Bilateral Malrotation and a Congenital Pelvic Kidney with Varied Vasculature and Altered Hilar Anatomy by J. Singh, N. Singh, K. Kapoor, M. Sharma

“…Pelvic kidney with rotational variation though comparatively rare assumes great importance in view of present-day surgical procedures like laparoscopic radical nephrectomy, percutaneous nephrectomy, and renal transplantation.…”
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RNA Biopesticides: A Cutting‐Edge Approach to Combatting Aquaculture Diseases and Ensuring Food Security by Qiu Li, Lixing Huang

“…These biopesticides, including siRNA and dsRNA, have shown great potential in managing aquaculture diseases. …”
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From the Editors by Yang Kuang, Ying-Cheng Lai, Zhiming Zheng

“…Thisshift of paradigms greatly enhances the central importance of mathematical andcomputational modeling and analysis in scientic and engineering endeavors. …”
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A Study on Hysteresis Stiffness Model and Parameter Identification of Harmonic Gear Transmission based on Genetic Characteristic by Linfeng Qiu, Manyi Chen, Gang Song, Jie Zhang, Ran Yang, Han Zhang

“…The fitting results show that the nonlinear hysteretic stiffness model is in good agreement with the experimental data， and the accuracy is greatly improved compared with the traditional model.…”
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PHILOSOPHICAL-LEGAL CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS REGARDING THE RULE OF LAW AND ITS EVOLUTION. THE CORRELATION BETWEEN POLITICAL POWER, LAW AND THE RULE OF LAW by Iulian NEDELCU, Paul-Iulian NEDELCU

“…Throughout his life, man, an essentially social person, endowed with intelligence, felt the need to live in various forms of association, in which he shared his customs, moral and religious norms or, finally, his interests. Human activity, as a great Italian jurist and philosopher stat 1 it can be considered as being regulated by a complex system of rules; and, indeed, in every historical phase we find such a system.…”
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Functional Cereal Products in the Diet for Type 2 Diabetes Patients by Ada Krawęcka, Aldona Sobota, Emilia Sykut-Domańska

“…It is assumed that environmental factors have a significant impact on the development of the disease, and great importance is ascribed to the diet, which can be modified accordingly. …”
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The Leopard: from unpublished romance to bestseller by Zohreh Montaseri

“…Subsequently the novel becomes a bestseller and is translated into the whole world even in Persian. Despite the great passion for history and foreign novels, particularly French, Tomasi is dedicated to fiction only in the last years of his life.In this article, we will focus on the topics covered in the book and in particular the context in which the changes brought to Sicily are developed: expedition of the Thousand and the italy's unification.…”
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Pharmacokinetic, Pharmacogenetic, and Other Factors Influencing CNS Penetration of Antiretrovirals by Jacinta Nwamaka Nwogu, Qing Ma, Chinedum Peace Babalola, Waheed Adeola Adedeji, Gene D. Morse, Babafemi Taiwo

“…Neurological complications associated with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are a matter of great concern. While antiretroviral (ARV) drugs are the cornerstone of HIV treatment and typically produce neurological benefit, some ARV drugs have limited CNS penetration while others have been associated with neurotoxicity. …”
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Reversible Shaping of Microwells by Polarized Light Irradiation by Federica Pirani, Angelo Angelini, Francesca Frascella, Emiliano Descrovi

“…In the last years, stimuli-responsive polymeric materials have attracted great interest, due to their low cost and ease of structuration over large areas combined with the possibility to actively manipulate their properties. …”
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The Emerging Role of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Vascular Calcification by Changming Xie, Liu Ouyang, Jie Chen, Huanji Zhang, Pei Luo, Jingfeng Wang, Hui Huang

“…Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), with a multidirectional differentiation ability and great potential for clinical application, play a duplex role in the VC process. …”
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Stabilization Using a Discrete Fuzzy PDC Control with PID Controllers and Pole Placement: Application to an Experimental Greenhouse by Amine Chouchaine, Elyes Feki, Abdelkader Mami

“…A solution is presented to solve a stability problem that arises when dealing with a Takagi-Sugeno discrete system with great numbers of rules. The PDC controller will use a classical controller like a PI, PID, or RST in each rule with a pole placement strategy to avoid causing instability. …”
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Bible translation in Africa. What implications does the new UBS perspective have for Africa? An overview in the light of the emerging new UBS translation initiative by A. O. Mojola

“…Special focus is given to the shifts that have occurred with respect to its vision and mission and its ever widening outreach in pursuit of the Christian great commission. Shifts in the nature and types of Bible translators at different periods are looked at as well as the question of the source and receptor texts involved in the translation. …”
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Identification of Effective Factors in Planning the Architecture of Cultural Centers Based on the Strengthening of Social Interactions of Citizens by rezvane mansori, Arash Saghafi Asl

“…As a result, attention to the social dimension of space in the design of cultural buildings and the relationship between space qualities and social concepts, including socialization, are of great importance in the success of these spaces. …”
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Analysis of Turberculosis-COVID-19 Coinfection Using Fractional Derivatives by Samuel Okyere, Joseph Ackora-Prah, Saleem Abdullah, Samuel Akwasi Adarkwa, Frank Kofi Owusu, Kwame Bonsu, Mary Osei Fokuo, Mary Ann Yeboah

“…Fractional-order derivative modeling continues to receive great interest among researchers across the globe. …”
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Random Statistical Analysis of Transverse Momentum Spectra of Strange Particles and Dependence of Related Parameters on Centrality in High Energy Collisions at the LHC by Xu-Hong Zhang, Fu-Hu Liu, Khusniddin K. Olimov, Airton Deppman

“…The present method provides a new tool for studying the spectra of various particles produced in high energy collisions, reflecting more realistically the collision process, which is of great significance to study the formation and properties of the produced particles.…”
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Synthesis and Characterization of Graphene Oxide-Modified Bi2WO6 and Its Use as Photocatalyst by Xiaoyue Hu, Xiangchao Meng, Zisheng Zhang

“…This showed that the modified Bi2WO6 photocatalyst with 1.2 wt% of graphene greatly improved photocatalytic activity during the degradation of dye pollutants, compared to pure Bi2WO6. …”
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Calculation of Differential Propagation Constant Determined by Plant Morphology Using Polarimetric Measurement by Chufeng Hu, Nanjing Li

“…The morphology of vegetation greatly impacts propagation of polarized electromagnetic wave. …”
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A New Method of Edge Crack Suppression in the Rolling Process of Magnesium Alloy Sheet and Study on the Method of Cathodic Protection by Xintao Li, Yanchun Zhu, Haibin Li, Yong Niu, Chenglong Yang

“…Usually in the process, the edge cracking is caused by the great temperature difference between the edge and the center of the alloy plate and the corrosion is by water in air. …”
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Anxiety from a Phylogenetic Perspective: Is there a Qualitative Difference between Human and Animal Anxiety? by Catherine Belzung, Pierre Philippot

“…Finally, autonoetic consciousness, a feature essential for human anxiety, appears only in great apes. This evolutive feature parallels the progress in the complexity of the logistic systems supporting it (e.g., the vegetative and central nervous systems). …”
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Emergency anesthetic care complexities in the elderly by Evangelina Dávila Cabo de Villa, Omar Rojas, Juana María Morejón Fernández, Belkys Mercedes Vicente Sánchez, Olga Lidia Sánchez Sarría

“…The elderly patient presents great challenges due to the alterations caused by the aging process, which is accompanied by decreased response capacity with uneven deterioration of a series of morphophysiological, psychological and biochemical functions. …”
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