Anti-Biofilm Agents to Overcome <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> Antibiotic Resistance by Marie Hanot, Elodie Lohou, Pascal Sonnet

“…Particularly, its ability to form biofilms that protect colonies from antimicrobial agents is a major cause of chronic and hard-to-treat infections in immune-compromised patients. …”
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Ideology and Political Orientation of Intellectuals from Koto Gadang 1930-1950: A Prosopography by Nazra Cahyani Endah Regita, Herwandi Herwandi, Nopriyasman Nopriyasman

“…Chalid Salim's writings criticizing the colonial government led to him being arrested and imprisoned, in his actions to defend the workers. …”
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“Somos o que comemos!”: Uma reflexão da política de cuidado ecofeminista plasmada na prática da agroecologia by Luísa de Pinho Valle

“…Este sistema econômico, que perpetua lógicas de poder, sociopolítico e econômico, originadas no sistema patriarcal e na ideologia colonial, está a levar-nos à destruição irreversível na escala planetária. …”
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Banda Bekali and local knowledge in flood management: 100 years of social and environmental interaction in Padang City by Handrian Ginting Jonson, Afrida, Arifin Zainal

“…In response, the Dutch East Indies colonial government constructed the Banda Bekali canal system to mitigate flood risks. …”
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Copper strontium phosphate glasses with high antimicrobial efficacy by Roman Golovchak, Bohdan Mahlovanyi, Yaroslav Shpotyuk, Malgorzata Kus-Liskiewicz, Julia Kozianska, Renata Zadrag-Tecza, Grzegorz Zagula, Malgorzata Trzyna-Sowa, Andriy Kovalskiy, Agnieszka Gala-Bladzinska, Jozef Cebulski

“…The glass powders demonstrate strong antibacterial efficacy with a concentration of only a few mg/mL, sufficient to eradicate the entire bacterial colonies within 24 h. Bulk surfaces of these glasses inhibit bacterial growth and release low, non-toxic levels of their constituent elements into simulated body fluid. …”
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OCH Ameliorates Bone Marrow Failure in Mice via Downregulation of T-Bet Expression by Xiaohong Qiao, Xiaotian Xie, Wei Shi, Jinqing Tang, Yuexia Shao, Fuxing Li

“…In addition, OCH treatment increased NKT cell fractions of bone marrow and the colonies of CFU-GM. In conclusion, treatment of OCH prior to the induction of BMF could prevent the incidence of BMF possibly through downregulating T-bet expression leading to the transition of immune response from Th1 to Th2, suggesting OCH might be a new therapeutic approach in the treatment of BMF or AA.…”
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Falling in the Midst of Crisis: The Collapse of the Mangkunegaran Autonomous Government in the Social Revolution Era, 1945-1946 by Fauzan Syahru Ramadhan, Alamsyah Alamsyah, Haryono Rinardi

“…Using historical methods, the article explores the initially positive relationship between the Mangkunegaran Duchy and the people in the late colonial period, evident in various factors such as support for education, economic initiatives, and infrastructure development. …”
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Interrogating the Contestations in Zimbabwe’s New Marriage Law and Arbitration in Family Disputes by Bernard Pindukai Humbe, Fortune Sibanda

“…The research bridges the knowledge gaps in scholarship on the impact of Zimbabwe’s legal reforms on gender relations catapulted by the tensions between statutory law and customary law encountered in the process of harmonising traditional and modern views on marriage and family structures in post-colonial contexts, which were historically influenced by patriarchy.…”
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Modern problems of repeated criminality. Socio-psychological aspect by Y.E. Suslov, A.F. Fedorov, A.V. Bespalova

“…Special emphasis is made on the group of convicts who repeatedly served their sentences in places of deprivation of liberty or previously served their sentences in educational colonies of the criminal-executive system of the Russian Federation. …”
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Hominin heritage: How institutional repositories are managing collections, collaboration and repatriation by Wendy Black, Bernhard Zipfel, Mirriam Tawane, Glynn Alard, Phillip Hine

“…In the past, conserving heritage was more about advocating race-based scientific study and advancing the colonial agenda. One hundred years later, this landscape has changed, but is not perfect. …”
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Feminismos del Sur, abriendo horizontes de descolonización. Los feminismos indígenas y los feminismos comunitarios by Catherine Moore Torres

“…La fuerza de esta apuesta reside en concebir la opresión sexual como la contracara de la dominación colonial, lo que sugiere una doble despatriarcalización de los distintos territorios frente a las formas de opresión del capitalismo, pero también del patriarcado ancestral.…”
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ANÁLISIS ESTRUCTURAL Y ESTRATEGIAS POLÍTICAS EN LAS TEORÍAS DECOLONIALES. UN ACERCAMIENTO A LA DISCUSIÓN by María Antonia Muñoz

“…A pesar de la diversidad del campo, a los efectos argumentativos se describirán dos posiciones: la de la diferencia colonial y la de la transmodernidad. Para sistematizar la primera se rescata principalmente a Lugones, mientras que en la segunda se recuperan la propuesta de Castro-Gómez, mediada por la de Dussel y Grosfoguel. …”
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Biopolítica y mestizaje: una reflexión del nacionalismo mexicano by Roberto Israel Rodríguez Soriano

“…La tesis que se propone es que la categoría del mestizaje es biopolítica; que en su largo proceso de formación teniendo en su núcleo definiciones identitarias elementales que el criollismo generó desde la época colonial basadas en un proyecto civilizatorio reivindicativo de sus propios intereses económicos, ha definido la caracterización de la población mexicana y determinado las diferentes políticas de gobierno clasificando y dividiendo a la población en contra de su retórica de inclusión y de respeto a las diversidades culturales.…”
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POR UMA PSICOLOGIA BRASILEIRA RACIALIZADA: CONTRIBUIÇÕES DE CIDA BENTO E LÉLIA GONZALEZ by Hilana Sousa Ferreira, Anne Beatriz Nogueira Saraiva, Aluísio Ferreira de Lima

“…Resumo A colonialidade, entendida desde a proposição original de Anibal Quijano e a sua apropriação realizada por autoras feministas da América Latina e do feminismo negro interseccional, é a aplicação, em larga escala, de um projeto colonial com pretensões universalistas que faz uso do racismo e do patriarcado para legitimar e produzir vidas para o capitalismo. …”
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Modernity and interreligious dialogue. Difficulties posed by the ideological translation of religious categories by María A. Corpas-Aguirre

“…Since the 18th century, the solution to the problems derived from colonialism necessarily went through making the dogmatic foundations more flexible, injecting sceptical principles. …”
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Morphological and biochemical identification of Ralstonia solanacearum strains in ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) wilt disease by Kezia Natalia, Andree Wijaya Setiawan, Ruth Meike Jayanti

“…Three isolates from Banyubiru displayed typical morphological characteristics of RSSC, including round, mucoid colonies with red centers and white edges on TZC medium, and rod-shaped bacterial cells. …”
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Embracing Plural Curricula Amid Neoliberalism in Contemporary Universities in Africa: Asante’s Afrocentric Idea Revisited by Phefumula Nyoni, Otilia Chiramba

“… This paper focuses on how Asante’s idea of Afrocentricity could assist in the understanding of the main challenges and opportunities associated with curricula in Africa’s post-colonial universities. In terms of methodology, the paper constitutes a conceptual treatise that draws from previous empirical research that focused on Afrocentricity and a plural programme – the extended curriculum programme within a university context where neoliberalism remains dominant. …”
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Důsledky tzv. Šmalkaldské války z let 1546-1547 pro vývoj měnové integrace Evropy by Petr Vorel

“…However, during the 1540s the emperor gained his own and very important silver mines in the oversea colonies. That's why his own interests in the Reich turned the scale of the long-termed development and why II. …”
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DISCRIMINAÇÃO ÉTNICA EM MOÇAMBIQUE: ELO-BASE QUE EXIGE ELIMINAÇÃO PARA PAZ EFECTIVA by Pedro João Lavieque

“…A sua progressão descaracterizou o pensamento dos nacionalistas e o genuíno interesse de libertar o país do jugo colonial. Com a proclamação da Independência Nacional, ela ampliou-se, cobrindo negativamente as atitudes nas esferas de governação. …”
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Dermatophytosis: Prevalence of Dermatophytes and Non-Dermatophyte Fungi from Patients Attending Arsho Advanced Medical Laboratory, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Adane Bitew

“…Fungal pathogens were identified by studying the macroscopic and microscopic characteristics of their colonies. Result. Tinea capitis was the predominant clinical manifestation consisting of 48.1% of the cases. …”
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