Low-RCS, Circular Polarization, and High-Gain Broadband Antenna Based on Mirror Polarization Conversion Metasurfaces by Liang Zhang, Changqing Liu, Chun Ni, Meng Kong, Xianliang Wu

“…The improvement in gain is achieved by using a Fabry–Perot cavity, which is constituted by the ground of the antenna and the PCM. …”
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Edible portions of precooked blue swimming crab: Chemical composition and effect of chitooligosaccharide conjugate and high-pressure processing on microbial inactivation by Khaettareeya Pimsannil, Suriya Palamae, Xinru Fan, Qiancheng Zhao, Bin Zhang, Soottawat Benjakul

“…Myosin heavy chain and actin constituted as key proteins in meat, but the protein pattern of roe was completely different. …”
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A comprehensive review on elucidating the host disease resistance mechanism from the perspective of the interaction between cotton and Verticillium dahliae by Yalin Zhang, Lihong Zhao, Dongpo Li, Ziming Li, Hongjie Feng, Zili Feng, Feng Wei, Jinglong Zhou, Zhiying Ma, Jun Yang, Heqin Zhu

“…Nevertheless, the most cost-effective approach to controlling this disease involves breeding and cultivating resistant cotton varieties, demanding a meticulous analysis of the mechanisms underlying cotton’s resistance to Verticillium wilt and the identification of pivotal genes. These aspects constitute focal points in disease-resistance breeding programs. …”
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Identification of bapA in Strains of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica Isolated from Wild Animals Kept in Captivity in Sinaloa, Mexico by Gabriela Silva-Hidalgo, Martin López-Valenzuela, Nora Cárcamo-Aréchiga, Silvia Cota-Guajardo, Mayra López-Salazar, Edith Montiel-Vázquez

“…bapA, previously named stm2689, encodes the BapA protein, which, along with cellulose and fimbriae, constitutes biofilms. Biofilms are communities of microorganisms that grow in a matrix of exopolysaccharides and may adhere to living tissues or inert surfaces. …”
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Right Traumatic Diaphragmatic Hernia: A Case Report and A review by Thaimi Conde Cueto, Ivette Cepero Pérez, Francisco Olascoaga Pérez, Martha Yudey Rodríguez Pino

“…Diaphragmatic hernia constitutes an infrequent form of diaphragmatic disease and a high index of sospecha for its diagnosis. …”
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New Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Therapeutic Strategies Based on the Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2/Angiotensin-(1–7)/Mas Receptor Axis by Anderson J. Ferreira, Tatiane M. Murça, Rodrigo A. Fraga-Silva, Carlos Henrique Castro, Mohan K. Raizada, Robson A. S. Santos

“…The axis formed by ACE2/Ang-(1–7)/Mas represents an endogenous counter regulatory pathway within the RAS whose actions are opposite to the vasoconstrictor/proliferative arm of the RAS constituted by ACE/Ang II/AT1 receptor. In this review we will discuss recent findings concerning the biological role of the ACE2/Ang-(1–7)/Mas arm in the cardiovascular and pulmonary system. …”
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An Analytical Step-by-Step Procedure to Derive the Flexural Response of RC Sections in Compression by Piero Colajanni, Marinella Fossetti, Maurizio Papia

“…The formulation is developed in dimensionless terms, after a preliminary definition of the geometrical and mechanical parameters involved, so that the results are valid for classes of RC sections. The constitutive laws of the materials include confinement effect on the concrete and postyielding behaviour of the steel reinforcement, which can be assumed to be softening behaviour for buckled reinforcing bars. …”
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Search Rate and Functional Response of a Eusocial Insect (Oecophylla longinoda) in a Tanzanian Mango Orchard by Thora Samsø Fast, Jørgen Aagaard Axelsen, Gina Kier Lynegaard, Maulid Mwatawala, Joachim Offenberg

“…This was done by following the removal of prey, which constituted the foundation for estimating the search rate by aid of the Nicholson-Bailey and Lotka-Volterra models. …”
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The Effect of risk management on financial Performance in Uganda. A Case of Kabale Municipal Council, Kabale District. by Kabweine, Bernard Mwesigwa, Eton, Marus, Sunday, Arthur, Ogwel, Bernard Patrick

“…A descriptive research design was adopted and a sample size of 169, which constituted council employees and beneficiaries was used. …”
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A Comprehensive Study About the Contribution of Human Activities to The Pollution of River Rwabakazi Through its Tributaries Around Kabale Town. by Tumwesigire, Warren

“…The freshwater ecosystems of the world comprise only about 0.5% of the earth’s surface and have a volume of 2.84x105 Km3. Rivers constitute an insignificant amount (0.1%) of the land surface. …”
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Evolution and Development of Dual Ingestion Systems in Mammals: Notes on a New Thesis and Its Clinical Implications by Jeffrey R. Alberts, Rita H. Pickler

“…Together, these considerations constitute a view of “dual ingestive systems.” The thesis, then, is that suckling is not a simple precursor of feeding but is a complete behavior that emerges, forms, and then undergoes a dissolution that overlaps with the emergence of independent feeding. …”
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Satisfaction by the certain subjective success in career by Janjić Ivana, Ilić Đurđijana

“…In order for an organization to successfully operate, it is necessary to know all employees and to establish an agreement between individual and organizational goals, which means that it should follow the following business philosophy: "Great performance and great satisfaction of the individual." However, what constitutes the basis of quality work organizations are reliable employees who are satisfied with their work, are ready to progress and learn and thus profit themselves and the organization either in material or otherwise. …”
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Corruption in Higher Education by V. I. Sharin

“…Petersburg State University collected in 2021 constitute an empirical base. It was found that the majority of university students have a superficial understanding of the essence of corruption and tend to tolerate it. …”
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Facial wrinkles correction through autologous fat microinjection. by Heriberto Cháves Sánchez, Liliana Espinosa Chang

“…Gustavo Aldereguía Lima” in Cienfuegos city, Cuba. 60 patients of both sexes constituted this series study. They had facial wrinkles and this procedure was performed on them. …”
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L’historiographie ou la « comédie de l’identité ». Une contribution à l’étude du concept de représentation en histoire à partir des réflexions de Michel de Certeau by Diana Napoli

“…This term has indeed a number of significations (referential movement that redirects to the past, performative practice, etc.) and it’s precisely this constitutive polysemy that allows it to be at the centre of discourse and of the « operation historiographique ». …”
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Socio-affectiveness and alternative figures of care for girls, boys and adolescents in Argentine legal praxis by Federico Pablo Notrica

“…Although affection has always been a constitutive component of human relations, the classical approach refused and refuses to recognize in it a source of Law and, as such, share the halo of legitimacy that kinship ties have enjoyed since ancient times. …”
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Biological Communities as Economic Subjects by N. A. Kilyachkov

“…It is shown that these associations regularly face the choice between various alternative uses of scarce means, which constitutes economic choice by definition. Different levels of organization in nature and economy are compared. …”
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Hāloa: The long breath of Hawaiian sovereignty, water rights, and Indigenous law by Puanani Apoliona-Brown

“…As a result of the activism of the Hawaiian Renaissance, the 1978 Constitutional Convention reaffirmed Native Hawaiian rights previously codified by Kingdom law, which included a unique public trust doctrine grounded in Indigenous land and water management. …”
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Liability and Compensation for Damages in case of Violation of the Principles of Accountability and Good Governance by Tina Sever

“…In case they are infringed, the state should recognise accountability and have in place an efficient control system providing parties with effective (legal) remedies (e.g. possibility to appeal to the line ministry; administrative inspection; judicial control; constitutional complaint, compensation, etc.). Yet, not every non-compliance (irregularity) leads to (tort) liability. …”
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Microbiome in development of esophageal diseases by Yu. V. Yevsyutina, V. T. Ivashkin

“…The microbiome of the normal esophageal mucosa is represented by gram-positive bacteria like Firmicutes; microbiome in patients with Barret's esophagus and esophagitis is constituted mainly by gram-negative anaerobe bacteria: Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria, Fusobacteria and Spirochaete; patients with eosinophilic esophagitis have Proteobacteria. …”
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