Viewing the African Political Leadership Challenge through the Lens of Music Drama: Reflections on Duro Ladipo’s Ọba Kòso by Kayode Samuel

“… In response to the question of the relevance of ‘classical’ African Studies to the contemporary need of the continent, this article explores the dynamics of leadership challenge as portrayed in Yorùbá music drama genre, using Duro Ladipo’s most popular folk opera: Ọba Kòso (The king did not hang) as a case study. Thematic exploration of the opera was carried out to establish the linkages between leaders’ (characters’) traits and styles as portrayed in the play, and Nigeria’s political leaders’ engagement and responses to social contracts with their citizens. …”
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Angular Leaf Spot: A Bacterial Disease in Strawberries in Florida by Natalia A. Peres, Silvia I. Rondon, James F. Price, Daniel J. Cantliffe

“… Angular Leaf Spot (ALS) is a bacterial disease caused by Xanthomonas fragariae Kennedy & King, a pathogen highly specific to wild and cultivated strawberry, Fragaria x ananassa Duchesne (Legard et al. 2003). …”
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A policy framework for leveraging generative AI to address enduring challenges in clinical trials by Johnathon Edward Liddicoat, Gabriela Lenarczyk, Mateo Aboy, Timo Minssen, Sebastian Porsdam Mann

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Knowledge about Diabetes and Glycemic Control among Diabetic Patients in Saudi Arabia by Noura A. Abouammoh, Muteb A. Alshamrani

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Optimal control analysis of malaria-schistosomiasis co-infection dynamics by Kazeem Oare Okosun, Robert Smith?

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Optimal Sixteenth Order Convergent Method Based on Quasi-Hermite Interpolation for Computing Roots by Fiza Zafar, Nawab Hussain, Zirwah Fatimah, Athar Kharal

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Lecture de Sébastien Farré, La Suisse et l’Espagne de Franco. De la guerre civile à la mort du dictateur (1936-1975) by Rose Duroux

“…The study covers from July 18th, 1936, beginning of the civil war, to November 27 th, 1975, day of the enthronement of king Juan Carlos. An important place is reserved for economic relations between both countries, which was obvious for a country such as Switzerland whose international role is notably determined by the economic and financial potency of its firms in worldwide economy. …”
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Effect of Aging Treatment on the Damping Capacity and Mechanical Properties of Mg-6Al-1Zn Alloy by Abdel-Wahab El-Morsy, Ahmed I. Z. Farahat

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Evidence of Peste des petits Ruminants’ Virus in Dromedary Camels in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia between 2014 and 2016 by Maged Gomaa Hemida, Hussain Mohammed Al-Ghadeer

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Invariant Inhomogeneous Bianchi Type-I Cosmological Models with Electromagnetic Fields Using Lie Group Analysis in Lyra Geometry by Ahmad T. Ali

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Integral Sliding Mode and Integral Supertwisting Sliding Mode Control for Ship Course-Keeping by Muhammad Munir Butt, Azhar Iqbal Kashif Butt, Iftikhar Ahmad

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Citizen science to monitor the establishment and spread of a biological control agent: the case of Pareuchaetes pseudoinsulata (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) for the control of Chromolaen... by Matthew J. W. Cock, Michael D. Day, Rachel L. Winston

“…Abstract Pareuchaetes pseudoinsulata Rego Barros (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) has been deliberately released in six countries in South and South-East Asia as a biological control agent for Chromolaena odorata (L.) R.M. King & H. Rob. (Asteraceae). To date, the scientific literature has records of establishment in only four of these countries: India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. …”
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Solving Integral Equations by Common Fixed Point Theorems on Complex Partial b-Metric Spaces by Arul Joseph Gnanaprakasam, Salah Mahmoud Boulaaras, Gunaseelan Mani, Mohamed Abdalla, Asma Alharbi

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The weighted generalized Atangana-Baleanu fractional derivative in banach spaces- definition and applications by Muneerah AL Nuwairan, Ahmed Gamal Ibrahim

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Jáchymovský mincmistr Mikuláš (Klaus) Kraus a jeho působení v obchodě s českým stříbrem v letech 1530-1535 by Petr Vorel

“…The law-suit was solved by the Kammergericht of the Bohemian kingdom and this court advanced this case to the king´s own resolution in 1535. Finally, the affair – originally there were also demanded capital punishments – was finished by money penalty. …”
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On Existence of Multiplicity of Weak Solutions for a New Class of Nonlinear Fractional Boundary Value Systems via Variational Approach by Fares Kamache, Salah Mahmoud Boulaaras, Rafik Guefaifia, Nguyen Thanh Chung, Bahri Belkacem Cherif, Mohamed Abdalla

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Dopant Concentration and Effective Atomic Number of Copper-Doped Potassium Borate Glasses by I. Hossain, N. K. Shekaili, H. Wagiran

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“φίλος τε καὶ ξύμμαχος” by Geraldo Rosolen Junior

“…The Greek terms that appear in the title of this article: “φίλος τε καὶ ξύμμαχος” are a translation of Procopius of Caesarea from the Latin words: “socius et amicus” whose objective was to demonstrate that, through these titles attributed to the barbarian kings, such kings would submit to the Roman power and that the diplomatic relations between the barbarian kingdoms and the Roman Empire had been peaceful due to the concession of a legal right attributed, in this case, to the Vandals to possess and occupy Roman territories in Africa. …”
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Local Fractional Variational Iteration and Decomposition Methods for Wave Equation on Cantor Sets within Local Fractional Operators by Dumitru Baleanu, J. A. Tenreiro Machado, Carlo Cattani, Mihaela Cristina Baleanu, Xiao-Jun Yang

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Predictors of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Response: The Pivotal Role of Electrocardiogram by Yahya S. Al Hebaishi, Halia Z. Al Shehri, Abdulrahman M. Al Moghairi

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