Orthodontic retainers: are they all the same? by Telma Martins de ARAUJO, Paula Paes FERREIRA, Izabelle Alice Pinheiro Barros LISBOA, Carlos Jorge VOGEL, Carolina Ribeiro STARLING

“…ABSTRACT Introduction: It is known that the stability of the results obtained with orthodontic treatment depends, in addition to the functional and aesthetic aspects, also on the adequate planning of the retention devices, the patient’s compliance with this new phase, and the physiological changes that the human body experiences over the years, throughout the craniofacial aging process. …”
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Bartonella henselae Hepatic Abscesses and Associated Osteomyelitis in a Pediatric Patient by Molly Antonson, Lauren Klingemann, Kari Neemann

“…Bartonella henselae is a Gram-negative bacillus transmitted to humans via cat saliva or scratch. Cat scratch disease, the typical clinical manifestation of B. henselae infection, presents as localized cutaneous or regional lymphadenopathy. …”
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Effects of POPs-induced SIRT6 alteration on intestinal mucosal barrier function: A comprehensive review by Guangcan Chen, Tengyang Huang, Yifeng Dai, Xia Huo, Xijin Xu

“…Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are pervasive organic chemicals with significant environmental and ecological ramifications, extending to adverse human health effects due to their toxicity and persistence. …”
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Problems of poetic translation by M. R. Arpentieva

“…Apart from transforming text, poetry translation also involves cognition, discourse, and action by and between human and textual actors in a physical and social setting. …”
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PRESERVING AND MANAGING CHINESE SETTLEMENT HERITAGE TOURISM IN LASEM, INDONESIA by Prisca Kiki WULANDARI, Muhammad BAIQUNI, Ahmad ZUBAIDI

“…The results of this study show that the community or owner in managing settlements or Chinese houses as tourist destinations should have three capacities in the social resilience perspective, namely 1) coping capacity, which includes resources, knowledge, skills, and learning; community as the main actor, community awareness, and social kinship system; 2) adaptive capacity which includes: community networks, human and environmental relations, and community participation; and 3) transformative capacity which includes community infrastructure, multi-stakeholder partnerships, technological innovation, diversity and economic innovation. …”
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The Cinematic Visions and Dreams of Edgard Varèse by Gabriele

“…The paper retraces the compositional parabola that involved the author for the last years of his life, setting it down in the recording studios and human environments in which he found himself operating, in order to reconstruct, through the dense network of relationships between technology and thoughts, the milieu that gave rise to one of the multiple roots of film music. …”
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Central Nervous System Lymphoma: The Great Mimicker—A Single-Institution Retrospective Study by Danielle A. Bazer, Ewa Zabrocka, Nicholas Koroneos, Agnieszka Kowalska

“…This is a retrospective case series examining 13 human immunodeficiency virus- (HIV-) negative patients with PCNSL and DLBCL type, with a median age of 75 years old. …”
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Cancer, Health Literacy, and Happiness: Perspectives from Patients under Chemotherapy by Sara Maria Oliveira Pinto, Sílvia Maria Alves Caldeira Berenguer, José Carlos Amado Martins

“…Cancer is a dreaded disease that affects all dimensions of human life. In this context, issues related to the quality of life—as happiness, perception about health status, or health literacy—are important. …”
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Pastoral leadership for a relevant missional ecclesiology in a context of poverty by M. Maritz

“…In this article, poverty is defined as a circumstance where the deprivation of individual and collective human abilities and resources hinders people in achieving their well-being. …”
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Profiling the Resident and Infiltrating Monocyte/Macrophages during Rejection following Kidney Transplantation by Jie Wang, Peiling Luo, Jingjie Zhao, Junhua Tan, Feifan Huang, Ruiying Ma, Peng Huang, Meiying Huang, Yuming Huang, Qiuju Wei, Liuzhi Wei, Zechen Wang, Lingzhang Meng

“…In this study, kidney samples taken from healthy human adults and biopsy specimens from patients undergoing rejection following kidney transplantation were analysed and studied. …”
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The Role of PPARγ in the Transcriptional Control by Agonists and Antagonists by Tamotsu Tsukahara

“…Furthermore, it has received attention for its therapeutic potential in many other human diseases, including atherosclerosis, obesity, and cancers. …”
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Dynamical behaviors of an Echinococcosis epidemic model with distributed delays by Kai Wang, Zhidong Teng, Xueliang Zhang

“…That is, if $\mathcal{R}_0 \lt 1$, the disease-free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable, and if $\mathcal{R}_0 \gt 1$, the model is permanent and the endemic equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable. According to human Echinococcosis cases from January 2004 to December 2011 in Xinjiang, China, we estimate the parameters of the model and study the transmission trend of the disease in Xinjiang, China. …”
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Promoting Inclusivity in Blood Donation: Public Health by Saurabh R Shrivastava, Priyanka Meshram, Swapnil Inkane

“… The practice of blood donation supports community unity, as it brings all individuals on a common platform where they help each other and the health system in the mission to save human lives. Regardless of the wide scope and merits of blood donation in saving lives and improving health, it is a fact that many patients who are in need do not receive safe blood timely. …”
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Exploring Text Mining and Analytics for Applications in Public Security: an in-depth dive into a systematic literature review by Victor Diogho Heuer de Carvalho, Ana Paula Cabral Seixas Costa

“…Text mining and related analytics emerge as a technological approach to support human activities in extracting useful knowledge through texts in several formats. …”
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Physical and Mechanical Properties of Superior “Mega”  and Conventional Teak Wood Planted in Wanagama Educational Forest, Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta by Fanny Hidayati, Isti Tamira Fajrin, Muhammad Rosyid Ridho, Widyanto Dwi Nugroho, Sri Nugroho Marsoem, Mohammad Na'iem

“…Demand of teak wood increases every year along the increase of human population and prosperity. On the other hand, teak is one of the long rotation tree species. …”
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When the Stoic Chameleon Came Across the Cylinder. Stoicism and the Matter of Confessions by Ádám Smrcz

“…While in his early works Lipsius endorsed a semi-compatibilist view (claiming that humans were not endowed with free will, but still, they could be held responsible for their actions), later in his life, he adopted a more libertarian stance. …”
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Advancing forensic investigations based on TiO2/Bi2O3 electrochemical sensor for precise potassium estimation in vitreous humor by Zulfiqar Ali Buzdar, Hamza Ali, Maria Munir, Naveed A. Shad, Allah Rakha, Anam Munawar

“…This study focuses on leveraging the synergistic potential of a bimetallic TiO2/Bi2O3 nano-composite to meticulously evaluate vitreous potassium levels in human cadavers. The designed TiO2/Bi2O3 nano-composite exhibits a finely structured morphology, characterized by diminutive sheet-like formations spanning the nano-scale dimension of 20–250 nm. …”
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Overexpression of FERM Domain Containing Kindlin 2 (FERMT2) in Fibroblasts Correlates with EMT and Immunosuppression in Gastric Cancer by Sheng-yan Yin, Yuan-jie Liu, Jie-pin Li, Jian Liu

“…Furthermore, we found that, in addition to the known pathways, fibroblast-derived FERMT2 promotes M2-like macrophage growth and that in human GC samples, there is a strong positive correlation between FERMT2 and CD163 and CD206 levels. …”
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Investigation of the effect of some geomorphologic features of Joghatai mountains on water quality changes in terms of chromite by ali akbar shayan yeganeh, mina firoz yazdi, javad jamalabadi

“…Water is one of the most vital human needs. Chromium is one of the heavy metals that causes water pollution in different regions. …”
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Architecture for Resource Allocation in the Internet of Vehicles for Cooperating Driving System by Nafeesa kalsoom, Iftikhar Ahmad, Roobaea Alroobaea, Muhammad Ahsan Raza, Samina Khalid, Zaheed Ahmed, Ihsan Ali

“…Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is a complex system that consists of resource types such as vehicles, humans, and sensors. Although the Internet of Vehicles is complex, it improvises communication among vehicles on the roads. …”
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