GRK6 palmitoylation dictates triple-negative breast cancer metastasis via recruiting the β-Arrestin 2/MAPKs/NF-κB signaling axis by Wen-Ke Wang, Hui-Yu Lin, Che-Hsuan Lin, Hsun-Hua Lee, Yen-Lin Chen, Yu-Hsien Kent Lin, Hui-Wen Chiu, Shry-Ming Sheen-Chen, Yuan-Feng Lin

“…The in vitro cellular migration and in vivo lung colony-forming assays were established to estimate the metastatic potentials of TNBC cells. …”
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Antibacterial Effect of Luma apiculata (DC.) Burret Extracts in Clinically Important Bacteria by Tiare Araya-Contreras, Rhonda Veas, Carlos A. Escobar, Pamela Machuca, Mauricio Bittner

“…The growth curve and the colonies count suggest a bacteriostatic activity of the L. apiculata leaves extract against Staphylococcus aureus.…”
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The enigmatical manipulators in the capsule synthesis of pasteurella multocida: iron acquisition proteins by Asli Balevi, Aysegul Ilban, Ali Uslu, Zafer Sayin, Ayten Gok, Beatriz Padron, Eda Toslak, Osman Erganis

“…<p> <b>Results:</b> When colony morphologies of strains were evaluated of these strains by culture methods, mucoid colony formation was commonly detected in typical strains (87.5%), in contrast to non-typical strains (27.7%). …”
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On common fixed points of pairs of a single and a multivalued coincidentally commuting mappings in D-metric spaces by B. C. Dhage, A. Jennifer Asha, S. M. Kang

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A relação entre caipiras e o processo de urbanização na música sertaneja entre as décadas de 1920 e 1980 by Jóyce Oliveira Leitão

“…Although the Caipira culture may seem strange to capitalist society, it is a result of a historical exclusion of land propriety that reached traditional communities from the period of colonial Brazil until the last decades of the 20th century. …”
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Foodways of Enslaved Laborers on French West Indian Plantations (18th-19th century) by Kenneth G. Kelly, Diane Wallman

“…The ability of the enslaved plantation workers to do this is a testament to their creativity, and the cuisine they developed lives on today in the creole foods of the former slave colonies. The foods, the methods of their procurement, the methods of preparation, and the artifacts used in that preparation consist of a blend of African, European, and American influences reflecting environment, cultural heritage, and economics. …”
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“An atheistic American is a contradiction in terms”: Religion, Civic Belonging and Collective Identity in the United States by Amandine Barb

“…Through the analysis of the status and perception of atheists in American history, from the colonial times to the beginning of the 21st century, this article explores the importance of religion in the structuring of Americans’ national and civic imaginaries. …”
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Queeritude décoloniale : quels enjeux, quelles possibilités ? by Sandeep Bakshi

“…Suturing decolonial thinking to transnational queer narratives, this essay aims to problematise accounts of coloniality/modernity that emplace eurocentred thinking in a dialectical relation to other formations of knowledge. …”
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La « Montagne raciale » : et après ? Parcours identitaires dans deux romans ghanéens contemporains by Marie-Jeanne Gauffre

“…Afro-American poet Langston’s Hughes’s challenge to the "Negro artist" in 1926—to run away from "the race towards whiteness" and climb the "racial mountain" in order to "discover himself and his people" reverberated throughout the colonial and later postcolonial world. Echoes of his plea have long been found in West African literary works concerned with restoring a positive image of the black self, but other "mountains" to be conquered have more recently come into view, especially in women’s writings. …”
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Aerodynamic Analysis and Training Research of an S-Shaped Arc Ball Based on Hydrodynamics by Pinxin Si

“…The aerodynamic analysis and training optimization method of the S-shaped arc ball based on ant colony optimization has sped up the intelligent training system of Chinese football tactics.…”
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La organización social de los mazahuas del Estado de México

“…This group posits their cosmological bases on a cultural matrix dating back to pre columbian and colonial times. Notwithstanding the presence of that cultural matrix, the communities manifest different kinds of social organization that the author perceives as having evolved as a consequence of the destructuration of the system of kinship. …”
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Assessing a Common Currency in Africa

“…The importance of African economies in global trade is not going to be judged by the power of each country’s individual economy, for there is none, so far, or by the stability provided by the benevolent hegemony of a colonial master. Rather, the power of African economies lies in the actual share of the proposed currency in world official foreign reserves, its liquidity in international trade, and its role as a competitor against the exorbitant U.S. dollar. …”
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“To us the war is a spectacle”: Domestic Consumption of the Crimean War in Victorian Britain by Alison Fletcher

“…Following the war, Mary Seacole a colonial subject from Jamaica, published a memoir of her experiences nursing sick soldiers in the Crimea. …”
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Théologie du désordre. Islam, ordre et désordre au Sahara by Abdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh

“…This contribution deals with some aspects of the interrelations between (dis)order and (il)legality in the Sahara, in light of the debates and positions informing the thoughts and writings of the Moorish fuqahâ’ confronted with the lack of a fully legitimate power, from an Islamic viewpoint, in the pre-colonial Western Sahara. Some of these theologians declared themselves in favour of a jihâd aiming at the coming of such a power; others, to the contrary, firmly opposed this idea. …”
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Clivages partisans et partis politiques en Libye by Moncef Djaziri

“…After a brief, theoretical outline and review of experiments with political parties during the colonial period and in the years following Kadhafi’s rise to power, the study will focus on the organization of contemporary political opposition groups, their similarities and differences. …”
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As quitandadeiras de Minas Gerais: memórias brancas e memórias negras by Javier Alejandro Lifschitz, Juliana Bonomo

“…In this article, we analyze narratives of memory about homemade pastries (quitandas) and the women who make them (quitandeiras) in the state of Minas Gerais, in three historical moments: as practices of African origin, which during the eighteenth and nineteenth century was reproduced in the colonies by black slave women selling food on the streets, carrying their trays; as practices of Portuguese origin, held within farms domestic black slaves under the supervision of white mistresses of Portuguese origin and, finally, as current policy of cultural heritage. …”
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Ecopoetics in Yorùbá Riddles by Olumide Adegbodu

“…However, Africans, long before their contact with coloniality, have engaged their literary texts in interrogating various aspects of their cultural milieu, including the ecosystem. …”
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Editorial by I.D. Mothoagae

“…For this reason, African biblical scholars, particularly those applying their hermeneutical lenses as theoretical tools, and scholars within the social sciences have argued that the Christian corpus of literature that was translated and composed during “Christianisation”, “colonisation”, and “civilisation”, using the strategies of conversion and assimilation of the “wretched”, are by their very nature colonial products. …”
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Decolonising Bibles? Image, imagination, and imagin(in)g in the postcolonial academy by J. Punt

“…The complicity of the Bible in the colonial endeavour is no longer seriously disputed. …”
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Naming the sites of the opioid crisis in Boston: a political issue by Elsa Vivant

“…The reactions and demands of the residents of these different neighbourhoods reveal the power dynamics in the urban space, the toponymic choices of which are the main focus of this analysis: Mass & Cass refers to the urban, colonial and racial history of the city and prohibition; Methadone Mile brings to mind the stigmatization of users and places of care; Recovery Road expresses the emergence of new care and harm reduction practices at work in this sector. …”
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