The evolution of hospitals from Antiquity to the Renaissance by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…In India the monastic system created by the Buddhist religion led to institutionalised health care facilities as early as the 5th century BC, and with the spread of Buddhism to the east, nursing facilities, the nature and function of which are not known to us, also appeared in Sri Lanka, China and South East Asia. …”
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Landscape patterns of carbon fluxes in natural and disturbed ice-wedge-polygon tundra by Anja Kade, Donald A. Walker, Martha K. Raynolds, Amy L. Breen, Olivia M. Hobgood

“…The damming effect of road infrastructure led to deeply flooded, minimally vegetated troughs with low ecosystem respiration and high CH4 fluxes close to the road. …”
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Geographical distribution of human pythiosis in the USA by Raquel Vilela, Sue C. Grady, Priscilla Rocha Vilela, Leonel Mendoza

“…The clinical picture of pythiosis mirrors the clinical features of infections caused by other pathogens, including filamentous fungi, making its diagnosis challenging. This fact had led to several misdiagnosed cases involving filamentous fungal pathogens. …”
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Design of a Simple and Modular 2-DOF Ankle Physiotherapy Device Relying on a Hybrid Serial-Parallel Robotic Architecture by Christos E. Syrseloudis, Ioannis Z. Emiris, Theodore Lilas, Artemis Maglara

“…Our detailed study of foot kinematics has led us to a new hybrid architecture, which strikes a balance among all aforementioned goals. …”
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THE PALESTINIAN PROBLEM IN THE MIDDLE EAST POLICY OF THE USSR / RUSSIA by T. V. Nosenko, V. A. Isaev, E. S. Melkumyan

“…Moscow began to consider the activities of the PLO as part of the national liberation movement, took a sharply anti-Israeli stance. Such a distortion led to a loss of freedom of maneuver in the region and to the announcement of deliberately non-constructive proposals for a Palestinian-Israeli settlement. …”
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COVID-19 and Decision-Making for Pregnant Women: Taking or Relinquishing Control in Response to a Pandemic by Elizabeth Kaselitz, Chelsea Finkbeiner, Sarah Javaid, Sarah Barringer, Sarah D. Compton, Maria Muzik, Cheryl A. Moyer

“…A conceptual framework for understanding the impact of COVID-19 on women’s birth plans was generated. 2,320 pregnant women (mean age 32.7 years, mean weeks pregnant 24.6 weeks) responded to the open-ended prompts, reflecting the following themes: the impact(s) of COVID-19 on pregnant women (including unanticipated changes and uncertainty), the effect of COVID-19 on decision-making (including emotional reactions and subsequent questioning of the healthcare system), and how both of those things led women to either exercise or relinquish their agency related to their birth plan. …”
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Continuous monitoring of temporal skills during long-term in-home training by cochlear implant users by Krzysztof R. Szymański, Krzysztof Gawryluk, Marek Brancewicz

“…Temporal analysis showed that extended use of the platform generally led to improved scores among cochlear implant users.The findings underscore the need for cautious interpretation of melodic contour identification test results, given the difficulty experienced by both cochlear implant users and normally hearing individuals. …”
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Performance Analysis and Optimisation During Machining of Al-ZrB2 Reinforcement-Based Metal Matrix Nanocomposites Using Coated and Uncoated Insert by Seema V. Yerigeri, Vaijanath V. Yerigeri

“…The continuous pursuit of improving machining processes in the manufacturing industry has led to the development of these advanced materials and innovative tooling techniques. …”
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Evolutionary Game Analysis of Online Shopping Quality Control: The Roles of Risk Attitude and Government Supervision by Decheng Wen, Dongwei Yan, Xiaojing Sun, Xiao Chen

“…This paper enriches the theoretical research studies on both online product quality control and government-led social governance system of quality. Suggestions for government supervision and e-commerce entities are also provided for quality assurance and improvement.…”
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Cooperative Learning in EFL Classes: A Comparative Study on Vocabulary Teaching by Emine Eda Ercan Demirel

“…The results indicated that the participants of the experimental group who had the Cooperative Learning experience led to better results in terms of vocabulary learning than the other students who were taught through the traditional instruction…”
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Badges of (Dis-)Honour: Manifesting the ‘Conquest’ of Uluṟu via Wearable Material Culture by Dirk H. R. Spennemann, Sharnie Hurford

“…The background to the history of climbing Uluṟu in the context of European invasion (‘exploration’), the nature of tourism at Uluṟu and the role climbing played in this, as well as the management decisions that led to the closure of the climb can be grouped into four thematic periods: the beginnings of settler colonialist ascents (1873–1950), the ‘heroic’ age of Uluṟu tourism (1950–1958), lodges in a National Park (1958–1985), and joint management and the eventual closure of the climb (1985–2019). …”
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Adaptive CNN Ensemble for Complex Multispectral Image Analysis by Syed Muslim Jameel, Manzoor Ahmed Hashmani, Mobashar Rehman, Arif Budiman

“…The prevalence of Industrial Revolution 4.0 has led to the emergence to perform real-time analysis (classification) in an online learning scenario. …”
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Moral disengagement as mediator and guilt as moderator between cyber moral literacy and cyberbullying among late adolescents by Ya-Xing Sun, Cui-Hong Cao, Zhi-Jun Tang, Fei-Mei Huang, Xiao-Bin Zhong, I-Hua Chen

“…Abstract The rapid growth of internet usage has led to increased cyberbullying among adolescents, with varying rates reported across countries. …”
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Mini review of spatially fractionated radiation therapy for cancer management by Shrikant B. Mali

“…Preclinical findings showed that the high-single-dose irradiation of hypoxic tumor cells generates a stronger bystander effect (BE) and AE than the normoxic cells, suggesting their higher “immunogenic potential.'' This led to the development of a novel Stereotactic Body RadioTherapy (SBRT)-based PArtial Tumor irradiation targeting HYpoxic segment (SBRT-PATHY) for induction of the immune-mediated BE and AE. …”
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Conservation communautaire et changement de statuts du bonobo dans le Territoire de Bolobo by Victor Narat, Flora Pennec, Sabrina Krief, Jean Christophe Bokika Ngawolo, Richard Dumez

“…As a part of an interdisciplinary study focused on the interactions between bonobos (Pan paniscus), habitats and humans in a community-based conservation area initiated and led by the Congolese NGO Mbou-Mon-tour in the Bolobo Territory (Democratic Republic of Congo), we analyzed the evolution of the local status of bonobos: bonobos as animals with relevance to legal regimes, economic activities, and ecological research and education. …”
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The Evolution of Mediation in International Conflicts from 1940s to 2020s by M. M. Lebedeva

“…Meanwhile, the growing activity of non-state actors led to the emergence of mediation via “track II diplomacy”. …”
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Eptinezumab-jjmr, a humanized monoclonal specific to Calcitonin Gene Related Peptide, for the preventive treatment of migraine in adults by Amnon A. Berger, Joseph Keefe, Cain W. Stark, Matthew Moore, Giovanni F. Ramírez, Julia R. Cucarola, Andrew H. Han, Alan D. Kaye, Latha Ganti

“…This is driven by biochemical transmitters, chiefly CGRP. This discovery led to the development of CGRP-targeting drugs, including gepants (small molecular antagonists) and anti-CGRP antibodies, such as Eptinezumab-jjmr. …”
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Metalloproteinases and their Inhibitors under the Course of Immunostimulation by CPG-ODN and Specific Antigen Inhalation in Equine Asthma by Ann Kristin Barton, Tarek Shety, John Klier, Sabine Geis, Ralf Einspanier, Heidrun Gehlen

“…MMP and TIMP concentrations correlated with the results of clinical scoring in all stages of equine asthma. Inhalation therapy led to significant reductions in clinical scores. …”
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THE MONASTERY OF “NEW NEAMŢ” – THE SACRED RIVER THAT FLEW IN THE OCEAN OF ROMANIAN HISTORY by Stela GUŢANU

“…The discovery and in-depth analysis of each manuscript have helped complete the lists of works created by the psalms, more or less notorious. Moreover, they have led to a better understanding of the religious musical life from the old Moldavian monastery, of the beginnings of choral singing. …”
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Knockout of BnaX.SGT.a caused significant sinapine reduction in transgene-free rapeseed mutants generated by protoplast-based CRISPR RNP editing by Oliver Moss, Xueyuan Li, Eu Sheng Wang, Selvaraju Kanagarajan, Rui Guan, Emelie Ivarson, Li-Hua Zhu

“…Sequencing results revealed a variety of mutation types, from 1 bp insertions to 10 bp deletions, with most mutants exhibiting frameshift mutations that led to premature stop codons. The mutants displayed no visible phenotypic differences in growth patterns or flowering compared to the wild type. …”
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