A Survey of Strategies to Modulate the Bone Morphogenetic Protein Signaling Pathway: Current and Future Perspectives by Jonathan W. Lowery, Brice Brookshire, Vicki Rosen

“…Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) constitute the largest subdivision of the TGF-β family of ligands and are unequivocally involved in regulating stem cell behavior. …”
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Synthesis of an Azido-Substituted 8-Membered Ring Laddersiloxane and Its Application in Catalysis by Yujia Liu, Niyaz Yagafarov, Koki Shimamura, Nobuhiro Takeda, Masafumi Unno, Armelle Ouali

“…The obtained azido-functionalized ladder compound, fully characterized, constitutes a versatile building block for hybrid materials. …”
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Development of an Equivalent Force Method and an Application in Simulating the Radiated Noise from an Operating Diesel Engine by Nickolas Vlahopoulos, Yury Kalish, S.T. Raveendra

“…The computed vibration constitutes the excitation for an acoustic boundary element analysis. …”
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"There’d always be something left" : (im)matérialité de la ville dans Hughie de Eugene O’Neill by Aurélie Sanchez

“…In this late one-act play, New York remains at first invisible and the stage constitutes an empty space. The city is characterized by emptiness and anonymity. …”
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Is fides quaerens intellectum a scholarly enterprise? Some thoughts on confessional theology at a public university by Gerrit Brand

“…Such a case can even be made within the narrow confines of a modernist understanding of what constitutes true academic scholarship, given the centrality of the notion of intersubjectivity within such an understanding. …”
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Mechanisms and Therapeutic Potential of GPX4 in Pain Modulation by Shiwen Fan, Kaixin Wang, Tianhao Zhang, Daling Deng, Jiwei Shen, Bowen Zhao, Daan Fu, Xiangdong Chen

“…Abstract Pain, a complex symptom encompassing both sensory and emotional dimensions, constitutes a significant global public health issue. …”
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Synthesis and Characterisation of PVP-AAm Hydrogels via Hybrid Process: Morphological, Physical, and Antibacterial Activity by Fatma Nur Parın

“…Hydrogels are three dimentional networks that constitute of either chemical or physical crosslinks. …”
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HIV/AIDS & gende by Pieter Fourie

“…This is done within the context of South Africa (post1994) as a state with a liberal constitution. The paper points out that there are distinct limits to how this particular ideology and its feminist variant are able provide a transformative impetus in our society. …”
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Enseignement de la littérature en République du Congo : quel sujet didactique forme-t-on à travers les prescriptions officielles ? by Samarange Romel Nzikou Mouelet, Ana Dias-Chiaruttini

“…Official prescriptions are a type of discourse with a constitutive value, meaning that it founds more than it is founded (Maingueneau, Cossutta, 1995). …”
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Phenolic Compounds in Agro-Industrial Waste of Mango Fruit: Impact on Health and Its Prebiotic Effect – a Review by Mayra Nicolás García, Anahí Jobeth Borrás Enríquez, Jorge Luis González Escobar, Oscar de Jesús Calva Cruz, Viridiana Pérez Pérez, Mayra Sánchez Becerril

“…Mango processing produces around 20 million tons of wastes from the non-consumed fraction, mainly peels and seeds, which constitute 30–60% of the fruit weight. However, various phytochemicals found in these residues have been implicated in preventing cancer and also cardio-metabolic and gastrointestinal diseases. …”
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Calcifying Ghost Cell Odontogenic Cyst: Report of a Case and Review of Literature by Archana Sonone, V. S. Sabane, Rajeev Desai

“…Calcifying ghost cell odontogenic cyst is comparatively rare in occurrence, constituting about 0.37% to 2.1% of all odontogenic tumors. …”
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Visualising “the vulnerable”: Understanding vulnerability to COVID-19 in relation to the South African COVID-19 Vulnerability Index (SA CVI) by Marnell Kirsten, Marina Joubert

“…The discussion finds that while the pandemic is widely perceived as a “health crisis”, South African vulnerability to this pandemic is mostly constituted by factors that fall outside of normative “health” concerns – beyond “straightforward” medical, biological and epidemiological factors. …”
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Development of a management model for the provision of long-term care services for elderly and disabled citizens on an extraterritorial basis by F. G. Myshko

“…In addition, the regional or decentralized principle of building a long-term care system «binds» elderly citizen in need of it to their place of residence, restricts their constitutional right to movement and freedom to choose their place of residence. …”
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Method for the hystopathological analysis of the cervix specimen, obtained through radio surgery by Alfredo B. Quiñones Ceballos, Martha María Chávez Valdivia, Caridad Socorro Castro, Ileana Franco Zunda

“…<strong>Background:</strong> Radio-surgery recently introduced in our hospital environment as a method to treat curable malignant lesions of the cervix, constituted a challenge for all the anatomopathologists for the histological distortion it may cause. …”
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Prymat prawa nad etyką? Nowy etap włoskiego sporu o metodę in vitro by Andrzej Kobyliński

“…In April 2014 The Constitutional Court in Italy was called to judge parts of the Law 40/2004 and canceled the prohibition of the methods of heterological artificial reproduction. !…”
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Sociabilidade e cidadania: os espaços públicos de Salvador como entrelaçamento do concreto, do simbólico e do imaginário by Cíntia San Martin Fernandes

“…For this purpose, the author chose Salvador, in the state of Bahia, Brazil, as a constitutive example of a city that builds its sociability, its daily interlacement, not on instrumental rational relationships (ruled by objective and regulating ends and means), but on sensitive reason (ruled by sensitivities, such as art, aesthetics, the body and gestures). …”
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Judicial proceduralism: the application and exploitation of the substantiality rule in presidential election petitions in Africa by BC, Basheka, Daniel, M. Walyemera, Dominique, E. Uwizeyimana

“…The paper fi rst examines the meaning and origin of the substantiality test before venturing into the legal and constitutional provisions for this rule in selected countries. …”
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Research Agenda 2020 - 2025 by Kabale University

“…In these regards, research should constitute a proportionately large percentage of activities and resources at universities. …”
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Gardé·es à vue. Domination(s) et reconfigurations des rapports entre manifestant·es et policier·es pendant le hirak (2019-2021) by Lina Benchekor

“…However, these two parties do not constitute two homogenous, enemy blocs. Those in police custody sometimes witness internal conflicts and competition between the various bodies that make up the police force. …”
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The Landbound Chicken and the Deliberate Chameleon yet have their Uses: Yorùbá Art History, Language, and Interpretation. by Kathy Curnow

“…What are the parameters of outsider status? Do they constitute a spectrum? Do insider advantages always trump outsiders’ perceptions? …”
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