Superstrutures above the Periodic Law (About the article of O.V. Mikhailov) by I. S. Dmitriev

“…The author expresses critical remarks regarding the article by O.V. Mikhailov on teaching the topic “Mendeleev’s Periodic law” by at the national research University. …”
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On the Study of Chemostat Model with Pulsed Input in a Polluted Environment by Zhong Zhao, Xinyu Song

“…By using the Floquet theorem, we find that the microorganism eradication periodic solution is globally asymptotically stable if the impulsive period T is more than a critical value. At the same time, we can find that the nutrient and microorganism are permanent if the impulsive period T is less than the critical value.…”
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DNA hypomethylation-mediated upregulation of GADD45B facilitates airway inflammation and epithelial cell senescence in COPD by Yuan Zhan, Qian Huang, Zhesong Deng, Shanshan Chen, Ruonan Yang, Jiaheng Zhang, Yating Zhang, Maocuo Peng, Jixing Wu, Yiya Gu, Zhilin Zeng, Jungang Xie

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Ultrasound-Assisted versus Endoscopic Nasojejunal Tube Placement for Acute Pancreatitis: A Retrospective Feasibility Study by Gang Li, Jiajia Lin, Yang Liu, Qi Yang, Zhihui Tong, Lu Ke, Weiqin Li

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Deciphering consciousness: The role of corticothalamocortical interactions in general anesthesia by Yuxi Zhou, Shiqian Huang, Tianhao Zhang, Daling Deng, Li Huang, Xiangdong Chen

“…Emerging evidence highlights the critical role of corticothalamocortical circuits, which are involved in higher cognitive functions, in controlling arousal states and modulating transitions between different conscious states during anesthesia. …”
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Triglyceride lowering in patients with different severities of hypertriglyceridaemia-associated acute pancreatitis: secondary analysis of a multicentre, prospective cohort study by Xiaoling Li, Lin Gao, Xiang Luo, Wenjian Mao, Lu Ke, Xiaoyan Lai, Lingyan Fu, Yaolu Liu

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MARTIN HEIDEGGER’S BLACK NOTEBOOKS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHICAL CRITIQUE by A. O. Karpenko

“…The purpose of the study is to determine the key strategies of philosophical criticism of Heidegger’s Black Notebooks, whose achievement is realized in the following tasks: 1) to identify the body of texts that represent the discourse of philosophical criticism of Heidegger notes; 2) to reveal the typological features of the different strategies of interpreting Black Notebooks; 3) to reconstruct a thematic horizon of Heidegger studies, opened up by discussion on published notes. …”
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Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction complicated by ipsilateral pleural effusion by Marc Assaad, Wasif Shamsi, Anthony Loschner, Maria del Mar Cirino-Marcano

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Theatre and Psychoanalysis: or Jung on Martin Crimp's Stage: “100 Words” by Solange Ayache

“…Crimp’s collage itself is a criticism of the temptation to make uncompromising statements about one’s life and motives. …”
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Revised clinical practice guidelines for allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis/mycosis: A detailed and comprehensive update by Jiayan Xu, Fang Jiang, Yongchang Sun, Jin-Fu Xu, Xiangxiang Pan

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Microstructure and Continuous Phase Transition of the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet AdS Black Hole by Yun-Zhi Du, Hui-Hua Zhao, Li-Chun Zhang

“…And the critical exponents are also obtained. At the critical point of the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet AdS black hole, we reveal the microstructure of the black hole by investigating the thermodynamic geometry. …”
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PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE AS AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL PROBLEM - IS IT PROTECTING OR PARALYZING? by Onat Özgür

“…Critics argue that it will slow down or stop development of technologies. …”
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Analytical Threshold for Chaos of Piecewise Duffing Oscillator with Time-Delayed Displacement Feedback by Zhang Ming-Xin, Wang Jun, Shen Yong-Jun, Zhang Jian-Chao

“…It could be found that the critical excitation amplitude will increase obviously with the increase of the excitation frequency, and under the selection of certain parameters, the critical excitation amplitude takes the time delay of 0.58 as the inflection point, which decreases at first and then increases.…”
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Aesthetics in Kitsch art: the aesthetic ideology and teleological purpose behind the charged sentimentality. by Yasmine Gamal Abdrabbo, Cherine Gamal Abdrabbo

“…This article addresses the problem of perceiving Kitsch art and elaborates on the philosophical approaches taken to better understand all intellectual contexts surrounding the term, aiming to endorse its aesthetic aspect and assert its rightness to be subsumed under the notion of high art, the researchers sought to argue that besides the claim that the main issue of reading Kitsch was laid on miss-perceiving it, by means it was a problem of perception, we add to this assertion that it was also a problem of misinterpretation, that critics have constrained their judgments on Kitsch art by narrowed and prejudiced contentions while many aesthetic theories can ascertain its aesthetic existence at the time, and the most crucial one is the theories on aesthetic emotions, for it was the emotional charge of Kitsch paintings which the critics used to reject and vastly criticize to deny its ability to conceive any aesthetic features.…”
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Reflections on Pragmatism as a Philosophy of Architecture by David Macarthur

“…Against Rem Koolhaas’s argument for post-criticality I show that we are always already critical. …”
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Preoperative Risk Assessment of Lymph Node Metastasis in cT1 Lung Cancer: A Retrospective Study from Eastern China by Chengyan Zhang, Guanchao Pang, Chengxi Ma, Jingni Wu, Pingli Wang, Kai Wang

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Age-dependent differences in the association between blood interleukin-6 levels and mortality in patients with sepsis: a retrospective observational study by Takashi Shimazui, Takehiko Oami, Tadanaga Shimada, Keisuke Tomita, Taka-aki Nakada

“…Abstract Background Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is a cytokine that predicts clinical outcomes in critically ill patients, including those with sepsis. …”
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Association between phase angle and all-cause mortality in adults aged 18–49 years: NHANES 1999–2004 by Xian-xin Xia, Chuan-xiang Li, Xin-xin Xue, Ya-jun Chen, Fang He, Hong-rong Guo

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Outcomes and predictors of unplanned intensive care unit admission for pediatric trauma patients by Tyler Liang, MD, Areg Grigorian, MD, Robert Painter, MD, James Jeng, MD, Theresa Chin, MD, Laura F. Goodman, MD MPH, Yigit S. Guner, MD, Catherine Kuza, MD, Jeffry Nahmias, MD MHPE

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Association between terminal pleural elastance and radiographic lung re-expansion after therapeutic thoracentesis in patients with symptomatic pleural effusion: a post-hoc analysis... by Fabien Maldonado, Michael Lester, Otis B Rickman, Lance J Roller, Sameer K Avasarala, James M Katsis, Robert J Lentz

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