circRNA Expression Profile in Dental Pulp Stem Cells during Odontogenic Differentiation by Ming Chen, Yeqing Yang, Junkai Zeng, Zilong Deng, Buling Wu

“…Odontogenic differentiation of human dental pulp stem cells (hDPSCs) is a key step of pulp regeneration. …”
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APPOINTMENT OF HANDWRITING EXAMINATION: ANALYSIS OF COURT PRACTICE by Veronika N. Shkabaro, Аlona V. Bila, Vladislav V. Voronin

“…Attention is focused on the role of the judge in the process of preparing for the examination, in particular, the collection of materials for expert research, the judicial practice regarding the consideration of cases in which a handwriting examination was appointed and evaluated by the court, including court decisions in civil cases, decisions on appointment is analyzed expertise, decisions of appeal courts, as well as the Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights. Based on the results of the analysis of court practice, the authors made conclusions, including: 1) an expert's decision is evidence in a civil trial; 2) the court must provide a well-founded motivation for rejecting the expert's decision in the case of failure to provide its assessment, because it is not enough in the decision to indicate certain doubts about the reliability or correctness of the expert's decision, without noting at the same time reasonable grounds for such doubts; 3) the courts take into account the expert's decision based on the results of the handwriting examination as a means of proof and consider it a valid evidence in the case, but there are exceptions; 4) the court decision on the appointment of an expert must necessarily specify the questions that are put to the expert for research; 5) the party in the case has the right to object to the handwriting examination; 6) there are cases of the impossibility of conducting a handwriting examination at the stage of its conduct due to non-payment of experts' services; 7) the most common civil cases, within the scope of which an expert's decision is evaluated as a means of proof, are cases of invalidating a will, collection of funds under a loan agreement and receipt, invalidation of land lease agreements, etc.…”
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Clinical Holistic Medicine: the “New Medicine”, the Multiparadigmatic Physician, and the Medical Record by Søren Ventegodt, Mohammed Morad, Joav Merrick

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Bovine milk consumption affects the transcriptome of porcine adipose stem cells: Do exosomes play any role? by Katherine Swanson, Jimmy Bell, David Hendrix, Duo Jiang, Michelle Kutzler, Brandon Batty, Melanie Hanlon, Massimo Bionaz

“…The downregulation of insulin resistance and inflammatory-related pathways in the ASC of milk-fed pigs should be further explored in relation to milk and human health. In conclusion, the bioinformatic analyses and the absence of bovine exosomal miRs in porcine plasma suggest that miRs are not vertically transferred from milk exosomes.…”
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Content Analysis of the articles in Journal of Linguistic and Rhetorical Studies of Semnan University (2010 - 2023) by Hossein Moradi Moghadam

“…The Journal of Linguistic and Rhetorical Studies is one of the core journals in its Journal of Linguistic and Rhetorical Studies, having reached the first quarter and received the A rank, is one of the core humanities journals of Semnan University. Due to its significant status, the present research was conducted with the aim of analyzing the content of the articles of published in this Journal spanning the years 2010/1389 to 2023/1402. …”
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Prevalence of hepatitis B virus and associated factors among blood donors in Hossana blood bank catchment area, Southern Ethiopia by Mesfin Menza Jaldo, Mhireteab WoldeYohannes Joffe, Eyasu Samuel Zemedkun

“…Abstract Background Human hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver brought on by the DNA virus known as the hepatitis B virus (HBV). …”
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Development and validation of a high-throughput qPCR platform for the detection of soil-transmitted helminth infections. by Nils Pilotte, Victor Omballa, Monica Voss, Leah Padgett, Malathi Manuel, Jeanne L Goodman, Tim Littlewood, Zayina Zondervenni Manoharan, Lisette van Lieshout, Jaco J Verweij, Manigandan Sekar, Ajith Kumar Muthukumar, Gretchen Walch, Abriana Warren, Mariyam Sheikh, Andrew Gonzalez, Sean R Galagan, Sitara Swarna Rao Ajjampur, Moudachirou Ibikounlé, Steven A Williams, Doug Rains, Ushashi Dadwal, Judd L Walson

“…<h4>Methodology/principal findings</h4>Through the development, selection, and validation of appropriate controls, we have successfully created and evaluated the performance of a testing platform capable of the semi-automated, high-throughput detection of four species of STH in human stool samples. Comparison of this platform with singleplex reference assays for the detection of these same pathogens has demonstrated comparable performance metrics, with index assay accuracy measuring at or above 99.5% and 98.1% for each target species at the level of the technical replicate and individual extraction respectively. …”
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Reciprocal Effects of Oxidative Stress on Heme Oxygenase Expression and Activity Contributes to Reno-Vascular Abnormalities in EC-SOD Knockout Mice by Tomoko Kawakami, Nitin Puri, Komal Sodhi, Lars Bellner, Toru Takahashi, Kiyoshi Morita, Rita Rezzani, Tim D. Oury, Nader G. Abraham

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Eunugs in die Bybel by F. P. Retief, S. J. P. K. Riekert, J. F. G. Cilliers

“…In Deuteronomy 23:1 the act of human castration is condemned, without using the word saris, while Leviticus 22:24 refers to animal castration by crushing (Hebrew word katut) of the testes. …”
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Some Problems of the Realization of Marital Relation with Foreigners by S. S. Myrza, I. A. Serednytska

“…The authors have analyzed the case law of the European Court of Human Rights in regard to the protection of the rights of married women, which has answers to a wide range of problematic issues that arise in certain life circumstances regarding the conclusion of marriage, including with a foreign element.…”
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Land Rights, Land Ownership, and Land Governance among Rural Communities in River Tana County, Kenya: A Gender Perspective by Wilson Ndenyele, Marie-Emmanuelle, Halimu Suleimani Shauri, Godffrey Nato

“… ontext and background  Gender issues in land governance remain a major concern in the developing countries owing the numerous human development challenges. Growing research evidences indicate that land governance is distorted by various aspects that often exacerbate discrimination against women. …”
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Analyzing Radiation Protection Risks in Nuclear Medicine: Cause Investigation and WSR-Based Countermeasure Evaluation by Sun P, Li G, Zhu Y

“…A Wuli-Shili-Renli (WSR) system management approach was implemented, addressing physical (Wuli), procedural (Shili), and human factors (Renli) to improve technical safeguards, optimize processes, and enhance personnel awareness. …”
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Adaptation and combination of two scales to measure dispositional gratitude in health sciences faculty: a psychometric analysis by Jesus Alfonso Beltran-Sanchez, José Moral de la Rubia, Adrian Valle de la O, Josue Omar Nava-Manzo, Angeles Dominguez

“…Finally, it represents a valuable contribution to the teaching of health sciences since it generates healthy environments with prosocial attitudes that facilitate flourishing in personal and academic life, and in the future, health professionals with humanism as their standard.…”
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The role of SASP in ischemic stroke: a deep dive into cellular mechanisms by Dong Xie, Yang Liu, Fang-Biao Xu, Jin-Sheng Zhang

“…The present study endeavored to preliminarily dissect the SASP-IS nexus via combined bulk and single-cell transcriptome analysis.MethodsAggregated expression profiles from human peripheral blood bulk chips and MCAO mouse single-cell sequencing data, followed by SASP gene analysis. …”
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Estimating the Burden of Illness Related to Genital Warts in Russia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Vera N. Prilepskaya, Mikhail Gomberg, Smita Kothari, Karen Yee, Amit Kulkarni, Suzanne M. Garland, Anna R. Giuliano

“…**Background:** Human papillomavirus (HPV) infections are the etiologic agents of genital warts (GW). …”
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Prevalence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Associated Factors Among Internally Displaced Persons (IDPS) In Mogadishu Cross-Sectional Study by Sh Abukar IM, Asir Rage AA, Warsame MO

“…Ismail Mohamed Sh Abukar,1 Abdirashid Ali Asir Rage,1 Mohamed Omar Warsame2 1School of Public Health and Research, Somali National University, Mogadishu, Somalia; 2Department of Public Health, Federal Ministry of Health and Human Services, Mogadishu, SomaliaCorrespondence: Mohamed Omar Warsame, Email diirshe143@gmail.comBackground: An important mental health concern is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), especially for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the Horn of Africa. …”
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A novel index for diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus: Cholesterol, High density lipoprotein, and Glucose (CHG) index by Amin Mansoori, Mina Nosrati, Mohsen Dorchin, Fatemeh Mohammadyari, Elahe Derakhshan‐Nezhad, Gordon Ferns, Habibollah Esmaily, Majid Ghayour‐Mobarhan

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What do medical students think about conscientious objection? A cross-sectional study from Turkey by M. Murat Civaner, Eylül Yalçinkaya, Arlene Macdonald

“…Abstract Background Physicians’ refusal to perform medical procedures that they deem contrary to their conscience may threaten basic human rights and public health. This study aims to investigate the thoughts and attitudes of future physicians on conscientious objection (CO) and thus contribute to the discussions from a country more heavily influenced by Eastern values. …”
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Analysis of vulnerability, its drivers, and strategies applied towards reducing the pastoral and agro-pastoral livelihood vulnerability to climatic shocks by Daniel Assefa Tofu, Tegegn Dilbato, Chalchisa Fana, Niguse Bekele Dirbaba, Gutu Tesso

“…Abstract In recent decades, the global climate has changed mainly due to human-induced causes and realizing their manifestations in the forms of extreme events such as droughts, floods, heat stress, and variability in rainfall. …”
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Effects of nitrogen deposition on soil nitrogen fractions and enzyme activities in wet meadow of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau by Jiangqi Wu, Haiyan Wang, Guang Li, Nan Chen

“…N deposition produced by human activities changes the physical characteristics of soil, affecting N fractions and enzyme activities. …”
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