Cost Management at Higher Education Institutions – Cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia by Martina Dragija Kostić, Tatjana Jovanović, Jelena Jurić

“… Higher education expenditures persistently rise due to various economic, demographic and socio-cultural reasons. This caused repeated calls for reforms of the economic model in the higher education sector and dramatically increased the importance of the economic evaluations in the last decades due to concerns for efficiency. …”
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From Palestine to Turtle Island by Sarah Rotz, Charles Levkoe, Martha Stiegman, Mustafa Koc, Indra Singh, Max Ajl, Yafa Al Masri, Justin Podur

“…The discussion underscores the importance of Indigenous movements and mutual aid networks in the fight for land, food, and cultural sovereignty. These localized struggles are part of a larger global resistance against imperialism and colonialism, illustrating the power of food sovereignty as a means of survival and liberation. …”
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La ciudad de las telas en los albores de la modernidad. Breve esbozo del crecimiento del sector textil en Medellín durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX by Laura Carbonó López

“…El principal objeto de estudio es la moda y se parte de la idea de que la moda es una manifestación cultural que se transforma y adapta a la historia, siendo el centro de los procesos de modernización y globalización de la ciudad que la catapultó vertiginosamente, convirtiéndola en una ciudad generadora de empleo y de tratados comerciales a escala local y regional. …”
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Análisis de artefactos de hueso y asta de venado de las montañas (Odocoileus lucasi) recuperados en San Luis Potosí y Ciudad de México by Mayela Janine López Ibarra, Gilberto Pérez Roldán, Raúl Valadez Azúa, Edsel Rafael Robles Martínez

“…En los sitios Rancho Carabanchel, San Luis Potosí y Predio Diana, CDMX se recuperaron materiales de hueso y asta correspondientes a esta especie con posibles evidencias de manipulación cultural. El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar las huellas que presentan estos artefactos y contrastarlas con los procesos tafonómicos que generan marcas similares para poder comprender si se trata de utensilios empleados por las personas del pasado, o si por el contrario, sólo fueron afectadas por el ambiente. …”
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Evaluation and Prediction of the HIV-1 Central Polypurine Tract Influence on Foamy Viral Vectors to Transduce Dividing and Growth-Arrested Cells by Sergey Shityakov, Carola Förster, Axel Rethwilm, Thomas Dandekar

“…To accomplish a gene transfer task successfully, retroviral vectors must effectively transduce diverse cell cultures at different phases of a cell cycle. However, very promising retroviral vectors based on the foamy viral (FV) backbone lack the capacity to efficiently transduce quiescent cells. …”
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When to stop social learning from a predecessor in an information-foraging task by Hidezo Suganuma, Aoi Naito, Kentaro Katahira, Tatsuya Kameda

“…Participants generally failed to make the best use of previously observed social information in their subsequent independent choices, suggesting the importance of direct communication beyond passive observation for better intergenerational transmission under uncertainty. Implications for cultural evolution are discussed.…”
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A Case of Pacemaker Endocarditis Caused by Aerococcus urinae by Sandra Samuelsson, Charles Kennergren, Magnus Rasmussen

“…Forty days after the initial admission, the patient was readmitted due to malaise, general pain of the joints, chills, and renewed blood cultures grew A. urinae. TEE demonstrated a 10 × 5 mm vegetation on either the tricuspid valve or one of the pacing cables. …”
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Organizational Work-life Balance Policies Toward Women and Their Reflection in Employee Commitment and Labor Market Image: A Social Exchange Theory Approach by Md. Amanullah, Dip Das, Motaleb Bhuiyan

“…As women have strong ties to family responsibilities in the cultural context of Bangladesh, understanding the perceived consequences of WLB is essential to formulating effective policies. …”
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Building an Oral Repository of African Immigration Experiences in French: The Griotte Project’s Reparative Historiographic Praxis Through Service-Learning at the University of Cent... by K. Adele Okoli

“…Central Arkansas and the campus of the University of Central Arkansas are home to a vibrant and growing community of multilingual French speakers of diverse cultural and national identities of West and Central Africa. …”
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Articulação e consolidação de ações de arte e cultura no contexto universitário: a experiência do Projeto de Extensão Letras, Artes & Mentes by Isa Mara Rocha ARAÚJO, Lidiane Alves de DEUS, Monise Viana ABRANCHES, Tiago Mendes de OLIVEIRA

“…O projeto promoveu articulação e consolidação de atividades de arte e cultura no contexto universitário, realizando uma efetiva construção comunitária de vivência e troca de saberes na dimensão cultural da Instituição. …”
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Meta-Analysis and Evidence Base for the Efficacy of Autologous Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Knee Cartilage Repair: Methodological Guidelines and Quality Assessment by Mohamed E. Awad, Khaled A. Hussein, Inas Helwa, Mohamed F. Abdelsamid, Alexandra Aguilar-Perez, Ibrahim Mohsen, Monte Hunter, Mark W. Hamrick, Carlos M. Isales, Mohammed Elsalanty, William D. Hill, Sadanand Fulzele

“…Thirty-three studies—including 724 patients of mean age 44.2 years—were eligible. 50.7% of the included patients received cultured BM-MSCs for knee cartilage repair. There was improvement in the MINORS quality score over time with a positive correlation with the publication year. …”
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Integrating computational thinking, game design, and design thinking: a scoping review on trends, applications, and implications for education by Chih-Hung Wu, Yu-Cheng Chien, Mei-Tzu Chou, Yueh-Min Huang

“…Future studies could further explore the effects of emotional aspects and differences in cognitive levels, as well as the emotional effects of various subject concepts or prior knowledge/experience, gender, national, or cultural differences. This study offers a comprehensive understanding of the trends and dynamics in the integration of CT, game design, and design thinking to facilitate continued research and advancements in the field of game-based learning for CT education.…”
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Psychologic Resilience and Related Factors in the Euthymic Bipolar Patients by Ersin Uygun, Aylin Koseoglu, Suat Kucukgoncu, Sahap N. Erkoc

“…Bipolar I disorder is characterized by full blown manic episodes and is not only affected by biological factors but also by psychological and cultural factors. This fact attracted the attention onto the psychological resilience, which is the ability of dealing with stressful life-events and overcoming the traumatic experiences, and it has become a phenomenon that is taken into consideration to empower the protective factors for the disorder. …”
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From classical democracy to liberal democracy: Definitions, types and paradigms by Taheri Mohammed Hanif, Afrough Emad

“…Thus, the fluid and flexible concept and definition of democracy is compatible with different cultures, religions and societies, and, on this basis, we can talk about "Islamic democracy" and we can favour this vision as the findings of this research.…”
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Effects of carbon sources and temperature on the formation and structural characteristics of food-related Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilms by Mingming Zou, Donghong Liu

“…Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate biofilms formation by Staphylococcus epidermidis under various conditions. Biofilms were cultured in nutrient broth containing different carbon source concentrations (0–10 mg/mL) on polystyrene surfaces for 32 h of incubation at 37 °C or 55 °C, with quantification and enumeration at 8, 16, 24 and 32 h. …”
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B cells enhance IL-1 beta driven invasiveness in triple negative breast cancer by Nicole J. Toney, Lynn M. Opdenaker, Lisa Frerichs, Shirin R. Modarai, Aihui Ma, Holly Archinal, Grace O. Ajayi, Jennifer Sims-Mourtada

“…This study shows that co-culturing TNBC cells with B cells increases Interleukin-1β (IL-1β) expression and secretion. …”
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Megoura crassicauda promote the ability of Vicia faba L. to remediate cadmium pollution of water and soil by Sijing Wan, Shasha Wang, Yan Li, Yexin Xie, Qimei Li, Yinjie Fang, Zhenjuan Yin, Shigui Wang, Yifan Zhai, Bin Tang

“…This study investigated the cadmium (Cd) remediation ability of fava beans by M. crassicauda feeding on or not using both hydroponic and soil cultures containing varying concentrations of Cd. Under hydroponic conditions, the Cd content in fava beans increased significantly following aphid invasion. while the Cd content decreased after aphid infestation under soil cultivation conditions. …”
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Russian System of Foreign Policy Expertise by A. A. Varfolomeev, O. P. Ivanov, I. V. Surma, Yu. A. Trefilova

“…The authors note the positive aspects of competitive analysis of the external nvironment, which allows one to level out the asymmetry of political and economic cultures within a given country, as well as to smooth out the personal interests. …”
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Diverse vaginal microbiota in healthy Japanese women: a combined relative and quantitative analyses by Masahiro Ito, Misaki Kataoka, Yoichi Sato, Hideki Nachi, Koji Nomoto, Koji Nomoto, Nobuhiko Okada

“…Additionally, the vaginal fluid was cultured on four types of selective agar plates. The predominant species in the growing colonies were identified using colony polymerase chain reaction, and the colonies were counted.ResultsThe vaginal microbiota was classified into four categories based on the characterization of the dominant bacterial population: Lactobacillus crispatus, Lactobacillus iners, Lactobacillus gasseri, and a diversity group. …”
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Photobiomodulation on KATP Channels of Kir6.2-Transfected HEK-293 Cells by Fu-qing Zhong, Yang Li, Xian-qiang Mi

“…Plasmids encoding Kir6.2 was constructed and heterologously expressed in cultured mammalian HEK-293 cells. The patch-clamp and data acquisition systems were used to record KATP channel current before and after irradiation. …”
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