The Importance of CD44 as a Stem Cell Biomarker and Therapeutic Target in Cancer by Ranjeeta Thapa, George D. Wilson

“…CD44 is a cell surface HA-binding glycoprotein that is overexpressed to some extent by almost all tumors of epithelial origin and plays an important role in tumor initiation and metastasis. …”
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Quantitative dynamic evaluation HBsAg in blood in comparison to viral load level in patients with chronic HBV-monoinfection by K. R. Dudina, O. O. Znoyko, S. A. Shutko, Ye. A. Klimova, L. Ye. Kuzina, D. M. Braginsky, N. P. Blokhina, N. D. Yushchuk

“…Overall 135 patients with chronic HBV-monoinfection were included in original study. Dynamic assessment of HBV viremia level by polymerase chain reaction and quantitative assessment of blood HBsAg by chemiluminescence was carried out.Results. …”
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Capital Market Response to Strategic Analysis in Organization Management (Case Study: User and Capital Companies) by Vahid Bekhradi Nasab

“…Findings: The results show that by adopting cost leadership strategies in capital companies, earnings announcements are reduced to user companies, and earnings announcements are increased by adopting distinct strategies in capital companies compared to user companies. Originality/Value: The best business strategy for user companies is cost leadership, and capital companies are the product and product differentiation strategy. …”
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Neuroblastoma Soft Tissue Metastasis in a 10-Month-Old Infant with a Right Thigh Mass by Shokouh Taghipour Zahir, Fateme Salemi

“…Neuroblastoma is a solid tumor that occurs more frequently in pediatric populations. It may originate from any part of the sympathetic nervous system, but it most commonly arises from the paraspinal sympathetic ganglia in the abdomen or mediastinum. …”
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ENHANCING THE EFFICIENCY OF INDOOR LOCAL VENTILATION USING CROSS-FLOW FANS: CASE STUDY FOR A SMOKING CABIN by ANDREI DRAGOMIRESCU, ADRIAN CIOCĂNEA

“… The paper presents an original solution for increasing air quality and reducing energy consumption of the local indoor ventilation by using cross-flow fans. …”
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Genesis of State Social Policy of Ukraine: Administrative and Legal Aspect by L. S. Katsalap

“…The author of the article studies and systematizes the set of available scientific achievements on the origin, formation and development of state social policy of Ukraine, considering the fact that one of the priorities of Ukrainian society in the need for progressive improvement of all mechanisms of public administration is the formation of effective social policy. …”
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Asking and answering: A contrastive study of English and Swedish basic communication verbs by Åke Viberg

“… This article presents a contrastive study of the English verbs ask and answer and their Swedish correspondents based on data from the English Swedish Parallel Corpus (ESPC), which is bi-directional and contains Swedish and English original texts and their corresponding translations. …”
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On the Efficient Broadcasting of Heterogeneous Services over Band-Limited Channels: Unequal Power Allocation for Wavelet Packet Division Multiplexing by Maurizio Murroni

“…The mean square error (MSE) between the original and the decoded message, 𝜓which has a strong correlation with subjective perception, is used as an optimization criterion.…”
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Crack path simulation for cylindrical contact under fretting conditions by R.A. Cardoso, J.A. Araújo, J.L.A. Ferreira, F.C. Castro

“…Regarding the subsequent crack propagation orientation, it was possible to see that stress intensity factor based models where one considers an infinitesimal virtual crack emerging from an original preexistent crack are powerful mechanisms of crack orientation estimation.…”
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Elastoplastic Analysis for Circular Tunnel Based on Modified Lade Criterion considering Strain Softening and Dilatancy by Yansheng Deng, Jianxiu Wang, Baoping Zou

“…The comparisons of stress, displacement, and plastic zone radius are carried out between the presented method and published literatures under axisymmetric and nonaxisymmetric original in situ stress field. Finally, a series of parametric analyses are executed and discussed. …”
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Honey Bee Tracheal Mite, Acarapis woodi (Rennie) (Arachnida: Acarina: Tarsonemidae) by Harold A. Denmark, Harvey L. Cromroy, Malcolm T. Stanford

“…This document is EENY-172 (originally published as DPI Entomology Circular 267), one of the Featured Creatures series of the Entomology and Nematology Department, Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Can Humanity Thrive Beyond the Galaxy? by Sayaka WAKAYAMA, Teruhiko WAKAYAMA

“…In even more distant future, when humans have spread throughout the galaxy, all genetic resources on Earth, the planet where humans originated, must be permanently and safely stored— but is this even possible? …”
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Displacing the Nation: Contemporary Literature by and about Immigrants by Diane Krumrey

“…Ils apparaissent comme des "autres" racialement et culturellement, et pourtant, à la différence des immigrants antérieurs, ils peuvent se déplacer à leur gré entre les États-Unis et leur pays d’origine. Les réalités vertigineuses que ces romans décrivent délogent l’Amérique "Mainstream" de la centralité présumée qu’elle occupe dans l’expérience de l’immigrant.…”
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Beyond Standard Model Searches in the MiniBooNE Experiment by Teppei Katori, Janet M. Conrad

“…The experiment was originally designed to test the Δm2~1 eV2 region of the sterile neutrino hypothesis by observing νe(ν-e) charged current quasielastic signals from a νμ(ν-μ) beam. …”
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„Paraklet (…) przekona świat o grzechu, o sprawiedliwości i o sądzie”. Jana Pawła II pneumatologiczna hermeneutyka J 16, 7–8 by Agnieszka Dudek-Kowalska

“…In the innermost layer its origin is divine. In the consequence the man does not decide about the existence of the truth and in the further consequence about the existence of the order of nature and things. …”
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An Assessment of the Microbiological Quality and Physical Properties of Indoor Atmosphere in Port Harcourt by Chuku Aleruchi

“…The study revealed that no indoor atmosphere is completely free from microorganisms; rooms that carry above their original design capacity for occupancy are prone to have a high load of microorganism and indoor microorganism survive and multiply faster during the dry season compared to their growth in the rainy season. …”
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Follow up and behavior of pediatric home admission in San Lazaro´s popular council in Cienfuegos Province. by Caridad Hernández Gutiérrez, Carmen E. Guerra Cabrera, Teresita Rodriguez Izaguirre., Roxilena Manso Martín.

“…<strong>Fundaments: </strong>The development of Public Health in Cuba, especially in public health assistance has permitted the rescue of old modalities in regards to medical assistance, among of them home admissions, procedure that has its origin in our ancestors but now with the distinctive features of the ways of medical assistance, social system and economic resources among others. …”
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Le renouvellement de la pensée économique durant la crise des années 1930. Le découplage théorie économique / politique économique by Jean-François Ponsot, Michel Rocca

“…Policy makers at the origin of innovative policies to exit from the crisis (for example Roosevelt and the New Deal), were more guided by the pragmatism and the necessity of bringing concrete answers to the crisis that by the prescriptions of the new economic theory in gestation. …”
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Nacionalización y nacionalismo cotidiano: una panorámica by Claudio Hernández Burgos, Odilón Caldeira Neto

“…In particular, this paper highlights the relevance of directing attention to historical subjects’ individual agency and experiences of nationhood to understand key issues such as identity construction and the nationalization of society in their daily lives. Originality: This article evaluates the theoretical and methodological contributions of the so-called “everyday nationalism” as a way to connect the “micro” and “macro” levels and to capture, through subjectivities, the complexities inherent to the processes of construction of national identity and the multiple ways in which individuals received, answered, or re-signified the discourses and policies of nationalization promoted from power. …”
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Digital humanities in US academic libraries: case studies by Kelda Habing, Lian Ruan

“…Research limitations/implications – This case study interviewed staff in a limited number of US libraries and is not generalizable to or a reflection of the many academic libraries in the US or across the world. Originality/value – The juxtaposition of multiple libraries’ DH activities provides a unique perspective on academic library DH practice, as many studies investigate only a single library as their subject.…”
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