Diagnostic Evaluation and Management of Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension: A Clinical Practice Guideline by Sanjay Mehta, Doug Helmersen, Steeve Provencher, Naushad Hirani, Fraser D Rubens, Marc De Perrot, Mark Blostein, Kim Boutet, George Chandy, Carole Dennie, John Granton, Paul Hernandez, Andrew M Hirsch, Karen Laframboise, Robert D Levy, Dale Lien, Simon Martel, Gerard Shoemaker, John Swiston, Justin Weinkauf

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Perception, Trust, and Motivation in Consumer Behavior for Organic Food Acquisition: An Exploratory Study by Elena Moroșan, Violeta Popovici, Ioana Andreea Popescu, Adriana Daraban, Oana Karampelas, Liviu Marian Matac, Monica Licu, Andreea Rusu, Larisa-Marina-Elisabeth Chirigiu, Sinziana Opriţescu, Elena Iuliana Ionita, Alina Saulean, Maria Nitescu

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Exercise medicine as adjunct therapy during RADIation for CAncer of the prostaTE to improve treatment efficacy – protocol for the ERADICATE study: a phase II randomised controlled... by Oliver Schumacher, Robert U. Newton, Colin Tang, Raphael Chee, Sjoerd B. Vos, Ronny S. Low, David Joseph, Dennis R. Taaffe, Daniel A. Galvão

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Immanuel Wallerstein's Theory of the Capitalist World-System by Darius Žiemelis

“… One of the most significant tendencies in the development of Western historiography and social sciences in the last three decades has been the consolidation of a new multidisciplinary field of inquiry, comparative historical sociology (CHS). …”
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“… because there is nothing symbolic in the described phenomenon”. Asafyev’s Intonation Theory in the Early Soviet Union – Analytical Insights, Intellectual Contexts, and Semiotic... by Patrick Becker-Naydenov

“…Based on the underlying principles of Asafyev’s intonation theory “contrast and repetition,” etc.) and its analytical insights into cadence models, Western scholars have often read it as a continuation of the energeticism and dynamism proposed by August Halm and especially Ernst Kurth. …”
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Activation of Delta-Opioid Receptor Protects ARPE19 Cells against Oxygen-Glucose Deprivation/Reoxygenation-Induced Necroptosis and Apoptosis by Inhibiting the Release of TNF-α by Runjie Guo, Ping Chen, Tiantian Fu, Ren Zhang, Yuan Zhu, Nange Jin, Hong Xu, Yong Xia, Xuesong Tian

“…The protein expression of DOR, p-RIP1 (RIP1), p-RIP3 (RIP3), p-MLKL (MLKL), and cleaved Caspase3 (Caspase3) was measured by western blotting. Results. OGD severely damaged ARPE19 cells. …”
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Pelvic Floor Muscle Training vs. Vaginal Vibration Cone Therapy for Postpartum Dyspareunia and Vaginal Laxity by Federico Villani, Izabella Petre, Florina Buleu, Stela Iurciuc, Luciana Marc, Adrian Apostol, Chiara Valentini, Elisabetta Donati, Tommaso Simoncini, Ion Petre, Cristian Furau

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Determinants of poor access to health care among women of reproductive age in Sierra Leone: a cross-sectional study by Augustus Osborne, Peter Bai James, Camilla Bangura

“…Conversely, women with higher education, greater wealth, watch television, and those residing in the Western region had significantly lower odds of poor healthcare access. …”
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A telehealth-delivered intervention to extend the veteran HIV treatment cascade for cardiovascular disease prevention: V-EXTRA-CVD study protocol for a randomized controlled trial by Lewis Musoke, Hayden B. Bosworth, Christina Dickson, Pamela Gentry, Elizabeth Strawbridge, Soumya Subramaniam, Jennifer Gierisch, Valerie Smith, Sandra Woolson, John Pura, Willington Amutuhaire, Susanna Naggie, Julie Schexnayder, Karen Hall, Chris T. Longenecker, Nadine M. Harris, Chantrice Rogers, Puja Van Epps, for V-EXTRA-CVD Group

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How does the first index mode of birth in public or private hospitals predict subsequent births? A 16-year Australian population-based linked data study by Soo Downe, Hannah G Dahlen, Ank de Jonge, Lilian Peters, Michiel de Boer

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Induced Inflammatory and Oxidative Markers in Cerebral Microvasculature by Mentally Depressive Stress by Yuequan Zhu, Yazeed Haddad, Ho Jun Yun, Xiaokun Geng, Yuchuan Ding

“…Additionally, mRNA and protein expressions of NOX subunits (gp91phox, p47phox, p67phox, and p22phox) in the cerebrovascular endothelium were analyzed by real-time PCR and Western blot (n=10/group). Results. CRS decreased the total distances (p<0.05) and the time spent in the center zone in OFT (p<0.001) and sucrose preference test ratio in SPT (p<0.01). …”
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Towards quantitative reconstruction of past monsoon precipitation based on tetraether membrane lipids in Chinese loess by J. Guo, J. Guo, M. Ziegler, L. Fuchs, Y. Sun, F. Peterse

“…Combing our new data with existing brGDGT records from other CLP sites reveals a spatial gradient in MAP that is most pronounced during glacials, when the western CLP experiences more arid conditions and receives up to <span class="inline-formula">∼</span> 250 mm less precipitation than in the southeast, whereas MAP is <span class="inline-formula">∼</span> 850 mm across the CLP during the Holocene optimum. …”
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Knockdown of PDPN in astrocytes reduces hippocampal inflammation in T2DM mice by Xiaohang Wang, Xiaohang Wang, Xiaohang Wang, Qianqian Wang, Zhensheng Cai, Chengming Ni, Huan Wang, Hui Liu, Yusong Zhao, Jinbang Wang, Subo Liu, Xueying Wang

“…Our study aims to reveal its role in T2DM-induced hippocampal inflammation in VaD.MethodsFirstly, we will validate the expression of the Pdpn gene in T2DM astrocytes via qPCR and Western blot. Subsequently GFAP-specific promoter adeno-associated virus(AAV)carrying interfering sequence was used to knockdown the key gene in astrocytes of T2DM mice. …”
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Exploring the mechanism of rosmarinic acid in the treatment of lung adenocarcinoma based on bioinformatics methods and experimental validation by Chaowang Zhou, Ruqian Zhong, Lei Zhang, Renyi Yang, Yuxin Luo, Huijun Lei, Liang Li, Jianzhong Cao, Zhiying Yuan, Xiaoning Tan, Mengzhou Xie, Haoyu Qu, Zuomei He

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Assessing the Potential of Cultural Tourism Development in Kabale District by Simon, Otebwa

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Convoluted ν-Signals on 114Cd Isotope from Astrophysical and Laboratory Neutrino Sources by Vaitsa Tsakstara

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Etno-show Quando l’antropologia andò in scena, un’antropologia bella da vedere by Alberto Baldi

“…It is a variegated Otherness which turns up, sometimes near, some other three-dimensional and tangible, in other words “alive”; it follows postures and is in relation with activities, situations and environments which instead hypostasize and strictly control it, thus reasserting the hegemony of a western perspective which depicts intriguing “postcards” of this otherness, and puts a price on it with the complicity of Anthropology; rather with a certain Anthropology which embellishes the world, changing it in a sort of ethno-show. …”
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RETRACTED: Saied et al. Mycosynthesis of Hematite (α-Fe₂O₃) Nanoparticles Using <i>Aspergillus niger</i> and Their Antimicrobial and Photocatalytic Activities... by Ebrahim Saied, Salem S. Salem, Abdulaziz A. Al-Askar, Fathy M. Elkady, Amr A. Arishi, Amr H. Hashem

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Outcomes of Chronic Hepatitis C Therapy in Patients Treated in Community Versus Academic Centres in Canada: Final Results of APPROACH (A Prospective Study of Peginterferon alfa-2a... by Robert P Myers, Curtis Cooper, Morris Sherman, Richard Lalonde, Helga Witt-Sullivan, Magdy Elkashab, Paul Harris, Rob Balshaw, Christopher Usaty, Paul J Marotta

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Celestial Resistance by Maryia Rusak

“…This study serves as a first stepping stone towards further investigations into how Western homogenising technologies could be negotiated and challenged for a more pluralistic technological paradigm.   …”
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