Impact of urbanisation on the gaps of hypertension prevalence, awareness and treatment among older age in China: a cross-sectional study by Qiutong Yu, Genyong Zuo

“…Urbanisation in eastern (OR=0.93, 95% CI=0.88 to 0.99; p<0.05) and western China (OR=1.11, 95% CI=1.01 to 1.23; p<0.05) was associated with the prevalence of hypertension. …”
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Erbin Regulates Tissue Factors Through Ras/Raf Pathway in Coagulation Disorders in Sepsis by Yang C, Lei C, Jing G, Xia Y, Zhou H, Wu D, Zuo J, Gong H, Wang X, Dong Y, Aidebaike D, Wu X, Song X

“…The protein and mRNA expression level were detected by Western blot and qPCR. Pearson linear correlation analysis was used to analyze the correlation between the inflammation index and the coagulation function index.Results: We confirmed that the Erbin is involved in the regulation of coagulation function by macrophages and plays a role in the coagulation disorder of sepsis. …”
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Green finance policy and regional air pollution control: a two-wheel drive by government departments and financial institutions by Xinkuo Xu, Zenglu Song, Jinjing Lu

“…Heterogeneity analysis demonstrates that the inhibitory effect of GFRIs on CHP is more pronounced in counties with lower levels of financial development, higher levels of industrial development, poorer and in the central and western regions. The GFRIs achieve a win-win situation for economic growth and pollution reduction. …”
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The Impact of Intercultural Perspectives on Environmental Ethics by Molotokienė Ernesta

“…The article hypothesizes that a synthesis of classical Aristotelian virtue ethics, Confucian ethics, and African ubuntu philosophical ethics could underpin intercultural ethics, embodying the universal environmental ethical values of Western and Eastern cultures in intercultural environmental ethics theory.…”
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On the “Periphery” of the Neolithic: hunter-gatherers of Europe by Ekaterina V. Dolbunova, Andrey N. Mazurkevich

“…Special attention is paid to the discussion of hunter-gatherer pottery in Northern, Central, and Western Europe. The study of the latter indicates different ways of origin of various cultures, as well as fundamental differences between them. …”
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The Role of CD40, CD86, and Glutathione S-Transferase Omega 1 in the Pathogenesis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by Desheng Sun, Rong Lin, Yao Ouyang

“…The changes of CD40, CD86, and GSTO1 in the peripheral blood, collected from different groups, were detected by flow cytometry and western blotting, respectively. Results. Compared with the nonsmoking group and smoking but without the COPD group, the expression of CD40 and CD86 of the patients with COPD increased significantly, but the expression of GSTO1 decreased. …”
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TOWARDS A HARMONIOUS LABOUR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS IN NIGERIAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES by ISA AMINU

“…Findings reveal that prevailing political, economic and other intervening variables such as globalization, economic recession, dominance of western model of democracy,emerging technology have always shapes government responses to the industrial crises in the Nigerian University system. …”
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Examination of Chinese Gambling Problems through a Socio-Historical-Cultural Perspective by Samson Tse, Alex C.H. Yu, Fiona Rossen, Chong-Wen Wang

“…Chinese people have elevated levels of gambling addiction compared to their Western counterparts. These elevated rates are coupled with the rapid expansion of gambling venues within the Pan-Pacific region. …”
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N-Terminal Plasmodium vivax Merozoite Surface Protein-1, a Potential Subunit for Malaria Vivax Vaccine by Fernanda G. Versiani, Maria E. Almeida, Luis A. Mariuba, Patricia P. Orlandi, Paulo A. Nogueira

“…The human malaria is widely distributed in the Middle East, Asia, the western Pacific, and Central and South America. Plasmodium vivax started to have the attention of many researchers since it is causing diseases to millions of people and several reports of severe malaria cases have been noticed in the last few years. …”
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Ocular injuries by less-lethal weapon: a view from Switzerland by Anna Fierz

“…Countries that use less-lethal weapons include Switzerland, the only Western European democracy besides France to employ multiple kinetic impact projectiles. …”
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How to Quantify Nosema Spores Infection Rate in a Honey Bee Colony by Ashley N. Mortensen, Cameron Jack, Meghan McConnell, Liana Teigen, Jamie Ellis

“…One species, Nosema ceranae, has become the dominant microsporidian infection in western honey bee colonies. When honey bees ingest Nosema spores, many eventually starve to death because the spores replicate in the stomach and hijack the bee’s nutrition. …”
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Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, Halyomorpha halys Ståhl (Insecta: Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) by Jamba Gyeltshen, Gary Bernon, Amanda Hodges

“… The brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB), Halyomorpha halys (Ståhl), is a recently introduced pest to the western hemisphere and was first officially reported from Allentown, Pennsylvania in 2001 (Hoebeke and Carter 2003). …”
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Estimation of Air Pollutant Emissions from Heavy Industry Sector in North Korea by Young Won Lee, Yong Pyo Kim, Min Ju Yeo

“…Geographically, the NOx emissions were concentrated in the western part of North Korea, while CO and SOx were concentrated in North Hamgyong Province.…”
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CXCL13 Promotes Proliferation of Mesangial Cells by Combination with CXCR5 in SLE by Zhanyun Da, Liuxia Li, Jin Zhu, Zhifeng Gu, Bo You, Ying Shan, Si Shi

“…When we treated human renal mesangial cells (HRMCs) in vitro with recombinant human CXCL13, the cell proliferation was accelerated, which was tested by Cell Counting Kit-8 assay and flow cytometry. Western blot and immunofluorescence assay revealed that CXCL13 would lead to phosphorylation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2). …”
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DIE BETROKKENHEID VAN KERK EN STAAT BY DIE BEVESTIGING VAN HUWELIKE MET ’N PERSPEKTIEF OP DRIE GEREFORMEERDE KERKORDES by P Strauss

“… There are two main reasons why the church, in general, became involved in the solemnising of marriages: the history of the church and, with it, especially the involvement of the Roman Catholic Church in the Middle Ages as the church of the Western World in this regard and theologically based principles. …”
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Proximités géographiques et distances culturelles entre la ville et l’agriculture by Roland Vidal

“…The emergence of the landscape in the Western culture has been accompanied by keeping the farming world at a distance, a world of which the aesthetic qualities have been recognized, but of which we refused to understand the social, technical, and economic functioning – the one that made the daily reality of those who inhabited it : the farmers. …”
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Une méthodologie pour l’enquête sémasiologique by Aline Pons

“…In the framework of my doctoral thesis, dedicated to the study of the meaning of the Alpine space lexicon in the Cottian Alps, I wanted instead to try to directly investigate the meaning of a selection of lexotypes, singled out from the Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Western Piedmont – ALEPO. To this end, I chose to carry out the investigations in my Occitan variety, in order to free the informants from the burden of translation into a different language, which is articulated in a different taxonomy of the Alpine space. …”
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Le mausolée turriforme d’une villa près de Carcassonne/Carcasso (Aude) by Richard Pellé

“…Owing to its chronology, it constitutes a category of monument with an underground funeral chamber, which seems to be rare in Gaul or in the western part of the Empire and remains exceptional for this important time of the change of era.…”
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Ferrol y Vigo en 1972. Historia y memoria de dos huelgas generales by José Gómez Alén

“…Its repercussion went beyond Spanish borders and resulted in a broad movement of solidarity in Western Europe. What happened that day became the symbol of the Galician workers' struggle for democracy and is, at present, commemorated by the trade union organizations as the Day of the Galician Working Class and institutionally considered as such by the Galician Parliament.…”
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Mild Clinical Course of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus Infection in an Elderly Japanese Patient by Yuko Ohagi, Shinobu Tamura, Chiaki Nakamoto, Hiromichi Nakamoto, Masayuki Saijo, Masayuki Shimojima, Yoshio Nakano, Tokuzo Fujimoto

“…Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging infectious and hemorrhagic disease recently described in China and western Japan. A 71-year-old healthy Japanese woman noticed a tick biting her after harvesting in an orchard and removed it herself. …”
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