Editorial by Anna Oksiutycz

“… In November 2022, ChatGPT was released into the public domain and took the world by storm, causing a variety of responses ranging from alarming scenarios of artificial intelligence (AI) posing an existential threat to humanity to more optimistic views that it opens immense new possibilities for advancement in various fields including healthcare and education. …”
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Role of Monoclonal Antibodies in the Treatment of Asthma by Paul M O’Byrne

“…New treatment approaches developed to manage some of the phenotypes of severe refractory asthma have included humanized monoclonal antibodies (hMabs).…”
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Educating the digital generation: the role of virtual communities by E. M. Kharlanova, N. V. Sivrikova, S. V. Roslyakova, E. G. Chernikova

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A long way to the man (sources, ideals, ideologies) by Alexandr E. Razumov

“…Today a man is facing a crucial problem: he must choose, which way to take: either hefollows one of the roads to humanism, or, if he chooses otherwise, mankind may be doomed to untimely extinction. …”
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DEBATE ON REFORMING THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES by Vitaly G. Gorokhov

“…The author reflects upon the requirement of matching the science activities with theinternational and domestic “bureaucratic virtual reality”, touches on such themes as real science and pseudoscience, debate between natural scientists and humanities researchers, the importance of a national language for the development of national science.…”
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Ambrogio Traversari – „pokrytec“ pod Sluncem Bernardina Sienského? by Jan Stejskal

“… The subject of the text is a dispute between humanism in the early Renaissance and the Franciscan Observance. …”
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Analysing head and trunk motion in the judo osoto-gari technique: relationship to sweeping-leg velocity by Lingjun Liu, Tatsuya Deguchi, Mitsuhisa Shiokawa, Kazuto Hamaguchi, Masahiro Shinya

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Modeling fear of failure based on self-criticism, maladaptive schemas and Perceived Competence mediated by competitive anxiety in adolescent students . by Fatemeh Ashrafi Dasht Arjaneh, Yousef Dehghani, Faride Sadat Hoseini

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How Do Climate and Nonclimatic Variables Influence the Production of Agricultural Staple Crops in Vulnerable Rural Communities in the Bawku Municipality of Northern Ghana? by Rashida Ayumah, Felix Asante, Lawrence Guodaar, Gabriel Eshun

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The Harmony of Meter and Emotion in the Odes of Anvari Abivardi (With a Look at the Poems of His Master, Abol Faraj Runi) by Maryam Khalili Jahantigh, Mohammad Barani, Leila Shakibaei

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Life Histories of Two Endangered Sea Skaters Halobates matsumurai Esaki and Asclepios shiranui (Esaki) (Hemiptera: Gerridae: Halobatinae) by Terumi Ikawa, Yuichi Nozoe, Natsuko Yamashita, Namiko Nishimura, Satoshi Ohnoki, Kyoko Yusa, Sugihiko Hoshizaki, Masayuki Komaba, Akihiro Kawakubo

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Development and validation of the Women Autonomy Scale for measuring psychosocial freedom from conventional gender roles by Waqar Husain, Farrukh Ijaz, Muhammad Ahmad Husain, Achraf Ammar, Khaled Trabelsi, Haitham Jahrami

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Phenotypic Analysis of BrdU Label-Retaining Cells during the Maturation of Conducting Airway Epithelium in a Porcine Lung by Yuanyuan Jia, Xuehong You, Ningxia Ma, Hui Li, Guopan Liu, Ying Wang, Jing Xue, Juan Shi, Jun Wei, Yong Li, Jiali Yang, Xiaoming Liu

“…Porcine has spurred an increased interest in biomedical research models and xenotransplantation, owing to most of its organs share similarities in physiology, cellular composition and size to humans. Therefore, characterization of stem/progenitor cells in porcine organs or tissues may provide a novel avenue to better understand the biology and function of stem cells in humans. …”
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Studies on humoral immunity in dogs after use of rabies inactivated vaccines formulated with Montanide ISA 70 VG and GEL 01 adjuvants by A. N. Balashov, M. I. Doronin, A. V. Borisov, D. A. Lozovoy, D. V. Mikhalishin, V. A. Starikov

“…As an acute endemic infection, it poses a considerable danger to both animals and humans. The leading role in the transmission of rabies to humans belongs to diseased dogs; stray animals can be potential sources of rabies agent, which increases the risk of transmitting a deadly virus to humans. …”
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La nocturnité au quotidien chez les Indiens tseltal du Chiapas (Mexique) by Aurore Monod Becquelin, Marie Chosson

“…This analysis invites us to scrutinise the Tseltal night from the perspective of its role as an agent of behaviours, thoughts, attitudes, and corporeal habits among these natives of the Mexican Highlands.As the home of sleep, night enables the dreamer to mix with supernatural beings, making accessible and visible a dynamic cosmos in which plants, animals, humans and nonhumans interact. However, certain traits that define this night extend beyond the nocturnal part of the nychthemeron in order to emerge on its diurnal side, what we call manifestations of nocturnity. …”
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A Most Eminent Victorian: Thomas Henry Huxley by Sherrie Lyons

“…Huxley maintained that the question of “man’s place in nature” should be approached independently of the question of origins, yet at the same time argued passionately and eloquently that even if humans shared a common a origin with the apes, this did not make humans any less special. …”
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Plasma Gelsolin Levels Decrease in Diabetic State and Increase upon Treatment with F-Actin Depolymerizing Versions of Gelsolin by Neeraj Khatri, Amin Sagar, Nagesh Peddada, Vikas Choudhary, Bhupinder Singh Chopra, Veena Garg, Renu Garg, Ashish

“…The study aims to map plasma gelsolin (pGSN) levels in diabetic humans and mice models of type II diabetes and to evaluate the efficacy of gelsolin therapy in improvement of diabetes in mice. …”
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Specialists and generalists by I. V. Anokhov

“…A qualitatively new difference may be the difference between the values and meanings of humanity, on the one hand, and the dehumanized technosphere, on the other. …”
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Using Participatory Crowdsourcing in South Africa to Create a Safer Living Environment by Bhaveer Bhana, Stephen Flowerday, Aharon Satt

“…Data collected through observations (utilising humans as sensors) of the city surroundings can be used to improve decision making in terms of managing these resources. …”
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First Case of Respiratory Infection in Rabbits Caused by <i>Alcaligenes faecalis</i> in Romania by Vlad Iorgoni, Ionica Iancu, Ionela Popa, Alexandru Gligor, Gabriel Orghici, Bogdan Sicoe, Corina Badea, Cristian Dreghiciu, Călin Pop, Timea Bochiș, Janos Degi, Luminita Costinar, Corina Pascu, Viorel Herman

“…<i>Alcaligenes faecalis</i> is a Gram-negative, obligate aerobic bacillus commonly found in environmental settings, particularly in soil and water, as well as within the intestinal microbiota of humans and various animal species. This bacterium has the potential to act as an opportunistic pathogen, capable of causing severe infections in both humans and animals, which can sometimes result in fatal outcomes. …”
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