"The personal is political": faith and religion in a public university by Isabel Apawo Phiri, Sarojini Nadar

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The linguistic, conceptual, and pragmatic challenges of communicating Galatians 3:1-14 in Chewa by Ernst Wendland

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Who calls the shots in Naomi's life? Reading the Naomi-Ruth story within the African religio-cultural context

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A cognitive semantic approach to redeemer (G?’?L) in Deutero-Isaiah by S. Ashdown

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The critique of Gikuyu religion and culture in S.N. Ngubiah's A Curse from God by F. Hale

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Lipschitz Operators Associated with Weakly $p$-Compact and Unconditionally $p$-Compact Sets by Ramazan İnal, Ayşegül Keten Çopur

“…The primary method used to obtain the results in the study is the linearization of Lipschitz operators through the Lipschitz-free space constructed over a pointed metric space.…”
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Intracardiac Ectopic Thyroid Tissue: A Case Report by Hira Nasir, Azra Bashir, Faria Waqar Khan, Aribah Atiq, Akhtar Sohail Chughtai

“…The patient was symptom-free on follow up after 6 months. …”
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PRESENT-DAY MISSION PARTNERSHIPS by C van Engen

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Vyandsliefde of geweld: oor die politiek van die historiese Jesus by E. Scheffler

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THE BALANCE BETWEEN THEORY AND PRAXIS IN SOUTH AFRICAN PENTECOSTALISM: PATMOS BIBLE SCHOOL AS A MODEL by M.S. Kgatle

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A Mathematical Model For The Population Dynamics Of Disease Transmiting Vectors in Particular Female Anopheles Mosquitoes. by Turyamusiima, Richard

“…The threshold dynamics of this model is determined and the stability of equilibrium points have been obtained using the jacobian matrix. The mosquito free equilibrium and endemic equilibrium have been determined by setting system of ordinary differential equations to zero. …”
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Emancipatory Social Work: A Promising Practice to End Elder Abuse in Uganda. by Wamara, Charles Kiiza, Mbabazi, Ruth, Hategekimana, Donisian

“…This article argues that social workers with older people in Uganda need to undertake emancipatory practice to free older people from abuse. It notes that despite the numerous efforts and resources invested in the traditional social work approaches to end elder abuse, it is still rampant throughout the country. …”
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Design of a Banana Fiber-Extracting Machine. by Lejoruku, David Desire

“…Banana fiber offers a superior alternative to synthetic and natural fibers, boasting eco-friendliness, chemical-free, non-toxic, and odorless properties. However, traditional extraction methods can be labor-intensive and yield variable results. …”
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Solid Predominant Histology and High Podoplanin Expression in Cancer-Associated Fibroblast Predict Primary Resistance to Osimertinib in EGFR-Mutated Lung Adenocarcinoma by Yuji Uehara, MD, Hiroki Izumi, MD, PhD, Tetsuro Taki, MD, PhD, Tetsuya Sakai, MD, PhD, Hibiki Udagawa, MD, PhD, Eri Sugiyama, MD, PhD, Shigeki Umemura, MD, PhD, Yoshitaka Zenke, MD, PhD, Shingo Matsumoto, MD, PhD, Kiyotaka Yoh, MD, PhD, Shoko Kubota, MD, PhD, Keiju Aokage, MD, PhD, Naoya Sakamoto, MD, PhD, Shingo Sakashita, MD, PhD, Motohiro Kojima, MD, PhD, Michiko Nagamine, MD, PhD, Yukio Hosomi, MD, PhD, Masahiro Tsuboi, MD, PhD, Koichi Goto, MD, PhD, Genichiro Ishii, MD, PhD

“…Solid (n = 19) versus non-solid predominant (n = 74) histology was not associated with worse disease-free survival after surgery (p = 0.12), but was significantly associated with worse progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival following osimertinib treatment (p = 0.026, p = 0.004). …”
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Developing a risk score using liquid biopsy biomarkers for selecting Immunotherapy responders and stratifying disease progression risk in metastatic melanoma patients by Amalia Azzariti, Simona De Summa, Tommaso M. Marvulli, Ivana De Risi, Giuseppe De Palma, Roberta Di Fonte, Rossella Fasano, Simona Serratì, Sabino Strippoli, Letizia Porcelli, Michele Guida

“…A comprehensive risk score for predicting progression-free survival was developed by incorporating the values ​​of the two identified independent factors, sCTLA-4 and sCD74, which significantly improved the accuracy of outcome prediction. …”
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Efficacy and safety of transanal endoscopic microsurgery for early rectal cancer: a meta-analysis by Chunqiang Wang, Tianye Huang, Xuebing Wang

“…The primary outcomes included basic patient characteristics, overall survival rate, disease-free survival rate, disease-specific survival rate, recurrence rate, and complication rate and type.ResultsA total of 33 articles were included in this meta-analysis. …”
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Efficacy and safety of super selective bronchial artery coil embolisation for haemoptysis: a single-centre retrospective observational study by Daijiro Kabata, Ayumi Shintani, Masanori Akira, Masahiko Hara, Hideo Ishikawa, Misaki Ryuge, Jun Takafuji, Mihoko Youmoto, Yukio Nagasaka, Kouji Yamamoto

“…There were 8 (1.6%) major complications: 1 aortic dissection, 2 symptomatic cerebellar infarctions and 5 mediastinal haematoma cases. The haemoptysis-free survival rates were estimated by the Kaplan-Meier analysis at 86.9% (95% CI 83.7% to 90.2%) at 1 year, 79.4% (74.8% to 84.3%) at 2 years and 57.6% (45.1% to 73.4%) at 3 years. …”
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Profiling the Secretome of Glioblastoma Cells Under Histone Deacetylase Inhibition Using Mass Spectrometry by Aline Menezes, Yara Martins, Fábio Nogueira, Denise De Abreu Pereira, Katia Carneiro

“…To better investigate the GBM secretome upon in vitro treatment with histone deacetylase inhibitor (iHDAC), we employed a high-throughput label-free methodology of protein identification and quantification based on mass spectrometry followed by in silico studies. …”
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Spatial distribution and influencing factors of secondhand smoke exposure in Chinese healthcare facilities: a cross-sectional survey by Ying LIU, Xinying ZENG, Lin XIAO, Shiwei LIU

“…Sex ratio, the proportions of individuals aged 0 – 14 years and 15 – 64 years, illiteracy rate, tobacco consumer price index, and the proportion of cities with smoke-free legislation are the main influencing factors of SHS exposure in healthcare facilities in China.…”
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Efficacy and safety of NeoAdjuvant chemotherapy with or without tIslelizumab followed by debulking surgery for oVarian cancEr (NAIVE study) in China: study protocol of an open-labe... by Ying Zhu, Jianwei Zhou, Zhigang Zhang, Jiaojiao Zhang, Jing Fei, Xiaoqing Zhu

“…The primary endpoint of the study is the 1-year progression-free survival (PFS) rate, measured as the percentage of patients who are free of tumour progression or death for 1 year after receiving the first dose of study drug. …”
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