Editorial by Thomas Wilson

“…Our adoption of OJS to manage the full production process of the journal continues to progress, with expected and unexpected glitches here and there, which Tobias Carlsson and Ty Nilsson cope with very effectively.  …”
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Procedure for finding estimate of convergence rate by Robertas Vilkas, Algimantas Aksomaitis

“… Here is presented one method for finding convergence rate estimate of probability function. …”
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The financial character of policing in Tunisia: collusions, extraversion and the criminalization of informality by Daniela Musina

“…The Commission National de Lutte Contre le Terrorisme (CNLCT) and especially the Commission Tunisienne d’Analyse Financière (CTFA), this latter receiving the bulk of attention here, with all their different functional and political significances, are a case in point. …”
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Extended IMD2020: a large‐scale annotated dataset tailored for detecting manipulated images by Adam Novozámský, Babak Mahdian, Stanislav Saic

“…., noise due to sensors, interpolation artefacts, etc.). Here, the authors introduce three datasets. First, we identified the majority of camera models on the market. …”
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Landschaftsgedächtnis und Geschlechterdiskurse in ausgewählten Werken von Elsa Bernstein und Maria Waser by Monika Mańczyk-Krygiel

“…Symbolic drama by Elsa Bernstein (pseudonym Ernst Rosmer, 1866–1949) Mutter Maria Totengedicht in fünf Wandlungen (1900) deals with the subject of the supplanting of old folk beliefs by the Christian religion, as well as the violent clash of the male and female worlds, symbolized here by the figures of alpine mythology as literary topoi (hunter and mountain goddess). …”
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A GENE REGULATORY NETWORK MODEL FOR VERNALIZATION AND SEASONAL FLOWERING RESPONSE IN WINTER WHEAT AND BARLEY by I. L. Stepanenko, O. G. Smirnova, I. I. Titov

“…The transition from vegetative to reproductive development in wheat is regulated by seasonal cues, including vernalization and photoperiod. Here we present a simple logical model of the wheat development gene network. …”
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The first ornithocheiromorph humerus from Wuerho (Urho), China, with a new isotopic age of the Tugulu Group by JUNYI SONG, YUTING ZHONG, SHUNXING JIANG, XIAOLIN WANG

“…The Lower Cretaceous Tugulu Group in Wuerho, China is renowned for hosting the Wuerho Pterosaurian Fauna (WPF), which has so far yielded numerous fossil remains of two dsungaripterid pterosaurs, Dsungaripterus weii and Noripterus complicidens. Here we report a partial ornithocheiromorph humerus from the WPF, representing a deeply divergent clade from Dsungaripteridae. …”
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Translational Research for Occupational Therapy: Using SPRE in Hippotherapy for Children with Developmental Disabilities by Deborah Weissman-Miller, Rosalie J. Miller, Mary P. Shotwell

“…Hippotherapy is defined here as a treatment strategy in occupational therapy using equine movement to achieve functional outcomes. …”
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Selectivity of Inhibition of N-Succinyl-l,l-Diaminopimelic Acid Desuccinylase in Bacteria: The product of dapE-gene Is Not the Target of l-Captopril Antimicrobial Activity by Narasimha Rao Uda, Marc Creus

“…The methods implemented here will be useful for screening DapE-selective antimicrobial compounds directly in bacterial cultures.…”
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Controlled temperature contrasts of three native and one highly invasive annual plant species in California by Mario Zuliani, Stephanie Haas-Desmarais, Laura Brussa, Jessica Cunsolo, Angela Zuliani, Christopher J. Lortie

“…A warming climate will likely have negative impacts on native annual plant species in California tested here because increasing temperatures can co-occur with drought. …”
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Two Cases of Cartilaginous Choristoma—Not Chondroma of the Bony External Auditory Canal by Kohei Yamahara, Yuki Katsura, Yuki Egawa, Kana Lee, Satoshi Ikegami

“…The clinical findings (characteristic appearance and location) reported here may aid clinicians in the diagnostic and surgical management of these cartilaginous masses.…”
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The role of expansion and adaptability of face-space for individual differences in face identity processing by Linda Ficco, Meike Ramon, Anna Schroeger, Jürgen M. Kaufmann, Stefan R. Schweinberger

“…Understanding the mechanisms driving these differences is important for theoretical development, and in clinical and applied contexts. Here we investigate the role of face-space properties in relation to individual face identity processing skills. …”
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Cylindroma Mimicking Neurofibroma by Vinod Kumar Gonuru, Sridhar Reddy Dandala, M.S.S. Samhita, Ashok Kumar

“…Their presentation resembles that of Neurofibromatosis and hence histopathological examination holds significance here. The main modality of treatment is excision of the lesions with management of the vascularity around the lesions, if present.  …”
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Dystrophic Adipocytes Mimicking Metastatic Signet Ring Cell Adenocarcinoma: A Diagnostic Pitfall in a Cachectic Patient by Xin Zhang, Jennifer J. Findeis-Hosey

“…While pathological changes of cachectic conditions on adipose tissue have been studied and documented in tumor-bearing animal models, similar morphological changes in human surgical specimens are rare. Here we report a case of a cachectic patient with pancreatic adenocarcinoma whose adipocytes underwent dramatic lipodystrophy mimicking signet ring cell adenocarcinoma. …”
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Roles of Brain Angiotensin II in Cognitive Function and Dementia by Masaki Mogi, Jun Iwanami, Masatsugu Horiuchi

“…Therefore, RAS regulation is expected to have therapeutic potential for AD. Here, we discuss the role of angiotensin II in cognitive impairment and AD. …”
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The Youngest Case of Metachronous Bilateral Acinic Cell Carcinoma of the Parotid Gland: A Case Report and Literature Review by Raid Alhayaza, M. Anas Dababo, Suresh Velagapudi

“…Despite the rareness of metachronous occurrence of bilateral ACC of the parotid gland, it is still encountered in the medical practice. Here, we are highlighting the importance of follow-up with a periodic clinical and radiological examinations, bearing in mind the contralateral nonaffected parotid gland.…”
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Brachialis Muscle Rupture in a Pediatric Patient Followed Up by Ultrasound Examinations: A Rare Case Report by Akihiro Yamaji, Masafumi Uesugi, Hiroshi Kamada, Harumitsu Ichimura, Masashi Yamazaki

“…Though commonly conservative treatment approach is adopted, the treatment criteria remain unclear. Here, we report the case of a patient who experienced functional recovery after conservative treatment for an isolated brachial muscle injury. …”
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Atlantic overturning inferred from air-sea heat fluxes indicates no decline since the 1960s by Jens Terhaar, Linus Vogt, Nicholas P. Foukal

“…Understanding past AMOC changes has relied on proxies, most notably sea surface temperature anomalies over the subpolar North Atlantic. Here, we use 24 Earth System Models from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) to demonstrate that these temperature anomalies cannot robustly reconstruct the AMOC. …”
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Statistical Similarity Based Change Detection for Multitemporal Remote Sensing Images by Mumu Aktar, Md. Al Mamun, Md. Ali Hossain

“…Therefore, NMI with different window sizes is proposed here to identify changes using multitemporal data. …”
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Marriage, sexuality, and holiness: aspects of marital ethics in the Corpus Paulinum by R. Zimmermann

“…Here, the relationship of marriage, including the physical union of the marital partners, is theologically substantiated, and the frequently occurring semantics of “holiness” clearly plays a central role in the context of the marital texts. …”
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