Phase 1 Trial of Autologous Bone Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury by Zurab Kakabadze, Nickolas Kipshidze, Konstantine Mardaleishvili, Gocha Chutkerashvili, Irakli Chelishvili, Albrecht Harders, George Loladze, Gocha Shatirishvili, Nodar Kipshidze, David Chakhunashvili, Konstantine Chutkerashvili

“…The study reports demonstrated improvement of motor and sensory functions of various degrees observed in 9 of the 18 (50%) cases after bone marrow stem cell transplantation. Measured by the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) scale, 7 (78%) out of the 9 patients observed an improvement by one grade, while two cases (22%) saw an improvement by two grades. …”
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Exploitation Feminism: Trashiness, Lo-Fidelity and Utopia in She-Devils on Wheels and Blood Orgy of the Leather Girls by Kristina Pia Hofer

“…From the mid-1960s onwards, American exploitation cinema has spawned a number of Girl Gang movies whose potential for challenging androcentric and heteronormative modes of representation have been hotly disputed by fans and academics alike. …”
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Documentaire et fiction dans Norteado de Rigoberto Perezcano by Marie-Pierre Ramouche

“…From its very beginning, the phenomenon of Latin American migration towards the United States has aroused great interest among artists in Mexico, which was primarily concerned by this exodus. …”
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Militanza, “impegno” e critica sociale dell’antropologia sulla base di intense etnografie. Le intenzioni trasformative e i giudizi politici dell’antropologo by Antonino Colajanni

“…Starting from a brief analysis of the main responsibilities of anthropology in the colonial era, a particular attention is devoted to the origins and developments of the american orientation of the “engaged anthropology”, from the late years ’70. …”
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L’antiquaire Georges Joseph Demotte, le Louvre et les musées américains. S’approprier le discours sur le patrimoine médiéval de la France au sortir de la Première Guerre mondiale... by Christine Vivet-Peclet

“…Through his sales, Demotte would contribute to the enrichment of American collections such as those of Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924), George Grey Barnard (1863–1938), Raymond Pitcairn (1885–1966), William Randolph Hearst (1863–951) and John D. …”
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Type B non-Hodgkin lymphoma in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency virus with no detected viral load. Case report by Edwin Marcelo Miranda Solìs, Juan Fernando Orozco Herrera

“…Cancer is a common presentation in people living with this virus and represents the main cause of death in this population in most Latin American countries. For these reasons, we present the case of a 58-year-old patient, diagnosed with acquired immunodeficiency virus in the year 2000, who in the last ten years presented adequate clinical, virological, and pharmacological control. …”
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A Study to Compare the Analgesic Efficacy of Intrathecal Bupivacaine Alone with Intrathecal Bupivacaine Midazolam Combination in Patients Undergoing Elective Infraumbilical Surgery by Anirban Chattopadhyay, Souvik Maitra, Suvadeep Sen, Sulagna Bhattacharjee, Amitava Layek, Sugata Pal, Kakali Ghosh

“…In this prospective, randomized, double blinded, and parallel group and open label study of 90 adult patients aged 18–60 years, of American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) status I and II, scheduled for elective infraumbilical surgery, were randomly allocated in two groups. …”
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Effect of Microwave Treatment on Microbial Contamination of Honeys and on Their Physicochemical and Thermal Properties by Paz Moliné María de la, Fernández Natalia Jorgelina, Medici Sandra Karina, Fasce Diana, Gende Liesel Brenda

“…Paenibacillus larvae is also of interest since it causes American foulbrood (AFB) in honeybee larvae. The main quality factors that are used in the honey international trade are moisture, hydroxymethylfurfural content (HMF), and enzymatic indices. …”
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A Case Report of Mania and Psychosis Five Months after Traumatic Brain Injury Successfully Treated Using Olanzapine by Giordano F. Cittolin-Santos, Jesse C. Fredeen, Robert O. Cotes

“…We describe the case of a 53-year-old African American male admitted to an inpatient psychiatric hospital with one month of behavioral changes including irritability, decreased need for sleep, hyperverbal speech, hypergraphia, and paranoia five months after TBI. …”
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The Associations of Parenting Factors with Adolescent Body Mass Index in an Underserved Population by Elizabeth M. Schneider, Dawn K. Wilson, Heather Kitzman-Ulrich, Sara M. St. George, Kassandra A. Alia

“…Seventy predominantly African American, low-income caregiver-adolescent dyads participated in the study. …”
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Ancient Hawaiian house lots and their flora: a review of Great Māhele plant claims with a special focus on Pritchardia (loulu) palms by Brien A. Meilleur

“…This is true for the period immediately after Western contact (1778) and for the decades following the arrival of American and European missionaries in the 1820s and 1830s, and indeed for the 19th century generally. …”
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Le temps des morts-vivants : formes sérielles et potentiel critique des séries télévisées zombies by Clémentine Hougue

“…It proposes to analyze the American series The Walking Dead (AMC, 2010-auj.), based on the eponymous comic book, as well as its two spin-offs (Fear The Walking Dead, AMC, 2015-2021 and The Walking Dead : World Beyond, AMC, 2020), but also Z Nation (Syfy, 2014-2018) and its spin-off Black Summer (Netflix, 2019-2021), and the British miniseries Dead Set (E4, 2008). …”
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Soft Power: Political Use of A Scientific Concept by M. V. Kharkevich

“…The article discusses the use and transformation of the American scientific concept "soft power" in official Russian and US foreign policy rhetoric with the methodological help of Habermas' communicative action theory and its adoption to IR by T. …”
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The worlds of limited-edition books (Arthur Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Wojciech Kajtoch, Stanisław Lem) by D.E. Martynov

“…The main approach to exploring the biographies under consideration is annual chronicle, which allows getting involved in the most diverse materials. For American biographers, a very important part of the biography is also sexual orientation and preferences. …”
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Reparative Justice Vis-a Vis the legacy of slavery in the Caribbean. Interregional perspectives by Claudia Rauhut

“…This proposal has been put forward by many actors and in different global historical contexts and it is currently is fundamental issue in the agenda of Afro-American activism, especially in the English- speaking Caribbean and in the United States. …”
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‘Tactile qualities’ by Andrew Eastman

“…But “tactile” cannot be understood without evoking the problematics of touch explored in Williams’s In the American Grain (1925), and according to which true democracy requires “Men intact—with all their senses waking”. …”
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Research on unsupervised domain adaptive bearing fault diagnosis method by WU ShengKai, SHAO Xing, WANG CuiXiang, GAO Jun

“…In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, relevant comprehensive experiments were carried out on the bearing dataset of Case Western Reserve University of American and the bearing dataset of the University of Paderborn in Germany. …”
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“They didn’t break me either way”. Women, Captivity and Interrogation in World War II: Resurfacing Self-Empowering Narratives by Simona Tobia

“…Perhaps more importantly, female prisoners have not entered the collective memory as strongly as male prisoners, and it is essential to resurface women’s empowering personal accounts and life stories of these experiences in American archives and museums. The in-depth secondary analysis of oral history narratives held at the sound archives of the Veterans History Project within the Library of Congress, and at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington, DC, provides a series of case-studies to show how narrators were affected by their experiences of incarceration and to what extent their gendered memories fit within the shared memories of captivity in wartime. …”
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Osteoporosis Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, and Beliefs among College Students in the USA and China by M. Allison Ford, Martha Bass, Yan Zhao, Jin-Bing Bai, Yue Zhao

“…This study investigated differences in osteoporosis knowledge, self-efficacy, and health beliefs among Chinese and American college students. Information obtained will be used in developing osteoporosis prevention programs for younger adults. …”
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Waldenström Macroglobulinemia in Hepatitis C: Case Report and Review of the Current Literature by Ryan Nipp, Aaron Mitchell, Allyson Pishko, Ara Metjian

“…This case report describes a 57-year-old African-American male with chronic hepatitis C infection and cryoglobulinemia who presented with several episodes of transient confusion and paralysis and was found to have symptomatic hyperviscosity. …”
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