Le mausolée de Vervoz (Belgique) dans la cité des Tongres, entre agglomération routière et villa by Catherine Coquelet, Jean-Luc Schütz, Fabienne Vilvorder

“…Built on a podium, the mausoleum was surrounded by six tombs, the oldest of which was a child’s circular Italic-style stone tomb.…”
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Finite-Time Control for Attitude Tracking Maneuver of Rigid Satellite by Mingyi Huo, Xing Huo, Hamid Reza Karimi, Jianfei Ni

“…External disturbance, unknown inertia parameters are addressed. As stepping stone, a sliding mode controller is designed. It requires the upper bound of the lumped uncertainty including disturbance and inertia matrix. …”
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Retroperitoneal Laparoscopic Ureterolithotomy for Proximal Ureteral Calculi in Selected Patients by Qingfeng Hu, Weihong Ding, Yuancheng Gou, Yatfaat Ho, Ke Xu, Bin Gu, Chuanyu Sun, Guowei Xia, Qiang Ding

“…Retroperitoneal laparoscopic ureterolithotomy is a safe and effective procedure for patients with complex stones or anatomic abnormalities, and, with experience of high volume series, it is also a reasonable choice as the primary treatment for such selected patients.…”
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On $p$-convexification of the Banach-Kantorovich lattice by Gavhar B. Zakirova

“…Let $B$ be a complete Boolean algebra, $Q(B)$ the Stone compact of $B$, and let $C_\infty (Q(B))$ be the commutative unital algebra of all continuous functions $x: Q(B) \to [-\infty, +\infty]$, assuming possibly the values $\pm\infty$ on nowhere-dense subsets of $Q(B)$. …”
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Rethinking Representation and Animation by Erik Solfeldt, Anna Naglaya

“… Archaeological interpretations of prehistoric humanoid figurines, made and used by the hunter-gatherers of the Stone Ages, have traditionally relied on Western concepts of hylomorphism and iconology. …”
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Bile duct injuries due to cholecystectomy, preventive measures and management possibilities by Jonathan Luis Gonzabay Muñoz, Mónica Gabriela Chachalo Sandoval, Santiago Xavier Peñarreta Quezada

“…Biliary stone disease is a common entity and one of the main hospital emergencies. …”
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Iron Smelting in The Abaheesi of Bukoora at the South Western End of Kabale Municipality,Kabale District in Kigezi Region by Kabale University Library

“…Iron Smelting is an important skill that has been practiced, in production of a large spectrum of implements used in homesteads, the world over since the Stone Age. However, on the sad note, its products have, overtime, been largely replaced by modern industrial and mechanization products .On a positive note, in some communities, this skill and practice have been kept alive by expert artisans. …”
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Assessment of Risk Factors of Chronic Kidney Disease among Patients Attending Medical City Complex by Nabaa Wisam Sabri, Buthaina Ateyah Rashid, Raheem Saber Shwiehk, Azad H. Mahdy

“…There is a significant association between patients' gender and residence, the patients with hypertension, AKI, HCV infection, hyperlipidemia, renal stones, anemia, and CVD had a significant relationship with CKD. …”
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L’aqueduc du Gier : étude des ponts-siphons du Garon à Brignais et Chaponost (Rhône) et de Beaunant à Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon (Métropole de Lyon) by Kilian Blanc, Laurie Danielou

“…The two venter bridges were made using the opus reticulatum mixtum technique, where square-headed pyramidal rubble stones are arranged at an angle of 45° in alternation with double layers of brick. …”
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Effect of 5-Aminolevulinic Acid on the Quality and Volatile Metabolites of Korla Fragrant Pear Fruit by SUN Tianyu, WEN Bo, WANG Chunfeng, TIAN Jia, HAO Zhichao, LIN Yan, WEN Yue, ZHANG Feng

“…Specifically, compared with the control group, the hardness, stone cell content and titratable acid content of the fruit without calyx decreased by 13.45%, 31.03% and 42.31%, respectively, and the soluble solids content and solid/acid ratio increased by 9.95% and 90.57%, respectively; the hardness, titratable acid content and stone cell content of the fruit with calyx decreased significantly by 12.89%, 48.48% and 30.16%, and the soluble solids content, soluble sugar content and solid/acid ratio increased by 19.33%, 23.51% and 131.63%, respectively. …”
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La première maison d’Amazonie. Le Formatif dans la province de Pastaza, Équateur by Stéphen Rostain, Geoffroy de Saulieu

“…The study of the distribution of postholes, pits, and stone-made hearth has enabled archaeologists to reconstruct a dwelling pattern similar to that of present indigenous houses in the area. …”
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Nivolumab-Induced Encephalitis in Hereditary Leiomyomatosis and Renal Cell Cancer Syndrome by Benjamin Chaucer, Abriella Stone, Augustus Demanes, Shawn M. Seibert

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Kristus ukřižovaný na palmě, „locus tristis“ a emblematika 17. století by Pavel Panoch

“… The paper deals with a curious iconography of a stone relief decorating the statue of St. John of Nepomuk in Pecka town in the Eastern Bohemia. …”
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Hemorrhagic Stroke in Relapsing Polychondritis: A Rare Complication of a Rare Disease by Benjamin Chaucer, Augustus Demanes, Abriella Stone, Venkat Kakollu

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Corrigendum to “Data-Driven Prediction System of Dynamic People-Flow in Large Urban Network Using Cellular Probe Data” by Xiaoxuan Chen, Fan Ding, Xia Wan, Qing Li, Charlie McCarthy, Yang Cheng, Bin Ran

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Le mausolée de la villa d’Ussol à Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône) by Philippe Mellinand, Elsa Sagetat-Basseuil

“…It was originally built for a single, central burial, but seems to have been partly rebuilt to accommodate a second stone vault, next to the first one, in the semi-hypogeum chamber. …”
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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. XGP with an incomplete double ureter is extremely rare. …”
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Le interazioni umani-ambiente nell’applicazione di tecniche agricole sapientemente adattate al territorio: l’esempio dell’isola di Pantelleria by Virginie Deguillame

“…The island of Pantelleria in Sicily challenges its residents with harsh conditions: lack of water sources, strong winds, drought, volcanic soils filled with stones. Despite these adverse conditions, local farmers have adapted unique agricultural techniques tailored to their environment. …”
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Periodization and Chronology of the Neolithic Upper Sukhona and Eastern Lake Onega Region by Nadezhda G. Nedomolkina

“…Currently, new archaeological settlements – have been identified and studied, data have been obtained from natural sciences, which have made it possible to expand and clarify ideas about the cultural and historical processes that took place in the territory of the Eastern Lake Onega region and Upper Sukhona, Lake Kubenskoye and to supplement our knowledge about the Stone Age of the Russian North – European North-East. …”
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Primary Hyperparathyroidism in Patients with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1 by Grzegorz Piecha, Jerzy Chudek, Andrzej Więcek

“…The most frequent clinical presentation of MEN-1-associated primary hyperparathyroidism is bone demineralisation and recurrent kidney stones rarely followed by chronic kidney disease. …”
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