Smart cities survey: Technologies, application domains and challenges for the cities of the future by Ruben Sánchez-Corcuera, Adrián Nuñez-Marcos, Jesus Sesma-Solance, Aritz Bilbao-Jayo, Rubén Mulero, Unai Zulaika, Gorka Azkune, Aitor Almeida

“…The introduction of the Information and Communication Technologies throughout the last decades has created a trend of providing daily objects with smartness , aiming to make human life more comfortable. The paradigm of Smart Cities arises as a response to the goal of creating the city of the future, where (1) the well-being and rights of their citizens are guaranteed, (2) industry and (3) urban planning is assessed from an environmental and sustainable viewpoint. …”
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Conceptual competence in medicine: promoting psychosomatic awareness in clinics, research and education by Dirk von Boetticher

“…Despite the importance of these concepts from an educational and a research perspective, too little attention has been paid to their clinical impact.MethodsThis paper investigated the general nature of concepts and their role and significance in structuring the clinical encounter and care, including consideration of their relevance for the hidden curriculum.ResultsConceptual competence is defined as a transformative awareness of the multilayered, fallible, and plural nature of human concepts, which have both descriptive and evaluative and action-guiding properties having both an explicit and an implicit meaning. …”
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An Autoethnography of an Islamic Teacher Education Programme by Ozan Angin

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Nordic Exceptionalism? How Scandinavian Border and Coast Guards Rationalize Their Participation in Frontex Operations by Eline Waerp

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Adropin: a key player in immune cell homeostasis and regulation of inflammation in several diseases by Junmin Wang, Ning Ding, Chong Chen, Simin Gu, Jing Liu, Yanping Wang, Liubing Lin, Yiyuan Zheng, Yong Li

“…Adropin is a secreted peptide encoded by the energy homeostasis-associated gene (ENHO), located chromosome 9p13.3, with a conserved amino acid sequence across humans and mice. Its expression is regulated by various factors, including fat, LXRα, ERα, ROR, and STAT3. …”
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The Important Step for European Integration: “Council of Europe” and the Matter of Turkey’s Membership to Council by Ali Servet Öncü

“…This organization which stipulates cooperation in such areas human rights, social affairs, education, culture, sports, youth, public health, environmental, architectural heritage, urban planning, local and regional authorities, and law as well as defence and security was founded on 5 May 1949 by ten European states. …”
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The Case of Hagia Sophia's Opening to Worship As an Example of Political “Anamnesis” by Deniz Ülke Arıbogan

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C-Reactive Protein (CRP) and Autoimmune Disease: Facts and Conjectures by Alexander J. Szalai

“…Coincident with a now decade-long resurgence in clinical interest in associations of CRP with disease, our laboratory has been investigating the biology of CRP in vivo using human CRP transgenic mice (CRPtg). At that time we confirmed that CRP affects a host defense function mediated at least in part through the elimination of pathogens. …”
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THE PROVISION OF ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS BY SMALL FARMS FROM A REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE – SELECTED PROBLEMS by Agnieszka Ginter

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Concert Viewing Headphones by Kazuya Atsuta, Masatoshi Hamanaka, SeungHee Lee

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Los Angeles, espace augmenté révélé par un genre littéraire : l’anthologie by Charles JOSEPH

“…This mediatised memory thus supplanted the local human memory that now belongs to the background, a mediatised memory that emphasizes the advent of an augmented space. …”
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The Formation of Ethnically Distinct Villages in Jember during the Colonial Period (1870-1942) by Ratna Endang Widuatie, Retno Winarni

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On Some Aspects of the Poetic of ri in Dante’s Divine Comedy: Possibilities of Semantic Clustering by Ülar Ploom

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Transverse Vibrations of Clamped and Simply-Supported Circular Plates with Two Dimensional Thickness Variation by N. Bhardwaj, A.P. Gupta, K.K. Choong, C.M. Wang, Hiroshi Ohmori

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The Role of TGFβ Signaling in Squamous Cell Cancer: Lessons from Mouse Models by Adam B. Glick

“…This paper will review data on changes in TGFβ1 signaling in human SCC primarily HNSCC and cutaneous SCC and different mouse models that have been generated to investigate the relevance of these changes to cancer. …”
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La figure du tout intégré et les noms discrets collectifs by Viviane Arigne

“…Lastly, the noun body is analysed as a semantically derived collective noun: the prototypical integrated whole is used as a collective, less prototypical, integrated whole to unite and interlock the most independent discrete entities, human animates.…”
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Gendered Scientization of Environmental Degradation: Countering Gender Stereotype of Village Women in Lakardowo, Indonesia by Aulia Izzah Azmi, Vita Lutfiah

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Datos sobre los antioxidantes by Kaitlin G. Clark, Wendy J. Dahl

“…Dahl, and published by the UF Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, July 2014. FSHN14-02s/FS251: Datos sobre los Antioxidantes (ufl.edu) …”
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Incertezza, precarietà, capacità di immaginazione del futuro e modernità: un confronto tra Appadurai e De Martino by Alessandro Mancuso

“…In both cases, their starting point is in fact the uncertainty of human condition and social orders, and at the heart of their theory, there stands the issue of identifying the different kinds of ethos and cultural activity which permit people to historically and existentially confront this uncertainty through establishing their belonging to a “cultural homeland” (De Martino) or forms of social imagination which shape the capacities of constructively projecting themselves into the future (Appadurai). …”
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Harmonization of the fastest and densest responses reflects humanlike reaction time in mice by Chan Hee Kim

“…IntroductionReaction time (RT) is important for evaluating delayed latency in behavior. Unlike humans, whose RT usually reflects a one-to-one stimulus–response relationship, the RT of animals can show two peaks representing the fastest and densest responses in the response distribution due to multiple responses per trial and can be further delayed depending on stimulus duration.MethodsStimulus duration was controlled to investigate whether these two peak latencies align to form a single RT. …”
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