Web Accessibility Status of Open Access Journals in Africa: A 2024 Snapshot by Pastor Nso-Mangue, Sergio Luján-Mora

“…Access to the Web is a human right under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and a key aspect of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. …”
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Emission of Brominated Pollutants from Waste Printed Circuit Boards during Thermal Treatment: A Review by Jun Wan, Jia Sun, Xiang-Lin Zhao, An-Sheng Le, Peng-Bo Ren, Ming-Xiu Zhan, Xiao-Qing Lin, Tong Chen

“…The disposal of WPCBs generates many brominated pollutants, which have a great impact on human health and the surrounding environment. At present, research on the WPCB disposal process has mainly been focused on efficient resource recovery; studies of pollutant emission have been limited to chlorinated dioxins, and research on brominated pollutants is relatively limited. …”
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Potential Clinical Application of Analysis of Bisphenols in Pericardial Fluid from Patients with Coronary Artery Disease with the Use of Liquid Chromatography Combined with Fluores... by Tomasz Tuzimski, Szymon Szubartowski, Janusz Stążka, Kamil Baczewski, Daria Janiszewska, Viorica Railean, Bogusław Buszewski, Małgorzata Szultka-Młyńska

“…Bisphenols may negatively impact human health. In this study, we propose the use of HPLC–FLD for the simultaneous determination of bisphenols in pericardial fluid samples collected from patients with coronary artery disease undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery. …”
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SDES-YOLO: A high-precision and lightweight model for fall detection in complex environments by Xiangqian Huang, Xiaoming Li, Limengzi Yuan, Zhao Jiang, Hongwei Jin, Wanghao Wu, Ru Cai, Meilian Zheng, Hongpeng Bai

“…In the field of object detection, while YOLOv8 has recently made notable strides in detection accuracy and speed, it still faces challenges in detecting falls due to variations in lighting, occlusions, and complex human postures. To address these issues, this study proposes the SDES-YOLO model, an improvement based on YOLOv8. …”
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Municipal public spending in environmental management: efficiency and determinants by Vanderléia de Souza da Silva, Johan Hendrik Poker Junior, Marco Antonio Milani Filho, Ieda Kanashiro Makiya, Denise Rugani Topke

“…The determinants of efficiency were: the overall municipal human development index; the percentages of people: with piped water and installed toilets, those with higher education above 25 years old, and the poor. …”
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THE RISE OF ETHNIC MILITIA, BANDITRY AND IMPLICATION ON NATIONAL SECURITY IN NIGERIA by ABARE YUNUSA KALLAH, ADO AHMED IBRAHIM, MAKBERE ARTHUR JACOB

“…Hence, it contends that the extreme dissatisfactions of some ethnic nationalities with the Nigerian post-colonial state are clear manifestations of the government failure to provide the necessary infrastructure and enabling environment required to ease the inordinate human degradation, disillusionment, anger, rural decay and high crime wave prevailing in the country. …”
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Novel Electrochemiluminescence Sensor for Dopamine Detection Based on Perylene Diimide/CuO Nanomaterials by Qirong Tian, Xinyang Sun, Chuan Li, Lei Shang, Rongna Ma, Xiaojian Li, Liping Jia, Shuijian He, Qian Zhang, Wei Zhang, Huaisheng Wang

“…In addition, the novel ECL sensor in this work showed good practicability in a human serum sample.…”
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Weighted gene co-expression network analysis reveals key stromal prognostic markers in pancreatic cancer by G. Mantini, A. Agostini, M. Tufo, S. Rossi, M. Kulesko, C. Carbone, L. Salvatore, G. Tortora, G. Scambia, L. Giacò

“…Importantly, HPGDS was found to be stromal-specific in the TMA cohort of Human Protein Atlas. Single sample GSEA showed that the stromal module is enriched for stromal signature of Moffitt and Puleo. …”
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Os etnoconhecimentos botânicos dos Paiterey e as repercussões no território: uma prévia análise na Aldeia Paiter da Linha 09 - Terra Indígena Sete de Setembro by Tássia Karina Alexandre de Medeiros, Adnilson de Almeida Silva, Gasodá Wawaeitxapôh Suruí, Isaac Costa Araújo Filho, Nicolas Floriani

“…Medicinal plants are fundamental elements for human healthing in many parts of Brazil especially for indigenous peoples who holds an ethnobotanical knowledge and use it in the treatment of their diseases. …”
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Diplomatic power weaving of global systemic change: The European Union's steps by Stefanović-Štambuk Jelica

“…The conflictual dynamics driven by the European Union and the United States of America competing with the People's Republic of China is undermining the possibility of mutuality as a new relational pattern to order the world safe for just humanity on a secure planet.…”
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Rapid change in red cell blood group systems after the main Out of Africa of Homo sapiens by Stéphane Mazières, Silvana Condemi, Wassim El Nemer, Jacques Chiaroni

“…Abstract Despite the advances in paleogenomics, red cell blood group systems in ancient human populations remain scarcely known. Pioneer attempts showed that Neandertal and Denisova, two archaic hominid populations inhabiting Eurasia, expressed blood groups currently found in sub-Saharans and a rare “rhesus”, part of which is found in Oceanians. …”
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Pivotal roles of Plasmodium falciparum lysophospholipid acyltransferase 1 in cell cycle progression and cytostome internalization by Junpei Fukumoto, Minako Yoshida, Suzumi M. Tokuoka, Eri Saki H. Hayakawa, Shinya Miyazaki, Takaya Sakura, Daniel Ken Inaoka, Kiyoshi Kita, Jiro Usukura, Hideo Shindou, Fuyuki Tokumasu

“…These findings highlight PfLPLAT1 as a potential target for antimalarial therapy, particularly due to its unique role and divergence from human orthologs.…”
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Evaluation on the effectiveness on the implementation of WHO caregiver skills training (CST) programme in Hong Kong: a randomised controlled trial protocol by Wai-Ching Paul Wong, Siu-Lun Chow

“…A set of other measurements of caregivers’ knowledge, confidence and experience of using the caregiving skills were also measured.Ethics and dissemination Ethics approval was received from the Human Research Ethics Committee (EA1901033), The University of Hong Kong. …”
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DISCOURSE OF POWER AND DISCOURSE OF MASSES IN MODERN PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: CULTURAL, BIOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS DIMENSIONS by S. R. Karpenko

“…In conclusions it is indicated that the anthropic space of the contemporary mass human is narrowing significantly, because the individuals’ participation in technology of society management is finally excluded. …”
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Label-free proteomic analysis of Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy showed decreased sarcomere proteins and increased ubiquitination-related proteins by Juliana Cristina Tobar da Silva, Mariângela Rangel Alves Nogueira, Yara Martins da Silva, Fábio César Sousa Nogueira, Nathalie Henriques Silva Canedo, Katia Carneiro, Denise de Abreu Pereira

“…Enrichment of functions associated with cell structure and RNA binding was also observed, including cytoskeletal protein binding and RNA binding. The human phenotypes most related to the proteomic signature were abnormal circulating metabolites, muscle physiology, and weakness. …”
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Evaluation of the Environmental Performance of Seasonal Spaces in the Vernacular Architecture of the Regions With Cold Climate: A Case Study in Ardabil by Marjaneh Kharrat Sadeghi, Mahsa Javadi Nodeh, Mehrdad Sarabi

“…In contrast, during the hot seasons, while indoor temperatures in most spaces exceeded outdoor temperatures, they remained within the acceptable range of human thermal comfort.…”
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Exploring Methacrylated Gellan Gum 3D Bioprinted Patches Loaded with Tannic Acid or L-Ascorbic Acid as Potential Platform for Wound Dressing Application by Federica Scalia, Alessandra Maria Vitale, Domiziana Picone, Noemi De Cesare, Maria Swiontek Brzezinska, Beata Kaczmarek-Szczepanska, Alfredo Ronca, Barbara Zavan, Fabio Bucchieri, Marta Anna Szychlinska, Ugo D’Amora

“…The cytocompatibility of the patches was demonstrated by direct and indirect tests on human dermal fibroblasts (HDF) as per ISO 10993. …”
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Knowledge about sexually transmitted infections in adolescents from the Naiguatá Parish. La Guaira. Venezuela, 2021 by Bárbara Teresa Zabala Enrique, Natasha Sànchez Bouza, Lourdes Elena Duany Badell, Magdalena Omayda Albelo, Josè Demiàn Rodrìguez Medina, Yusimì Cabada Martìnez

“…<p><strong>Foundation:</strong> sexually transmitted infections are a problem that can harm human beings, especially adolescents.<br /><strong>Objective:</strong> to describe the adolescents’ knowledge about sexually transmitted infections from the Naiguatá Parish. …”
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De Compras Para la Salud: Mariscos by Michelle Brown, Wendy J. Dahl

“…Dahl, and published by the Food Science and Human Nutrition Department, December 2015. FSHN14-05s/FS275: De Compras Para la Salud: Mariscos (ufl.edu) …”
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Huge splenomegaly, a rare presentation of multicentric Castleman’s disease in an HIV-infected patient: a case report and literature review by Malihe Hasannezad, Abdolkarim Haji Ghadery, Sara Ghaderkhani, Armin Vazirian, Fereshteh Ameli, Farid Azmoudeh-Ardalan, Mohammad Reza Rafiian Naini, Ladan Abbasian

“…Nowa­days, multicentric CD is most commonly observed in individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1, in association with Kaposi’s sarcoma. …”
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