Very Early Severe Posttransplant Recurrent Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated Glomerulonephritis after Kidney Transplantation: Two Case Reports by Reda Laamech, Hamza Naciri-Bennani, Diane Giovannini, Johan Noble, Bénédicte Janbon, Paolo Malvezzi, Thomas Jouve, Lionel Rostaing

“…The optimum time for KTx and the relevance of ANCA titer at the time of transplantation remain controversial. We report two cases of extremely rapid recurrent AAV after renal transplantation; both were still ANCA-positive at the time of transplantation, which led us to question the pathogenesis of ANCA antibodies in recurrence in a kidney allograft. …”
Get full text

The Practice Innovation and Clinical Excellence Registry and the Eighth Joint National Committee by Ernesto Ledesma Sánchez, Carlos Alberto Hernández Rodríguez, Alexander Miguel Martínez Pérez, Alberto Morales Salinas

“…The Eighth Joint National Committee has several controversial aspects. One of them is the recommendation to raise the treatment goal in hypertensive patients over 60 years of age (with no history of diabetes or chronic kidney disease) to <150/90 mmHg. …”
Get full text

The Duties under the Doctrine of Superior Responsibility: What Can We Learn from Business Standards on Corporate Governance & Compliance? by Irakli Kvirikashvili

“…This article aims to illuminate specific and some controversial aspects of the third element of the doctrine—the failure to adopt necessary and reasonable measures—and obtain a clearer and more comprehensive understanding on the superiors’ duties, its limits and main prerequisites under the doctrine. …”
Get full text

Novel Interventional Approaches for ALI/ARDS: Cell-Based Gene Therapy by Ying-Gang Zhu, Jie-Ming Qu, Jing Zhang, Hong-Ni Jiang, Jin-Fu Xu

“…The present therapeutic strategies for ALI/ARDS including supportive care, pharmacological treatments, and ventilator support are still controversial. More scientists are focusing on therapies involving stem cells, which have self-renewing capabilities and differentiate into multiple cell lineages, and, genomics therapy which has the potential to upregulate expression of anti-inflammatory mediators. …”
Get full text

Congenital Aplasia Cutis. A Series of Three Cases by Elsy Roxana Geroy Moya, María Elena Quiñones Hernández, Ángel Serafín Camacho Gómez

“…It can appear in isolation or as part of several polymalformative syndromes, observing autosomal recessive and autosomal dominant inheritance patterns. Its treatment is controversial and will depend on the size, location, degree of involvement of the underlying structures and risk of potentially fatal complications. …”
Get full text

The Secondary Purposes of Rhetorical Questions in the Holy Quran by محمود خورسندی, سمیه ترحمی, علیرضا خورسندی

“…Rhetorical questions are one of the controversial issues in rhetoric. Some scholars think that this area belongs to semantics some think it falls in the same area as figures of speech. …”
Get full text

Extension of the CJP model to mixed mode I and mode II by C. J. Christopher, G. Laboviciute, M. N. James

“…This meso-scale model provides a modified set of crack tip stress intensity factors that include the magnitude of plastic wake-induced crack tip shielding and which have the potential to help resolve some long-standing controversies associated with plasticity-induced closure. …”
Get full text

Understanding the Reality or Applying the Theory? A Critical Book Review of "Social Backgrounds of the Iran’s Revolution" by Mohammad Ali Hosseini Zadeh

“…The reduction of political struggle to class struggle and linking ideologies to classes and objective interests is the interesting but controversial feature of this book. This paper reviews the book in terms of method, theory, and historical data, and it finally concludes that despite applying various methods and extensive use of data and documentation, detailed explanations of the Islamic Revolution, the emergence of political Islam, and also the nature of the state in the Islamic Republic of Iran have not been offered. …”
Get full text

L’évolution conceptuelle internationale dans le champ du handicap : enjeux socio-politiques et contributions québécoises by Patrick Fougeyrollas

“…This simple assertion coming from the Quebec social movement for the exercise of human rights and equalisation of opportunities of people with disabilities which started about thirty years ago and developed in the Quebec Classification : Disability Creation Process (DCP), was central in discussions and controversies highlighted during the revision process of the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps (ICIDH) of the World Health Organization.The author underlines important steps in this Quebec and international dynamics, punctuated as much by scientific discussions than by socio-political alliances, barriers or compromises. …”
Get full text

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation as Therapy for Treatment of Active Ulcerative Colitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Xiaolei Liu, Yan Li, Kaichun Wu, Yongquan Shi, Min Chen

“…However, further larger, more rigorously conducted RCTs of FMT in UC are still needed in order to resolve the controversial questions.…”
Get full text

HANNAH ARENDT E A QUESTÃO NEGRA NA DESSEGREGAÇÃO DA ESCOLA DE LITTLE ROCK, 1957 by Danilo Arnaldo Briskievicz, Amauri Carlos Ferreira

“…To illuminate the social and political context of the controversial case, we resume the controversial essay by Hannah Arendt published in 1959, entitled Reflections on Little Rock. …”
Get full text

Current concepts of chronic gastritis and gastropathies: new international consensus RE.GA.IN by S.M. Tkach, N.V. Kharchenko, A.E. Dorofieiev, Yu.Z. Hurkalo, L.M. Ryzhiy

“…In addition to the Sydney and Houston gastritis classifications, the six editions of the Maastricht Consensus (1996–2022) and the Kyoto Global Consensus deserve special attention, thanks to which broad agreements and significant scientific achievements became possible in the most controversial issues of the entire spectrum of gastritis, with a special emphasis on H.pylori gastritis, which accounts for more than 90 % of all forms of gastritis worldwide. …”
Get full text

The Cogeco Case: The First Preliminary Ruling on the Private Enforcement Directive by Catarina Vieira Peres

“…The case is also of major interest since it illustrates the role that the principle of effectiveness can play when applied alongside Articles 101 or 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (“TFEU”).3 Finally, albeit not expressly addressed, the case is also of interest regarding the controversial issue of parent company liability in private enforcement, where it represents a novelty in the Portuguese legal order. …”
Get full text

It’s not what it looks to be! : Déconnexion entre forme et sens dans les énoncés avec verbe de perception à emploi dit “copule” by Christelle LACASSAIN-LAGOIN

“…The origin of these verbs is a controversial issue, and in this article, it is argued that they have a nominal origin and that they have identical syntactic and semantic features. …”
Get full text

Nonsurgical Management of Nifedipine Induced Gingival Overgrowth by George Sam, Staly Chakkalakkal Sebastian

“…The frequency of gingival enlargement associated with chronic nifedipine therapy remains controversial. Within the group of patients that develop this unwanted effect, there appears to be variability in the extent and severity of the gingival changes. …”
Get full text

La cuestión religiosa como factor de conflictividad política durante la Segunda República by Miguel Ángel Giménez Martínez

“…The dynamic of the parliamentary regime, characterized by the predominance of the Cortes within the interorganic relations, strengthened the controversial dimension of the religious question: political parties developed a confrontation strategy in Parliament that negatively affected the efficacy of the legislation approved. …”
Get full text

Two Interpretations of Nietzschean Concept of Nature: C. Alamariu and V. Lemm by Jokūbas Andrijauskas

“…The various usages of the term ‘nature’ (Natur) have no clear, systematic definition in Nietzsche’s works, which is why the interpretations of this concept in Nietzsche’s studies are controversial. Two opposing perspectives emerge: Vanessa Lemm interprets nature as a Dionysian chaos which promotes an emancipatory rejection of the prevailing ideas, while Costin Alamariu sees it as an aristocratic phusis that fosters higher human types. …”
Get full text

Wort und Unwort des Jahres. Sprache als Spiegelbild gesellschaftspolitischer Prozesse by Peter Chmiel

“…The announcement of the selected terms has since become a public event with far-reaching resonance and sometimes controversial discussions (keyword: ‘semantic battles’). …”
Get full text

COMPARISON BETWEEN THE CRIME OF DECEPTION AND THE CRIME OF INFLUENCE PEDDLING by Alexandru STAN

“…In this sense, we consider that this work is useful for theorists and practitioners, our aim is not only to present and analyse the controversial solutions, but also to propose solutions that, even if they are not fully taken up, can constitute a basis for discussion for future cases. …”
Get full text

A Large Cardiac Mass: Diagnosis of Caseous Mitral Annular Calcification and Determining Optimum Management Strategy by Emanuel A. Shapera, Afshin Karimi, Luis R. Castellanos

“…CMAC is associated with cerebrovascular accidents; however, optimal treatment is controversial given the rarity of this clinical finding. …”
Get full text