Transition of farmland use system towards urban-rural integration: From localization to de-localization by FENG Dedong, LONG Hualou

“…[Results] Based on the perspective of land system science, this paper explains the conceptual connotation of farmland use system transition; constructs an academic discourse on the localization and de-localization transition of farmland use system; analyzes the stage changes of China’s urban-rural relationship from rural China to urban-rural China, and the transition logic of the farmland use system in the corresponding stage; and proposes that the “re-localization” and “hybridization” will jointly constitute the next evolution cycle of China’s farmland use system transition under the integrated development of urban and rural areas. …”
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Settlement Analysis of Pipe Culvert Situated in Soft Clay Treated with Prefabricated Vertical Drains by Adamu Beyene Negesa

“…Finite element-based numerical modeling was conducted by using the 2D GeoStudio/SigmaW package, and the Modified Cam Clay Constitutive model was adopted. The conducted numerical analysis revealed that the finite element result has good agreement with the field settlement monitoring data with only 0.0305 m maximum deviation in which the numerical analysis result remained greater for majority of the consolidation time. …”
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Use of Eggshells as Bone Grafts around Commercially Pure Titanium Implant Screws Coated with Nano Calcium Sulfate by Dher Riyadh Kadhim, Thekra Ismael Hamad, Abdalbseet A. Fatalla

“…A total of uncoated 20 screws constituted the control group, and the remaining 60 screws coated with nano calcium sulfate nanoparticles were used as the experimental groups as follows: 20 screws coated with nano calcium sulfate were used alone in the tibiae without gaps around them, 20 screws coated with nano calcium sulfate were used with the gaps made around them and filled with eggshell powder as the bone graft material, and 20 screws coated with nano calcium sulfate were used with the gaps made around them left unfilled. …”
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Police Officers’ Presumption of Innocence: History, Contemporaneousness and Possibility to Implement into Ukrainian Legislation by V. V. Sokurenko

“…The expediency of introducing police officers’ qualification immunity (police officers’ presumption of innocence) is based on a number of arguments, in particular: police officers need qualification immunity to perform their professional duties: they perform important tasks that may require immediate decisions in stressful situations, but lack of qualification immunity may lead that police officers do not dare to act when it is most needed; lack of qualification immunity can lead to unjustified police trials, when judges and jurors can review decisions, may lead to significant budget expenditures; police officers do not have absolute immunity and can be prosecuted for violating clearly established constitutional rights, despite the perspective of the availability of qualification immunity; police officers should not be forced to apply “abstract law”, i.e. those provisions that are not explicitly provided in the current legislation, but follow from its provisions, to specific circumstances, we cannot expect from police officers to be scholars in law sphere and use legal arguments during the arrest; police officers should be able to act professionally without worrying about prosecution.…”
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Autoimmune-Associated Hemophagocytosis and Myelofibrosis in a Newly Diagnosed Lupus Patient: Case Report and Literature Review by Deonne Thaddeus V. Gauiran, Paula Victoria Catherine Y. Cheng, Christopher Ryan P. Pagaduan, Maria Clariza M. Santos

“…We report a case of a 30-year-old Filipino woman who presented with a one-year history of fever, constitutional symptoms, exertional dyspnea, joint pains, and alopecia and physical examination findings of fever, facial flushing, cervical lymphadenopathies, and knee joint effusions. …”
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Case report: Diagnosis of impaired consciousness in a cancer patient using immune checkpoint inhibitors by Daniel Cathalifaud, Daniel Cathalifaud, Cristóbal Basáez, Tatiana Yáñez, Tatiana Yáñez

“…Conversely, neurological IRAEs, though rare, constitute a contraindication for further use of ICIs. …”
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FEATURES OF DECENTRALIZATION IN THE UK: EXPERIENCE OF INTERACTION BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY FOR UKRAINE by Olha Andrieieva, Nataliia Larina, Yurii Ruban

“…Brexit destabilizes the internal settlement and raises a number of serious constitutional issues. The UK's membership of the EU has reduced the possibilities for secession and independence in both Scotland and Northern Ireland. …”
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Maternal and Child Program’s behavior of some indicators in a family medical office. Cienfuegos, 2013-2022 by Mileidy Portal Amador, Alina Esther González Hermida, Hildeli Suárez López, Iranidel Rodríguez Padrón

“…<br /><strong>Conclusions</strong>: adolescent pregnancy, low birth weight, prematurity and genetic alterations did not constitute health problems in the population and study period. …”
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MANAGEMENT CONTROL SYSTEM AND PERFORMANCE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES IN LAGOS, NIGERIA by Abdulrasaq Mustapha, Mubaraq Sanni

“… Management control system (MCS) constitutes one of the critical functions of management in organizations. …”
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A Recognition Methodology for the Key Geometric Errors of a Multi-Axis Machine Tool Based on Accuracy Retentivity Analysis by Shijie Guo, Shufeng Tang, Dongsheng Zhang

“…Then, the retentivity of geometric accuracy with respect to the geometric error is defined based on the mapping between the constitutive geometric errors and the time domain. The results show that the variation in the spatial error vector is nonlinear while considering the operation time of the machine tool and the position of the motion axes. …”
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Anthropometric Indicators to Determine the Obesity and its Relations with the Cardiometabolic Risk by Raúl Cedeño Morales, Maricel Castellanos González, Mikhail Benet Rodríguez, Luis Mass Sosa, Carlos Mora Hernández, Jorge Carlos Parada Arias

“…<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> the perimeter of waist constitutes a parameter of essential measure in the obese patient's evaluation, independently of the IMC, since it has been demonstrated a positive association between abdominal obesity and cardiometabolic risk.…”
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Disability among attendees with schizophrenia in a Nigerian hospital: further evidence for integrated rehabilitative treatment designs by Andrew Toyin Olagunju, Dapo Adebowale Adegbaju, Richard Uwakwe

“…In spite of clinical stability following treatment, individuals with schizophrenia were disabled to varied degrees, and socioeconomic as well as illness-related factors constituted important correlates. Integration of rehabilitation along with social intervention into treatment design to reduce disability is implied, and further research is also warranted.…”
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Cuproptosis-related lncRNAs and genes: Potential markers for glioblastoma prognosis and treatment. by Yajia Chen, Jingxian Zhang, Weiqian Zheng, Hongwu Xu

“…Two high-risk CRLs (AC091182.2, AC005229.4) and their co-expression CRGs (LIPT2, GLS) were identified and verified to constitute an independent prognostic indicator of GBM. …”
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Prevalence of Esophageal Eosinophilia, Eosinophilic Esophagitis, and Lymphocytic Gastritis in Children with Celiac Disease: A Saudi Tertiary Center Experience by Meshari A. Alaifan, Ammar Khayat, Rana Y. Bokhary, Abdulhameed Ibrahim, Yagoub Bin-Taleb, Bakr H. Alhussaini, Omar I. Saadah

“…The median age was 12 years (range, 2–18 years). Male constituted 54.7% of the overall cohort (n = 41). The most common clinical symptoms were short stature (54.7%), weight loss (34.7%), abdominal pain (33.3%), abdominal distension (29.3%), anorexia (29.3%), diarrhea (24%), and vomiting (21.3%). …”
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Study on Dynamic Performance of Standard Sand Based on KTL Dynamic Triaxial Apparatus by Bo Li, Xiaofei Li, Xueyang Xing

“…The determination of dynamic properties is of great scientific significance to the constitutive modeling and parameter determination of large deformation for sand liquefaction. …”
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Psychometric Validation of the Hepatitis C Symptom and Impact Questionnaire (HCV-SIQv4) in a Diverse Sample of Adults with Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection Treated with an Inter... by Andrew Trigg, Eric Chan, Helen Kitchen, Tom Willgoss, Kai Fai Ho, Renee Pierson, Jane Scott

“…Exploratory thresholds for change in scores indicating a clinically important improvement and worsening were HCV-SIQv4 Overall Body System Score (BSS), 8 and 8; Constitutional BSS, 10 and 10; Gastrointestinal BSS, 5 and 5; Psychiatric BSS, 8 and 8; Neurocognitive BSS, 8 and 8; and Integumentary BSS, 5 and 5. …”
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Patients with dengue clinical-epidemiological behavior. Comparative study of two case series by Carlos A. García Gómez, Samuel Sánchez Sánchez, Dagmara Pantoja Fonseca, Osvaldo Rodríguez Morales, Ana Laura Navarro Baldellot, Carlos García Mantecón

“…<p><strong>Background</strong>: The disease caused by the dengue virus constitutes a serious health problem for tropical countries. …”
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Clinicopathological and molecular analyses of uterine carcinosarcomas using next-generation sequencing: A single-center experience by Ezgi Genç Erdoğan, Tülin D. Yalta, Nuray Can, Necdet Süt, Ebru Taştekin, Ufuk Usta, Fulya Öz Puyan, Fatma E. Usturalı Keskin, Busem B. Kurt

“…Background: Uterine carcinosarcomas (UCS) constitute 3–4% of all uterine malignancies and 16% of deaths caused due to uterine neoplasms. …”
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Procedural Law of Ancient Rome in the Imperial Period by D. V. Slynko

“…It is determined that the Roman criminal procedure concerned only the quirits, which constituted a small number of Roman citizens. The second group of the population was made up of commoners – plebs, the third group of the Roman population was clientis, and the fourth – slaves. …”
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The concept of a document in jurisprudence by V. S. Sezonov

“…The information that constitutes the essence of an electronic document is limited to the term "file", which in the scientific literature means a specific place on a computer medium with its own specific name. …”
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