Rapid Growth of Lung Nodules due to Combined Pulmonary Vasculitis, Silicoanthracosis, and Chondrocalcinosis by Wolfgang Jungraithmayr, Stefanos Tzafos, Oliver Distler, Antonios G. A. Kolios, Walter Weder, Daniel Franzen

“…We present the case of a 62-year old former pit worker with pulmonary nodules, chondrocalcinosis due to calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD), and a history of renal cancer. …”
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“TRANSHUMANIZATION” OF MODERN EDUCATION by G. L. ILYIN

“…The paper comes to a conclusion that this is a period of so called “transhumanistic turn” of domestic education which indicates its dehumanisation and the loss of former values.…”
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AN APPRAISAL OF NAIRA REDESIGN MONETARY POLICY: IMPLICATIONS ON THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTION IN NIGERIA by PROMISE JUDE EMORDI, MOHAMMED OSITARE SULE, EZEKA IFEANYICHUKWU, NELSON AKPEVWE OLOKPA, AGUSTINE IKECHUKWU UTULU

“… In October 2022, the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) issued directives regarding introducing new naira notes to replace the current denominations of 200, 500, and 1,000 naira notes. …”
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Near-Infrared All-Silicon Photodetectors by M. Casalino, G. Coppola, M. Iodice, I. Rendina, L. Sirleto

“…We investigated two types of structures: bulk and integrated devices. The former are constituted by a Fabry-Perot microcavity incorporating a Schottky diode, and their performance in terms of responsivity, free spectral range, and finesse was experimentally calculated in order to prove an enhancement in responsivity due to the cavity effect. …”
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Hypoglycemic Activity of Aqueous Root Bark Extract Zanthoxylum chalybeum in Alloxan-Induced Diabetic Rats by Moses Solomon Agwaya, Peter California Vuzi, Agnes Masawi Nandutu

“…There was no significant difference between treatment group receiving 400mg/Kg BW extract and the normal groups (p=0.27), implying that the former group recovered and were able to regulate their blood sugar, possibly via uptake of glucose into cells. …”
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Credit Card Fraud Detection through Parenclitic Network Analysis by Massimiliano Zanin, Miguel Romance, Santiago Moral, Regino Criado

“…Beyond these specific results, this contribution represents a new example on how complex networks and data mining can be integrated as complementary tools, with the former providing a view to data beyond the capabilities of the latter.…”
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Robert Creeley’s Refusals by Will Montgomery

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Illustrated type catalogue of marine Isopoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Brazil by Cristiana S. Serejo, Agatha C. S. Fernandes

“…This collection is represented by 27 lots of holotypes, 81 lots of paratypes (15 named as allotypes), and two topotypes, published mainly by authors such as Alceu Lemos de Castro and Idalina Brasil-Lima, former researchers of Museu Nacional in the 20th century. …”
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Enjeux d’hier dans les découpages territoriaux d’aujourd’hui : les Grimaldi de Monaco et le Carladez (Aveyron-Cantal) by Géraud Cullier de Labadie, Marie Redon

“…Through a geo-historical approach, the intention is to understand the meaning of the historic link between the two territories, Monaco and the Carladez, both for the Principality and for the inhabitants of the communes concerned: does the former fief still make sense as a territorial entity despite its having been split up? …”
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A new strategy for measuring tourism demand features by Asensi Descals-Tormo, María-José Murgui-García, José-Ramón Ruiz-Tamarit

“…We focus on obtaining robust estimates of the elasticities corresponding to the former by forecasting the latter. Most of the empirical modeling of tourism demand consists of ad hoc equations that are not directly attached to a specific theoretical framework. …”
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Vibration Analysis of Driving-Point System with Uncertainties Using Polynomial Chaos Expansion by Bin Xiao, Yu-long Zhou, Chao Gao, Shuang-Xia Shi, Ze-Xi Sun, Zong-biao Song

“…Results of a numerical simulation carried out employing the PCE approach show that broad-band spectrum analysis is more effective than narrow-band spectrum analysis because the former jump of the dynamic compliance amplitude is weakened. …”
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The S-Layer Glycome—Adding to the Sugar Coat of Bacteria by Robin Ristl, Kerstin Steiner, Kristof Zarschler, Sonja Zayni, Paul Messner, Christina Schäffer

“…The amazing repertoire of glycoconjugates present on bacterial cell surfaces includes lipopolysaccharides, capsular polysaccharides, lipooligosaccharides, exopolysaccharides, and glycoproteins. While the former are constituents of Gram-negative cells, we review here the cell surface S-layer glycoproteins of Gram-positive bacteria. …”
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Développer le désert : anciennes et nouvelles utopies by Jean-Robert Henry, Jean-Louis Marçot, Jean-Yves Moisseron

“…This study will focus on two of them – significantly different in time, spirit and effects: the desert irrigation projects and the plans for solar energy exploitation. The former aimed at mobilizing water resources in the desert to “make it grow green again” and expand cultivated areas; they sparked great interest among scientists and politicians in the late 19th century but were only finalized, like the trans-Saharan railway, in novels. …”
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Neurotoxicological manifestations among drug abusers admitted to Alexandria poison unit and Al-Mamora hospital: prospective study by Haidy Megahed, Maha Ghanem, Ayman Abdelshafi

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Low-Pressure Membrane for Water Treatment Applications by Huda AlFannakh, Heba Abdallah, S. S. Ibrahim, Basma Souayeh

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De novo transcriptome assembly of the Mediterranean sea-rock pool mosquitoes Aedes mariae and Aedes zammitii by Valentina Mastrantonio, Daniele Porretta, Franco Liberati, Roberta Bisconti, Tiziana Castrignanò, Daniele Canestrelli

“…Using RNA-seq data obtained from larval stages, we assembled and annotated 95,059,578 reads for Ae. mariae and 101,050,236 reads for Ae. zammitii, detecting 49,352 transcripts with N50 of 2,615 for the former and 43,461 transcripts with N50 of 2,570 for the latter. …”
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A Case of 17q21.31 Microduplication and 7q31.33 Microdeletion, Associated with Developmental Delay, Microcephaly, and Mild Dysmorphic Features by Adrian Mc Cormack, Juliet Taylor, Leah Te Weehi, Donald R. Love, Alice M. George

“…The clinical phenotype of patients with this microduplication is milder than of those carrying the reciprocal microdeletions, and suggests that the lower incidence of the former compared to the latter may be due to underascertainment.…”
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Unity and differentiation of legal regulation for the implementation of the right to work in certain categories of employees by Ye. Yu. Podorozhnii

“…It has been proven that labour relations are a legal relationship between an employer and an employee, which is established on a voluntary basis with regard to the use by the former (i.e., the employer) of the latter’s (i.e., the employee’s) ability to work and is expressed in mutual rights and obligations. …”
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Modern Conflicts Features in Latin America. The Role of the OAS in the Settlement of the Falklands Conflict by Y. I. Strashko

“…The difference in approach to Organization's role and status between the US and Latin American states became distinct in the same period. The former persist in protection of freedoms and the Western way of life against global threats such as international terrorism (especially after 9/11), drug trafficking, gunrunning, money laundering and others crimes (especially those involving violence). …”
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Inhibition of mutagenic activation of orthoaminoazotoluene increases its carcinogenicity for mouse liver by V. I. Kaledin, L. P. Ovchinnikova, S. I. Ilnitskaya, T. S. Morozkova, N. A. Popova

“…The results of our comparative study with ortho-aminoazotoluene and 3.4-benzopyrene are in contradiction with the genotoxic theory of carcinogenesis: both are similarly activated by mouse liver enzymes, but induce tumors in different tissues: the former, hepatocellular carcinomas and the latter, splenic lymphoma. …”
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