THE PROBLEM OF WORLD ORDER IN WESTERN IR STUDIES by M. V. Soljanova

“…The author of this article seeks to research and analyze the various theoretical paradigms (neo-realism, neo-liberalism, institutionalism, neo-marxism, etc.) and concepts to form a coherent picture of the structure of the world system, its main features and to offer readers the vision of the concept of "world order". …”
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Role of 25 MHz Ultrasound Biomicroscopy in the Detection of Subluxated Lenses by Mingyu Shi, Liwei Ma, Jinsong Zhang, Qichang Yan

“…Different cross-sectional images of the lens position were captured in axial and longitudinal scanning modes using 25 and 50 MHz UBM. The main outcome measurements included the linear distance between the lens equator and ciliary process, the difference value (D-value) between the same cross section of the above bilateral linear distance in the normal and the subluxated subjects, the diagnostic accuracy, and the testing times obtained with 25 and 50 MHz UBM. …”
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Response of Runoff and Sediment Yield from Maize Slope Farmland in Karst Areas to Slope Gradient by WU Guangqin, DAI Quanhou, WANG Yong, DING Pengwei, YAO Yiwen

“…[Conclusion] In the maize slope farmland in karst areas, as the slope gradient increases, the soil erosion patterns of different soil layers show inconsistency, and the main form of soil erosion is surface erosion, supplemented by underground leakage. …”
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Involvement of Inner Choroidal Layer in Choroidal Thinning during Regression of Multiple Evanescent White Dot Syndrome by Yuki Hashimoto, Wataru Saito, Yuka Hasegawa, Kousuke Noda, Susumu Ishida

“…These results suggest that MEWDS lesions in the choroid are likely to lie mainly in the inner layer.…”
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Latent Toxoplasmosis among Breast Cancer Patients in Jahrom, South of Iran by Marzeieh Haghbin, Salar Maani, Mohammad Aref Bagherzadeh, Ahmadreza Bazmjoo, Heshmatollah Shakeri, Ali Taghipour, Shahab Falahi, Azra Kenarkoohi, Milad Badri, Amir Abdoli

“…Reactivation of latent toxoplasmosis is the main cause of severe infection among immunocompromised patients, including patients with cancer. …”
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Building a new life in Australia: an analysis of the first wave of the longitudinal study of humanitarian migrants in Australia to assess the association between social integration... by Wen Chen, Li Ling, Andre M N Renzaho

“…A total of 2399 HMs participated in the survey.Main outcome measures Self-rated physical health was measured using four items selected from the SF-36 which is a generic measure of health status. …”
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Centralized and local legal regulation of labor relations: problems of correlation and development by V. S. Venediktov, K. Yu. Melnyk

“…The collective agreement, as the main local regulatory act in the field of labor, should comprehensively regulate labor relations within a specific enterprise, institution, organization or individual who uses hired labor. …”
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Understanding Local Perspectives on Climate Change and Its Impacts on Small-Scale Fishing Communities in Honda Bay, Palawan, Philippines by Jesusito Vicente, Niño Jess Mar Mecha, Jean Beth Jontila

“…Most of them (65%) finished elementary and generally (94%) rely on fishing for main source of living. As for income, 47%  earned an estimated monthly income of Php 2,501-5,000 and 28% got  Php 5,001-7,500. …”
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Criteria for the admissibility of digital (electronic) evidence in criminal proceedings by V. V. Romaniuk, S. Ye. Ablamskyi

“…Given the importance of the outlined issues, the main purpose of the study is to characterize each component of the admissibility of such evidence, namely: the proper source of receipt, the proper subject, and the proper method of collection. …”
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Determination of Hydraulic Properties of a Large Self-Propped Hydraulic Fracture in the Geothermal Research Borehole Horstberg Z1 in the Northwest German Basin by Reinhard Jung, Alireza Hassanzadegan, Torsten Tischner

“…The fracture had been created by injecting some 20,000 m3 of freshwater at 3800 m depth in borehole Horstberg Z1 of the geothermal research project GeneSys. Its main purpose is to study the hydraulic properties and mechanical behaviour of artificial fractures kept open by the so called self-propping effect which results from the misfit of the opposite fracture surfaces being sheared during fracture propagation. …”
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Application of alternative <i>de novo</i> motif recognition models for analysis of structural heterogeneity of transcription factor binding sites: a case study of FOXA2 binding sit... by A. V. Tsukanov, V. G. Levitsky, T. I. Merkulova

“…The BaMM model provided the main contribution to the recognition of sites. Although the major fraction of predicted peaks contained TFBS of different models with coincided positions, the medians of the fraction of peaks containing the predictions of sole models were 1.08, 0.49, 4.15 and 1.73 % for PWM, diPWM, BaMM and InMoDe, respectively. …”
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The role of sodium butyrate in modulating growth, intestinal health, and antimicrobial efficacy in turbot (Scophthalmus maximus L.) fed high soy diets by Jinjin Zhang, Cuijing Jia, Jinping Dong, Jingliang Wu, Minggang Liu, Hansong Zhang, Chengshuo Zhao

“…Abstract Butyrate is one of the most abundant short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), which are important metabolites of dietary fiber by fermentation of gut commensals, and has been shown to be vital in maintaining host health. The present study mainly investigated how sodium butyrate (NaB) supplementation in the diet with high proportion of soybean meal (SBM) affected turbot. …”
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Perinatal consequences of a category 1 caesarean section at term by Sailesh Kumar, Leah Grace, Ristan M Greer

“…Objective To characterise maternal demographics, obstetric risk factors and neonatal outcomes associated with term category 1 caesarean sections (CS).Design and setting and main outcome measures Retrospective study of term singleton pregnancies delivering at a major tertiary unit in Brisbane, Australia. …”
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The utilization of the multimodal immunotherapy for the opsoclonus–myoclonus syndrome can reduce relapses and permanent neurological sequelae by Fang He, Miriam Kessi, Ciliu Zhang, Jing Peng, Fei Yin, Lifen Yang

“…Exposures included treatment with multimodal immunotherapy. Main outcomes and measures included the OMS severity grading scale and DQ/IQ scores. …”
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The Impact of Multitasking on Transport Mode Choice in Autonomous Vehicle Age by Jamil Hamadneh, Domokos Esztergar-Kiss

“…The study considers solely main trip purposes within urban areas. A stated preference (SP) survey is distributed in Budapest, Hungary, and 276 participants are collected. …”
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A Fourfold Bi-Filter and Permuted Bi-Quad-Wrapper Feature Selection Method for Finding Optimal Moments of Multi-Trajectory Transient Records in Transient Analysis by Seyed Alireza Bashiri Mosavi, Omid Khalaf Beigi

“…In the case of wrapper methods, hyperplane-based classifiers (HCs), namely support vector machine (SVM) and twin SVM (TWSVM), play the main role in IWSS and IWSSr tree formation. Due to kernel-based learning necessity in NTES, embedding the radial basis function (RBF), dynamic time warping (DTW), and polynomial (POL) kernels into dual HCs is on the agenda. …”
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Integration of carbon dioxide sensor with GNSS receiver for dynamic air quality monitoring applications by Lin Yola, Garrin Alif Nanditho, Kaito Kobayashi, Dinesh Manandhar

“…The field air quality monitoring (CO2 observed in ppm) and the movement velocity (vehicle speed observed in km/h) were recorded on two main roads of Jakarta by using a survey vehicle. …”
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Proteomic and Metabolomic Characterization of Metabolically Healthy Obesity: A Descriptive Study from a Swedish Cohort by J. Korduner, P. M. Nilsson, O. Melander, M. J. Gerl, G. Engström, E. Bachus, M. Magnusson, F. Ottosson

“…Two distinctive principle components (PL2, PP5) were discovered with a significant difference and thus further investigated through their main loadings. Results. MHO individuals had a more metabolically favorable lipid and glucose profile than MUO subjects, that is, lower levels of traditional blood glucose and triglycerides, as well as a trend of lower metabolically unfavorable lipid biomarkers. …”
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Physiological and transcriptomic analysis of the effect of overexpression of the NTPIP2;4 gene on drought tolerance in tobacco by Xu Luo, Yuanshuai Shi, Jie Tan, Tao Long, Juntao Song, Yang Liu

“…The DEGs were enriched mainly in the plant MAPK signaling pathway, the plant hormone signal transduction pathway, amino sugar and nucleotide sugar metabolism, starch and sucrose metabolism and plant-pathogen interaction pathways. …”
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Reducing the Brace Correction Stress on the Secondary Lumbar Curve Results in Excellent Muscle, Bone, and Disc Mechanical Performance: A Musculoskeletal Finite Element Simulation o... by Xiaohui Zhang, Di Wang, Danyu Lv, Jinmiao Lv, Huiyi Tang, Jinlin Qian, Bagen Liao

“…Results The correction rate of the main thoracic (MT) curve, the intervertebral space height on the concave side of the vertebrae at the apex, and the stress ratio of the intervertebral discs were optimal when the maximum corrective pressure threshold was reached. …”
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