Pharmacotherapies for Obesity: Past, Current, and Future Therapies by Lisa L. Ioannides-Demos, Loretta Piccenna, John J. McNeil

“…No current pharmacotherapy possesses the efficacy needed to produce substantial weight loss in morbidly obese patients. …”
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CREATIVE COMMUNICATIVE BEHAVIOR AS A MEANS OF CREATIVE SELF-REALIZATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL by Galina I. Zhelezovskaya, Natalia V. Abramova, Yelena N. Gudkova

“…The future experts as potential members of the general creative process should be ready to observance of available norms and traditions of dialogue and at the same time should possess ability to refuse the fixed, trivial representations while analysing and making decisions of actual workplace issues.Practical significance. …”
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La folie de l’arc-en-ciel ou la longue errance de Bwila by Claudie Haxaire

“…This dance has the value of a therapeutic ritual for the novice: the success of the dance, i.e. full restitution of the word of the oracle, is a sign of mastery of communication with the tutelary ancestors (“zu”) and thus of the possession of sufficient might to resist the specific madness – “zu madness” – that they would otherwise provoke. …”
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Economic behavior of agricultural land market subjects by V. I. Trofimova

“…Buyers are guided by the possession motives, use and disposal of land by acquiring a land plot. …”
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Quantitative Analysis of Heavy Metals and Organic Compounds in Soil from Deir Kanoun Ras El Ain Dump, Lebanon by Jamilah Borjac, Manal El Joumaa, Lobna Youssef, Rawan Kawach, Diane A. Blake

“…Deir Kanoun Ras El Ain is a village in southern Lebanon that possesses one of the country’s worst dumps, and its leachates influx into a running canal that irrigates surrounding agricultural lands. …”
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Enhancement of Hydrophobicity of Fish Skin Gelatin via Molecular Modification with Oxidized Linoleic Acid by Wipawee Theerawitayaart, Thummanoon Prodpran, Soottawat Benjakul

“…Fish gelatin possesses hydrophilicity in nature since it contains a few hydrophobic amino acids and a large portion of hydrophilic amino acids. …”
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Green chemistry approaches in the analytical validation of fosravuconazole using UV spectrophotometry and HPLC by Jeswin Maliyakal, Mital Patel

“…BAGI showed that both methods possess scores above the recommended threshold score of 60, qualifying them for industrial applications. …”
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Effect of oyster mushroom wastes on performance, immune responses and intestinal morphology of broiler chickens by Shila Hasanian Fard, Majid Toghyani, Sayed Ali Tabeidian

“…Background Mushroom wastes are widely left from mushroom production industries and have been supposed to possess prebiotic, antimicrobial, antifungal and antioxidant properties. …”
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Karyotype Analysis in Five Species of Carthamus L. (Asteraceae) from Iran by Atefeh Aghakoochaki, Maneezheh Pakravan

“…Karyotype analyses revealed that all populations possess asymmetrical karyotypes. The karyotype formulas were as follow: 4m+ 5sm+ 2st+ t for C. tinctorius (2n= 2x= 24), M+ 19m+ 2Sm for C. lanatus, M+ 7m+ 2sm for C. dentatus (2n= 2x= 20), M+7m+2Sm for the population of C. dentatus with 2n= 30, and M+ 17m+ 13sm+ T for C. turkestanicus (2n= 64).  …”
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Desired Compensation Adaptive Robust Control of an Active Vibration Isolation System by Bo Zhao, Weijia Shi, Ming Zhang, Jiaxin Li, Feng Li

“…The experimental results validate that the proposed DCARC control strategy outperforms other control method and possesses both high-performance vibration isolation and low tracking error.…”
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Weak gravity conjecture validation with photon spheres of quantum corrected Reissner–Nordstrom–AdS black holes in Kiselev spacetime by Mohammad Reza Alipour, Mohammad Ali S. Afshar, Saeed Noori Gashti, Jafar Sadeghi

“…Our analysis reveals that black holes with a charge greater than their mass $$(Q > M)$$ ( Q > M ) possess photon spheres or exhibit a total topological charge of the photon sphere $$(\text {PS} = -1),$$ ( PS = - 1 ) , which upholds the WGC. …”
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Disrupted Endothelial Cell Layer and Exposed Extracellular Matrix Proteins Promote Capture of Late Outgrowth Endothelial Progenitor Cells by Jing Zhao, Claudia-Gabriela Mitrofan, Sarah L. Appleby, Nicholas W. Morrell, Andrew M. L. Lever

“…Late outgrowth endothelial progenitor cells (LO-EPC) possess a high proliferative potential, differentiate into vascular endothelial cells (EC), and form networks, suggesting they play a role in vascular repair. …”
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The Impact of Selected Regimens of Chronic HIV‐Antiretroviral Treatment on Glycemic Control Markers and Correlates: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis Protocol by Mlindeli Gamede, Mbulelo Aubrey Sosibo, Nontobeko Gumede, Mluleki Luvuno

“…Dissemination and Registration The findings intend to give an insight into the ARVs as a risk factor for metabolic diseases and further elaborate on the regimen that possesses a high risk between the first and second regimens. …”
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Multi-valued mappings on Pompeiu-Hausdorff fuzzy b-metric spaces and a common fixed point result by Noreddine Makran, Stojan N. Radenović

“…Fuzzy metric spaces, which are specific types of topological spaces with pleasing "geometric" characteristics, possess a number of appealing properties and are commonly used in both pure and applied sciences. …”
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Transforming healthcare: Saudi Arabia's vision 2030 healthcare model by Amal K. Suleiman, Long Chiau Ming

“…The healthcare sector possesses significant potential for substantial positive transformation, notwithstanding its continuous nature.…”
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Optimization of the suspension procedure by Box-Behnken design for the determination of manganese, iron, and zinc in zeolite clinoptilolite with the TXRF system and insight into it... by Jablan Jasna, Štefan Maja Bival, Paler Dario, Kamenski Emma

“…Zeolites are a large family of minerals and the most studied is the naturally occurring clinoptilolite. They possess anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and detoxifying properties which makes them valuable for medicinal use. …”
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Successful Expulsion of a Golf Ball from the Sigmoid Colon Using Volume Laxatives by James P. Grantham, Amanda Hii, Tim Bright, David Liu

“…The authors advocate that in the absence of a mechanical bowel obstruction, patients with foreign bodies possessing physical properties that are amenable to spontaneous passage, a trial of strong aperients, should be considered first line. …”
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Role of Microbes and Nanomaterials in the Removal of Pesticides from Wastewater by Arpita Roy, Madhura Roy, Saad Alghamdi, Anas S. Dablool, Angham Ahmed Almakki, Ismat H. Ali, Krishna Kumar Yadav, Md. Rabiul Islam, Marina M. S. Cabral-Pinto

“…Conventional methods possess various limitations; therefore, there is a requirement of an alternative method which can efficiently remove these pollutants from the wastewater. …”
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Molecular Mechanisms of Alzheimer’s Disease Induced by Amyloid-β and Tau Phosphorylation Along with RhoA Activity: Perspective of RhoA/Rho-Associated Protein Kinase Inhibitors for... by Eun Hee Ahn, Jae-Bong Park

“…Another crucial factor in AD is neuroinflammation, primarily occurring in the microglia. Microglia possess several receptors that bind with Aβ, triggering the expression and release of an inflammatory factor, although their main physiological function is to phagocytose debris and pathogens in the brain. …”
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Euodiae Fructus: a review of botany, application, processing, phytochemistry, quality control, pharmacology, and toxicology by Yule Hao, Jiawen Qi, Xinggui Huang, Chenhao Liu, Yi Liu

“…However, it should be noted that EF possesses mild toxicity. In TCM prescriptions, EF is employed to treat various ailments, including abdominal pain, diarrhea, chronic non-atrophic gastritis, irritable bowel syndrome, and primary dysmenorrhea. …”
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