The Chinese State, Incomplete Proletarianization and Structures of Inequality in Two Epochs by Wu Jieh-min, Mark Selden

“…We trace and analyze these changes from the epoch of socialist transition to that of capitalist transition, while paying due attention to important continuities including the central, if changing, role of the state in shaping economic and social outcomes.Income and opportunity inequalities in the era of capitalist transition have taken distinctive new forms while growing rapidly over the last three decades. This can be clearly observed in the changing Gini coefficient and other measures of class and spatial divergence.4 But exploration of the nature of citizenship provides an important vehicle for examining broader ramifications of structures of inequality. …”
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KATALIKŲ BAŽNYČIOS KAITA LIETUVOJE TRANSFORMACIJŲ LAIKOTARPIU by Valdas Pruskus

“…The attitude of the Catholic Church with respect to the state within the last decade may be characterized with three essential factors. …”
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Black Boarding Academies as a Prudential Reparation by Roy Brooks

“…The American race problem is simply too big for reparations to fix. It would take decades of massive amounts of government spending and the sustained moral commitment of the American people to achieve transitional racial justice in this country. …”
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Black Boarding Academies as a Prudential Reparation by Roy Brooks

“…The American race problem is simply too big for reparations to fix. It would take decades of massive amounts of government spending and the sustained moral commitment of the American people to achieve transitional racial justice in this country. …”
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Transcultural Diabetes Nutrition Algorithm: A Malaysian Application by Zanariah Hussein, Osama Hamdy, Yook Chin Chia, Shueh Lin Lim, Santha Kumari Natkunam, Husni Hussain, Ming Yeong Tan, Ridzoni Sulaiman, Barakatun Nisak, Winnie Siew Swee Chee, Albert Marchetti, Refaat A. Hegazi, Jeffrey I. Mechanick

“…Glycemic control among patients with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) in Malaysia is suboptimal, especially after the continuous worsening over the past decade. Improved glycemic control may be achieved through a comprehensive management strategy that includes medical nutrition therapy (MNT). …”
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Enhancing Supercapacitor Simulation Accuracy Through a Novel Hybrid Modeling Approach by Diana Lemian, Florin Ioan Bode, Ciprian Lapusan

“…In the last 2 decades, supercapacitors have become an important component in the hybrid energy-storage system, in combination with batteries. …”
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Small Renal Masses: Incidental Diagnosis, Clinical Symptoms, and Prognostic Factors by F. M. Sánchez-Martín, F. Millán-Rodríguez, G. Urdaneta-Pignalosa, J. Rubio-Briones, H. Villavicencio-Mavrich

“…The small renal masses (SRMs) have increased over the past two decades due to more liberal use of imaging techniques. …”
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Crosstalk between the Gut and Brain in Ischemic Stroke: Mechanistic Insights and Therapeutic Options by Wenjing Huang, Luwen Zhu, Wenjing Song, Mei Zhang, Lili Teng, Minmin Wu

“…There has been a significant amount of interest in the past two decades in the study of the evolution of the gut microbiota, its internal and external impacts on the gut, and risk factors for cerebrovascular disorders such as cerebral ischemic stroke. …”
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The Habituation/Cross-Habituation Test Revisited: Guidance from Sniffing and Video Tracking by G. Coronas-Samano, A. V. Ivanova, J. V. Verhagen

“…The habituation/cross-habituation test (HaXha) is a spontaneous odor discrimination task that has been used for many decades to evaluate olfactory function in animals. …”
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Targeted Anticancer Immunotoxins and Cytotoxic Agents with Direct Killing Moieties by Koji Kawakami, Oumi Nakajima, Ryuichi Morishita, Ryozo Nagai

“…Among targeted cancer therapeutics, biologicals with targetable antibodies or ligands conjugated or fused to toxins or chemicals for direct cell-killing ability have been developed over the last 2 decades. These conjugated or fused chimeric proteins are termed immunotoxins or cytotoxic agents. …”
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Vaccines in the fight against antimicrobial resistance – perspectives from South Africa by A Brink, A Kgasi, A Musyoki, B Kagina, C Feldman, D Reddy, E du Toit, E Kalanxhi, J Meyer, I Impalli, M Schönfeldt, M Sibanda, N Schellack, P Skosana, S Essack, S Dlamini, Y Ramsamy

“… Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), in which microbes adapt to and resist current therapies, is a well-recognised global problem that threatens to reverse gains made by modern medicine in the last decades. AMR is a complex issue; however, at its core, it is driven by the overuse and inappropriate use of antimicrobials. …”
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Role of Bile Acids in Dysbiosis and Treatment of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Caihua Wang, Chunpeng Zhu, Liming Shao, Jun Ye, Yimin Shen, Yuezhong Ren

“…Therefore, bile acid signaling is closely linked to dysbiosis and NAFLD. During the past decade, stimulation of bile acid receptors with their agonists has been extensively explored for the treatment of NAFLD in both animal models and clinical trials. …”
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ZigBee’s Received Signal Strength and Latency Evaluation under Varying Environments by H. H. R. Sherazi, Razi Iqbal, Sana Ul Hassan, M. H. Chaudary, Syed Asfandyar Gilani

“…Being self-configured, self-organized, and self-healing low power technology, ZigBee has obtained significant attention in last few years for achieving ubiquitous communication among various devices within a Personal Area Network (PAN). Even after a decade of its emergence, it has been well serving the communication needs of numerous modern applications belonging to multiple industries and is still a spotlight for the researchers working on certain aspects to enhance productivity along with a major cost reduction. …”
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A review of vitamin D deficiency and vitamin D receptor polymorphisms in endocrine-related disorders by Nur Faten Hafizah Rosli, Noor Shafina Mohd Nor, Rose Adzrianee Adnan, Siti Hamimah Sheikh Abdul Kadir

“…The endocrine system is a complex network of glands that produce and release hormones that regulate various physiological processes. In the past few decades, the human skin has been identified as an important peripheral endocrine organ that is the main site for the synthesis of vitamin D through exposure to sunlight. …”
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Living biobank: Standardization of organoid construction and challenges by Ruixin Yang, Yao Qi, Xiaoyan Zhang, Hengjun Gao, Yingyan Yu, Yuanyuan Ji

“…Organoids, as living tissue models, have rapidly developed in the past decade. Organoids can be used repetitively for in vitro culture, cryopreservation, and recovery for further utilization. …”
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Characterization of patients operated on with a diagnosis of skin cancer over a period of 5 years by Royland Bejerano Durán, Alejandra Armada Capote

“…Its incidence has increased considerably in recent decades. Objective: To characterize the patients operated with skin cancer in the minor outpatient surgery clinic. …”
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Model predictive control for on–off charging of electrical vehicles in smart grids by Ye Shi, Hoang D. Tuan, Andrey V. Savkin, H. Vincent Poor

“…Abstract Over the next decade, a massive number of plug‐in electric vehicles (PEVs) will need to be integrated into current power grids. …”
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The proximate regulation of prosocial behaviour: towards a conceptual framework for comparative research by Kathrin S. Kopp, Patricia Kanngiesser, Rahel K. Brügger, Moritz M. Daum, Anja Gampe, Moritz Köster, Carel P. van Schaik, Katja Liebal, Judith M. Burkart

“…Such prosocial behaviour has been studied extensively across a range of disciplines over the last decades, but findings to date have led to conflicting conclusions about prosociality across and even within species. …”
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Progress in Research on Metal Ion Crosslinking Alginate-Based Gels by Yantao Wang, Zhenpeng Shen, Huili Wang, Zhaoping Song, Dehai Yu, Guodong Li, Xiaona Liu, Wenxia Liu

“…The process of metal ion-induced alginate gelation has been the subject of thorough research over the last few decades. This review aims to summarize the mechanisms of alginate hydrogels induced by different cations (primarily including Ca²⁺, Ba²⁺, Cu²⁺, Sr²⁺, Fe²⁺/Fe³⁺, and Al³⁺). …”
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Oxytetracycline photodegradation by transition metals doped ZnO nanorods by Siavash Fathi, Bagher Aslibeiki, Reza Torkamani

“…In the recent decades, increasing of pollutant in water resources endanger the human life and other living things. …”
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