Significance of a written text in human activities by A. A. Vereshchagina

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Myeloid-Related Protein Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis by Charles J. Malemud

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A Case of Gallstones Causing Pelvic Pain by Aizat Drahman, Kaushi Arulpragasam, Lilach Leibenson, Frank Sardelic

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On the imbalance of international communications by H. J. Hsia

“…Japan is a typical example: she absorbed the best and discarded the disharmonious features of Chinese and Western civilizations. Further attempts are also made to examine the in-herent, natural immunity of cultures against alien concepts and practices. …”
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Sexualités au Maghreb by Valérie Beaumont, Corinne Cauvin Verner, François Pouillon

“…While refusing to adopt the “Orientalist” perspective (Arab-Islamic sexuality explained by the sacred texts) the “culturalist” perspective (a specifically North African way of configuring sexuality), the “moralist” perspective (societies being menaced by political islam or the “corrupted West”) and the “activist” perspective (as a defence of individual freedom, notably sexual, feminism, or political Islam), these contemporary ethnographies recreate the tensions between individualism and community ethos, between national and local dictates, between western ethics and religious proscription, all of these attracting considerable media coverage. …”
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Is Field of Study or Location Associated with College Students' Snacking Patterns? by Laura H. McArthur, Donald Holbert, William Forsythe

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Towards Establishing a National Perioperative Quality Improvement Network in LMICs: Implementation Experiences From Ethiopia by Fitsum Kifle, MS, Katherine R. Iverson, MD, Ermiyas Belay, MPH, Elubabor Buno Teko, MD, Abiy Dawit, MHA, Andualem Deneke, MD, Bruce Biccard, PhD, NPQIN Collaboratives, Tewodros Kifleyohanes, Adam Hewitt Smith, Atalel Fentahun, Bereket Zelalem, Bethel Muleye, Bezaye Zemedkun, Brook Demissie, Chris Dodgion, Dereje Zewdu, Desta Galcha, Hyla Kluyts, Kokeb Desta, Masersha G., Mohammed Adem, Natinael Tesfaye, ProfRupert M. Pearse, MD (Res), Salome Maswime, Selam Daniel, Yordanos Mengistu

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<i>The Woman as Wolf</i> (AT 409): Some Interpretations of a Very Estonian Folk Tale by Merili Metsvahi

“…The article introduces the content of the tale, the origin of the first records from the early 19th century, and the dissemination area of the tale, which remains outside Western Europe: apart from the Estonian versions there are Sami, Karelian, Vepsian, Livonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian versions. …”
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Formation of National Identity in Slovakia by M. V. Vedernikov

“…Along the integration into Western Europe there was a departure from the nationalist discourse in Slovakia, although its rejection was never complete. …”
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Indigenous Knowledge Systems Discourse and Inclusionality: An Afro-centric Quest for Recognition in a Globalised World by Munyaradzi Felix Murove

“…Secondly, against this broader background, the argument for the indigenisation of knowledge in Africa goes hand-in-hand with the promotion of the intellectualisation of knowledge that is often regarded by Western scholarship as ‘primitive’, and thus redundant, in the face of modernity. …”
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The resolution of Advisory council on diagnostics and treatment of the functional gastrointestinal diseases by V. T. Ivashkin, S. A. Alekseyenko, T. A. Kolesova, N. V. Korochanskaya, Ye. A. Poluektova, V. I. Simanenkov, A. V. Tkachev, A. S. Trukhmanov, I. B. Khlynov, A. A. Sheptulin, O. S. Shifrin

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The Relevance of the Practice of Ifá Divination in Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are not to Blame by Olusegun Olu-Osayomi, Babatunde Adebua

“… The custom of Ifá divination is common among the Yorùbá of Western Nigeria, and among Africans generally. This paper attempts an evaluation of the relevance of the practice of Ifá divination in the selected play of Ola Rotimi to Yorùbá culture and metaphysics. …”
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Species-Related Differences in the Proteome of Rat and Human Pancreatic Beta Cells by G. A. Martens

“…Human cells also expressed more heat shock proteins and radical scavenging systems: apart from SOD2, they expressed high levels of H2O2-scavenger peroxiredoxin 3 (PRDX3), confirmed by microarray, Western blotting, and microscopy. Besides conferring lower susceptibility to oxidative stress to human cells PRDX3 might also play a role in physiological redox regulation as, in rat, its expression was restricted to a beta cell subset with higher metabolic glucose responsiveness. …”
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Process of adoption into turkish in veterinary education in turkey by Halis Yeıitkaya, Abdullah Özen

“…From this date until the end ot 19th century, the appointment of foreign staff for education in the school, the increase in academical and professional contacts at international level within the field of veterinary medicine, and the efforts exerted to reflect the western scientific understanding upon the education caused Turkish to be influenced by foreign languages. …”
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miR-212 Promotes Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy through Regulating Transcription Factor 7 Like 2 by Jinxia Yuan, Guoliang Yuan

“…Then, the mechanism of miR-212 regulating CH was verified by website prediction, luciferase reporter gene assay, qRT-PCR, and western blotting assay. In the successfully constructed rat model of abdominal aortic constriction and cardiomyocyte hypertrophy, ANP and myh7 were dramatically increased, myh6 expression was decreased, and miRNA-212 expression was increased. …”
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Deep Domain Adaptation Approach Using an Improved Parallel Residual Network for Cross-Domain Bearing Fault Diagnosis by Jiezhou Huang

“…Rolling bearing datasets from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and Jiangnan University (JNU) are used to validate the effectiveness of the presented method. …”
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Effect of Organizational Cultural Differences and Mutual Trust on Contract Management of Nonequity Construction Project Alliances by Yanling Zhao, Yingbin Feng, Chenggang Li

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Giant Saphenous Venous Graft Aneurysm with Compression of the Pulmonary Artery: A Rare Cause of Heart Failure by Jagadeesh K. Kalavakunta, Yashwant Agrawal, Alicia Williams, Jerry W. Pratt, Frank Saltiel

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Long-term effects of deep institutional shocks: Historical evidence from Mexico by Shai Dothan, Mitja Kovac, Rok Spruk

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Intrahepatic Stones: The Percutaneous Approach by Horst Neuhaus

“…Intrahepatic stones are prevalent in the Far East, whereas they are infrequently seen in Western countries. Hepatolithiasis can cause recurrent attacks of cholangitis, with a risk of liver abscesses, sepsis or hepatic failure. …”
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