Comparing Welfare Regime Changes: Living Standards and the Unequal Life Chances of Different Birth Cohorts by Louis Chauvel

“…These scarring effects can affect specific birth cohorts in countries where the welfare regime provides the context for increasing polarisation between middle-aged insiders and young outsiders. This is characterised by a lack of resilience to early career difficulties faced by cohorts of young adults.…”
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Writing Against Culture with Online Poker by Jukka Jouhki

“…When the NHL strike (2004–2005) in North America created an  cute need for television re-scheduling, poker tournaments filled the empty programming slots. A stale game of middle-aged men turned into an exciting, familiar hobby with a global reach. …”
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El aragonés: historia de una lengua minoritaria y minorizada by Mª Pilar Benítez Marco, Óscar Latas Alegre

“…Despite the fact that Aragonese is a language exclusive to the Autonomous Community of Aragon and that it was the language used during the Middle Ages in different public and private spheres, it is currently in danger of extinction, according to UNESCO. …”
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Xanthogranulomatous Pyelonephritis with Incomplete Double Ureter by Yutaro Hayashi, Takashi Kawahara, Yusuke Hattori, Kota Shimokihara, Sohgo Tsutsumi, Daiji Takamoto, Taku Mochizuki, Jun-ichi Teranishi, Yasushi Yumura, Yasuhide Miyoshi, Masako Otani, Hiroji Uemura

“…Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis (XGP) is a type of chronic renal inflammation that usually occurs in immunocompromised middle-aged women with chronic urinary tract infection or ureteral obstruction induced by the formation of ureteral stones. …”
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Monuments of early East Slav-Serbian literary relations as sources for studying Serbian identity by Jelesijević Snežana V.

“…A brief overview is given of the observed traces of the application of Nomocanon and its impact on the life and consciousness of the Serbs in the Middle Ages. An important place among them is held by the realization of the idea of the symphony between the Church and the state, and their cooperation in regulating marital relations. …”
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Multiple Symmetric Lipomatosis: A Review of 3 Cases by Emilio Mevio, Michele Sbrocca, Mauro Mullace, Silvia Viglione, Niccolò Mevio

“…This disease usually affects middle-aged males from the Mediterranean area with a history of alcohol abuse. …”
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Challenges Associated with Negative Pressure Pulmonary Oedema: A Case Report and Review by Wing Hoh Loo, Kay Mint Goh

“…We present a case of NPPO in a middle-aged obese patient with high perioperative cardiac risk who underwent an emergency open appendicectomy. …”
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Dermoscopic Features of CD8-Positive Solitary Pagetoid Reticulosis on the Left Leg by Reiko Suzaki, Ken Kobayashi, Sumiko Ishizaki, Mariko Fujibayashi, Masaru Tanaka

“…It primarily affects middle-aged males. Because the clinical features of pagetoid reticulosis are indistinctive, pagetoid reticulosis may progress for years before accurate diagnosis. …”
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An approach to the Da Vinci and Vesalio’s art: contribution to anatomical teaching by Greta Margarita Arrechea García, Adys Castro Berberena

“…From the most remote Jurassic time, the Greek civilization, the Claudio Galen’s ancient Rome, the Middle Ages and contemporary Renaissance, the Harvey and Malpighi’s modern age, as well as the 19th century considered as the "modern period" of Anatomy, where Galen's descriptive vision is expanded, and Vesalius' architectural vision, have been the arts an important factor to take into account in the science development. …”
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Knee Osteoarthritis Treatment with the KineSpring Knee Implant System: A Report of Two Cases by David A. Hayes, Larry E. Miller, Jon E. Block

“…Osteoarthritis (OA) is a leading cause of disability in middle-aged and older adults with the prevalence expected to increase by 40% by 2025. …”
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Mixed Germ Cell Tumor with Extensive Yolk Sac Tumor Elements in the Frontal Lobe of an Adult by Toshihide Takahashi, Eiichi Ishikawa, Yosuke Masuda, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Taiki Sato, Makoto Shibuya, Akira Matsumura

“…Here, we report a case of a yolk sac tumor in the frontal lobe in a middle-aged patient. A 42-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for headache and nausea. …”
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Etyczne warunki rezygnacji z uporczywej terapii by Wojciech Bołoz

“…This trend is sometimes justified by the exceptional value of human life, which demands both the patient’s and doctor’s heroism. Since the Middle Ages, it has been a widely accepted practice to limit the care for human life to the use of so-called, ordinary, and proportionate remedies. …”
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Oral Verruciform Xanthoma: A Case Report and Literature Review by Akshay Shetty, Kourosh Nakhaei, Yogesh Lakkashetty, Maryam Mohseni, Iman Mohebatzadeh

“…Verruciform xanthoma is a benign mucocutaneous, uncommon, nonsymptomatic lesion of uncertain etiopathology, which occurs mostly on the oral mucosa of middle-aged individuals. Histopathologically, VX is diagnosed by presence of lipid-laden foam cells in papillary region of connective tissue. …”
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Nodular Fasciitis of the Breast Mimicking Breast Cancer by Shinya Yamamoto, Takashi Chishima, Shouko Adachi

“…Nodular fasciitis is a benign proliferative lesion that is usually found in the soft tissue of the upper extremity and trunk in young to middle-aged persons. It has rarely been described in the breast. …”
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Floating Knee Injury Associated with Patellar Tendon Rupture: A Case Report and Review of Literature by Singaravadivelu Vaidyanathan, Jagannath Panchanathan Ganesan, Mugundhan Moongilpatti Sengodan

“…Floating knee injuries are frequently associated with other concomitant injuries to the ipsilateral limb or other parts of body of which injury to the ipsilateral knee ligaments carries significance for various reasons. A middle-aged man sustained a floating knee injury following RTA. …”
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An outline of typology of social relations in the countries of Byzantine civilization in the VII-XIV Centuries by Nerijus Babinskas

“… The main concepts which the author operates in his attempt to describe typologically a type of social relations in the area of Byzantine civilization in the Middle Ages are: an Asiatic mode of production, a slave mode of production, feudalism, and so-called semi-feudalism. …”
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Histoire graphique de la langue bretonne : la question de la norme by Herve Le Bihan

“…The history of the Breton spelling begins in the Middle Ages, when the language was then a part of the lingua britannica which gives birth too to Welsh and Cornish. …”
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Medieval Naturalia by Chantal Stein

“…The nascent global age at the close of the Middle Ages introduced exotic objects from distant lands into Western Europe. …”
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Intercambios artísticos en una diócesis transfronteriza by Marta Cendón Fernández

“…Both, live the historical vicissitudes of the High Middle Ages, and their episcopal sees are restored around the same dates. …”
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Confusion and Hallucination: A Case Report of an Unusual Presentation of COVID-19 by Rawabi Aljumaiah, Wael Alturaiki, Bandar Alosaimi

“…Here, we report the case report of a middle-aged man, with no previous known medical illness, who presented with a 5-day-history of anxiety, fever, confusion, and hallucinations. …”
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