Continuous professional development in higher education: A systematic review of its conceptualizations, trends and challenges (2011- 2020) by Medhanit Adane Solomon, Amare Asgedom Gebremedhin, Kassahun Weldemariam Tigistu

“…The challenges hindering academics range from individual academics' attitude to their respective institution to the national policies that govern higher education. …”
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Los orígenes de la idea del «colonialismo interno» en el pensamiento crítico del comunista afroamericano Harry Haywood: crónica de una conversación con Gwendolyn Midlo Hall by Juan Vicente Iborra-Mallent, Daniel Montañez-Pico

“…Sin embargo, este origen del concepto de «colonialismo interno» en los marxismos negros es ignorado por la escuela latinoamericana liderada por Pablo González Casanova y Rodolfo Stavenhagen, quienes se lo atribuyen al sociólogo estadounidense Charles Wright Mills a finales de los años 50. …”
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Formation of National Identity in Slovakia by M. V. Vedernikov

“…The politics of memory helped support such ideas in an atmosphere of growing nationalist sentiments. This led to the restoration of memories not only of historical figures who actively fought for the national rights of Slovaks but also of those who collaborated with criminal political regimes and violated basic human rights and freedoms. …”
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Household Food Insecurity and the Factors Influencing Growth and Nutrition Among Under-5 Children in Hubballi, India: A Case-Control Study by Anjana R Joshi, Rizwana B Shaikh, Kashavva B Andanigoudar, Rohit D Teli, Saiprasad Tilagul

“…Food insecurity, low birth weight, illness, weaning initiation < 6 months of age, children without deworming, and the children who did not attend the under-5 clinic had higher odds of being malnourished. …”
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A single-center, single-arm, prospective, open-label, and comparative trial to evaluate the safety and tolerability profile of a 90-day oral L-arginine hydrochloride intervention f... by Hiroyuki Naito, Masahiro Nakamori, Megumi Toko, Yuki Hayashi, Taku Tazuma, Tomoaki Watanabe, Keito Ishihara, Keisuke Tachiyama, Yu Yamazaki, Hirofumi Maruyama

“…This study demonstrated that the oral administration of L-arginine hydrochloride over three months was well tolerated by ALS patients, with no serious TEAEs or deaths attributed to the study drug. Trial Registration number: Japan Registry of Clinical Trials (jRCTs061230001), first registered 11/04/2023.…”
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Altered brain functional network connectivity and topology in type 2 diabetes mellitus by Weiwei Ni, Weiyin Vivian Liu, Mingrui Li, Shouchao Wei, Xuanzi Xu, Shutong Huang, Lanhui Zhu, Jieru Wang, Fengling Wen, Hailing Zhou

“…Post-image preprocessing, brain functional networks were constructed using the Dosenbach atlas and analyzed with the DPABI-NET toolkit through graph theory.ResultsIn T2DM patients, functional connectivity within and between the default mode network (DMN), frontal parietal network (FPN), subcortical network (SCN), ventral attention network (VAN), somatosensory network (SMN), and visual network (VN) was significantly reduced compared to HCs. …”
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Kaiser Haq’s Reminiscence Poems: by Kazi Shahidul Islam

“…A veritable witness to the formative phases of the country’s overall development and, more importantly, a 1971 war veteran, he has formulated a poetics that engages less with the simplistic representations of history than with personal memory and subjectivity but that still opens windows into the historical timeline parallel to his maturation as an individual and, particularly, as an Anglophone poet. In an attempt to illustrate the inherent dialectic between memory and history in Haq’s poetry, this paper analyzes his lately composed reminiscence poems with reference to his prose pieces and interviews. …”
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Ideas de paz en jóvenes desplazados de la ciudad de Cúcuta by Jesús Ernesto Urbina-Cárdenas, Germán Muñoz

“…Profundizar en este tema aporta elementos pedagógicos para la construcción del "bachillerato de Paz como Cultura", propuesta educativa con la cual la Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander atiende a esta población, forzada a abandonar sus lugares de residencia por causa del conflicto armado que se presenta en la frontera colombo-venezolana. …”
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Sensory characterization of the Ethiopian germplasm of Coffea arabica L. conserved in the Colombian Coffee Collection by Juan Carlos Arias-Suárez, Luisa Fernanda López-Monsalve, Rubén Darío Medina-Rivera, Claudia Patricia Flórez-Ramos

“…For the Global Impression attribute, the highest scores were associated with citrus, spice and floral notes. …”
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The Curative and Prophylactic Effects of Xylopic Acid on Plasmodium berghei Infection in Mice by J. N. Boampong, E. O. Ameyaw, B. Aboagye, K. Asare, S. Kyei, J. H. Donfack, E. Woode

“…Xylopic acid, a pure compound isolated from the fruits of the Xylopia aethiopica, was investigated to establish its attributable prophylactic, curative antimalarial, and antipyretic properties. …”
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Cultural identification of the upper Ob population of the early iron age based on the materials of archaeology and anthropology (Bystrov necropolis) by Borodovskiy Andrey P.

“…The complex organization of the necrosphere of the Bystrovka necropolis, the relative duration of functioning and multiculturalism of burial rites (of the population of the Berezovsky historical stage of the Early Iron Age of the Upper Ob, as well as representatives of the Kulai and Sargat cultural traditions) allow us to consider in detail the issues of correlation in the format of archaeological culture and anthropological attribution.…”
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Cause analysis of gastric tube misplacement into the trachea using tetracaine gel as lubricant before gastrointestinal surgery: A case report and literature review (胃肠道术前应用丁卡因胶浆置胃管... by HE Shu (何姝), YU Chunguang (于春光), LI Jiaji (李佳霁), CUI Kaiyue (崔凯月), CHEN Kun (陈坤), DI Xiaowei (狄晓玮)

“…Occasionally, patients have atypical symptoms, which are easily ignored in clinical practice, bringing great safety risks to the operation. …”
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Topical Microbicides for the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV by André Désormeaux, Rabeea F Omar, Michel G Bergeron

“…To reduce significantly the probability of acquiring infection, condoms should be used during all risky sexual intercourse. More attention is being given to female-controlled methods for the prevention of HIV infection because many women are unable to negotiate condom use with their sexual partners. …”
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Diabetic Microvascular Complications by I. Migdalis, L. Czupryniak, N. Lalic, R. D. Leslie, N. Papanas, P. Valensi

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Venture capital: opportunities to use foreign investment experience in Russia by A. O. Ovcharov, T. N. Ovcharova, N. O. Marenov

“…A number of measures to improve the state mechanism for supporting the venture capital market is proposed. Special attention is paid to legal regulation measures.…”
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Preparation and Evaluation of Gelatin-Chitosan-Nanobioglass 3D Porous Scaffold for Bone Tissue Engineering by Kanchan Maji, Sudip Dasgupta, Krishna Pramanik, Akalabya Bissoyi

“…GCB 30 scaffold was shown to be noncytotoxic and supported mesenchymal stem cell attachment, proliferation, and differentiation as indicated by MTT assay and RUNX-2 expression. …”
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Statistical expertise in the Ecuadorian public administration: Emergence and legitimation mechanisms by Byron Villacís

“…This text provides useful insights for efforts that attempt to show that statistics are not objective and isolated devices, but instead are the result of social relations that need to be approached from a historical perspective.…”
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Publication metrics: Types, utility, and caveats by Durga Prasanna Misra

“…As an example, some of the articles with the highest Altmetric Attention Scores are actually retracted publications that attained high scores due to the negative debate that they elicited. …”
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Phytochemical and Bioactivity Evaluation of Bee Pollen and Androecia of <i>Castanea</i>, <i>Salix</i>, and <i>Quercus</i> Species by Nisa Beril Sen, Irena Vovk, Hasan Kırmızıbekmez, Etil Guzelmeric

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Exploring Age and Gender Differences in ICT Cybersecurity Behaviour by Dawn Branley-Bell, Lynne Coventry, Matt Dixon, Adam Joinson, Pam Briggs

“…Known age differences exist in relation to information and communication technology (ICT) use, attitudes, access, and literacy. Less is known about age differences in relation to cybersecurity risks and associated cybersecurity behaviours. …”
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