Insect development under predation risk, variable temperature, and variable food quality by J. David Logan, William Wolesensky, Anthony Joern

“…We model the development of an individual insect, a grasshopper, through its nymphal period as a function of a trade-off between prey vigilance and nutrient intake in a changing environment. …”
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Perioperative Management of Patient with Systemic Mastocytosis Going for Total Thyroidectomy by Ammar AlShaker, Saud Al-Rasheedi, Yousef Al-Jebrin, Munira Al-Masaad, Nawaf M. Al-Mutairi

“… Systemic mastocytosis (SM) is a rare disorder affecting 1 in 10,000 individuals, characterised by abnormal mast cell proliferation in extra-cutaneous organs, resulting in a variety of presentations ranging from mild asymptomatic disease to life-threatening tissue-destructive disease. …”
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Alimentos en Pure: Prueba de Textura con la Prueba de Desplome by Wendy J. Dahl

“… This is the Spanish version of FS276 Pureed Foods: Texture Testing with the Slump Test. For individuals with dysphagia, the texture of puréed foods is extremely important. …”
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Global Stability for a Binge Drinking Model with Two Stages by Hai-Feng Huo, Na-Na Song

“…We also consider the direct transfer from the class of susceptible individuals towards the class of admitting drinkers. …”
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Effector Caspases and Leukemia by Ying Lu, Guo-Qiang Chen

“…In this paper, we discuss what we have learned about the role of individual effector caspase in mediating both apoptotic and nonapoptotic events, with special emphasis on leukemia-specific oncoproteins in relation to effector caspases.…”
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NV center creation in diamond by local CW laser irradiation of shallow implanted nitrogen by Alexius Enke, Nicole Raatz, Jan Meijer, Ralf Wunderlich

“…Furthermore, we test the procedure for its capabilities for the controlled creation of single centers and show that the emergence of individual centers can be tracked, while achieving sub-micrometer spatial precision.…”
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The Montreal General Hospital Pain Centre (1974-2000): The Contributions of Ronald Melzack by Mary Ellen Jeans, Joseph Stratford, Paul Taenzer, Sandra Lefort, Kathleen Rowat

“…The article begins with a recounting of those individuals and events that inspired Ron early in his 'pain career' to pursue his dream of a multidisciplinary pain centre, the first of its kind in Canada. …”
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« Le fauteuil d’amour » du prince de Galles : la légende à l’épreuve des archives by Michèle Mariez

“…Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, Maison Soubrier (1818–) supplied quality furniture to a wealthy, privileged clientele, both French and foreign, including private individuals, institutions and private companies. In the world of eroticism, it is best known for having produced a “love seat” for the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII, around 1900, a special commission from Chabanais, the most popular brothel in Paris. …”
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Drug-Induced Hematological Cytopenia in Kidney Transplantation and the Challenges It Poses for Kidney Transplant Physicians by Muhammad Abdul Mabood Khalil, Muhammad Ashhad Ullah Khalil, Taqi F. Taufeeq Khan, Jackson Tan

“…In this review, we will discuss individual drug implicated in causing cytopenia and correlate it with corresponding literature evidence.…”
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A transcriptional profile of aging in the human kidney. by Graham E J Rodwell, Rebecca Sonu, Jacob M Zahn, James Lund, Julie Wilhelmy, Lingli Wang, Wenzhong Xiao, Michael Mindrinos, Emily Crane, Eran Segal, Bryan D Myers, James D Brooks, Ronald W Davis, John Higgins, Art B Owen, Stuart K Kim

“…Expression profiles of these age-regulated genes mark not only age, but also the relative health and physiology of the kidney in older individuals. Finally, the set of aging-regulated kidney genes suggests specific mechanisms and pathways that may play a role in kidney degeneration with age.…”
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A Weighted Voting Classifier Based on Differential Evolution by Yong Zhang, Hongrui Zhang, Jing Cai, Binbin Yang

“…Ensemble learning is to employ multiple individual classifiers and combine their predictions, which could achieve better performance than a single classifier. …”
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Additional Legal Protection for Corruption Whistleblowers by Ahmad Irzal Fardiansyah, Muhammad Farid, Ramadani Fitra Diansyah P

“…Therefore, safeguarding the rights of individuals who report instances of corruption is necessary to ensure their protection. …”
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THE ROLE OF PRIVATE MANAGEMENT COMPANIES IN THE MODERN PENSION SYSTEM OF RUSSIA by T. Gorbacheva, G. Fatkhlislamova

“…The key tendencies of the development of the mandatory pension insurance system are determined in the course of exercising the functions of trust management of private pension funds by individuals.…”
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Accurate Maximum Power Tracking in Photovoltaic Systems Affected by Partial Shading by Pierluigi Guerriero, Fabio Di Napoli, Vincenzo d’Alessandro, Santolo Daliento

“…A maximum power tracking algorithm exploiting operating point information gained on individual solar panels is presented. The proposed algorithm recognizes the presence of multiple local maxima in the power voltage curve of a shaded solar field and evaluates the coordinated of the absolute maximum. …”
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Descendance différentielles, reproduction générationnelle et enfants-utiles dans une population de type « isolée » de la montagne alpine (XVIe-XIXe siècles) by Gilles Boëtsch, Michel Prost

“…By mean of population database register, we study the progeny on 7 generations of individuals and couples in a French Alps valley from the XVIth to the XIXth century. …”
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On the peculiarities of experiencing the loss of a spouse by women of different age categories by V. V. Kozyreva, O. Yu. Nikolaeva

“…The specificity of experiencing the loss of a spouse, in particular, is expressed in the fact that not only the individual characteristics of a woman, but also the social and age characteristics of her personality are of great importance.…”
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The Future of Labour Justice in the Czech Republic by Jakub Morávek

“…Specifically, the author points out the current problems and shortcomings of the Czech judiciary, such as the length of proceedings, inconsistency in decision-making, and insufficient erudition. He then discusses individual conditions, possibilities and measures that could be used to achieve improvements (prerequisites for performing the function of a judge, specialization, education, involvement of the lay element). …”
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Type-II intermittency in a class of two coupled one-dimensional maps by J. Laugesen, E. Mosekilde, T. Bountis, S. P. Kuznetsov

“…This change in dynamics occurs through the replacement of a subcritical period-doubling bifurcation in the individual map by a subcritical Hopf bifurcation in the coupled system. …”
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INTERACTIVE NETWORK RESOURCES FOR NATURAL SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH by Michail I. Mazuritsky, Alexandr V. Soldatov

“…This approach uses access to the scientific and technology laboratory equipment either for provisioning the individualized educational programs or to enable the students who are unable to attend a conventional laboratory for a variety of reasons (disability, part-time study, etc.) to conduct the experimental work. …”
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Incidences of taillessness in Acanthopagrus arabicus and Oreochromis niloticus collected from the Shatt al-Arab River, Basrah, Iraq by Abed Jassim M., Jawad Laith A., Ankush Mujtaba A.

“…None of the cases was fatal as they occurred in adult individuals. The likely reasons for these abnormalities and the appropriateness of this case study for environmental monitoring are discussed. …”
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