Litiasis vesicular en niño e indicación de tratamiento quirúrgico. Presentación de un caso by Jorge Luís Estepa Pérez, Tahiluma Santana Pedraza, Juan Carlos Estepa Torres

“…<p>Se presenta el caso de un paciente de 9 años de edad, sexo masculino, boliviano, natural de Yacuiba, departamento de Tarija, con antecedentes de padecer de anemia en su etapa de lactante, que acudió con su mamá a la consulta de Cirugía General del Hospital Integral Comunitario Rubén Zelaya por  presentar trastornos dispépticos, deposiciones diarreicas, dolor abdominal en ocasiones, con un tiempo de evolución de 6 meses. …”
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Usage of the foreign websites on foreign language practical classes for development of students’ communicative competence by Irina A. Pushkareva

“…Classifying foreign official websites of law-enforcement bodies as authentic materials, the author considers them as one of their effective means of forming communicative competence in the absence of a natural linguistic environment. The author developed and methodically substantiated a system of working with authentic materials in the form of foreign official websites of law-enforcement bodies, which was tested in a practical lesson in a foreign language at the Kuzbass Institute of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia. …”
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Ecosystem Services Valuation for Estuarine and Coastal Restoration in Florida by Susanna Blair, Carrie Adams, Tom Ankersen, Maia McGuire, David Kaplan

“…This 10-page literature review surveys the available ecosystem-service valuation literature for five of Florida’s coastal natural communities—oyster reefs, beach dunes, mangrove forests, seagrass beds, and salt marshes—to facilitate the quantification of ecosystem services to provide a better measure of the full impact of restoration efforts. …”
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Application of environment learning models to the results of motive design in decorative design courses by Yusmerita Yusmerita, Yulia Aryati, Puji Hujria Suci

“…This study intends to increase the creative results of student motif designs in the Decorative Design course by applying a learning model based on the natural environment (Environment Learning). This type of research is classroom action research (CAR) with a qualitative approach. …”
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Descartes desde Canguilhem: el mecanicismo y el concepto de reflejo by María Luisa Bacarlett Pérez, Roberto Juventino Fuentes Rionda

“…Durante el siglo XVII entra en auge un nuevo modelo de explicación de la realidad natural: el mecanicismo. René Descartes fue uno de los filósofos de la época que más ampliamente aplicó la visión mecanicista, en particular para explicar los fenómenos vitales. …”
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A Rare Case of Porocarcinoma and Trichoblastoma Arising in a Nevus Sebaceus of Jadassohn by Drew C. Mitchell, Gina J. Kuehn, Glynis A. Scott, Timothy D. Doerr, Francisco Tausk

“…Nevus sebaceus of Jadassohn, or “organoid nevus,” is a common, benign hamartoma of the skin consisting of epithelial and adnexal components. Its natural history and association with neoplastic growths is well documented. …”
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Captivity Reduces Diversity and Shifts Composition of the Great Bustard (Otis tarda dybowskii) Microbiome by Zhiyuan Lu, Zhucheng Wang, Hexue Jia, Derong Meng, Dayong Wu

“…Consequently, managing rescued wild animals by increasing dietary diversity and exposure to natural environmental reservoirs may enhance the success rate of reintroduction efforts.…”
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A Graph Convolutional Network-Based Sensitive Information Detection Algorithm by Ying Liu, Chao-Yu Yang, Jie Yang

“…In the field of natural language processing (NLP), the task of sensitive information detection refers to the procedure of identifying sensitive words for given documents. …”
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Stability and Bioaccessibility of β-Arbutin in Simulated Digestion Conditions by Łukasz Sęczyk, Danuta Sugier, Piotr Sugier

“…In this study, the effects of physicochemical and biochemical digestion conditions on β-arbutin stability and bioaccessibility were investigated. β-Arbutin, at doses that correspond to its natural occurrence in plant materials (i.e., 1–100 mg), was subjected to gastric and intestinal electrolyte treatments (application of physicochemical factors) or the whole digestion process (application of physicochemical and biochemical factors). …”
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Phased Fractional Low-Order Moment-Based Doppler Shift Estimation in the Presence of Interference Signals and Impulsive Noise by Bo Ni, Mengjia Wang, Jiacheng Zhang, Ying Zhang, Tao Liu

“…Given that cyclostationary signals are prevalent in both artificial and natural phenomena, we propose a novel framework based on the phased fractional lower-order moment (PFLOM) for estimating Doppler shift in mixed cyclostationary signals. …”
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Analysis of 31 Hydrazones of Carbonyl Compounds by RRLC-UV and RRLC-MS(/MS): A Comparison of Methods by Soraya de M. Ochs, Maíra Fasciotti, Annibal D. Pereira Netto

“…Aldehydes and ketones are volatile organic compounds (VOC) emitted into the atmosphere by a large number of natural and anthropogenic sources. Carbonyl compounds (CC) are atmospheric pollutants with known damaging effects for the human’s health. …”
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TV Viewing by Children During Times of Conflict by Millie Ferrer

“… Amid tragic times of war and terrorism, people naturally want to keep current. However, without realizing it, many families can spend too many hours watching TV. …”
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Differentiation Potential of Pancreatic Fibroblastoid Cells/Stellate Cells: Effects of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma Ligands by M.-L. Kruse, S. Hopf-Jensen, C. Timke, B. Agricola, G. Sparmann, A. Schmid, B. Sipos, A. Arlt, H. Schäfer

“…We tested effects of natural and synthetic ligands of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) on human pancreatic fibroblastoid cells (hPFCs) in search for specificity of action. …”
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EXPLICITATION STRATEGY IN TRANSLATING AN INDONESIAN NOVEL INTO ENGLISH by Erlina Zulkifli Mahmud, Cece Sobarna

“…The uniqueness in the source language text needs extra works to do in delivering the closest natural equivalent in the target language text. Untranslatability is no longer issue as there are strategies of translation that can be applied, one of them is explicitation.  …”
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Acoustic emission characteristics of instability process of a rock plate under concentrated loading by S.R. Wang, C.Y. Li, Z.S. Zou, X.L. Liu

“…The temporal and spatial distribution characteristics of the AE events with large magnitudes are very similar to those of the natural earthquakes.…”
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Air Quality Survey of some locations in the Niger Delta Area by A Adoki

“…A survey of air quality in Oyigbo (Obigbo) and environs in the Niger delta area of Nigeria revealed that air quality in the area is affected to varying degrees by industrial, human and natural activities. Results indicate that SOx values were below acceptable values for ambient conditions at most of the locations. …”
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Regionalização dos Expressivos Não-Morfológicos dos Estados de Alagoas e Sergipe, Brasil by Ajibola Isau Badiru, Nubia Dias dos Santos

“…They are forces of the transfiguration of the dimension of the country that can be decoded for the understanding of the natural and social patterns and processes prescribed in time and space. …”
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Bergers étrangers, une opportunité pour le pastoralisme euro-méditerranéen ? by Michele Nori

“…Such migratory flows enable the pursuit, evolution and diversification of an activity increasingly acknowledged as essential to the preservation of the region’s natural and cultural heritage; and yet, it is one that Europeans are practising less and less.Engaging this workforce in the process of adapting and innovating the sector by integrating and empowering them provides the opportunity to help train the shepherds and the breeders of tomorrow. …”
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Vibration Characteristics of a Mistuned Bladed Disk considering the Effect of Coriolis Forces by Xuanen Kan, Bo Zhao

“…The results show that if there are frequency veering regions, the largest split of double natural frequencies of each modal family considering the effects of Coriolis forces appears at frequency veering region. …”
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Plant protein-derived anti-breast cancer peptides: sources, therapeutic approaches, mechanisms, and nanoparticle design by Deju Zhang, Deju Zhang, Deju Zhang, Ying Yuan, Ying Yuan, Qingdong Zeng, Qingdong Zeng, Juan Xiong, Juan Xiong, Yiming Gan, Kai Jiang, Kai Jiang, Ni Xie

“…Consequently, there is an urgent need for low-cost, low-toxicity and effective therapeutic methods to prevent or mitigate breast cancer progression. PDBP are natural, non-toxic, and affordable substances and have demonstrated excellent anti-breast cancer activities in inhibiting proliferation, migration, and invasion, and promoting apoptosis both in vitro and in vivo, thus effectively preventing or inhibiting breast cancer. …”
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