Diagnosis and Treatment of Neurocysticercosis by Christina M. Coyle, Herbert B. Tanowitz

“…This has primarily been a disease that remains endemic in low-socioeconomic countries, but because of increased migration neurocysticercosis is being diagnosed more frequently in high-income countries. During the past three decades improved diagnostics, imaging, and treatment have led to more accurate diagnosis and improved prognosis for patients. …”
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Édito - Questionner les milieux éducatifs par les dispositifs et l'activité by Mariagrazia Cairo Crocco, Christine Félix, Frédéric Saussez

“…Over the past thirty years, a profound transformation of public action and educational policies has begun : competitiveness and performance indicators have taken on a greater role in an educational ecosystem that is now organised and managed by mechanisms. …”
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Turning Sorrow into Song: Silence, Absence and Unreadability in Elizabeth Rosner’s Gravity by Laura Miñano Mañero

“…Through a sustained exploration of the traces of an inherited trauma that renders the past inaccessible, simultaneously present and occluded, the poet endows the motif of silence with unique meaning. …”
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Model typowania sprawców zamachów z wykorzystaniem bojowych środków chemicznych by Daniel Kucharek

“…The research was conducted on the basis of recorded cases in the past of deliberate use of chemical warfare agents in attacks not related to military activities. …”
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Business use of the World Wide Web: a report on further investigations by Hooi-Im Ng, Ying Jie Pan, T.D. Wilson

“…The use of the World Wide Web as a business tool has increased rapidly for the past three years, and the benefits of the World Wide Web to business and customers are discussed, together with the barriers that hold back future development of electronic commerce. …”
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Żywienie a prewencja chorób układu krążenia by Grażyna Nowicka

“…Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease has been recognized as the leading cause of death for both men and women in developed countries. During the past century epidemiological and observational studies established that inappropriate nutrition together with reduced physical activity and increased tobacco consumption are key factors for cardiovascular disease development. …”
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Le capitalisme à l’âge global : les mutations en cours transcendent-elles les spécificités nationales ? by Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin, Martine Azuelos

“…Has accelerating globalisation led to a convergence of national varieties of capitalism toward a single, market-led, ‘Anglo-Saxon’ model in the past few decades? To answer this question, this paper begins by characterising the major stages in the development and representation of capitalism over time. …”
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La transition en tension : comment les supermarchés coopératifs et participatifs mettent-ils en œuvre le changement social ? by Ali Romdhani, Guglielmo Fernandez Garcia, René Audet

“…Over the past decade, we have observed in France a strong enthusiasm for the food coop model, which offers citizens the opportunity to reclaim food distribution in order to offer quality products at a fair price. …”
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The Post-Pandemic Inflation Debate: A Critical Review by Diogo Martins

“…The second section highlights that the dominance of contractionary monetary policy as the primary response to contemporary inflation rests on weak foundations, with its theoretical and empirical justifications having been consistently and convincingly challenged by critical political economy circles over the past decades. …”
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“Taak prappa” by Kathie Birat

“…Through an analysis of this intertwining of local and European forms and of the use of Creole in Slave Song, this article examines the collection as an attempt on the part of the poet both to generate presence and to recognize the impossibility of filling the gaps left by a painful past.…”
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Feminizing a Colonial Epic: On Spofford’s “Priscilla” by Daniela Daniele

“…By shifting her focus from the celebration of the army leader Miles to the disempowered Priscilla who stubbornly claims her freedom in love, Spofford points to the private horrors of colonization in an exemplary feminist apologue filled with domestic sentiments which partakes of what Alide Cagidemetrio defines as a “usable past.”…”
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Vestiges du passé. Alfred Métraux et les Čipaya de Carangas (1930-1931) by Pablo F. Sendón

“…Reappraisal of the various ethnographic writings he devoted to the Čipaya in relation with other works, early and more recent, questions the existence of such a distinction, allowing us to transcend the dichotomy between « past » and « present », that dilemma faced by all ethnographies.…”
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Entre memoria y política: las historietas de Felipe Hernández Cava sobre la España del siglo xx (1973-1996) by Eduardo Hernández Cano

“…From popular mobilizations against the dictatorship to denouncing the institutional oversights of democracy, Hernández Cava has tried to include adult comics in the public debate about the past and present of Spain.…”
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Economic Determinants of Success in Olympic Games by Seyed-nezamuddin Makiyan, Mujtaba Rostami

“…In this study, the effect of the most important economic factors such as Population, GDP per capita and also hosting and the experience from past times in Olympics as variables that have not been considered so far in the related studies-will be investigated. …”
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THE FORMATION OF A SYSTEM OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND EMPLOYERS by Oleg V. Motovilov

“…The author's reasoning is based on the past experience, in particular, he emphasizes the undesirability to staff state examination commission only with the representatives of employers.…”
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Timişoara, de la petite Vienne du Banat à la Capitale européenne de la culture by Amandine Dargaud

“…Thus, in Timişoara (Romania), the municipality is implementing urban renewal and marketing policies of patrimonialization of the historic center and valorization of the Austro-Hungarian past. However, these policies deals with the weakness of institutional tools, criticisms of the dominant narrative of the city promoted by institutional actors and their relays – like the TM2021 association in charge of preparing the European Capital of Culture event in 2021 –, but also the permanence of dissonant and even conflicting legacies of socialism in the context of europeanization.…”
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Finlande-Québec au temps d’une décennie PISA : regards croisés de deux systèmes éducatifs by Guy Pelletier

“…In education, during the 2000s, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) had a tremendous impact on the analysis, assessment and evaluation of national educational systems of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries even though it was not conceived to that end and even though the PISA scores had not had the same effect in the past. However, it did so while other concerns emerged in a changing background: globalization, successive economical crises, loss of institutional and cultural landmarks, etc. …”
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Nemo me impune lacessit or Ne obliviscaris? The Highlander Soldier in British Parliamentary Debates (18th-21st centuries) by Pierre-Louis Coudray

“…In the past two decades, Scotland’s military identity has been the subject of several historical analyses, placing it in relation to the decline of Britain as an imperial power and as a nation.1 Few studies, however, have offered an overview of the treatment of the Highlander soldier in parliamentary debates since the eighteenth century. …”
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Combination of Culture, Antigen and Toxin Detection, and Cytotoxin Neutralization Assay for Optimal Clostridium difficile Diagnostic Testing by Michelle J Alfa, Shadi Sepehri

“…BACKGROUND: There has been a growing interest in developing an appropriate laboratory diagnostic algorithm for Clostridium difficile, mainly as a result of increases in both the number and severity of cases of C difficile infection in the past decade. A C difficile diagnostic algorithm is necessary because diagnostic kits, mostly for the detection of toxins A and B or glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) antigen, are not sufficient as stand-alone assays for optimal diagnosis of C difficile infection. …”
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Communication Skills by A. V. Raychenko

“…Development of professional achievements of effective communication the founder and the first head of the department of scientific bases of management of the Moscow engineering-economic institute has formed at its creation, in the making and provides, for the past fifty years, deserved recognition, full support and the progressive development of ideas, effective creative collaboration of students, supporters and followers of the doctor of economic sciences, professor Olimpiada Vasilievna Kozlova.…”
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