Neonatal Sepsis due to Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci by Elizabeth A. Marchant, Guilaine K. Boyce, Manish Sadarangani, Pascal M. Lavoie

“…Although advanced neonatal care enables us to save even the most preterm neonates, the very interventions sustaining those who are hospitalized concurrently expose them to serious infections due to common nosocomial pathogens, particularly coagulase-negative staphylococci bacteria (CoNS). …”
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Modernizando a través de la tradición: la heráldica actual en el ejército de Tierra español y su dimensión simbólica como identificación y difusión de su imagen institucional... by Carlos J. Medina Avila

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Russian Initiatives in Internet Governance by S. S. Shirin

“…These functions are going to be given to the private sector, while ICANN, which was established according to the Memorandum of Understanding/Joint Project Agreement with U.S. Department of Commerce, is becoming a truly independent international organization. …”
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Damping Based Traffic Allocation in Wireless Machine-to-Machine Communications Networks by Ruiguo Yu, Zhenxia Yuan, Mankun Zhao, Mei Yu, Xu Lu

“…When we tried to analyze the load on different paths using the simplest multipath routing algorithms, we found that the load changes just like simple harmonic motion, which inspires us to use physic and mathematic methods and tools to analyze the loading balance problems. …”
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Research on Spatial and Dynamic Planning Methods for Settlement Buildings Based on Data Mining by Lin Chen, Xiaolong Chen, Hongxin Wang, Lin Zhu, Lingyun Lang

“…The analysis of the architectural space of traditional settlements in Hainan will help us better grasp social activities and provide direction for the protection and renewal of traditional settlements from the perspective of tourists and residents.…”
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Digital participation: category conceptualization in foreign practice of civic engagement by S. B. Abramova

“…The participatory interpretation allows us to conclude that civic participation is extremely positive, based on a culture of participation and consistency in the goals of various social groups and subjects.…”
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The Greenhouse Effect: Using Student-Generated Agricultural Data to Warm Up Students for Data-Based Decision Making by Shonda Kuiper, Abhishek Chakraborty, Tyler George, Lisa W. Kay, Lawrence M. Lesser, Ginger Rowell, Dennis Pearl, Scott Crawford, Anna Olsen

“…This article describes a collaborative project across multiple institutions to compare two versions of a regression activity: (a) a website version that collected student data through an online simulation with corresponding apps for visualization and (b) a traditional paper handout version that had a static dataset. This allowed us to evaluate the differences in student learning and attitudes when students have a stronger connection with the data through an interactive—and hopefully fun—data-collection process than they do when they are given a worksheet with a pre-collected dataset. …”
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Dynamic changes in large-scale functional connectivity prior to stimulation determine performance in a multisensory task by Edgar E. Galindo-Leon, Karl J. Hollensteiner, Florian Pieper, Gerhard Engler, Guido Nolte, Andreas K. Engel

“…An analysis of principal components in coupling at the single-trial level during this period allowed us to reveal the subnetworks that most strongly determined performance. …”
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Multiscale juridification of the mining industry: Experiences in Central America and Mexico by Ainhoa Montoya, Rachel Sieder, Yacotzin Bravo-Espinosa

“…Based on ethnography and document analysis among different legal defense and grassroots organizations, we examine three cases of socioenvironmental conflicts in Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico. This allows us to show how fragmented multiscalarity means that rights recognized in one jurisdiction can become invisible in another and be accompanied by a repressive use of law or lawfare. …”
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Retrocaval ureter. Two cases report by Bryan Antonio Iza Jiménez, Karla Lizeth Gavilanes Encalada, Israel Darío Carrillo Quisnia

“…Currently, it is recommended that the symptomatic retrocaval ureter be approached in a laparoscopy way, but we must not forget the open approach, since it provides us with technical support for the complexities of the procedure.…”
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On the Taxonomy of Acanthoscurria Ausserer from Southeastern Brazil with Data on the Natural History of A. gomesiana Mello-Leitão (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) by Hector M. O. Gonzalez-Filho, Sylvia M. Lucas, Felipe dos S. Paula, Rafael P. Indicatti, Antonio D. Brescovit

“…The study of type material and specimens of A. gomesiana of several Brazilian spider collections offered us the possibility to redescribe this species and consider synonyms of the first one of the following: A. violacea, A. pugnax, and A. aurita. …”
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Utilizing FRET-based Biosensors to Measure Cellular Phosphate Levels in Mycorrhizal Roots of Brachypodium distachyon by Shiqi Zhang, Lucas Jurgensen, Maria Harrison

“…In this study, we employ the Pi-specific biosensor (cpFLIPPi-5.3m) targeted to the cytosol or plastids of Brachypodium distachyon plants, enabling us to monitor intracellular Pi dynamics during AM symbiosis. …”
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Development of a high thermal efficiency heavy-duty engine by Erick Garcia, Vassilis Triantopoulos, Joseph Trzaska, André L. Boehman, Maxwell Taylor, Jian Li

“…The U.S. Department of Energy Supertruck 2 program placed emphasis on development of heavy-duty trucks with high freight efficiency using commercially realizable technology suites. …”
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L’accord franco-algérien de 1968, reflet de relations politiques tourmentées by Hocine Zeghbib

“…Rejecting in 2023 the unilateral denunciation, doomed to failure from a legal point of view, demanded by its opposition and even by some in the ranks of its own majority, the French executive, without us yet knowing the Algerian position, opts for a revision of which we can, at this stage, only prejudge the content and attempt to evaluate its strengths and weaknesses (III).…”
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Welcoming Historically Under-Represented Groups in Higher Education Through Awareness of Standard English Ideology by John Hellermann, Lynn Santelmann, Jennifer Mittelstaedt, Janet Cowal, Steven L. Thorne

“…We discuss the hegemonic aspect of the Standard Academic English used by default at most US institutions of higher education and its role in potential discrimination against users of languages other than English and dialects other than the Standard. …”
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Newly Licensed RNs Describe What They Like Best about Being a Nurse by Maja Djukic, Linda H. Pellico, Christine T. Kovner, Carol S. Brewer

“…Data were collected between January and March 2009 from 1,152 NLRNs licensed in 15 US states. Krippendorff's method was used to analyze survey responses. …”
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The Multifaceted Sustainable Development and Export Intensity of Emerging Market Firms under Financial Constraints: The Role of ESG and Innovative Activity by Tamara Teplova, Tatiana Sokolova, Mariya Gubareva, Viktoria Sukhikh

“…The Heckman model allows us to reveal the factors relevant for SMEs to gain access to foreign markets under the control of financial constraints specific for SMEs. …”
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Fixed Point Method to Analyze Differences between Hipparcos and ICRF2 by María José Martínez Usó, Francisco J. Marco Castillo, José Antonio López Ortí

“…Some of these projects have been used by us to study the Hipparcos-ICRF2 differences: a certain number of couples of catalogs can be interrelated using a set of parameters. …”
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Neuroscience of Meditation by Vinod D. Deshmukh

“…Modern neuroscience can help us to better understand Dhyana-Yoga. This article discusses topics including brain-mind-reality, consciousness, attention, emotional intelligence, sense of self, meditative mind, and meditative brain. …”
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Covid-19 pandemic data analysis using tensor methods by Dipak Dulal, Ramin Goudarzi Karim, Carmeliza Navasca

“…Third, we analyze Covid-19 data in the US using a novel sampling method for alternating leastsquares. …”
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