Design and Experiment of a Hand Movement Device Driven by Shape Memory Alloy Wires by Yangwei Wang, Shufang Zheng, Jingquan Pang, Sanping Li, Jian Li

“…However, cases of hand function loss due to diseases and accidents abound, which brings a lot of inconvenience to patients’ lives. …”
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Modeling the control of infectious diseases: Effects of TV and social media advertisements by Arvind Kumar Misra, Rajanish Kumar Rai, Yasuhiro Takeuchi

“…It is observed that TV and social media advertisements regarding the spread of infectious diseases have the potential to bring behavioral changes among the people and control the spread of diseases. …”
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Más allá del trabajo técnico: Conflictos, derecho y política entre los Tupiniquim y Guarani-Mbyá en Espirito Santo (Brasil) by Felipe Berocan Veiga

“…Observar los cuadros de la acción política en situación permite comprender los resultados de las luchas indígenas en las arenas públicas y, al mismo tiempo, atribuir nuevos significados al trabajo técnico desarrollado, reflexionando sobre sus posibles aportes a la ampliación de las tierras indígenas demarcadas en la región.…”
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Connecting resonance theory with social‐ecological thinking: Conceptualizing self‐world relationships in the context of sustainability transformations by Florian Brossette, Claudia Bieling

“…In distinguishing between self and world and highlighting the role of relationships, resonance theory brings ontological and epistemological clarity, while overcoming a strict dichotomy between social and ecological. …”
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ENTITIES PERFORMING SELF-GOVERNMENT PUBLIC TASKS - SPECIFICITY OF ACTING AND FUNDING by Anna Milewska

“…However, this solution can also bring financial dangers. Incorrectly dividing risks may lead to postponements of project performance or an excessive financial burden on the local government. …”
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Angle and Context Free Grammar Based Precarious Node Detection and Secure Data Transmission in MANETs by Anitha Veerasamy, Srinivasa Rao Madane, K. Sivakumar, Audithan Sivaraman

“…Growing attractiveness of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs), its features, and usage has led to the launching of threats and attacks to bring negative consequences in the society. The typical features of MANETs, especially with dynamic topology and open wireless medium, may leave MANETs vulnerable. …”
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Réinterroger le capitalisme contemporain : vers une économie politique de l’écologie by Louison Cahen-Fourot, Gaël Plumecocq, Franck-Dominique Vivien

“…The aim of this dossier is to bring together works that examine this issue from different angles. …”
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A Mathematical Model for the Analysis of the Pressure Transient Response of Fluid Flow in Fractal Reservoir by Jin-Zhou Zhao, Cui-Cui Sheng, Yong-Ming Li, Shun-Chu Li

“…The analytical solutions are constructed in the Laplace space and presented in a pattern with one continued fraction—the similar structure of solution. The pattern can bring convenience to well test analysis programming. …”
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Shear Behaviors of the Intersurface between Rice Straw Rope and Dredger Fill Silt: Experimental and Mechanism Studies by Guizhong Xu, Ji Chen, Shenjie Shi, Angran Tian, Qiang Tang

“…The further development of land reclamation, port waterway, and wharf construction brings about proper treatments of dredger fill silt, while huge amounts of rice straw set aside in China argument rational disposal every year. …”
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Conducive conditions for curriculum practice in teaching accounting at a rural school in the KwaZulu-Natal by Walusa Ajuma, Molaodi Tshelane

“…The education landscape constantly evolves and brings new challenges and opportunities in teaching practices, particularly in specialised subjects such as accounting. …”
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A Mortal Visits the Other World – the Relativity of Time in Estonian Fairy Tales by Mairi Kaasik

“…The relativity of the passing of time on earth and in the other world makes the tales ‘behave’ in a peculiar manner as regards genre, bringing to prominence features of representation of time typical of legends or religious tales. …”
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Specifying Learners’ Professional Needs in Academic Writing by E. S. Chuikova

“…Needs analysis practice that develops learners’ professional needs involves task-based learning, reflexive activities, and teaching to ask good questions. Bringing into life the analogy between customer development theory in management and needs analysis practice in education, it is possible to work out a fruitful strategy. …”
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The Proviral Reservoirs of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection by Andrey I. Murzin, Kirill A. Elfimov, Natalia M. Gashnikova

“…Uncovering the causes of this phenomenon will bring humanity closer to curing HIV infection, potential approaches to which include stem cell transplantation, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/cas9, “Shock and kill”, “Block and lock”, and the application of broad-spectrum neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs).…”
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Bullying as an object of statistical research by L. A. Davletshina, M. V. Karmanov

“…In conclusion, it is extremely important to note that bullying is inadequate, immoral and, in fact, asocial attempts of personal self-affirmation, which bring the phenomenon in question to the level of extremely negative ones that arose historically and continues to exist and actively develop in the school environment. …”
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VALUE CHAIN IN AGRICULTURE: THE CASE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION by Sanja Franc, Vlatka Bilas, Lana Trifunić

“…In order to adequately respond to current trends, including global coronavirus pandemic, the EU's agricultural policy should be more flexible and continue to support the active needs of European farmers. …”
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Model Predictive Control for an Aerial Tree-Pruning Robot Based on Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers by Changliang Xu, Zhong Yang, Hao Xu, Qiuyan Zhang, Dongsheng Zhou, Kaiwen Lu, Jiaming Han, Luwei Liao

“…However, the long arm of the pruning tool results in much higher rotational inertia of the robot, which brings difficulties for the robot to remain stable. …”
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Bevolkingstendense in die RSA by P. Smit

“…Demografiese struktuurveranderinge hou derhalwe verreikende sosio- ekonomiese en politieke implikasies vir 'n land in. Ongelukkig dring in- ligting ten opsigte van demografiese struktuurveranderinge baie gelei- delik tot beleidmakers, beplanners en die algemene publiek deur. …”
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Inhibition of KLF5 promotes ferroptosis via the ZEB1/HMOX1 axis to enhance sensitivity to oxaliplatin in cancer cells by Zheng Zhang, Huaxiang Xu, Junyi He, Qiangsheng Hu, Yuxin Liu, Zijin Xu, Wenhui Lou, Wenchuan Wu, Lei Zhang, Ning Pu, Chenye Shi, Yaolin Xu, Wenquan Wang, Liang Liu

“…These results reveal a critical role of KLF5 in sensitized chemotherapy of pancreatic cancer, and suggest that ferroptosis combined with platinum-based chemotherapy rather than gemcitabine-based chemotherapy is expected to bring better therapeutic effects.…”
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Assessment of IL-6 Pathway Inhibition in Gastrointestinal Behçet’s Disease from Immunological and Clinical Perspectives by Makoto Naganuma, Mitsuhiro Takeno, Aykut Ferhat Çelik, Robert Moots, Philippe Pinton, Tadakazu Hisamatsu

“…The selective inhibition of IL-6 trans-signaling may bring new impetus to the development of this drug class, particularly regarding safety. …”
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Pa Fálétí, Another Icon Departs by Femi Ọṣọfisan

“…Instead, we celebrate such men joyously. We bring out the drums and sing our sonorous songs and adorn ourselves in our finest robes. …”
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