Imperfect bipolarity: The ‘third power’ factor in Soviet-American relations in the nuclear field (1958–1968) by V. А. Veselov

“…The author argues that bipolarity (even at its apex in the late 1950s — early 1970s) had never been an exclusive characteristic of international relations. …”
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Tree Diversity and Damage by Cypress Aphid, Cinara cupressi, on Juniperus procera in Gulele Botanical Garden and Entoto by Sitotaw Kebede, Tewodros Mulugeta

“…However, the level of cypress aphid damage on J. procera has never been studied in Entoto Mountain forest and Gullele Botanical Garden (GBG) in Ethiopia. …”
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Navigating the Challenges of Sustainability in the Food Processing Chain: Insights into Energy Interventions to Reduce Footprint by Orlando Corigliano, Pietropaolo Morrone, Angelo Algieri

“…Notably, 6% of these emissions result from food never consumed. While the water footprint has slightly decreased recently, its demand is expected to increase by 20% to 30%, potentially reaching between 5500 and 6000 km³ annually by 2050. …”
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When to Consider a Diagnosis of Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young: Precise Diagnosis Leads to Better Management and Quality of Life for the Patients by Yujia Gao, Kalyan Mansukhbhai Shekhda, Sarah N. Ali

“…Our cases highlight that it is never too late to challenge the diabetes classification.…”
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Organic Glass-Forming Liquids and the Concept of Fragility by Alba-Simionesco, Christiane

“…He proposed to classify liquids as fragile or strong in an Arrhenius plot with $T_g$ scaling (the strongest ones have never being observed in organic glasses, except for water under specific conditions). …”
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Saudi urologists’ treatment pattern for high-risk Bacillus Calmette–Guérin naïve and Bacillus Calmette–Guérin unresponsive nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer by Mohammad Alghafees, Mohamad Abou Chakra, Abdullah Alkhayal, Mohamad Moussa, Mohammad Alkhamees, Bader Alsaikhan, Ahmed Alasker, Abdulrahman Alsayyari, Abdullah Alsaghyir, Ali Alkahtani, Michael A. O'Donnell

“…Other preferred options were intravesical chemotherapy (16%) and repeat BCG therapy (5%). Clinical trials were never chosen. Sixty percent gemcitabine (Gem), 20% mitomycin C, 10% docetaxel (Doce), and 10% sequential Gem/Doce were rated as the most preferred intravesical chemotherapy regimens used. …”
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Prevalence and Risk Factors of HIV Infection among Clients Attending ICTCs in Six Districts of Tamilnadu, South India by Rajeswari Ramachandran, V. Chandrasekaran, M. Muniyandi, K. Jaggarajamma, Anasua Bagchi, Supriya Sahu

“…Median age of clients was 30 years; 89% had never used condoms in their lives and 2% gave history of having received blood transfusion. …”
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Arnold-Chiari Malformation Type II and CYP1B1 Congenital Glaucoma: A Possible Association by Shaikha Aldossari, Amani Al Bakri, Yumna Kamal

“…These combinations of symptoms were never described in the literature before.…”
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A brief history of formation of the kalmyk collection in the oriental section of the saint petersburg university scientific library by Vladimir L. Uspensky

“…Petersburg State University, is one of the best in the world, the history of its formation and composition has never been the subject of special research. Meanwhile, this collection was collected by outstanding orientalists of the 19th century, and although the origin of some manuscripts is obscure, this fact does not make them less valuable. …”
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Factors Associated with Arkansans’ First Use of Telehealth during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Jennifer A. Andersen, Holly C. Felix, Dejun Su, James P. Selig, Shawn Ratcliff, Pearl A. McElfish

“…Telehealth utilization included two categories: (1) utilizers reported the first use of telehealth services during the pandemic, and (2) nonutilizers reported they had never used telehealth. Lower odds of reporting telehealth utilization during the pandemic were associated with race (Black; OR=0.57, CI [0.33, 0.96]) and education (high School or less; OR=0.45, CI [0.25, 0.83]). …”
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Do doctors and other healthcare professionals know overdiagnosis in screening and how are they dealing with it? A protocol for a mixed methods systematic review by Ann Van den Bruel, An De Sutter, Stefan Heytens, Veerle Piessens, Ann Van Hecke

“…Introduction Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of a disease that would never have caused any symptom or problem. It is a harmful side effect of screening and may lead to unnecessary treatment, costs and emotional drawbacks. …”
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Complications and Influential Perioperative Factors Associated with SpaceOAR Hydrogel Placement by Kerith R. Wang, Rishabh K. Simhal, Cassra B. Clark, Mark J. Mann, James R. Mark, Costas D. Lallas, Robert Den, Edouard J. Trabulsi

“…All complications were Clavien I or II, such as pelvic pain postplacement, pelvic fullness, bleeding, and lower urinary tract symptoms. 16 patients (6.9%) had some portion of the hydrogel injected into the rectal wall, but it was never clinically significant. The average CCI was 3.2 ± 0.95 for patients who experienced complications; the average CCI was 3.6 ± 1.6 (p=0.48) in the group without complications. …”
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From Science to Utopia: Marcuse and Critical Utopianism by L. A. Agamalova

“…The first transforms utopia from never-being into “past”, the second provides two inversions, considering it as 1) a dystopia, the other of utopia, which is declared to be the hidden truth of utopia; and — when it is fundamentally possible according to its own concept — 2) as impossible, in connection with which utopia and its concept return to the discourse as a kind of empty place around which modern pessimism circles, correctly believing that the future is unimaginable. …”
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Durable resistance or efficient disease control? Adult Plant Resistance (APR) at the heart of the dilemma by Rimbaud, Loup, Papaïx, Julien, Rey, Jean-François, Moury, Benoît, Barrett, Luke G., Thrall, Peter H.

“…However, the impact of partial efficiency and delayed mode of action of APR on the evolutionary and epidemiological outcomes of resistance deployment has never been tested. Using the demogenetic, spatially explicit, temporal, stochastic model landsepi, this study is a first attempt to investigate how resistance efficiency, age at the time of resistance activation and target pathogenicity trait jointly impact resistance durability and disease control at the landscape scale. …”
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Does stapled colorectal anastomosis in anterior resection always guarantee restoration of intestinal continuity? by P. V. Tsarkov, A. Yu. Kravchenko, I. A. Tulina, P. B. Tsugulya

“…Nevertheless, in some patients these «temporary» stomas are never reversed.. By the moment of discharge from hospital 111 (52%) patients had colostomies: in 103 of them were preventive double-barrelled transverse colostomies were created at primary surgical intervention, the remaining 8 patients underwent colostomy formation in postoperative period because of development of AL. …”
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From staple food to market-oriented crop: commercialization level of smallholder teff (Eragrostis teff) growers in Jamma District, Ethiopia by Getachew Eshetu Gidelew, Tesfaye Lemma Tefera, Chanyalew Seyoum Aweke

“…Abstract Introduction In countries like Ethiopia where the selling of staple food crops is the common way of earning cash income; the concept of agricultural commercialization is never restricted to cash crops. Among the staple food crops, teff is becoming a market-oriented crop in Ethiopia. …”
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Towards an Understanding of Conservation-Based Costs, Benefits, and Attitudes of Local People Living Adjacent to Save Valley Conservancy, Zimbabwe by Given Matseketsa, Gladman Chibememe, Never Muboko, Edson Gandiwa, Kudakwashe Takarinda

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Photochemical activity in developing pea (<i>Pisum sativum</i> L.) cotyledons depends on the light transmittance of covering tissues and the spectral composition of light by G. N. Smolikova, N. V. Stepanova, A. M. Kamionskaya, S. S. Medvedev

“…On average, a photochemically active green leaf of pea transmitted 15 % of solar radiation in the 390–760 nm, blue light was delayed entirely, and the transmitted red light never exceeded 5 %. Photochemically active radiation passing through the pericarp and coat and reaching the cotyledons at the early and middle seed maturation stages manifested a high proportion of green and far-red light; there was no blue light, and the percentage of red light was about 2 %. …”
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Students' mathematical literacy in number pattern material seen from initial mathematical abilities by Refika Dwi Saputri, Syutaridho Syutaridho, Arvin Efriani

“…Students with moderate and low initial mathematical abilities are able to answer level 1, 2, and 4 questions, write conclusions correctly but without explaining the work strategy so that students are said to have not been able to achieve the formulate or employ indicators, and in the interpreting indicators students with low and medium initial abilities are the same. never been able to answer the problem. So it can be concluded that if students are able to achieve the formulate and employ indicators well and correctly then the students will also be able to achieve the interpret indicators. …”
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Level of Knowledge of Pregnant Women about Oral Diseases by Jaime Fernando Armijos Moreta, Silvia Marisol Gavilanez Gavilanez, Freddy Gastón Santillán Molina, Ofelia Cecilia Ramírez Hidalgo

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> more than 90 % of the pregnant women stated that they had received information on the importance of oral hygiene during pregnancy, 55 % indicated that they attended the dentist only once during the entire gestation period, 50 % stated that they had never received educational activities on oral hygiene, 55 % of the participants expressed not having information about the effects caused by oral diseases during pregnancy and more than half recognized that oral health prevention activities should be carried out. …”
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