Owen and Sassoon Reconsidered by Cristina Pividori

“…This edited collection includes two poems by the canonical British soldier-poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon: “The Send-Off” and “Survivors.” …”
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Evidence that a STAT3 Mutation Causing Hyper IgE Syndrome Leads to Repression of Transcriptional Activity by Sameer Bahal, Maha E. Houssen, Ania Manson, Lorena Lorenzo, Mark A. Russell, Noel G. Morgan, Fariba Tahami, Sofia Grigoriadou

“…However, surprisingly, the magnitude of inhibition was similar to another STAT3 mutation (V637M) which causes a much more severe form of the disease.…”
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Measuring the impact of managing incontinence on people with dementia and informal caregivers: Cognitive debriefing interviews of ‘ICIQ-Cog’ (English translation) by Miriam Avery, Nikki Cotterill, Mandy Fader, Margaret Macaulay, Ruth Kirschner-Hermanns, Cathy Murphy

“…Aim:: The ICIQ-Cog questionnaire was developed in German to measure the impact of incontinence and/or toilet use problems on people living with dementia and their paid carers and unpaid caregivers; it has been translated into English. …”
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Closed Compression Nailing Using a New-Generation Intramedullary Nail without Autologous Bone Grafting for Humeral Shaft Nonunion by Genta Fukumoto, Tomoaki Fukui, Keisuke Oe, Atsuyuki Inui, Yutaka Mifune, Ryosuke Kuroda, Takahiro Niikura

“…Osteosynthesis with IMN was performed on a 24-year-old man with a humeral shaft fracture at another hospital. However, bony union was not obtained 1 year after the first surgery, and he was referred to our institution. …”
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Acceptance of sexual attraction and its link to psychological distress and sexual offending among pedohebephilic clients: results from a preliminary analysis by Anna Konrad, Laura Maria Heid, Hannah Scheuermann, Klaus Michael Beier, Till Amelung

“…In a subsample of 197 pedohebephilic individuals (n = 197), correlations with recent sexual behavior were minimal. In another subsample of pedohebephilic men (n = 84) with data on psychological distress, increased acceptance was associated with decreased psychological distress, although this association weakened among those reporting recent offenses.DiscussionAcceptance of one’s sexual interests is associated with reduced distress in pedohebephilic disorder among non-offending individuals. …”
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Mixture Ratio Design Optimization of Coal Gangue-Based Geopolymer Concrete Based on Modified Gravitational Search Algorithm by Daming Zhang, Fangjin Sun, Tiantian Liu, Zhonghao Xu

“…And results from traditional GSA and GSA modified by another chaotic mapping, logistic mapping, were compared and the characteristics of different GSA were analyzed and concluded. …”
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Mémoires et patrimonialisation d’un passé antéislamique : Mubârak al-Mîlî et l’ethnogenèse du peuple algérien by Aomar Hannouz

“…Thanks to James McDougall’s work, History and Culture of Nationalism in Algeria, the foundational work on national construction by Tawfiq al-Madanî (d. 1983) is well documented. Yet the writings of another historian close to the Association of Algerian Ulemas, Mubârak al-Milî (d. 1945) were no less important. …”
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Efficient nitrogen fertilization for sustainable sago palm (Metroxylon sagu Rottb.) cultivation in Tropical Peatland by Yuka Sasaki, Ho Ando, Ken-Ichi Kakuda, Lulie Melling, Akira Watanabe

“…Sago palm (Metroxylon sagu Rottb.), a starch crop that can grow in high water table peatlands, is suitable for this objective. …”
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ML-Based Self-Optimization Handover Technique for Beyond 5G Mobile Network by Saddam Alraih, Rosdiadee Nordin, Asma Abu-Samah, Ibraheem Shayea, Nor Fadzilah Abdullah

“…HO aims to ensure seamless connectivity and uninterrupted services for users while moving from one cell to another within the coverage area. Thus, this study introduces a new, intelligent, and robust self-optimization HO technique designed to work efficiently with the B5G networks. …”
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Nitrooleic Acid Attenuates Lipid Metabolic Disorders and Liver Steatosis in DOCA-Salt Hypertensive Mice by Haiping Wang, Jing Sun, Zhanjun Jia, Tianxin Yang, Liang Xu, Bing Zhao, Kezhou Yu, Rong Wang

“…Male C57BL/6 mice were divided to receive DOCA-salt plus OA-NO2 or DOCA-salt plus vehicle and another group received neither DOCA-salt nor OA-NO2 (control group). …”
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Genome-Wide Approach Identifies Natural Large-Fragment Deletion in ASFV Strains Circulating in Italy During 2023 by Claudia Torresi, Roberta Biccheri, Cesare Cammà, Carmina Gallardo, Maurilia Marcacci, Simona Zoppi, Barbara Secondini, Caterina Riverso, Alejandro Soler, Cristina Casciari, Michela Pela, Elisabetta Rossi, Claudia Pellegrini, Carmen Iscaro, Francesco Feliziani, Monica Giammarioli

“…In Alessandria, five samples showed two different deletions in the 5′ genomic region: a ~4340 bp deletion (positions ~9020–13,356 in Georgia 2007/1) in four samples and a 2162 bp deletion (positions 17,837–19,998) in one sample. Another strain showed a truncation of 1950 bp at the 3′ end. …”
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Medical professional image in the social media by Muscovites: managerial and methodological aspects by I. V. Bogdan, A. A. Dreneva, D. P. Chistyakova

“…The basis of the study is a sample of posts published by Muscovites in social media containing keywords associated with physician and nurses. In addition, another survey on people’s associations with these professions was conducted in order to compare the image in social media to the image held in the mass consciousness. …”
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Epidemiology of Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Mimi C Yu, Jian-Min Yuan, Sugantha Govindarajan, Ronald K Ross

“…In the United States, although the infection rate in the general population is low, HBV is estimated to account for one in four cases of HCC among non-Asians. Chronic infection by the hepatitis C virus is another important risk factor for HCC in the United States; however, this virus is believed to play a relatively minor role in the development of HCC in Africa and Asia. …”
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An interval Type-2 fuzzy Fractional-Order PD-PI controller for frequency stabilization of islanded microgrids optimized with CO algorithm by Siavash Shirali, Saeed Zolfaghari Moghaddam, Mortaza Aliasghary

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An Improved Control Strategy for Managing Reactive Power and Reducing Capacity of Interlinking Converters by Participating of Electric Vehicles in Hybrid AC/DC Microgrids by Abbas Safari, Hesam Rahbarimagham

“…Also, the impact of the participation of electric vehicles in the DC subgrid on the improvement of reactive power management and the capacity reduction of the interface converter is investigated. Another droop control is considered in the voltage control loop of the bidirectional boost converter in the electric vehicle to determine the participation rate of the electric vehicle in reactive power management through the charging and discharging of its battery storage system. …”
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Extremist Legitimate Defense in Iran's Criminal Proceedings (with an Emphasis on Intentional Homicide) by Saeed Ghaedi

“…From the point of view of the new legislator, the Imperfect legitimate defender on the other hand, and is not the same as someone who in an aggressive and oppressive manner, he commits another murder, and on the other hand, in intentional murder, he deserves to be decriminalized from the punishment of retribution without absolute decriminalization. …”
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University management for institutional self-assessment with a formative nature of medical universities by Tamara Chaos Correa, Jorge García Batán, Jesús de Farit Rubio Méndez

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> the theoretical derivations on university management for institutional self-assessment with a formative nature of medical universities allow us to consider this process as a system, susceptible to being perfected by considering two subsystems, one prescriptive of the university community organizational context, and another contentive of the appropriation of the self-assessment process for self-regulation and accreditation purposes, which contribute to training sustainability. …”
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FEATURES OF TRACE ELEMENT COMPOSITION OF BERYL FROM THE URALIAN IZUMRUDNYE KOPI by A.K. Gavrilchik, S.G. Skublov, E.L. Kotova

“…This pattern is less pronounced for Ni and Co. The Ti content, on the contrary, decreases towards the crystal margin forming a bell-shaped zoning. …”
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Environmental Influences on Young Adult Male Height. A Comparison of Town and Countryside in the Netherlands, 1815-1900 by Jan Kok, Erik Beekink, David Bijsterbosch

“…But perhaps urban-rural differences can simply be attributed to compositional effects, e.g. in cities relatively more poor, illiterate or incomplete families were to be found. Another question is whether urban-rural differences are limited to large cities compared to the rest, or whether we also find differences between towns and villages. …”
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GABA promotes peroxisome proliferation in Triticum monococcum leaves by Yunus Şahin, Taras Nazarov, Ercan Selçuk Ünlü, Andrei Smertenko, Nusret Zencrici

“…Furthermore, exogenous application of GABA resulted in higher peroxisome abundance and transcriptional upregulation of BADH and a gene encoding another peroxisome biogenesis factor responsible for peroxisome fission, PEROXIN11C (PEX11C), in leaves. …”
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