On Mostar and Edge Mostar Indices of Graphs by Ali Ghalavand, Ali Reza Ashrafi, Mardjan Hakimi-Nezhaad

“…Finally, a recent conjecture of Liu, Song, Xiao, and Tang (2020) on bicyclic graphs with a given order, for which extremal values of the edge Mostar index are attained, will be proved. …”
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Who will protect the night's Watch? Legislative reform and a state apparatus for the comprehensive shielding of South African whistleblowers by Radulović Ugljesa

“…These whistleblowers enacted the role of the Night's Watch, much like the eponymous military order in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire high fantasy novels. Utilizing a qualitative approach encompassing two research methods, this paper establishes that whistleblowers protected South Africa alone like a fire burning against the cold, being subjected to various forms of retaliation. …”
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Zygonic Theory: Introduction, Scope, and Prospects by Adam Ockelford

“…The zygonic approach also enables the powers of influence at work in group improvisation to be captured, permitting the evolution of musical ideas to be charted as they unfold in time between performers, and a zygonic analysis of a short, improvised song with piano accompaniment is provided by way of illustration. …”
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Comprehensive Analysis of Programmed Cell Death-Related Genes in Diagnosis and Synovitis During Osteoarthritis Development: Based on Bulk and Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Data by Zhou J, Jiao S, Huang J, Dai T, Xu Y, Xia D, Feng Z, Chen J, Li Z, Hu L, Meng Q

“…JiangFei Zhou,1,* SongSong Jiao,1,* Jian Huang,2,* TianMing Dai,3,* YangYang Xu,1,* Dong Xia,4,* ZhenCheng Feng,1 JunJie Chen,1 ZhiWu Li,5 LiQiong Hu,4 QingQi Meng1,3 1Department of Orthopedics, Guangzhou Red Cross Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510220, People’s Republic of China; 2Qingdao Medical College, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, People’s Republic of China; 3Guangzhou Institute of Traumatic Surgery, Guangzhou Red Cross Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510220, People’s Republic of China; 4Critical Care Medicine Department, Guangzhou Red Cross Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510220, People’s Republic of China; 5Department of Orthopedics, the 2nd People’s Hospital of Bijie, Guizhou, 551700, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: LiQiong Hu; QingQi Meng, Email 13929526981@163.com; mengqingqi@jnu.edu.cnBackground: Synovitis is one of the key pathological feature driving osteoarthritis (OA) development. …”
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Serum Lactate Dehydrogenase Is a Novel Predictor for the Severity in the Patients With MAFLD: A Cross-Sectional Study in Hefei, China by Yu L, Bao S, Zhu F, Xu Y, Zu F, Liu Y, Jiang R, Chen S, Chen W

“…Liang Yu,1,* Shiming Bao,2,* Feng Zhu,3,* Yanyan Xu,1 Fuqiang Zu,1 Yanwei Liu,1 Runbeng Jiang,1 Wei Chen,4 Song Chen5 1Department of General Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Emergency Surgery, Tongling People’s Hospital, Tongling, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of General Surgery, Tongling People’s Hospital, Tongling, People’s Republic of China; 4Department of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, People’s Republic of China; 5Department of General Surgery, the Affiliated Chuzhou Hospital of Anhui Medical University (The First People’s Hospital of Chuzhou), Chuzhou, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Song Chen, Department of General Surgery, the Affiliated Chuzhou Hospital of Anhui Medical University (The First People’s Hospital of Chuzhou), Chuzhou, People’s Republic of China, Email chensong101425@163.com Wei Chen, Department of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, People’s Republic of China, Email 13665560109@163.comBackground & Aims: The aim of this study was to assess the association between the level of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and the severity of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and Metabolic Associated Fatty Liver Disease (MAFLD) and the potential diagnostic value of LDH for identifying at-risk metabolic associated steatohepatitis (MASH).Methods: This cross-sectional, real-world retrospective study enrolled a total of 1118 obese patients in the department of bariatric surgery at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University from January 1, 2018, to December 31, 2021. …”
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Impact of media coverage on the transmission dynamics of TB with vaccines and treatment. by Kumneger Tadesse Mulugeta, Mohammed Yiha Dawed, Shewafera Wondimagegnhu Teklu

“…In the qualitative analysis of the proposed model we proved the existence, uniqueness, positivity, and boundedness of the model solutions, investigated both the disease-free and endemic equilibrium points, computed the basic and effective reproduction numbers using next generation matrix approach, analyzed the stability analysis of the equilibrium points, the backward bifurcation using the Castillo-Chavez and Song theorem and we re-formulated the corresponding optimal control problem and analyzed by applying the Pontryagin's Minimum Principle. …”
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SOME INITIAL COMMENTS ABOUT ANCIENT COINS FOUND IN PANGTIENG VILLAGE (LAT COMMUNE, LACDUONG DISTRICT, LAMDONG PROVINCE) by Cao Thế Trình, Nguyễn Huy Khuyến, Mai Minh Nhật

“….), and many those of Chinese currency (coin names in the age of the Tang, Northern Song, Ming and Qing dinasties). It is possible that the coins found are stolen by Champa aristocracy in the attacks on the palace of Nguyen Lords in Thuan Thanh in the end of eighteenth century. …”
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Parodies de dandies : travestissement et transgression des genres au music-hall by Catherine Rovera

“…Why did some Victorian and Edwardian music-hall acts, namely the swell song and male impersonations, choose the dandy, of all cultural icons, to debunk it as a symbol of decadence, and what was the part played by female artists in this exposure ? …”
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De macrostructuur van het boek Samuël en de theologische implicaties daarvan by HJ Koorevaar

“…The begetting of Samuel. b. 1.2:1-11. The song of Hanna. 2. R 1.2:12-7:17. From the peak of Eli's career to that of Samuel's. a. 1.2:12-4:22. …”
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Learning and intergenerational communication through digital storytelling in the first grades of primary school: Yesteryear Jobs by Mouchtari Efthalia, Meimaris Michalis, Gouscos Dimitris, Sfyroera Maria

“…It has involved a 6-month empirical study and embraced skills such as literature reading, story and song listening, painting, creating digital stories as well as improvising through theatrical games. …”
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VAI TRÒ CHỦ THỂ TÁC GIẢ TRONG DU KÝ VIẾT VỀ TÂY NGUYÊN NỬA ĐẦU THẾ KỶ XX by Nguyen Huu Son

“…Nhận diện đặc điểm đội ngũ tác giả, định hướng sáng tác trong bối cảnh lịch sử, văn hóa và đời sống báo chí đương thời. Nhấn mạnh vai trò chủ thể tác giả từ góc độ phương thức trần thuật, đặc tính tự sự “người chứng kiến” - “người kể chuyện ngôi thứ nhất”, mối quan hệ văn học phi hư cấu và hư cấu, đặc điểm hỗn dung thể loại và khả năng tích hợp tư liệu khảo sát, điền dã, ghi chép về địa lý, văn hóa, dân tộc học, phong tục, tập quán… Xác định giá trị lịch sử tác phẩm du ký viết về vùng Tây Nguyên giai đoạn nửa đầu thế kỷ XX và đóng góp về nhận thức nhân học, văn hóa – văn học.…”
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La Montagne dans la poésie lyrique d’Andrew Marvell : variations sur une vision apocalyptique et le locus amoenus by Jean-Pierre Mouchon

“…In order to get accustomed to them, the only means he finds is to reduce them to human proportions so that they can merge into the harmonious setting of his "hortus conclusus", the place where he withdraws into himself or more exactly into his own thought, as he admits it (cf. The Mower’s Song, stanza I, and Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax, stanza LXXVI). …”
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Mọ́remí or Mọ́rèmí: An Investigation into the Perception Error of a Deified Woman in Ilé-Ifẹ̀ by Ọladiipọ Ajiboye

“…We trace this to the transcription of Dúró Ládipo ̣ ̀’s tonal melodies of his song Mọ́remí Àján̄sorò which is basically a perception error. …”
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Embodied performances of (post-)indenture: Creolization of Indian dance, music and nadrons in Guadeloupe by Sandrine Soukaï

“…Combining an analysis of literary texts on the one hand, and cultural activists’ projects and experiences on the other, I tease out the paradoxes at the heart of Indian song and dance performances, demonstrating how they oscillate between a return to an ancestral Hindu India, a recognition of the creolization at work in French Caribbean Indianness and, more recently, an opening to the global Indian culture popularized by Bollywood.…”
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MỘT SỐ TƯƠNG ĐỒNG VỀ CÁC KIỂU NHÂN VẬT TRONG KIM NGAO TÂN THOẠI (KIM THỜI TẬP) VÀ TRUYỀN KỲ MẠN LỤC (NGUYỄN DỮ) by Lưu Thị Hồng Việt

“…Hai tác phẩm văn học này mang yếu tố hoang đường qua các chi tiết: người quan hệ và chung sống với các hồn ma, tiên nữ. Các nhân vật di chuyển đến các không gian khác nhau: hạ giới, thiên giới, địa ngục... rất dễ dàng. …”
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SỰ TƯƠNG ĐỒNG VÀ KHÁC BIỆT TRONG VĂN HÓA ỨNG XỬ QUA TRUYỆN CỔ TÍCH VIỆT - NHẬT by Lê Thị Quỳnh Hảo

“…Thông qua truyện cổ tích có thể thấy được văn hóa, tâm hồn, tính cách, con người Nhật Bản cùng đời sống văn hóa tinh thần, lối giao tiếp ứng xử rất riêng của họ. …”
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CAMELLIA SINENSIS VAR. MADOENSIS (SECT. THEA, THEACEAE), A NEW TAXON FROM VIETNAM by Tran Vu Nguyen, Thi Phuong Nhu Van, Xuan Son Le, Van Ngoc Nguyen, Van Dung Luong, Thi Huy Tra Trinh, Ba Nam Nguyen, Ngoc Trieu Le

“… Camellia sinensis var. madoensis is described and illustrated as a new variety of Camellia sinensis (section Thea, Theaceae) from Xuan Loc Commune, Song Cau District, Phu Yen Province. The new variety is easily distinguishable from C. sinensis var. sinensis by style free ½ to the base. …”
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Study and restoration of the costume of the HuoLang (Peddler) in the Ming Dynasty of China by Zhu Chun, Gao Yuanyuan, Wang Jianping, Zeng Xianyi, Bruniaux Pascal, Liu Kaixuan

“…The figure’s costume style in the painting of the salesman restored in the article is Beizi, closed crotch trousers, open crotch trousers, and abdominal circumference (a type of apron from the Song Dynasty. It is made to resemble a short apron and is wrapped around the abdomen). …”
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IN, THROUGH, WITH et l’expression de la causalité en anglais contemporain. Un exemple d’application des concepts de la TOPÉ by Lise Hamelin

“…This paper aims at describing the similarities between IN, THROUGH and WITH as causal prepositions making use of Culioli’s concepts of occurrence, notion and locating operations (1999). (1) and (2) illustrate the specific contexts we will deal with :(1) He raised his eyebrows in/with surprise and softly sang the words of the song.(2) [...] their voices would automatically grow louder through surprise and excitement.In both examples IN, THROUGH and WITH introduce the word surprise. …”
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A human geography analysis of the evolution of the urban morphology of ancient Foshan city from the perspective of Cantonese trading culture by Shaobin Wang, Ye Hou, Weihui Zhang, Cheng Liao, Rongyi Wang

“…The study reveals that since the Northern Song Dynasty, the river area has decreased, while the number of tributaries has increased and extended further inland. …”
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