Modern Trends in Public Funding of Higher Education by M. De Martino, G. F. Tkach, S. A. Kovalenko

“…This paper discusses the main mechanisms of financing higher education systems and analyzes the structures and features of these mechanisms using the examples of the largest countries of Western Europe and Asia – Germany, Spain, Italy, France, and China.Materials and methods. In order to identify current trends in public funding of higher education, the authors used two main groups of materials, which can be conditionally divided into official regulatory documents and statistical (analytical) reviews. …”
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From hinterland granary fort to frontier mountain fortress: Initiation, construction, and expansion of the Diaoyucheng Fortress, Hechuan, China, in the wars during 1125–1279 by Wen Huang, Jiang Feng

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Principle of Virtual Work as Foundational Framework for Metamaterial Discovery and Rational Design by dell’Isola, Francesco, Misra, Anil

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An overview of smart agriculture using internet of things (IoT) and web services by Vijaya Choudhary, Paramita Guha, Giovanni Pau, Sunita Mishra

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The Facial Approximation of the Skull Attributed to Jan Žižka (ca. AD 1360–1424) by Cicero Moraes, Johari Yap Abdullah, Jiri Šindelář, Matěj Šindelář, Zuzana Thomová, Jakub Smrčka, Mauro Vaccarezza, Thiago Beaini, Francesco Maria Galassi

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Evolution of Scale-Free Wireless Sensor Networks with Feature of Small-World Networks by Ying Duan, Xiuwen Fu, Wenfeng Li, Yu Zhang, Giancarlo Fortino

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A NEW FOSSIL CLARIFIES THE ANATOMY AND PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF THE EOCENE GYMNODONT FISH †<em>ZIGNOICHTHYS OBLONGUS</em> (ZIGNO, 1874) by LORENZO RIDOLFI, GIUSEPPE MARRAMÀ, JAMES TYLER, Giorgio Carnevale

“… The Eocene tetraodontiform fish †Zignoichthys oblongus (Zigno, 1874) from the Bolca Konservat-Lagerstätte, northeastern Italy, is redescribed in detail based upon new material. …”
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Informative architectures and citizen participation: a comparative study between the digital platforms Decidim and Rousseauv by Eli Borges Junior, Bruno Madureira Ferreira

“…This article looks at this question using a comparative study between two digital informative architectures: the Five Star Movement’s (originally in Italian “Movimento 5 Stelle”) Rousseau platform in Italy, and the Decidim platform, developed after the 15M movement in Spain by a collaboration of entities from different countries. …”
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Ecofriendly synthesis of silver nanoparticles using metallic solution-based goji berry extract for their antibacterial properties by Abdul Rauf Jamali, Waseem Khan, Salahuddin Khan, Ahmed Ahmed Ibrahim, Kamran Alam

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A Flexible Framework Integrating Digital and Social Competences in Vocational Education Across Diverse Contexts by María José Hernández-Serrano, Joe Cullen, Barbara Jones, Noelia Morales Romo

“…It was piloted in five countries (UK, Sweden, Germany, Italy, and Spain) to provide a flexible, and needs-based competence framework for VET teachers working with vulnerable learners. …”
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Chronic vs. Short-Term Acute O3 Exposure Effects on Nocturnal Transpiration in Two Californian Oaks by N. E. Grulke, E. Paoletti, R. L. Heath

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Multipoint Optimal Minimum Entropy Deconvolution Adjusted for Automatic Fault Diagnosis of Hoist Bearing by Tengyu Li, Ziming Kou, Juan Wu, Waled Yahya, Francesco Villecco

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Anti-immigration Agenda of Populist Parties in Switzerland by E. P. Shavlay, M. I. Sigachev, E. S. Sleptsov

“…The authors argue that the phenomenon of Swiss populism should be considered in a broader context, in connection with which attention is paid not only to the Swiss people's party, the Ticino League and the Geneva citizens ' Movement, but also to the populist parties of countries belonging to the Alpine macroregion – the Austrian freedom party (Austria) and the League (Italy). A discursive analysis of the programs shows that the anti-immigrant program is an essential part of the identity of right-wing populists. …”
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Community pharmacist-and psychologist-led program of neuropsychological screening in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional survey by Nicola Luigi BRAGAZZI, Fiorella PALOMBO-FERRETTI, Rocco CARBONE, Tania Simona RE, "Pharmacists- and Psychologists in community pharmacies-led Psychological Screening for Cognitive issues in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic" (PsyChOVID) WORKING GROUP

“…Aim: To assess the impact of a pharmacist-based cognitive memory screening service delivered in community pharmacy practice in Italy in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Screening of cucumber varieties and hybrids for selection of downy mildew resistance sources by N. T. Amirkhanova, A. S. Rsaliyev

“…Eighty cucumber cultivars from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, India, Serbia, Russia, Ukraine, USA, Moldova, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, France, Israel, China, Taiwan and South Korea were tested for their resistance to the downy mildew in the field. …”
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Depression in the Iranian Elderly: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Hedayat Jafari, Dariush Ghasemi-Semeskandeh, Amir Hossein Goudarzian, Tahereh Heidari, Azar Jafari-Koulaee

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Jack London and White Fang: a lost struggle by Zilberstein, Gleb, Zilberstein, Svetlana, Rocco, Richard M., Righetti, Pier Giorgio

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France in the Vienna System of International Relations (the First Half of The 19^th Century) by I. V. Ignatchenko

“…Leading French politicians defined quite clearly exclusive spheres of influence of France, and in 1832 the French troops invaded Central Italy, capturing the city of Ancona. In 1840, during the second Oriental crisis, the French government has opposed themselves to the rest of Europe for the first time since the Napoleonic wars. …”
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ZACHARIAS’S PRAYER IN TWO NOVGORODIAN TRANSLATIONS (END OF THE 15TH – FIRST HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY): SOME REFLECTIONS ON MULTIPLE TRANSLATIONS AND RE-TRANSLATIONS by Vittorio Springfield Tomelleri

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Global burden of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, 2010 to 2021 by Gong Feng, Giovanni Targher, Christopher D. Byrne, Yusuf Yilmaz, Vincent Wai-Sun Wong, Cosmas Rinaldi Adithya Lesmana, Leon A. Adams, Jerome Boursier, George Papatheodoridis, Mohamed El-Kassas, Nahum Méndez-Sánchez, Silvia Sookoian, Laurent Castera, Wah-Kheong Chan, Feng Ye, Sombat Treeprasertsuk, Helena Cortez-Pinto, Hon Ho Yu, Won Kim, Manuel Romero-Gómez, Atsushi Nakajima, Khin Maung Win, Seung Up Kim, Adriaan G. Holleboom, Giada Sebastiani, Ponsiano Ocama, John D. Ryan, Monica Lupșor-Platon, Hasmik Ghazinyan, Mamun Al-Mahtab, Saeed Hamid, Nilanka Perera, Khalid A. Alswat, Qiuwei Pan, Michelle T. Long, Vasily Isakov, Man Mi, Marco Arrese, Arun J. Sanyal, Shiv Kumar Sarin, Nathalie Carvalho Leite, Luca Valenti, Philip N. Newsome, Hannes Hagström, Salvatore Petta, Hannele Yki-Järvinen, Jörn M. Schattenberg, Marlen I. Castellanos Fernández, Isabelle A. Leclercq, Gulnara Aghayeva, Abdel-Naser Elzouki, Ali Tumi, Ala I. Sharara, Asma Labidi, Faisal M. Sanai, Khaled Matar, Maen Al-Mattooq, Maisam Waid Akroush, Mustapha Benazzouz, Nabil Debzi, Maryam Alkhatry, Salma Barakat, Said A. Al-Busafi, John Rwegasha, Wah Yang, Agyei Adwoa, Christopher Kenneth Opio, Mohammadjavad Sotoudeheian, Yu Jun Wong, Jacob George, Ming-Hua Zheng

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