Israel y su modernización by Mario Sznajder

“…La modernización dialécticamente produce resultados contrarios a las intenciones y planes originales de quienes la ponen en marcha, y esto se manifiesta en el caso de Israel a través del resurgimiento religioso, el retorno a tradiciones e identidades étnicas que precedieron el intento de establecer una sociedad moderna y sus bases ideológicas radicadas en el sionismo, y ello sin dejar de lado la sociedad palestina local –o árabe israelí-, absorbida dentro del marco general de la sociedad israelí.…”
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An Analysis of Must-be Attributes of Off-campus Student Housing Facilities and their Influence on Effective Learning: The Case of One University in South Africa by Anthony Kambi Masha, Nana Yaw Brenya Agyeman

“…The high rate of university enrolment in South Africa has placed an immense burden on universities to provide accommodation services, with the institutions categorised as historically disadvantaged being the most severely affected. …”
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Hemorheological Alterations in Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction Treated by Resveratrol by Roland Gal, Dora Praksch, Peter Kenyeres, Miklos Rabai, Kalman Toth, Robert Halmosi, Tamas Habon

“…In our double-blind, placebo-controlled human clinical trial, we enrolled 60 outpatients with heart failure. Patients were randomized into two groups: receiving either 100 mg resveratrol capsule daily or placebo for 3 months. …”
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Enteropathogenic Bacterial and Intestinal Parasitic Infections among Asymptomatic Food Handlers in Rangsit University Canteens, Central Thailand by Sirima Kitvatanachai, Bajaree Jantrapanukorn, Utsanee Supcharoengoon, Chalirmporn Atasilp

“…A total of 79 food handlers were enrolled, and each provided one stool sample (response rate of 73.2%). …”
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New Insights into Behçet’s Syndrome Metabolic Reprogramming: Citrate Pathway Dysregulation by Anna Santarsiero, Pietro Leccese, Paolo Convertini, Angela Padula, Paolo Abriola, Salvatore D’Angelo, Faustino Bisaccia, Vittoria Infantino

“…Following a power analysis undertaken on few random samples, the number of enrolled patients was set. Thirty-nine consecutive BS patients fulfilling ISG criteria, and 21 healthy controls suitable for age and sex were recruited. …”
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Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Improves the Quality of Life in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Yao Wei, Weiming Zhu, Jianfeng Gong, Dong Guo, Lili Gu, Ning Li, Jieshou Li

“…Disease activity and IBDQ were evaluated at enrollment and four weeks after treatment. Patients’ attitude concerning the treatment was also investigated. …”
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Consumo de bens e serviços por idosos nos arranjos domiciliares unipessoal e residindo com o cônjuge by Natália Calais Vaz de Melo, Karla Maria Damiano Teixeira, Marco Aurélio Marques Ferreira, Neuza Maria da Silva

“…O arranjo domiciliar residindo com o cônjuge gastava mais do que o unipessoal no que se refere aos itens de despesas com habitação, despesas diversas, lazer, transporte, alimentação dentro do domicílio, fumo, produtos de higiene e cuidados pessoais, assistência à saúde e vestuário. …”
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Sexual Satisfaction in Fully Ambulatory People with Multiple Sclerosis: Does Disability Matter? by Pawel Dobrakowski, Agnieszka Machowska-Majchrzak, Beata Labuz-Roszak, Ewa Niewiadomska, Krystyna Pierzchala

“…Secondary SD result from the symptoms that do not directly involve nervous pathways to the genital system, such as bladder and bowel problems, fatigue, spasticity, or muscle weakness. …”
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Analysis of Factors Associated with the Severity of Acute Pancreatitis according to Etiology by Dae Bum Kim, Woo Chul Chung, Ji Min Lee, Kang-Moon Lee, Jung Hwan Oh, Eun Jung Jeon

“…A total of 905 patients with AP (660 alcohol-induced, 245 gallstone-induced) were enrolled. Among them, severe AP (SAP) occurred in 72 patients (53 alcohol-induced, 19 gallstone-induced). …”
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PROGRAMA METODOLÓGICO DA SOCIOLOGIA by Pedro Demo

“…Estão em jogo, pois, dois horizontes entrelaçados: um mais geral conhecimento fumano em meio às disputas de paradigmas pelo menos em parte confliantes, e outro doméstico (metodológico) voltado para a história pró´pria de cientificidade. …”
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Balanced scorecard como herramienta de diagnóstico by Caroline Thaiz Morales Souquett, Bernarda Pinilla

“…En contraste, el BSC dentro de la herramienta de diagnóstico que se construyó, tiene un enfoque positivo. …”
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La justificación normativa de la guerra civil by Vilma Liliana Franco

“…Por último, discute en breve el problema de la opresión política y social como fuente legítima de causa belli dentro del Estado. Para ello sugiere un concepto amplio de opresión en el que se identifican sus distintas caras. …”
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Idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease in children: a single-center retrospective analysis by Junye Du, Jiafeng Yao, Honghao Ma, Li Li, Ang Wei, Liping Zhang, Dong Wang, Zhigang Li, Rui Zhang, Tianyou Wang

“…Results A total of 9 children were enrolled, with a median age of onset of median 11 (2–15) years, 6 males and 3 female. 3 cases were pathologically typed as plasma cell type, 1 case was mixed type, and the remaining 5 cases were hyaline vascular type. 9 children received different regimens of chemotherapy. …”
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Solo Sonographically Guided PCNL under Spinal Anesthesia: Defining Predictors of Success by Akbar Nouralizadeh, Hamid Pakmanesh, Abbas Basiri, Mohammad Aayanifard, Mohammad Hossein Soltani, Ali Tabibi, Farzaneh Sharifiaghdas, Seyed Amir Mohsen Ziaee, Naser Shakhssalim, Reza Valipour, Behzad Narouie, Mohammad Hadi Radfar

“…Methods. 148 consecutive cases were prospectively enrolled. All steps of PCNL were performed solely with sonography guidance under spinal anesthesia. …”
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Monocyte Subsets, Stanford-A Acute Aortic Dissection, and Carotid Artery Stenosis: New Evidences by Noemi Cifani, Maria Proietta, Maurizio Taurino, Luigi Tritapepe, Flavia Del Porto

“…Methods. 20 patients with carotid artery stenosis (CAS group), 17 patients with Stanford-A AAD (AAD group), and 17 subjects with traditional cardiovascular risk factors (RF group) were enrolled. Monocyte subset frequency was determined by flow cytometry. …”
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Possibilidades e Impasses de uma Conversação em uma Instituição Prisional: Um Relato de Experiência by Talita Martins Ferreira, Magali Milene Silva

“…Tais pontos são dialogados com exemplos da prática do projeto dentro da instituição apaqueana. Parte-se da aposta da escuta coletivizada como possibilidade de se ouvir mal-estar e de se construir um trabalho em torno dele para além da repetição sintomática, possibilitando avanços não apenas para cada sujeito institucionalizado, mas também para a instituição.…”
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Insula Volume and Salience Network Are Associated with Memory Decline in Parkinson Disease: Complementary Analyses of Voxel-Based Morphometry versus Volume of Interest by Yan-Ting Lu, Wen-Neng Chang, Chiung-Chih Chang, Cheng-Hsien Lu, Nai-Ching Chen, Chi-Wei Huang, Wei-Che Lin, Ya-Ting Chang

“…Twenty-three PD-MCI patients were enrolled and underwent cognitive evaluation and 3-dimensional T1-weighted imaging. …”
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Reactive Metabolites and AGE-RAGE-Mediated Inflammation in Patients following Liver Transplantation by Thorsten Brenner, Thomas H. Fleming, David Spranz, Peter Schemmer, Thomas Bruckner, Florian Uhle, Eike O. Martin, Markus A. Weigand, Stefan Hofer

“…In this observational clinical study, 150 patients were enrolled following liver transplantation from deceased donors. …”
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Impact of Perioperative Blood Transfusion on Postoperative Complications and Prognosis of Gastric Adenocarcinoma Patients with Different Preoperative Hemoglobin Value by Lian Xue, Xiao-Long Chen, Zhang Wei-Han, Kun Yang, Xin-Zu Chen, Bo Zhang, Zhi-Xin Chen, Jia-Ping Chen, Zong-Guang Zhou, Jian-Kun Hu

“…From 2003 to 2011, 1199 patients who underwent curative gastrectomy were retrospectively enrolled and followed up to December 2014. Clinicopathological features and survival outcomes were compared between transfused and nontransfused patients. …”
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EFFECTIVENESS OF CLINICALLY SUPERVISED EXERCISE PROGRAM ASCOMPARED TO HOME BASED EXERCISE PROGRAM ON PAIN ANDDISABILITY IN KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS by Wahaj Sheikh

“…Individuals with pain full knee were enrolled from the OPD of IPM & R, Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), Karachi. …”
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