog signaling pathway by Maoping Cai, Shengdong Ge, Yaying Hong, Yao Chen, Yang-Zi Ren, Dacai Zhong, Mingkun Chen, Yuan Liu, Zhe-Sheng Chen, Ninghan Feng, Zhanghui Chen, Shan-Chao Zhao

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Postoperative Complications among Major Abdominal Surgeries using Clavien-Dindo Classification in Tertiary Hospital: An Observational Study by Manoj Kumar Jha, Kunda Bikram Shah, Anup Thapa, Sunil Basukala, Sumit Kumar Sah

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The staffing problem in the police during 1943–1944 and ways to resolve it by V. A. Grechenko

“…The mobilisation of police officers to the army, their deaths in combat, and evacuation to the east significantly worsened the staffing potential of this law enforcement body. …”
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Speckled-egg staining appearance of cryptococcal osteomyelitis in an immunocompetent patient by Matthew Alexander Stack, John-Paul Lavik, Jack G. Schneider, Brynne E. Cross

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Evaluation of Platelet Distribution Width as an Early Predictor of Acute Kidney Injury in Extensive Burn Patients by Ming Jiang, Qingrong Zhang, Chuwei Zhang, Zihan Li, Qiqi Li, Xun Qu, Yi Zhang, Kesu Hu

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Revisiting the Issue of Attribution of Some Catacomb Monuments Groups from the South of Eastern Europe in the Late 3rd – Early 5th Centuries by Vladimir Yu. Malashev, Mikhail V. Krivosheev

“…The Alans-Tanaites took part in the campaign in Transcaucasia and Western Asia as part of the Hunnic army (395–398), as evidenced by the specific forms of the catacombs in the kurgans of the Palasa-Syrt burial ground from the Western Caspian region. …”
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The Quality of Veterans Healthcare Administration Cardiovascular Care by D. Elizabeth Le, MD, Bhaskar L. Arora, MBBS, Faith R. Kelly, MD, Stephen W. Waldo, MD, Merritt Raitt, MD, Paul Heidenreich, MD, MS, Samit M. Shah, MD, PhD, Ali E. Denktas, MD, Kreton O. Mavromatis, MD

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Dynamic behavior and residual performance of CFDSTCs under coupled collision and blast loads by Yongtao Mi, Huiqi Ren, Chenxi Sun, Jian Zhao, Weiqiang Wang, Zailin Yang, Yicun Chen

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Lest we remember? Recollection of the Boer War and Great War in Ireland by Ciarán WALLACE

“…After a generation of forgetting, Irish history has recalled the First World War and the participation of thousands of Irishmen in the service of the British Army. This recent burst of recollection has played a major role in the choreography of the peace process in Northern Ireland. …”
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Pregnancy Outcome in First 50 SARS-Cov-2 Positive Patients at Our Center by Madhusudan Dey, Sanjay Singh, Ravindu Tiwari, Vinod G Nair, Devendra Arora, Shyamji Tiwari

“…STUDY DESIGN: It was a prospective cohort study conducted at a tertiary care Army Hospital, India. The first 50 cases of SARS CoV-2 positive pregnant women and 144 suspected cases that were found SARS-CoV-2 negative, received and managed at separate set up, during a period extending from 01 April 2020 to 15 Sep 2020 were included in our study. …”
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First-principles investigation of half-metallic CaTGe2O6 (T = Mn, Fe, Co) clinopyroxenes: Potential for spintronics and optoelectronics applications by Tasmi Akter, Jahirul Islam, Kamal Hossain, Rabeya Akter Rabu

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Protestant German books in Protestant libraries of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 16th-17th centuries by Ingė Lukšaitė

“…Identification of books indicated on the list of the Kėdainiai estate library made it possible to determine that this library belonged to Jonušas Radvila (1612-1655), who was the chief commander of the Army of GDL and Vilnius governor. All libraries were Latin with the exception of the Vilnius Lutheran church library, in which there were 8 books more in German than in Latin. …”
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Wind, Water Level, and Fluid Mud Thresholds in Lake Apopka, Florida by Earl J. Hayter, Ashish J. Mehta, John M. Jaeger, Arnoldo Valle-Levinson, Andrew J. Manning, Carola Forlini

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Age-Related Changes in Nucleus Pulposus Mesenchymal Stem Cells: An In Vitro Study in Rats by Yachao Zhao, Zhiwei Jia, Shanshan Huang, Yaohong Wu, Longgang Liu, Linghan Lin, Deli Wang, Qing He, Dike Ruan

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