Continuous cell lines derived from the Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri, harbor viruses and Wolbachia by Ke Wu, Emily D. Vu, Saptarshi Ghosh, Ruchir Mishra, Bryony C. Bonning

“…We previously identified CLG#2 as the optimal medium for long-term growth of D. citri primary cell cultures. Here we report on the establishment and characterization of three continuous D. citri cell lines, Dici1, Dici3, and Dici5, that have been passaged for > 40 times. …”
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MGIMO Educational Standards: Goal and Contents of Professional Language Training of IR Economics Students by A. A. Kizima

“…The researcher used competence-based and cultural studies approaches with reference to the didactic principles of accessibility, systematic, consistency, necessity and sufficiency. …”
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Yönetim Felsefesi Bağlamında Doğu ve Batı İttihad Eder mi? Gazali ve Machiavelli Üzerinden Hermenötik Bir Değerlendirme by Tuğba ÇİÇEK, Yunus Emre TAŞGİT, Zülkif DAĞLI

“…Gazali and Machiavell are people who live in different cultural conditions and present philosophically original perspectives to the field of management with their theoretical and practical inference, advice and experience in these periods. …”
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“You’re not taught to think about the words you use and then it just perpetuates”— a qualitative examination of medical students’ perspectives of stigmatising language in healthcar... by Saakshi Daswani, Elizabeth Gorecki, Lisa Mellon

“…Results Seven themes were identified: prevalence of stigmatising language, its impact on students and patients, being sensitive versus medically accurate, evolving nature of recommendations for language use, barriers to changing practice, power dynamics and cultural context influencing language use, stigmatising language being a societal issue. …”
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An ingestible bioimpedance sensing device for wireless monitoring of epithelial barriers by Brian M. Holt, Justin M. Stine, Luke A. Beardslee, Hammed Ayansola, Younggeon Jin, Pankaj J. Pasricha, Reza Ghodssi

“…Addressing this technology gap, intraluminal bioimpedance sensing may be employed as a localized, non-invasive surrogate to TEER electrodes used in cell cultures. Thus far, bioimpedance has only been implemented in esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) due to the need for external electronics connections. …”
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La tecnología de construcción con tierra en la conformación del paisaje de frontera del Estado-Nación argentino durante el siglo XIX y principios del XX by Guillermo Rolón, Carola Herr, Ángela Sánchez Negrette

“…Este espacio permitió establecer diversas dinámicas de vinculación entre ambas sociedades, algunas pacíficas y otras no tanto, confor­mando un paisaje cultural distinto al que se podía encontrar al interior de ambos territorios en contacto. …”
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Oral Lesions Induced by Chronic Khat Use Consist Essentially of Thickened Hyperkeratinized Epithelium by Ochiba Mohammed Lukandu, Lionel Sang Koech, Paul Ngugi Kiarie

“…The habit of khat chewing is prevalent in many Middle Eastern and African cultures and has been associated with various adverse conditions in humans. …”
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Design and implementation of a lab-on-a-chip for assisted reproductive technologies by Firooz Safaefar, Javad Karamdel, Hadi Veladi, Masoud Maleki

“…There is a reduced need for cultural media compared to more standard approaches.…”
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Tensões e contradições nos discursos políticos sobre o combate à homofobia no contexto da escola brasileira by Cleide Ester de Oliveira, Maria de Fatima Pereira Alberto, Nadir de Fátima Borges Bittencourt

“…Los resultados indican que los sujetos están atravesados por discursos de naturaleza moral, pseudo-científica, cultural y religiosa que sostienen heteronormatividad.…”
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Teaching, learning, and growing: the construction of a novice L2 writing teacher’s personal practical knowledge by Mingyu Li

“…Recommendations for future research include cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary longitudinal studies that incorporate multimodal narratives to more effectively track the evolution of novice teachers’ practical knowledge and its impact on teaching efficacy in the global educational landscape.…”
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Advancing Behavioral HIV Prevention: Adapting an Evidence-Based Intervention for People Living with HIV and Alcohol Use Disorders by M. L. Armstrong, A. M. LaPlante, F. L. Altice, M. Copenhaver, P. E. Molina

“…Overall themes that emerged from the FGs included the following: (1) negative mood states contribute to heavy alcohol consumption in PLWHA; (2) high levels of psychosocial stress, paired with few adaptive coping strategies, perpetuate the use of harmful alcohol consumption in PLWHA; (3) local cultural norms are related to the permissiveness and pervasiveness of drinking and contribute to heavy alcohol use; (4) healthcare providers unanimously stated that outpatient options for AUD intervention are scarce, (5) misperceptions about the relationships between alcohol and HIV are common; (6) PLWHA are interested in learning about alcohol’s impact on ART and HIV disease progression. …”
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The Church and the Use of Family Planning: A Case Study of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Ebenezer Congregation, Old Tafo by Samuel Adjei, Ebenezer Abrokwah, Isaac Boaheng

“…The article concluded that family planning is not a sin from both biblical and Akan cultural perspectives. The authors recommended that: there should be extensive family planning education by the government; public education on the side effects of the use of some family planning methods; teaching family planning in the church will also be beneficial to members and there should be a critical reading of the Bible to guide the creation of church doctrines. …”
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The Spatio-Temporal Evolution and Sustainable Development Strategy of Huizhou’s Traditional Villages in the Xin’an River Basin by Wei Wang, Anqi Liu, Xiaoxiao Xu

“…Population migration, internal growth, and external cultural and commercial exchanges drove village formation in three stages. …”
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Evidence from a mouse model supports repurposing an anti-asthmatic drug, bambuterol, against Alzheimer’s disease by administration through an intranasal route by Anne-Claire Groo, Thomas Curel, Aurélie Malzert-Fréon, Line Séguy, Ophélie Bento, Sophie Corvaisier, Thomas Culerier, Romain Legrand, Noëlle Callizot, Alexandre Henriques, Georgia Culley, Sylvie Claeysen, Christophe Rochais, Patrick Dallemagne

“…The present work firstly confirmed the capacity of bambuterol to display in cellulo neuroprotective activities, reduction of Tau hyperphosphorylation and preservation of synapses in rat hippocampal neuronal cultures intoxicated with Aβ peptides. Further, bambuterol, in the form of a liposomal gel, showed a good bioavailability in CNS after intranasal administration, which should reduce any side effects linked to peripheral terbutaline release. …”
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Anti-Inflammatory Strategy for M2 Microglial Polarization Using Retinoic Acid-Loaded Nanoparticles by Marta Machado-Pereira, Tiago Santos, Lino Ferreira, Liliana Bernardino, Raquel Ferreira

“…Additionally, RA-NP induced a ramified microglia morphology (indicative of M2 state), promoting tissue viability, particularly neuronal survival, and restored the expression of postsynaptic protein-95 in organotypic hippocampal slice cultures exposed to an inflammatory challenge. RA-NP also proved to be more efficient than the free equivalent RA concentration. …”
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Could Cells from Your Nose Fix Your Heart? Transplantation of Olfactory Stem Cells in a Rat Model of Cardiac Infarction by Cameron McDonald, Alan Mackay-Sim, Denis Crane, Wayne Murrell

“…These cells are propagated as neurosphere cultures, similar to other neural stem cells. Olfactory neurospheres were grown in vitro, dissociated into single cell suspensions, and transplanted into the infarcted hearts of congeneic rats. …”
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Investigation of online counseling with solution focused brief counseling-based implementation for students with severe academic stress conditions by Zadrian Ardi, Ifdil Ifdil, Chibueze Tobias Orji, Nilma Zola

“…Some examples of these circumstances include living away from parents, shifting patterns of academic interactions from high school, differing academic expectations, and socio-cultural shifts. Moving beyond the theoretical foundation, empirical investigations, and phenomena in the area, there is a need for in-depth research and studies about attempts to identify models that alleviate the academic stress experienced by students. …”
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Role of Cathepsin S in Periodontal Inflammation and Infection by S. Memmert, A. Damanaki, A. V. B. Nogueira, S. Eick, M. Nokhbehsaim, A. K. Papadopoulou, A. Till, B. Rath, S. Jepsen, W. Götz, C. Piperi, E. K. Basdra, J. A. Cirelli, A. Jäger, J. Deschner

“…Human periodontal fibroblasts were cultured under inflammatory and infectious conditions elicited by interleukin-1β and Fusobacterium nucleatum, respectively. …”
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Parasitic Worm of Agile Gibbon (Hylobates agilis F. CUVIER 1821) and Siamang (Symphalangus syndactylus RAFFLES 1821) at Serulingmas Zoological Garden, Banjarnegara by Risa Tiuria, Putri Indah Ningtias, Hera Maheshwari

“…Identification is achieved by using faecal cultures to obtain larvae of parasitic worm. Identification result indicated that male agile gibbon (W/I) infected by two types of parasitic worms (Trichostrongylus and Strongyloides). …”
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Reflexiones en el marco del patrimonio arquitectónico en tierra by Silvana D. Basile

“…La riqueza de este patrimonio arquitectónico reside en sí misma, o sea, en una tradición constructiva que utiliza un material universal ya no considerado “materia bruta”, sino como importante documentación cultural de un know-how que permite desarrollar una gran variedad de soluciones técnicas y constructivas. …”
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