Fatty Acid Accumulation and Resulting PPARα Activation in Fibroblasts due to Trifunctional Protein Deficiency by Masato Wakabayashi, Yuji Kamijo, Takero Nakajima, Naoki Tanaka, Eiko Sugiyama, Tian Yangyang, Takefumi Kimura, Toshifumi Aoyama

“…To examine fatty acid accumulation and its toxic effects in cells, we analyzed skin fibroblasts from six patients with mitochondrial trifunctional protein deficiency, who had abnormalities in the second through fourth reactions in fatty acid β-oxidation system. …”
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Central Nervous System Lymphoma: The Great Mimicker—A Single-Institution Retrospective Study by Danielle A. Bazer, Ewa Zabrocka, Nicholas Koroneos, Agnieszka Kowalska

“…Prior to brain biopsy, 4/13 patients were on steroids, which did not affect biopsy results and the average time to diagnosis was 1 month. 9/13 patients who did not receive steroids had an average time to diagnosis of less than 1 month. …”
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Speaking Truth or Power? Issues in Translation of South African Children’s Picture Books by Jade Smith, Ralph Adendorff

“…Findings show that the Afrikaans translations prioritise a young girl’s looks above her creativity, but they also construe a dedicated father who spends time with his child. Despite the small corpus, these preliminary findings indicate a need for a wider study of translation in children’s books to investigate the congruency of their translations. …”
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Cancer, Health Literacy, and Happiness: Perspectives from Patients under Chemotherapy by Sara Maria Oliveira Pinto, Sílvia Maria Alves Caldeira Berenguer, José Carlos Amado Martins

“…The sample was composed of 92 cancer patients who were asked to answer a questionnaire during chemotherapy. …”
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La mise en lumière du conflit humain-goéland et sa gestion en France by Matiline Paulet, Frédéric Bioret

“…This novel situation dated back to the eighties in France leads to conflicts between humans and birds, first with managers of natural areas and shellfish farmers, then with city dwellers who complain about the nests on their roofs. In the 1990s, municipalities set up management systems to control the number of gulls in the city. …”
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Tourism Initiatives as a Lever for Reintegration of Former FARC Combatants in Colombia by Anne Marie Van Broeck, Monica Guasca, Dominique Vanneste

“…This was complemented with semi-structured interviews with people involved in the tourism projects or who visited the ETCR. The intention is to provide a first inventory of the existence of these projects, their present situation and the difficulties they encounter. …”
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Initial Clinical Trial of Robot of Endovascular Treatment with Force Feedback and Cooperating of Catheter and Guidewire by Yuhua Jiang, Keyun Liu, Youxiang Li

“…We evaluated the performance of application of the robot system to clinical practice through using this robotic system to perform the digital subtraction angiography for a patient who was suspected of suffering intracranial aneurysm. …”
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The Application of Parallel Robotics to Investigate the Effect of Lumbar Bracing on Trunk Muscle Activity by Gregory N. Kawchuk, Narasimha G. Prasad, Jonathan Glass, Carolyn Knight, Serena Third, Daniel Timmermans

“…Surface electromyographic (sEMG) data were collected from the trunk of 24 asymptomatic participants, who were seated on the robot, tilted to 15°, then circumducted while attempting to maintain an upright posture. …”
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Early Social Enrichment Improves Social Motivation and Skills in a Monogenic Mouse Model of Autism, the Oprm1−/− Mouse by Luciana Garbugino, Eleonora Centofante, Francesca R. D’Amato

“…Due to the immaturity of sensory-motor capabilities of young pups, we chose as environmental stimulation a second lactating female, who provided extra maternal care and stimulation from birth. …”
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Mixed compounds in code-switching contexts by Cristina Pierantozzi, Gloria Cocchi

“…An Acceptability Judgment Task featuring different types of mixed compounds has been administered to two groups of participants, who are either bilingual or highly fluent in the two languages involved (Italian-German or Italian-English). …”
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Displasia septo-óptica: um relato de caso sobre síndrome de Morsier by Marina Bonagurio Julio, Brenna Marques Amorim Tenorio, Helen Vinco Secchin, Juliana Brizzante Ferreira, Marina Dall'Ara de Souza

“…CONCLUSION: The pediatrician must be capable of clinical diagnostic reasoning of rare syndromes, as he is the first professional who has contact with the patient, in order to initiate early intervention, reducing associated morbidities.…”
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Promoting Inclusivity in Blood Donation: Public Health by Saurabh R Shrivastava, Priyanka Meshram, Swapnil Inkane

“…Regardless of the wide scope and merits of blood donation in saving lives and improving health, it is a fact that many patients who are in need do not receive safe blood timely. …”
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ILLEGAL ABORTION IN INDONESIAN MEDIA: A CONTENT ANALYSIS by Susiati Susiati, Wening Udasmoro, Nur Saktiningrum

“…As a result, many pregnant women who are out of wedlock choose to hide their pregnancies and then secretly carry out illegal abortions …”
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Addison’s Disease Presenting as Acute Renal Failure and Hyperkalemic Paralysis: A Rare Presentation by Kundan Jana, Kalyana Janga, Sheldon Greenberg, Amit Gulati

“…Here, we present the case of a young 37-year-old male who came with hyperkalemic paralysis and acute renal failure needing emergent hemodialysis. …”
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MDM2 inhibition is associated with the emergence of TP53-altered clonal hematopoiesis by Vishesh Khanna, Gohar Eslami, Rochelle Reyes, Robert Diep, Sebastian Fernandez-Pol, Henning Stehr, Carlos Jose Suarez, Harlan Pinto, James M. Ford, Tian Yi Zhang, Christopher T. Chen

“…Herein, we report a 51-year-old female with MDM2-amplified, TP53-wild type adenoid cystic carcinoma who was treated with a MDM2 inhibitor and developed persistent pancytopenia despite drug discontinuation. …”
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Case report: First reported case of spondylodiscitis caused by Gemella morbillorum in South Africa by J Pillay, N M van der Linden

“…The patient was a 55-year-old female who presented to us with a 1-month history of severe back pain radiating to her left leg. …”
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USING ECONOMETRICS TO UNDERSTAND INCLUSION OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN THE WORKFORCE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA by Ensar Šehić, Elman Šatrović, Seid Fijuljanin

“… Persons with disabilities have relevant working capacity. Employers who recruit those persons assume that their disabilities do not decrease organization’s productivity. …”
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Severe Erosive Pill Esophagitis Induced by Crizotinib Therapy: A Case Report and Literature Review by Patrick Jung, Kyle J. Fortinsky, Zane R. Gallinger, Piero Tartaro

“…In those reports, the interval development of esophagitis was between two days and three months after initiating or reinitiating crizotinib therapy. We present a woman who developed ulcerative esophagitis ten months after beginning crizotinib therapy, which is highly unusual. …”
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Effects of Bans on Prostitution on Prevalence of Induced Abortions by Takahide Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Kobayashi

“…As to its mechanism, the outcomes of our additional identification suggest that former juvenile prostitutes who retired due to the bans contributed to the increase. …”
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Integration of physiotherapy in the instructional-educational process in the correction of weight status in children by Svetlana Savițchi, EugeniuAgapii, Vladimir Rosca

“…Subjects included in the study were 10 children with overweight, aged 12 -13, who study in the Theoretical High School "Mihail Sadoveanu", Chisinau and at the Rehabilitation centre Kinetica. …”
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