Le secteur de la santé en Algérie entre arabisation, défrancisation et anglicisation by Fatima Zohra Chebab, Karim Ouaras

“…This situation, revealing tensions and conflicts in the Algerian healthcare setting, is starting to worry healthcare professionals.Based on a qualitative and comprehensive approach, this study aims to examine the underlying issues of the new political orientation in terms of language planning advocating for the substitution of French with English in Algeria. …”
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Physical fitness of young Greco-Roman athletes under the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic by Ruslan Rusanov, Leonid Vostroknutov, Shi Ke, Katarzyna Prusik, Julia Golenkova

“…During repeated testing, the experimental group was much better oriented in space when performing three rolls. This was manifested in a reduction in the time of their implementation (t=4.091; р˂0.001) and a longer balance in static conditions (t=4.11; р˂0.01). …”
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Ichthyoarchaeological perspectives on roles of fish and red meat during Indus Civilization in Gujarat, India by G. S. Abhayan, Pramod P. Joglekar, Pramod P. Joglekar, P. Ajithprasad, S. V. Rajesh, Pankaj Goyal, Brad Chase, Jeevan Kharakwal, Prabodh Shirvalkar

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HUMAN DESTRUCTIVENESS IN THE EXISTING PRACTICES OF LATE MODERNISM VIOLENCE: POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE DIMENSIONS by O. V. Marchenko, L. V. Martseniuk

“…The departure from the consideration of violence as an abstract, faceless or ideologically colored evil allowed us to focus on man, his way of thinking, life and social orientations, feelings and internal contradictions, which find their expression in one or another form of destructiveness. …”
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Clinical Guidelines for Acupotomy Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis by Working Group of Acupotomy Medical Branch of China Association of Chinese Medicine, XIU Zhongbiao, CHEN Changxian, ZHANG Jianxin, LV Yanan, WEI Song, ZHOU Yu, WAN Quanqing, ZENG Weiquan, CHEN Guoqiang, HUANG Huirong, CAI Zhaolian, YAN Guohong, ZHAI Hongye, LIN Huayang, LIU Hong, ZHANG Liangzhi

“…This guideline is clinical problem-oriented through constructing clinical problems, developing literature screening and evidence grading, forming recommendations, inquiring expert opinions, and finally standardizes the diagnostic criteria for knee osteoarthritis and acupotomy treatment protocols, etc. …”
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Casos de estudio de climatología sinóptica ecuatorial. Estudio de algunos casos relevantes del Ecuador continental by Francisco Javier Méndez Bravo, Tomàs Molina Bosch

“…Se elaboraron mapas de presión atmosférica y de vectores del viento en superficie para Sudamérica Tropical y Ecuador continental, representando algunas de las principales advecciones sinópticas en superficie que afectan la región Costa y Oriente de Ecuador. Como resultado, se presenta una clasificación de situaciones sinópticas en superficie para estas regiones, basada en las principales características climatológicas sinópticas semipermanentes y en los fenómenos meteorológicos más representativos de Sudamérica Tropical. …”
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Dermatoplasty for decompensated forms of varicose veins and post-thrombotic syndrome by V. I. Rusin, F. M. Pavuk, I. I. Kovalchuk, O. A. Nosenko

“…Pieces can be classified by the type of blood supply, their tissue composition, the method of transplantation, or the orientation of the vessels. The concept of angiosomes and venosomes explains the blood supply to the recipient wound necessary for the viability of the flap. …”
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Predicting local control of brain metastases after stereotactic radiotherapy with clinical, radiomics and deep learning features by Hemalatha Kanakarajan, Wouter De Baene, Patrick Hanssens, Margriet Sitskoorn

“…Materials and methods We collected pre-treatment brain MRIs (TR/TE: 25/1.86 ms, FOV: 210 × 210 × 150, flip angle: 30°, transverse slice orientation, voxel size: 0.82 × 0.82 × 1.5 mm) and clinical data for 129 patients at the Gamma Knife Center of the Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital. …”
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The influence of body mass index on efficacy and outcomes of percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic surgery (PTES) for the treatment of lumbar degenerative diseases: a retrospectiv... by Chenyang Zhuang, Yun Xu, Hong Lin, Yutong Gu

“…Conclusions With the simple orientation, easy puncture and reduced steps, PTES is an effective and safe method to both obese and normal patients with LDH. …”
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ALTERNATYVI MODERNYBĖ IR JOS STRATEGIJOS by Arūnas Gelūnas

“…Most of the outstanding critics of Modernity - Stephen Toulmin, Leszek Kolakowski, Friedrich August von Hayek and Louis Dumont - argue that Cartesian rationality and its "byproduct", rigid geometrical paradigm of knowledge, has to be replaced by a more flexible and evolution-oriented biological paradigm. Truth is said to be more of a local and "parochial" than of universal character - that is why one has to take seriously the multiplicity of customs and traditions instead of trying to check their rightness or wrongness by means of Cartesian Method. …”
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Associations of Maternal Complaints to Levator Ani Muscle Trauma within 9 Months after Vaginal Birth: A Prospective Observational Cohort Study by N. Kimmich, J. Birri, A. Richter, R. Zimmermann, M. Kreft

“…The questionnaires were self-designed but oriented to and modified from validated questionnaires. …”
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Adiponectin and Nitric Oxide Deficiency-Induced Cognitive Impairment in Fatigued Home-Resident in Mature and Older Adults: A Case-Control Study by Ahmad H. Alghadir, Sami A. Gabr, Murad Almomani, Fidaa Almomani, Cynthia Tse

“…The results of cognitive performance domains (LOTCA seven-subset scores) showed a significant decrease in the scores of orientation, visual perception, spatial perception, motor praxis, vasomotor organization, thinking operations, attention, and concentration in older subjects with fatigue compared with healthy subjects. …”
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Bergenin, a bioactive flavonoid: advancements in the prospects of anticancer mechanism, pharmacokinetics and nanoformulations by Pratibha Pandey, Pratibha Pandey, Sorabh Lakhanpal, Danish Mahmood, Han Na Kang, Byunggyu Kim, Sojin Kang, Jinwon Choi, Seungjoon Moon, Shivam Pandey, Suhas Ballal, Sanjay Kumar, Fahad Khan, Bonglee Kim

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Goal Achievement and Academic Dropout Among Italian University Students: The Mediating Role of Academic Burnout by Arianna Nicita, Angelo Fumia, Concettina Caparello, Carmelo Francesco Meduri, Pina Filippello, Luana Sorrenti

“…As stated by the Goal Orientation Theory, students want to achieve a goal for multiple reasons, with each having a different impact on academic performance. …”
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Handschins ›Toncharakter‹. Plädoyer für einen neuen Anlauf, ausgehend von neueren musiktheoretischen und kognitionspsychologischen Untersuchungen zu den tonalen ›Qualia‹ by Thomas Noll

“…In order to actualize and refine Handschin’s proposals regarding the tone character, the connection to transformational theory, which Rings already established for his own approach, is developed further, choosing a subspace within the interval space. This subspace is oriented orthogonally to the direction of pitch height and is called ›pitch width‹. …”
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The manor estate economy ofthe Republic of Two Nations (the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) in the 16th-18th centuries from the Marxist and neo-institutionalist perspectives by Darius Žiemelis

“…The RTN manor of the 16th-18th centuries was an economy based on the total domination by the lord of the peasants oriented to the production of mercantile goods, as one of the forms used by the lord for accumulating capital. …”
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Barriers facilitators and needs of female sex workers in Arak to access sexual health services a qualitative study by Iman Navidi, Elham Shakibazadeh, Firoozeh Raisi, Samaneh Akbarpour

“…Educational needs encompassed skills in negotiation and communication, understanding sexual health, positive body image and accepting sexual orientation, and preventing and managing STIs. The participants believed that peer education offers several benefits, including building credibility and trust among peers, fostering positive interactions within peer groups, enhancing support through shared experiences, improving access to educational resources and empowerment through peer education. …”
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City of Wars: the Representation of Wartime London in Two Novels of the 1940s: James Hanley’s No Directions and Patrick Hamilton’s The Slaves of Solitude by Jean-Christophe Murat

“…No Directions fut écrit et publié alors que la guerre n’était pas encore terminée, ce qui crée un véritable suspense quant à l’issue du conflit et aux orientations de la société anglaise. Le roman de Hamilton, au contraire, est postérieur à 1945, ce qui permet sans doute à l’auteur de faire preuve d’un sens de l’humour et de l’ironie assez déroutant. …”
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Study of the Effect of Methyl Eugenol on Gastric Damage Produced by Spinal Cord Injury Model in the Rat by Leticia Cruz-Antonio, María Elena Sánchez-Mendoza, Jazmín García-Machorro, Yaraset López-Lorenzo, Jesús Arrieta

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Assessing the Experiences of Sexual and Gender Minority Applicants to Orthopaedic Surgery Residency by Douglas J. Weaver, MD, Tanios Dagher, BS, Ngoc Duong, MS, Sara Winfrey, MD, Alexander Koo, MD, Tessa Balach, MD, FAOA

“…Data were stratified by sexual orientation, and univariate analysis was conducted using chi-squared tests. …”
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