Design and Development of Biosensors for the Detection of Heavy Metal Toxicity by Graziella L. Turdean

“…Many compounds (including heavy metals, HMs) used in different fields of industry and/or agriculture act as inhibitors of enzymes, which, as consequence, are unable to bind the substrate. …”
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JUSTICE AS BEAUTY-IN-ACTION? INSIGHTS FROM HANS URS VON BALTHASAR’S AESTHETICS AND DRAMATICS by M.J. Havenga

“…This is then followed by an exposition of Von Balthasar’s theological dramatics, as developed in his work Theo-drama, which shows how, for Von Balthasar, this beautiful form of Christ is not merely a static image, icon, or artwork but, in fact, a dynamic event, a dramatic act, an embodied performance which reveals to us, along with God’s glory and beauty, God’s unbounded goodness. …”
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Observaciones sobre la relación entre la “cosmo-lógica” y la construcción de la persona en el espiritismo cubano by Diana Espirito Santo

“…In this paper I suggest that popular forms of Cuban spiritism (espiritismo) offer a genuine “anthropology” or indigenous theory of personhood that acts as a dynamic driving force towards, and for, its sister Afro-Cuban religions, diversifying personal practices through the demands of the dead with whom the mediums communicate. …”
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Pollution atmosphérique en milieu urbain : de sa régulation à sa surveillance by Laurence Lestel

“…The organization of these monitoring networks was strengthened by the Air Act of 1996.…”
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Making sense of fraction in elementary on montessori didactic materials by Rosalin Rosalin, Tatang Tatang

“…The results showed that the use of concrete manipulative materials significantly improved students' understanding of fractions, developed problem-solving skills, and built a strong connection between abstract and real concepts. The teacher acts as a facilitator, allowing students to learn independently while still guiding them in the exploration process. …”
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Phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors: Raynaud's and beyond by Sanat Phatak, Sajal Ajmani, Vikas Agarwal, Durga Prasanna Misra

“…Phosphodiesterases (PDE) are a group of ubiquitously present enzymes involved in regulation of various cellular pathways. PDE5 acts to metabolize cyclic guanosine monophosphate (GMP). …”
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‘Care-less whispers’ in the academy during COVID-19: A collaborative autoethnography by Paula Natalie Stone, Adele Phillips, Kerry Jordan-Daus

“…The stories shared in this paper are analysed through a ‘care-less’ (Rogers, 2017) lens, which asks the academy to recognise and confront the duplicity and self-glorification of policy and practice, that might be viewed as acts of normalising and supporting care-less cultures and behaviours. …”
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Drawing Theory. An Introduction by Marc Schoonderbeek, Stefano Milani

“…Even though the role of drawing is nowadays still regarded as the most common act of architecture, this understanding of drawing is hardly subject to critical inquiries, and, unfortunately, mostly limited to its instrumental role within the representation of the project.A common characteristic in all of the papers in this issue of Footprint is that a specific character of the theoretical field generated by drawing is the elaboration of the correlation between two epistemic regions. …”
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Publication ethics statement for the year 2025 by Nebojša N. Gaćeša

“…It is necessary to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer and the publisher. …”
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Gwiazdy filmowe płaczą tylko przez minutę. Z Joramem ten Brinkiem rozmawia Andrzej Pitrus by Andrzej Pitrus

“… Pitrus rozmawia z Joramem ten Brinkiem – reżyserem i producentem eksperymentalnych filmów dokumentalnych i eseistycznych – tuż po prywatnej projekcji wyprodukowanego przez niego filmu Joshui Oppenheimera Scena zbrodni (The Act of Killing, 2012). Dokument ten opowiada o płatnych zabójcach działających na zlecenie prawicowego reżimu generała Suharto i stał się sensacją wielu festiwali, w tym tegorocznego festiwalu w Berlinie, gdzie otrzymał dwa znaczące wyróżnienia – Nagrodę Jury Ekumenicznego oraz Nagrodę Publiczności. …”
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« The arrested step », Nightwood de Djuna Barnes : « Une image est une halte que fait l’esprit entre deux incertitudes » by Christiane Guillois

“…She will have none of fossilized emotions and acts predicated on habit. She seeks the authentic, and it is this quest that leads her to bodies in motion, for while fashioned out of personal history, they throb with pulsations that are universal. …”
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L’étrangeté d’une langue étrangère : (dé)familiariser l’expérience belge d’Emily Brontë by Augustin Trapenard

“…In studying Emily Brontë’s devoirs as acts of resistance, this paper attempts to shed a new light on the Belgian experience and show how it gradually became a topos in the official story that made Emily Brontë an author.…”
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Nanotechnological Applications in Current Innovative Approaches in Dairy Technology- A review by Binnur Kaptan

“…These methods, in conjunction with nanosensors, nanolaminates, and nanocoatings, act as efficient packaging solutions, providing critical information on product safety, stability, and quality. …”
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‘Fine, Invisible Threads’: Schopenhauer on the Cognitively Mediated Structure of Motivation by Sean T. Murphy

“…In light of motivation’s cognitively mediated structure, he contends that human beings are caused to act by ‘mere thoughts’, what he refers to metaphorically as ‘fine, invisible threads’. …”
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Systematic review meta-analysis protocol preparation and registration – A narrative review by Indubala Maurya, Rakesh Garg

“…However, conducting an SRMA requires a well-written protocol, which acts as a clear roadmap for the researcher and defines objectives, methods and expected outcomes. …”
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Dens Evaginatus and Dens Invaginatus in Dilacerated Maxillary Lateral Incisor Diagnosed Using Cone Beam Computed Tomography - A Case Report and Review of Literature by Hemant Sawhney, Vanshika Agarwal, Geetanjali Gupta

“…Take-away Lessons: These anomalies act as an etiological factor for several dental problems for neighboring & opposing tooth. …”
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Law and Politics in FCPA Prosecutions of Foreign Corporations by Elizabeth Acorn

“…This is perhaps nowhere more evident than in the enforcement of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) against non-American corporations. …”
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Dissociation: understanding the dynamics of primary and secondary capacities by Veronica Mateescu

“…Dissociation initially acts as a protective mechanism, allowing temporary detachment from overwhelming emotional realities. …”
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Nonlocal order parameter of pair superfluids by Nitya Cuzzuol, Luca Barbiero, Arianna Montorsi

“…The odd parity operator acts as the unique order parameter for such phase irrespectively to the density of the system and its dimensionality in regimes of total particle number conservation. …”
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Speaking Up, Pushing Back, Closing the Door: Agency of Open and Covert Teacher Resistance in Dual-Language Bilingual Education by Brandon Sherman, Trish Morita-Mullaney, Jennifer Renn

“…We applied an agentive triad model of teacher identity, agency, and power to understand how DLBE teachers navigated discordant situations in their schools. Teachers acted from different identity positions, including agentive compliance, anagentive compliance (without agency), and nonconfrontational resistance. …”
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