Unusual Presentation of a Rare Disease: A Case Report of Fungal Necrotizing Otitis Media and Mastoiditis by Ermia Mousavi Mohammadi, Mohsen Rajati, Hossein Zarrinfar

“…A 54‐year‐old female was presented who suffered from diabetes mellitus and end‐stage renal disease presenting with severe otalgia, initially thought to be necrotizing otitis externa. She rapidly progressed to total necrosis of the tympanic membrane. …”
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Amiodarone Pulmonary, Neuromuscular and Ophthalmologic Toxicity by Karen EA Burns, Eugenia Piliotis, Bertha M Garcia, Kathleen A Ferguson

“…These side effects are thought to be correlated with the total cumulative dose of amiodarone, but idiopathic reactions have been reported. …”
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La modulation sociale de la voix ne compromet pas le mécanisme de phenotype matching chez le mandrill by Florence Levréro, Greta Carrete-Vega, Anais Herbert, Ismaël Lawabi † 2015, Alexandre Courtiol, Eric Willaume, Peter M. Kappeler, Marie J.E. Charpentier

“…Here we show that in addition to genetic background, social accommodation also shapes individual voices in an Old World monkey (Mandrillus sphinx), even though primate vocalizations were thought to be innate and little flexible. Nonetheless, social shaping of voice parameters does not impair kin discrimination through phenotype-matching of unknown relatives, revealing unexpected discriminatory versatility despite signal complexity. …”
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Nos natura non sustinet : à propos de l’intensification agricole dans quatre terroirs du nord des Gaules by Pierre Ouzoulias

“…According to this economic model, the production capacity of the land is often considered as an exogenous factor and is thought to be determined mainly by its natural characteristics.To this outline are opposed the ideas of Esther Boserup, who considers that the demographic pressure may be the cause of the agricultural intensification and of the exploitation of new land. …”
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Sofística e Retórica no Górgias de Platão by Daniel R. N. Lopes

“…To this end I will discuss, firstly, the genealogy of the Greek words sophistikē and rhētorikē in the remaining Greek literature, attempting to show that the modern notions of “sophistry” and “rhetoric” in a broad sense derive from a Platonic-Aristotelian operation of delimitating a special kind of thought and pedagogical activity in opposition to “philosophy”. …”
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TOWARDS A CONCEPTUALISATION OF RESILIENCE IN SECURITY STUDIES by Zoran Kekovic, Vladimir Ninkovic

“…In security studies there are broadly two strands of thought – one that observes resilience as a desired state of the system, be it a nation, a community or infrastructure, and another one that proposes resilience as a risk management strategy that can be used when dealing with events characterized with a high degree of uncertainty.…”
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Cognitive Radio Spectrum Sensing-Based QAM Technique Using Blockchain by D. Balakumar, S. Nandakumar

“…This form of sensing, which is thought to be the easiest and best, uses energy-detecting spectrum sensing. …”
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Ukryte w języku aspekty przygotowania dzieci do szkoły by Grażyna Szyling

“…Their impact paralysing the development of a person can only be seen when the perspective is changed and “the school is thought of differently”. …”
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Gandhi: A Man for our Times? by Judith Brown

“…In this context, I examine the life and thought of M.K. Gandhi, particularly the way he addressed the nature of India and its problems as British imperial rule ended. …”
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L'éducation à l'éthique de l'environnement dans le cadre de l'éducation en science et en technologie : une justification by Milagros Chavez Tortolero

“…The author focuses her thoughts on the finality of scientific and technological education, while approaching science and technology from a critical stance. …”
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From pathogenesis to new developments in treatment of primary progressive multiple sclerosis. Literature review by A. Juknelytė, Ž. Vaičekauskytė, D. Mickevičienė, R. Balnytė

“…Inflammation has long been thought to be the initial factor that starts pathological mechanisms, and neurodegeneration only enhances the progression of the disease. …”
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Présence/absence du monde rural dans la presse libérale et républicaine andalouse (1880-1892) by Danièle Bussy Genevois 

“…Both well aware of the rural misery as well as its archaism, and unlike Jacques Maurice thought, they do not consider the rural world an “exotic” place. …”
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Lactobacillus gasseri Causing Bilateral Empyema by Angela Esquibel, Ala S. Dababneh, Bharath Raj Palraj

“…Although they are usually thought to be nonpathogenic, there have been several cases that demonstrate severe infections caused by these microorganisms. …”
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Leveraging the BRICS Digital Partnership for Collaborative Digital Governance by Odilile Ayodele, Vhonani Petla

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AN APPRAISAL OF THE 21ST CENTURY THROUGH BAUDRILLARD'S IDEAS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE INTERPLAY AMONG POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY, ORGANIZATIONS AND BEING HUMAN by Onur Kazancı, Aytaç Odacılar

“…This paper explores the relationship between philosophy and politics in the twenty-first century, using the thought of Jean Baudrillard, one of the most prominent intellectuals of the 20th century, taking into account the idea of what it means to be human. …”
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Can Thrifty Gene(s) or Predictive Fetal Programming for Thriftiness Lead to Obesity? by Ulfat Baig, Prajakta Belsare, Milind Watve, Maithili Jog

“…Obesity and related disorders are thought to have their roots in metabolic “thriftiness” that evolved to combat periodic starvation. …”
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The Pro-Boer Representation of War and the Origins of New Liberalism by Françoise Orazi

“…Moreover, the pro-Boer faction was to develop into one of the most significant trends of Liberal thought in the twentieth century, namely New Liberalism. …”
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Da Terra-floresta à Terra Indígena: A construção de um território político yanomami by Estevão Benfica Senra

“…It also sets out to examine the new forms and perceptions that emerge from the interaction between these two modes of thought and the production of space. From the history of the formation of the indigenous Yanomami land, I argue that the concept of political territory, while being an alien and relatively limited category vis-à-vis the theoretical richness of indigenous spatial elaborations, is today appropriated by the Yanomami leaders as an exercise in “controlled equivocation” (Viveiros de Castro, 2018), in the face of attempts to fragment their living space, imposed by the advance of the agro-extractive front, in particular mining activity. …”
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Restoring Planetary Health Through Partnerism by Teddie Potter

“…The scale and urgency of change that is necessary will call for a paradigm and set of values to guide thought and action. Partnerism is an alternative narrative to domination, and its emphasis on linking rather than ranking offers the essential thinking and economic model to drive massive cultural transformation around the world. …”
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Progress and Criticism of Progress as a Characteristic of Modern Civilizations in the Work of Friedrich Nietzsche and Ludwig Wittgenstein by Ulrich Arnswald

“…Both thinkers pursue a very different movement of thought; Wittgenstein sees Nietzsche's focus on the "idea of great progress" as a "delusion", which he does not consider to be expedient. …”
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