Domestic violence: Screening and management in South Africa by Deidré Pretorius, Aviva Ruch

“…This article highlights the definitions in the Amended Domestic Violence Act of 2021 and suggests screening options for domestic violence. …”
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A Critique of the Book Islamic Movement at North Caucasus by Seyedeh Motahare Hoseyni, Fatemeh Eidi, Razieh Mousavyfar

“…She especially attends to the effects of a mystical, political, and historical phenomenon which acted when Russian troops attacked Caucasus about 300 years ago. …”
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Mollicutes/HIV Coinfection and the Development of AIDS: Still Far from a Definitive Response by Caio Mauricio Mendes de Cordova, Caroline Galgowski, Leonardo Lange

“…Its in vitro properties, combined with clinical findings, have led to the hypothesis that these microorganisms may act as cofactors of HIV in AIDS development. Even today this point of view is quite polemic among infectious disease specialists and many aspects remain to be clarified, in contrast to what happens, for instance, with HIV/Mycobacterium tuberculosis coinfection. …”
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Cushion Mechanism of Goat Hoof Bulb Tissues by Weijun Tian, Hai Liu, Qi Zhang, Bo Su, Wei Xu, Qian Cong

“…The cornified epidermal layer can resist the instant impact onto the ground, while the dermal papillae embedded in the dermal layer can store, release, and dissipate the impulsive energy, and the three parts synergically act in the cushion.…”
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Motile cilia modulate neuronal and astroglial activity in the zebrafish larval brain by Percival P. D’Gama, Inyoung Jeong, Andreas Moe Nygård, Ahmed Jamali, Emre Yaksi, Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi

“…Summary: The brain uses a specialized system to transport cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), consisting of interconnected ventricles lined by motile ciliated ependymal cells. These cells act jointly with CSF secretion and cardiac pressure gradients to regulate CSF dynamics. …”
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Flights-to-and-from-Quality with Islamic and Conventional Bonds in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era: ICEEMDAN-Based Transfer Entropy by Ahmed Bossman, Samuel Kwaku Agyei, Peterson Owusu Junior, Ellen Animah Agyei, Patrick Kwashie Akorsu, Edward Marfo-Yiadom, George Amfo-Antiri

“…Generally, in the intermediate term of the COVID-19 pandemic, both Islamic and conventional bonds could act as safe havens, diversifiers, and hedges for international equities, and the same could be observed for international equities. …”
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Malaria prevalence, transmission potential and efficacy of artemisinin-based combination therapy in the Kenyan Central highlands: a zone previously characterized as malaria-free by Francis T. Kimani, Kelvin K. Thiongó, Maureen A. Otinga, Lewis K. Mbabu, Mary N. Ombati, Stanley K. Kitur, Sarah A. Ochieng’, Lucy N. Wachira, Damaris K. Matoke-Muhia, Luna Kamau

“…The malaria clinical study was an open label non-randomized clinical trial where the efficacy of one ACT drug, was evaluated in two health facilities. …”
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Dynamic balance control in healthy young women during stair descent: a plantar pressure-based study by Ruiqin Wang, Ruiqin Wang, Jinfeng Cao, Haoran Xu, Panjing Guo, Yumin Li, Yuyi Fan, Yunfei Gui, Leqi Li, Roger Adams, Jia Han, Jia Han, Jia Han, Jie Lyu, Jie Lyu

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LEGAL AND ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES OF THE FOREIGN POLICY OF INDEPENDENT AZERBAIJAN IN RELATION TO NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES by Katana Gafarova

“…The comparative legal method allowed to identify the characteristic similarities and differences in the international regulatory legal acts, national legislation in this sphere, as well as the prospects for improvement of legal regulation of such relations. …”
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Extracellular HMGB1 blockade inhibits tumor growth through profoundly remodeling immune microenvironment and enhances checkpoint inhibitor-based immunotherapy by Coraline Radermecker, Pascale Hubert, Patrick Roncarati, Stephanie Demoulin, Charlotte Pilard, Marie Ancion, Celia Reynders, Thomas Lerho, Diane Bruyere, Alizee Lebeau, Margot Meunier, Marie-Julie Nokin, Elodie Hendrick, Olivier Peulen, Philippe Delvenne, Michael Herfs

“…Regarding its role in cancer development/progression, paradoxical results exist in the literature and it is still unclear whether HMGB1 mainly acts as an oncogene or a tumor suppressor.Methods HMGB1 expression was first assessed in tissue specimens (n=359) of invasive breast, lung and cervical cancer and the two distinct staining patterns detected (nuclear vs cytoplasmic) were correlated to the secretion profile of malignant cells, patient outcomes and the presence of infiltrating immune cells within tumor microenvironment. …”
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Some conceptual aspect of overcoming anti-detection and investigation of crimes by G.V. Burganova, R.R. Rahmatullin

“…The idea has been introduced that the disclosure and investigation of the overwhelming number of crimes is carried out under countering conditions, which makes it difficult to achieve the objectives of the criminal process in specific cases, leads to the situation when many committed illegal acts and omissions remain undetected, and a number of the identified crimes remain undisclosed. …”
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An approach to a geropsychiatric assessment by Sandeep Grover, Ajit Avasthi

“…This involves understanding the signs and symptoms [S], Additional Diagnosis- comorbid physical and psychiatric diagnosis [A], level of functioning, frailty, falls, forceful acts-abuse, forensic issues [F], collecting extra information pertaining to nutritional status, the environment in which the patient is living, constipation, urinary symptoms (incontinence/retention), and weight loss [E], understanding the ongoing stressors, suicidality, substance use disorder, sleep-related issues, sexual history, supervision of medication, safety issues, social support, spirituality and religiousness [S] and collecting the treatment history [T]. …”
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Romans 1:24–28 and Same-Sex Practice: Some Exegetical Remarks by Marius Nel

“…It is sin committed in the human body that radically affects one’s participation in Christ’s earthly body. To act on the realisation of same-sex lust is in itself sinful. …”
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An overview of recent developments in the description of Biblical Hebrew relevant to Bible translation by C. H. J. van der Merwe

“…There are a variety of linguistic signs that have no referential meaning or syntactic function, but act as overt navigation signals for the way in which the information is supposed to be processed. …”
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ENTOMOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF LUMPY SKIN DISEASE EPIZOOTOLOGY (REVIEW) by Ya. E. Pestova, A. V. Kononov, A. V. Sprygin

“…These papers investigate the ability of gadflies, flies and ticks to act as mechanical vectors. Currently, there is no unequivocal viewpoint with respect to the proved LSD vector. …”
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Proprietà collettive e sviluppo locale. Elementi di ricerca per il Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italia) by Maurizio Daici

“…With this opinion, in 1927, the legislator mainly acted to get the agricultural properties free from common uses (grazing, gathering wood, etc.) and to reduce the extensions of the properties opened to a shared utilisation, by putting them at the same time under the authority of the municipalities. …”
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When home and work are not enough. The challenge of international migrants’ agency in the Italian Alps by Andrea Membretti, Fabio Lucchini, Monica Gilli, Mia Scotti

“… Even when they have access to housing and employment, international migrants struggle to develop their own agency, i.e. the capacity to act in their own life contexts, exercising citizenship rights within substantive inclusion processes in the wider communities. …”
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Supplementary Schools as Spaces of Hope for a More Inclusive World: Challenging Exclusion and Social Injustice in Multilingual London by Terry Lamb

“…I support this argument by first considering their creative educational and cultural practices, and then the ways in which they act as spaces of resistance to the challenges they face. …”
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Contributions to the elucidation of a controversial episode. The Ciulei Case. (2) by Liviu CORCIU

“… Based on previous documentation, not necessarily the subject of this article, we can state that the administration of military justice in the War of the Integration was not a perfect process, among the most important criticisms being the judicial errors recorded, on the one hand, and the interference of commanders in the act of justice, on the other. The fact that the members of court martial panels were appointed by the commanders of the major units with which they operated, from the divisional level upwards, was a procedure that naturally facilitated the existence of subordination relationships, with a direct effect on the administration of justice. …”
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