Just Who Was Wearing the Trousers in Victorian Britain? Violent Wives and Violent Women by Anne-Marie Kilday

“…What though, of the ‘battered husband’? Evidence from nineteenth century Scottish and English church and court records suggest that abusive behaviour by wives against their husbands was not uncommon, and indeed, more often than not, the violence meted out by these women was in a physical sense, more ‘damaging’ than that inflicted by their male counterparts.The intention of this paper therefore, is to examine—through a balanced gendered perspective—the ways in which domestic violence was carried out, the apparent reasons for this behaviour and the consequences of this type of aggressive activity for both offender and victim, regardless of sex.In doing this, it is hoped that the paper will shed new light on a traditionally one-sided argument.…”
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Intracavitary Irradiation as a Safe Alternative for Cystic Craniopharyngiomas: Case Report and Review of the Literature by Alejandro Enriquez-Marulanda, Melibea Sierra-Ruiz, Luz Maritza Pabón, Javier Lobato-Polo

“…A reduction in the size of the cyst was achieved, without deterioration of visual fields, with no hormonal supplementation being needed, and with no evidence of focal neurological signs.…”
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Comparative evaluation of media used for detection of Salmonella spp by G. S. Skitovich, K. V. Serova, N. B. Shadrova, O. V. Pruntova

“…The selective properties of the both media are similar and amount to 5 Ig. Based on the evidence found, imported Bismuth sulfate agar and domestic or imported XLD agar can be recommended for use in the experiments for detection of Salmonella spp in food products.…”
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Selective Autophagy in Drosophila by Ioannis P. Nezis

“…Although it was initially believed that autophagy occurs randomly in the cell, during the last years, there is growing evidence that sequestration and degradation of cytoplasmic material by autophagy can be selective. …”
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Effect of Ap-Index of Geomagnetic Activity on S&P 500 Stock Market Return by Lifang Peng, Ning Li, Jingwen Pan

“…Research so far provides strong evidence that geomagnetic activity affects stock investment decisions by influencing human health, mood, and human behaviours. …”
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Patient and Therapist Experiences of the SaeboFlex: A Pilot Study by Larissa Andriske, Debbie Verikios, Danielle Hitch

“…This study has added to our tentative understanding of the SaeboFlex, but more rigorous research is required to build a robust evidence base.…”
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Colorectal Cancer Presenting as Single Pulmonary Hilar Lymph Node Metastasis by Ahmed M. Habib, Xenophon Kassianides, Samuel Chan, Mahmoud Loubani, Syed Qadri

“…In our case, we present an exceedingly rare case whereby the intrathoracic lymph node metastasis is solitary, not accompanying pulmonary disease and with no liver metastasis. We also review the evidence for mediastinal lymphadenectomy in the literature.…”
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La santé publique en vallée d’Ossau (Béarn, France) aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles à partir de la démographie et des écrits by Frédéric Bauduer, Jean-Pierre Dugène

“…In comparison with a panel of contemporary populations, the indicators analysed seem favourable as regards overall and infant mortality and the seasonality of deaths. Evidence appeared of mortality crises evoking epidemics and mainly involving children, especially during the 18th century. …”
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A Critical Review of the Roles and Functions of Traditional Leaders by Nkareng Klaas-Makolomakwe, Tanusha Raniga

“…Providing focused attention on the abuse of women, this paper offers insights from empirical evidence in KwaZulu-Natal on the prominent role played by senior women traditional leaders in addressing women abuse in rural communities. …”
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TAX GOVERNANCE: A STUDY OF ITS EFFECTS ON TAX EVASION by Hugo Leonardo Menezes de Carvalho, Lucimar Antônio Cabral de Ávila

“…The results confirm the theoretical hypothesis that was tested: the countries in the sample with corporate tax governance practices presented lower levels of tax evasion, which is important empirical evidence of this relationship that has been postulated, but not yet verified by the literature. …”
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Development of Empirical Fragility Curves in Earthquake Engineering considering Nonspecific Damage Information by Jung J. Kim

“…Considering that the damage states for fragility curves are generally nested to each other, the possibility theory, a special form of the evidence theory for nested intervals, is applied to generate fragility information from seismic damage data. …”
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Mesenchymal Stem Cells Improve Healing of Diabetic Foot Ulcer by Yue Cao, Xiaokun Gang, Chenglin Sun, Guixia Wang

“…Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), an ideal cell source for regenerative therapy with no ethical issues, play an important role in diabetic foot ulcer (DFU). Growing evidence has demonstrated that MSCs transplantation can accelerate wound closure, ameliorate clinical parameters, and avoid amputation. …”
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General Complex-Valued Grouping Functions by Ying Chen, Lvqing Bi, Bo Hu, Songsong Dai

“…Grouping function is a special kind of aggregation function which measures the amount of evidence in favor of either of the two choices. Recently, complex fuzzy sets have been successfully used in many fields. …”
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Contribution of Genetic Factors to Sjögren’s Syndrome and Sjögren’s Syndrome Related Lymphomagenesis by Adrianos Nezos, Clio P. Mavragani

“…We aimed to summarize the current evidence related to the contributory role of genetic factors in the pathogenesis of Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) and SS-related lymphoma. …”
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UPR-Mediated Membrane Biogenesis in B Cells by Joseph W. Brewer, Suzanne Jackowski

“…The unfolded protein response (UPR) can coordinate the regulation of gene transcription and protein translation to balance the load of client proteins with the protein folding and degradative capacities of the ER. Increasing evidence also implicates the UPR in the regulation of lipid synthesis and membrane biogenesis. …”
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Confidence Region Approach for Assessing Bioequivalence and Biosimilarity Accounting for Heterogeneity of Variability by Jianghao Li, Shein-Chung Chow

“…For approval of generic drugs, the FDA requires that evidence of bioequivalence in average bioequivalence in terms of drug absorption be provided through the conduct of a bioequivalence study. …”
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Encoding Cryptic Crossword Clues with TEI by Martin Holmes

“…Many cryptic clues depend for their effect on confusing the solver through the use of overlapping syntactic and semantic hierarchies, so they serve as evidence that overlapping hierarchies are not merely an unfortunate limitation afflicting XML languages but are psychologically and linguistically real. …”
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Identifying a Point-Symmetrical Morphology in the Core-Collapse Supernova Remnant W44 by Noam Soker

“…This study adds to the growing evidence that the JJEM is the primary explosion mechanism of core-collapse supernovae.…”
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Qualitative Analysis of the Discretization of a Continuous Fractional Order Prey-Predator Model with the Effects of Harvesting and Immigration in the Population by Md. Jasim Uddin, Sarker Md. Sohel Rana

“…Using the central manifold and bifurcation theory, we provide evidence for NS and PD bifurcations. It has been discovered that the parameter values and the initial conditions have a significant influence on the dynamical behavior of the fractional order prey-predator model. …”
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The Idea of the Second Lithuania in Kazys Pakštas's Works of Independence Period by Vygintas Bronius Pšibilskis

“…Pakštas was among the first to identify key stages of Lithuanian transatlantic emigration and predicted the eventual decline of Lithuanian emigrant communities. Based on evidence from various countries, Pakštas developed the idea of planned emigration and focused colonization in countries like North and South America, Africa, and Australia. …”
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