Genetic and pharmacological targeting of HINT2 promotes OXPHOS to alleviate inflammatory responses and cell necrosis in acute pancreatitis by Jiaqi Yao, Yuhong Jiang, Pengcheng Zhang, Yifan Miao, Xiajia Wu, Hang Lei, Zhijun Xie, Yong Tian, Xianlin Zhao, Juan Li, Lv Zhu, Meihua Wan, Wenfu Tang

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Perspectives of nurses and patient representatives on the morally competent nurse: An international focus group study by Chris Gastmans, Evelyne Mertens, Alvisa Palese, Brian Keogh, Francesca Apolloni, Johanna Wiisak, Catherine Mc Cabe, Maria Dimitriadou, Alessandro Galazzi, Michael Igoumenidis, Nikos Stefanopoulos, Paraskevi Charitou, Evridiki Papastavrou, Riitta Suhonen, Stefania Chiappinotto

“…Background: Across the world, healthcare systems have become increasingly complex, making it more difficult for nurses to act ethically when faced with moral dilemmas. The COVID-19 pandemic in particular revealed ethical challenges, highlighting the need for nurses to attain high levels of moral competence. …”
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Adoptive cell transfer of piezo-activated macrophage rescues immunosuppressed rodents from life-threating bacterial infections by Xiaoyi Liu, Wenxiu Xu, Junkun Feng, Ying Wang, Kai Li, Yi Chen, Wenjun Wang, Weiwei Zhao, Shaohua Ge, Jianhua Li

“…Catalytic antibacterial nanoparticles that generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) are emerging, as a promising therapeutic approach in treating bacterial infection by boosting the innate immune defenses. …”
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The Chinese State, Incomplete Proletarianization and Structures of Inequality in Two Epochs by Wu Jieh-min, Mark Selden

“…We locate the discussion in relation to theories of original accumulation, proletarianization, wage stagnation, and low consumption in the emerging capitalist world economy of which China has been a part since the 1970s.2 We hope to add to that discussion by exploring a range of structures that have produced incomplete proletarianization and inequality during two periods of socialist transition (1950s to 1970) and capitalist transition (1970s to present).Following three decades during which China experienced the world’s most rapid growth, and in which billionaires emerged at a record rate in 2010, hundreds of millions of urban laborers, particularly the more than one hundred million migrant laborers, continue to receive not only a low but even a relatively declining share of the gross domestic product, leaving many at subsistence levels, with meager welfare benefits and bereft of basic citizenship rights.3 We use the term “laborers” to highlight the conditions of the laboring poor—rural migrant workers (nongmingong), farmers, the urban underclass, recently joined by redundant state-owned enterprise workers—examining their situation in relative as well as absolute terms. …”
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Protecting the Autonomy of Patients with Severe Mental Illness Through Psychiatric Advance Directive Peer-Facilitation by Nicholas Karasik

“… [3] Patient Self-Determination Act, H.R. Res. 5067, 101st Cong. (Nov. 5, 1990) (enacted)…”
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La question du logement social à New York by Catherine Pouzoulet

“…The creation in 1934 of the first local authority (NYCHA) to build public housing was to serve as a model for the creation of a federal housing authority (USHA) as part of the 1937 Wagner‑Steagall Act. These years of experimentation saw a rapid evolution in the production of housing under the auspices of local and federal authorities. …”
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Googling Patients by Emily Beer

“…“Navigating the Google Blind Spot: An Emerging Need for Professional Guidelines to Address Patient-Targeted Googling.” …”
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Cross-Gendering the Racial Memory by Marlon B. Ross

“…The static nature of such imagery distances us from the contentiousness of the act of cross-gendering that occurs ideologically in the enunciation or re-erection of patriarchal power through an objectified, if celebrated, feminine icon.We can find evidence of this conventionally patriarchal kind of feminine iconography in black cultural practice.  …”
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Myocarditis and neutrophil-mediated vascular leakage but not cytokine storm associated with fatal murine leptospirosisResearch in context by Stylianos Papadopoulos, David Hardy, Frédérique Vernel-Pauillac, Magali Tichit, Ivo G. Boneca, Catherine Werts

“…Summary: Background: Leptospirosis is a globally neglected re-emerging zoonosis affecting all mammals, albeit with variable outcomes. …”
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Modulatory effect of Echium plantagineum oil on the n-3 LC-PUFA biosynthetic capacity of chicken (Gallus gallus) by Jesús Villora, José Antonio Pérez, Nieves Guadalupe Acosta, Deiene Rodríguez-Barreto, Pedro Juan Alonso, Mónica B. Betancor, Alexandr Torres, Sergio Álvarez, Covadonga Rodríguez

“…However, this process is currently limited by the high n-6/n-3 ratio in poultry diets affecting the competition between n-6 and n-3 fatty acids (FA) for the same biosynthetic enzymes, and the rate-limiting Δ6 desaturase which act at both, the first and final steps of DHA synthesis pathway. …”
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Network Meta-Analysis of Factors Influencing the Carbon Sink Capacity of Urban Park Green Spaces by Yutong JI, Tianyi LIN, Lian LIU, Xiong LI

“…Design characteristics and maintenance practices emerge as the most stable and broadly applicable factors. …”
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Hypoxia-driven mobilization of altruistic cancer stem cells in platinum-treated head and neck cancer by Lekhika Pathak, Lekhika Pathak, Lekhika Pathak, Bidisha Pal, Bidisha Pal, Joyeeta Talukdar, Partha Jyoti Saikia, Sorra Sandhya, Wale Tasabehji, Wale Tasabehji, Hong Li, Jyotirmoy Phukan, Jyotirmoy Phukan, Anjan Bhuyan, Sanjukta Patra, Bikul Das, Bikul Das, Bikul Das, Bikul Das, Bikul Das

“…The tumor microenvironment, through the emergence of TSD+ CSCs, appears to act collectively to defend the tumor self-identity by hijacking an altruistic stem cell niche defense mechanism.…”
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Editorial by Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche

“…With the discovery of vaccines, and their availability, the catalogue of duties is increased by one more: to get the jabs as an act of solidarity with others, including future generations. …”
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Analysis of the Effect of Social Capital on Brand Performance with the Mediating Role of Employees’ Brand Citizenship Behavior by Naser Seifollahi

“…Social capital is an important resource for individuals and can greatly affect their ability to act and the visible quality of their work life. …”
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Comparative Ethics of Modern Payment Models by Jacob Riegler

“…Acad Emerg Med. 2019;26(8):856-866. doi:10.1111/ACEM.13635 [6] Beauchamp T, Childress J. …”
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Call for Papers: Constitutions and Intergenerational Justice by IF and FRFG

“…Madison disagreed and referred to the uncertainty that would emerge from such an arrangement. Thomas Paine sided with Jefferson and formulated the following famous sentence: ‘Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it.’ …”
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Components of stakeholder participation to create value in the banking industry in East Azerbaijan Agricultural Bank by Alireza Tagavi, Alireza Bafandeh Zendeh, Samad Aali

“…Theoretical Framework Stakeholder The word "stakeholder" was used for the first time by the Stanford Research Institute. After the emergence of stakeholder thinking in this institution, for the first time in a report presented on planning in 1963 (Slinger, 1997), the Stanford Research Institute defines stakeholders as "people without whose support the organization would cease to exist." …”
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Designing an entrepreneurial ecosystem model in a university with a knowledge-based approach by Nahid Mir, Amin Rahimi Kia, Mehry Daraei

“…Academic entrepreneurship ecosystems show an interconnected set of different components that support each other in the birth of new entrepreneurs (Dutta et al, 2021). New businesses also emerge because they are located in an environment or “ecosystem” that allows them easy and supportive entrepreneurship (Hsieh et al, 2020). …”
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Presenting the indigenous model of organizational self-leadership with an emphasis on training in non-governmental organizations by Sajad Ghoreishi, abbas abbaspour, Mostafa Niknami, Morteza Taheri

“…Since self-leadership is a set of thinking, speaking, and acting skills that increase individual performance, improve performance efficiency, creativity and innovation and individual effectiveness; therefore it can be taught. …”
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Bilateral Facial Diplegia: A Rare Presenting Symptom of Lyme by John Ashurst, Matthew Perry

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