The South African Traditional Communities and Women for Rural Democracy and Land Rights by Wandile Brian Zondo

“…However, their contributions have often been marginalised due to systemic challenges stemming from historical injustices, gender discrimination, and entrenched patriarchal practices. …”
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A simple and efficient method to extract polar metabolites from guar leaves (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub.) for GC-MS metabolome analysis by S. B. Teplyakova, A. L. Shavarda, T. V. Shelenga, E. A. Dzyubenko, E. K. Potokina

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Considérations ontogénétiques et phylogénétiques concernant l’origine de la parole by Louis-Jean Boë, Jean Granat, Jean-Louis Heim, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Pierre Badin, Guillaume Barbier, Guillaume Captier, Antoine Serrurier, Nicolas Kielwasser

“…We attempt to: (1) Localize hyoid bone and then glottis position; (2) Reconstitute a vocal tract model in a plausible way using an articulatory model; (3) Quantify the acoustic capabilities of this reconstituted vocal tract. …”
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An Experimental Intervention Study Assessing the Impact of a Thin Silicone Gel Surface Overlay on Interface Pressure by Seth Kwadjo Angmorterh, Andrew England, Sonia Aboagye, Eric Kwasi Ofori, Peter Hogg

“…The current study assessed the impact on IP values for the head from using a thin silicone gel surface overlay during radiographic procedures and identified whether this reduced the risk of PUs. …”
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Exploring precision therapeutics: computational design of antisense oligonucleotides targeting AXL gene transcripts in multiple sclerosis treatment management by Bhargav Shreevatsa, Bhargav Shreevatsa, Abhigna Nagaraj, Chandan Dharmashekar, Anisha Jain, Bhavana Harendra, Siddesh V. Siddalingegowda, Haneen A. Al-Mazroua, Sheikh F. Ahmad, Shashanka K. Prasad, Chandrashekar Srinivasa, Chandan Shivamallu, Shiva Prasad Kollur

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Effectiveness of nurse-led care in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Dan Liu, Li Liu, Lin Yang, Ting Wen, Peng Xiang, Guifang Pi

“…Two independent reviewers assessed the studies using population/intervention/comparison/outcome/study criteria, and quantitative tools were used to gauge the methodological quality of the included studies. …”
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Vinegar Consumption Increases Insulin-Stimulated Glucose Uptake by the Forearm Muscle in Humans with Type 2 Diabetes by Panayota Mitrou, Eleni Petsiou, Emilia Papakonstantinou, Eirini Maratou, Vaia Lambadiari, Panayiotis Dimitriadis, Filio Spanoudi, Sotirios A. Raptis, George Dimitriadis

“…Muscle blood flow was measured with strain-gauge plethysmography. Glucose uptake was calculated as the arteriovenous difference of glucose multiplied by blood flow. …”
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Ontologies in modelling and analysing of big genetic data by N. L. Podkolodnyy, O. A. Podkolodnaya, V. A. Ivanisenko, M. A. Marchenko

“…To systematize and effectively use the huge volume of experimental data accumulated in the field of bioinformatics and biomedicine, new approaches based on ontologies are needed, including automated methods for semantic integration of heterogeneous experimental data, methods for creating large knowledge bases and self-interpreting methods for analyzing large heterogeneous data based on deep learning. …”
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Unusual Thermo‐Enhanced Second Harmonic Generation in Organic Configurationally‐Locked Polyene Crystals by Yi Liu, Pengfei Zhu, Qingshun Fan, Zihao Zhao, Linjie Wei, Yu Ma, Haojie Xu, Wuqian Guo, Junhua Luo, Zhihua Sun

“…For the first time, here present unusual thermo‐enhanced SHG activities are presented in a polyene‐based NLO compound, 2‐{3‐[2‐(4‐pyrrolidinphenyl)vinyl]‐5,5‐dimethylcyclohex‐2‐enylidene}malononitrile (1), giving a record‐high magnitude of SHG enhancement up to ≈170% during its isomorphic phase transition. …”
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Primary small cell carcinoma of the esophagus: Comparison between a Chinese cohort and Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) data by Qin Xiao, Haifan Xiao, Shuyu Ouyang, Jinming Tang, Baihua Zhang, Hui Wang

“…Propensity score matching (PSM) was used to balance baseline features between the groups. …”
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On-farm molecular epidemiology and therapeutic insights into multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from bubaline mastitis by Muhammad Ijaz, Muhammad Umar Javed, Arslan Ahmed, Hamza Rasheed, Farwa Anwar, Syed Faizan Ali Shah, Jawad Sabir

“…The resistant antibiotics were combined with non- antibiotics (NSAIDs and ivermectin) using well diffusion method and checkerboard assay to evaluate resistance modulation. …”
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BCI-Based Rehabilitation on the Stroke in Sequela Stage by Yangyang Miao, Shugeng Chen, Xinru Zhang, Jing Jin, Ren Xu, Ian Daly, Jie Jia, Xingyu Wang, Andrzej Cichocki, Tzyy-Ping Jung

“…This study provides a more autonomous approach than traditional treatments used in stroke rehabilitation.…”
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Manufacturing high-performance flexible sensors via advanced patterning techniques by Xiaokun Qin, Bowen Zhong, Hao Xu, Joshua A Jackman, Kaichen Xu, Nam-Joon Cho, Zheng Lou, Lili Wang

“…Sensors play an important role in information perception during the age of intelligence, particularly in areas such as environmental monitoring and human perception. …”
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Loan Monitoring Costs and Loan Payment in SACCOs: A Case Study of Mitooma People's SACCO in Mitooma Town Council Mitooma District. by Mugarura, Adison

“…The study findings revealed that physical verification of the borrower's workplace, physical verification of the borrower's mortgaged property or hypothecated, presentation of collateral security to the SACCO, giving early notifications to the borrower, pledging for the collaterals is another feature of the interest rate in most semi-formal financial institutions and internal auditing were some of loan monitoring techniques used by Mitooma People's SACCO. …”
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Cultivar Evaluation and Essential Test Locations Identification for Sugarcane Breeding in China by Jun Luo, Yong-Bao Pan, Liping Xu, Hua Zhang, Zhaonian Yuan, Zuhu Deng, Rukai Chen, Youxiong Que

“…The discrepancies across test sites and years, along with the interaction between cultivar and environment, make it difficult to accurately evaluate the differences of the sugarcane cultivars. Using a genotype main effect plus genotype-environment interaction (GGE) Biplot software, the yield performance data of seven sugarcane cultivars in the 8th Chinese National Sugarcane Regional Tests were analyzed to identify cultivars recommended for commercial release. …”
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Using the CIPP Model to elicit perceptions of health professions faculty and students about virtual learning by Sakineh Gerayllo, Mohammadali Vakili, Leila Jouybari, Zahra Moghadam, Ali Jafari, Alireza Heidari

“…Abstract Background The outbreak of the Coronavirus epidemic has caused a huge crisis initiating fundamental changes in education since this crisis has turned face-to-face education into virtual training. …”
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EVOLUTION OF THE PHENOMENON OF CITIZENSHIP IN THE CONTEXT OF HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE WESTERN EUROPE by L. Y. Maximova

“…This article analyzes the history of the development of the phenomenon of citizenship in Western Europe, from Antiquity to the Modernity. The analysis uses the binary opposition method, which is the basis for including individuals in or out of citizenship. …”
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USSR in World War II by M. Yu. Myagkov

“…The signing of the Pact was preceded by the failure in August 1939 of the negotiations between the military mis­sions of Britain, France and the USSR, although Moscow took the Anglo-French-Soviet nego­tiations with all seriousness.The huge losses of the USSR in the summer of 1941 are explained by the following circum­stances: before the war, a large-scale modernization of the Red Army was launched, a gradu­ate of a military school did not have sufficient experience in managing an entrusted unit by June 22, 1941; the Red Army was going to bleed the enemy in border battles, stop it with short counterattacks by covering units, carry out defensive operations, and then strike a de­cisive blow into the depths of the enemy's territory, so the importance of a multi-echeloned long-term defense in 1941 was underestimated by the command of the Red Army and it was not ready for it; significant groupings of the Western Special Military District were drawn into potential salients, which was used by the Germans at the initial stage of the war; Stalin's fear of provoking Hitler to start a war led to slowness in making the most urgent and necessary decisions to bring troops to combat readiness.The Allies delayed the opening of the second front for an unreasonably long time. …”
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